Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-21


Charles. More than 100 persons are SUI
fering from attacks of the dread disease.
and numerous deaths have resulted.
Although his name Is Mudd. they say
down there that he has made so good il
sheriff of Bates county that 1t will be
difficult, IL not impossible. to beat him for
a second term. ST
Cole county. too. like all the rest, shows
the beneficial effects of good times. The
marriage licenses issued there in 1897
greatly utnumbered those of any of the
lean Democratic years.
Speaking of fame. the interesting infor-
nation comes through the medium of Perl
Grifin's Maryville Review that de Am
mond of Missouri is making the best rec
ord of any man in congress-"
The comparative immunity from assaults
which the Uncle Toms Cabin troupes
now devastating Northwest Missouri are
enjoying is attributed by an observing edi-
tor in tina section to the scarcity and high
price of eggs.
Now that the one at Odessa has gone into
voluntary liquidation with the purpose of
reorganization as a state bank. Lafayette.
one of the oldest and wealthiest rural
counties in Missouri. hasn't a national
bank within its boundaries.
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If Chairman Cook, of the state central
committee, is at all influential in deciding
the location of the Democratic convention
it is probable that Sedalia or st. Louis Will
get it. Bob White having expressed a pref
erence for Springfield or Jefferson City.
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The sco-afhipO anna11v as pOOd.' which
Perry Freeman. of Tuscumbia county, has
landed. takes the shape of the clerkship of
one of the Unitel States courts In the In
dian Territory, which in the way of fee
compensation is good for an annual per"
of about $1,000.
The census reports will show a popula-
ton of 100. 600 in ST. Joe in 1900, and that
figure will be doubled five years later. This
statement may be regarded as authentic.
Mayor Worries having given u%tterance to
it at a meeting of the Jubilee" committee
the other night.
A printing company in Atchison is get
ting out considerable theatrical paper"
for the Edna Whitney company. which. as
, the Globe says. will shortly begin a tour
with the expectation of reaping the dement's
| of the advertising Miss Whitney received
/ lhsl Ian do 4bSNh "a
A notable feature of a recent funeral
in Carthage was the appearance in connec-
ton Herewith in an official capacity as
| director of the ceremonies of Miss Emma
Knell. a prominent young woman of that
| town. who graduated not long ago at a
school of undertaking and embalming.
To feed the AS inmates of the St. Joseph
insane asylum it requires annually $4,000
mounds of beef. 1000 pounds of bacon. 5000
pounds of coffee, 5000 dozen eggs. 2i7 900
mounds of -four and 800 hams. The aver
age expense of maintenance for each in
mate for 1898 is estimated at a trife above
Al cents a day.
A letter recently received by a st. Joe
friend tells of an accident which happened
to Major Bittinger shorty after his return
to Montreal. He was descending the steps
in front of his residence when he fell and
wrenched his back so severely that he
was confined to his apartments afterward
until January Is.
General Platt, ex-Congressman Morgan.
and other prominent G. A. r. officials We're
in Carthage Wednesday making arrange
ments for the annual gathering there in
May of the Missouri old soldiers. More
than accustomed enthusiasm prevails
among the Grand Army men throughout
the state, General Platt says, and presen,
indications point toward a record-breakins
attendance at the Carthage meeting.
Another Missouri world beaten, as graph.
ically described by the Breckenridge CORE
spondent of the Hamilton Advocate: &C
w. Holmes, who ate three dozen bananas
and four pies a short time ago without let
ting up. ate thirty-one apples one nigh
last week and one pound of cheese tt
quit on. 1t Is said he was good for man,