Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1901-08-14

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having capacity Of 1900 lights.
Tho town now has light.
Sam P. Jones, the noted lecturer,
will lecture in the Opera Honse at
Pennington on Monday night, Sept.
End and ut Flat River Sept. Bird.
An unknown man was murdered
and robbed at Poplar Bluff The
night of August a. The perpetra.
tors left no clue 10 their identity.
AT Rock Point, Madison county,
August 5, in az alteration between
Bea Wilkerson anj Lige Siize, the
latter received dangerous knife
wound in tho abdomen.
The county court Of Madison
county, while in session last week
purchased J. F Berry's farm, near
Marquand, which will be nsed as a
poor farm; consideration 81, 700.
The county court of Madison
county made an order last week re-
lievipg the collector from visiting
the various townships for the pur.
pose ofcolleoting the taxes for 1901.
Al the special election held In
Dunklin county August 8, the prop.
osition TO bond the county for sl6,.
900 with which to erect a new jail
was defeated. A very light vote
was rolled.
Cape Democrat; The premium
lists for the Cape Glrardeau Fair
and Park Association are now out.
The Fair will be held October 9Th
to 18th inclusive, aud the attrae.
tions this year will be better and
mere extensive than ever before.
Every citizen of Southeast Missouri
should do something to help make
this the greatest fair in the State.
Wayne County Journal: Hon.
Moses Whybark, Of Marble Hill, il
in town this week, representing
clients in important cases in our cir
cult court. Twenty years. ago Mr..
Whybark had a personal aoquain.
tance with nearly all the citizens Of
Wayne county, though he meyer re
sided here. He Is unquestionably
one Of. the best lawyers 10 Southeast
Missouri and has very lucrative
practice.
We are tn receipt Of the first issue
Of the Morehbuse Post, published
by Guy E. Cooksey, late of the
East Prairie Leader.-Poplar Bluff
Sentinel.
That fellow is the paper-startIng'
est Guy we know of -Doniphan
prospect-News.
Yes, but he evidently intends to
break off, if the POST he is hitch.
ed to is good timber and we'll plant
ed, and those conditions are in evi.
dence.
Cape Democrat: Aug. Schaefer
was brought before Judge John D.
Wilson this morning to answer
charges. of the gravest nature. A
more unpleasant law suit was never
passed upon by any judge on the
bench fthe Police Court. Schaefer
desired to enter plea of guilty and
take the lowest punishment. which
the City Attorney and Police At
toraey and Police sustiee refused 10
do. Testimony was offered by the
City Attorney which showed that
Schaefer beat and wounded his aged
mother into state of semi.consci.
onsness. The Court fined Schaefer
heavily.
Benton Record: A wagon load
of hunters passed through here
Monday from near East Cape Cir
ardeau, on a hunting and fishing
trip. A man by the name of Burks
and his seventeen year old son were
among the party. Tuesday morn
ing the wagon came back with the
grief stricken father and corpse OF
the son, who had accidentally shot
himself through the body while
taking his gun from the wagon TO
shoot Turtles. The body was taken
home coffinless, stopping here long
enough to pack the body in ice.
The accident occurred near Bats
Schoolhouse.
Currant Local: Senator Geo. 7.
Lee, who is going out Of tho mercan.
tile and entering the banking busl.
ness, has been a good advertiser
and has paid this paper hundreds Of
dollars for space in its columns. He
was one of the merchants who be.
lieved that advertising paid and IN
vested in printers ink literally. 1t
is duo to him, also, to say that he
always gave his printing to the local
printer. This is the first week in
several years that bis lad" has not
appeared in the Local. His stock
was run down so much before he
and family went to Denver that he
locked up the house and is not dong
business now al all.
Cabool, Mo-, July 2S.-Lee Sim
mons committed suicide by jumping
headforemost into the mouth of o
steam threshing machine while it
was IN full motion. He prepared for
the act by giving bis pocket book
and KEYS to his brother but told
nothing of his inteutions. A few
moments before his leap into the
grinding mouth-of the machine he
asked q workman what the result
would be should be jump into it. He
was told that 1t meant instant death
and was asked If he contemplated
such a thing. He gave an insignifi-
cant answer.
After sitting about the machine,
he volunteered to feed and caution.
ed his brother, who was running the
engine, to give it full speed. He
hnld fha vphaat hank until tho mo-