Potosi journal., 1902-02-19

: NEWS FROM MISSOURI


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convicted of killing her husband and
sentenced to ten years.
Prohibitionists of Kansas City have
nominated a city ticket. The plat
form demands plenty of water and
reasonable rates and the enforcement
of the Sunday-closing law"
Kansas City is to have the largest
steam engine factory in the world,
notwithstanding the fact that trav-
elers can hardly get through the town
now without running into a locomo-
tive.
w. F. Pearson, of Pomona, after
having worked and studied over the
project for 90 years. admits that he
has invented about the finest kind OF
an airship that can sail through the
ozone.
Capt. G. D. Davis has sold his Spring
Fork stock farm, one of the largest
and most fertile in Pettis county, to
Allen B. Kirk, the famous soap man of
Chicago, who will stock it with the
finest of live stock.
\ St. Joseph hen is reported to
have committed suicide by hanging
herself. Cause unknown, but it
couldn't have been by reason of any
encouragement growing out of the
present price of eggs.
A pair of fine looking horses ap-
pearing in Carthage the other day
were thought to be ''stringhalted" un-
til it was learned that the animals had
been working on hay press and had
formed the habit of stepping over the
tumbling rod.
Secretary Ellis. of the state board
of agriculture estimates the average
yield of the corn crop of Missouri last
year at less than ten bushels to the
acre, and the farmers who have been
buying corn all winter realize that he
very nearly hits the mark.
The Maiden. kennett & Southern
Railroad company of Dunklin county,
is $23o,000. The company proposes to
construct and operate a standard
gauge railroad from kennett to NAL
den, a distance of % miles.
The marriage of two children at
Carthage by Probate Judge Brown
created good deal of discussion.
Adele Wills. of Omaha. 13 years old,
was the bride, and T. +. Green, a boy
of II, of Neosho. became the husband.
The children had the consent of their
parents.
Alfred Shadwick, who died few
days ago near Olean, Moniteau coun-
ty. had lived there 60 years. Mr.. Shad-
wick and his wife. who was Mary Jor-
dan. enjoyed the distinction of having
been the first couple to whom a mar
riage license was issued in Moniteau
county.
Col. John W. Polk. aged 72 years, a
cousin of President James X. Polk and
doorkeeper of the house during Cleve-
lands first administration, died in
Kansas City recently. Col. Polk was
in the commissary department of the
confederate army during the civil
war, serving under Gen. Price.
Ex-Congressman Charles f. Booher,
leading attorney in the prosecution Of
the Richardson murder case at Sa-
vannah, said there would be evidence
of highly sensational nature at the
trial of Stuart Fife. the business part
ner of the murdered man, when it ie
expected that an eye witness to the
shooting will be produced. Mr.. Booher
says he is being handicapped in pros
ecuting the case by friends of the
dead man.
AS the result of the burning of the
courthouse and records of Camden
county at Limerick. a movement has
been started to create new county
out of Anglaize. Warren and Jackson
townships in Camden county. May
field township in Laclede county and
Liberty township in Pulaski county,
with Richland pulaski county, as the
county seat.
EN-Congressman Riley Hall, who is
now president of Prairie Hill Char
iton county, academy, is out with a
challenge on the part of his school.
lIN thhouHNSS DtIVl lltt CpHtCStS
between educational institutions
should be intellectual rather than
physical. In pursuance of this theory
he dares any ten students from any
other college, academy or high school
in the state to meet ten of his pupils
bra and arithmetic, without chalk or
pencil.
In the Pettis circuit court the $1O.-
600 damage suit against County Judge
John G. Senior, brought by Lewis NJ.
Martin. was thrown out of court,
Judge Longan holding that the plain
tiff had no case. Martin was an en-
ploye of Senior and refused to work.
He had been permitted to occupy a
house on the judges farm while en-
ployed, but when he refused to work
the judge took forcible possession of
the house. Martin based his suit on
the tenant laws of Missouri, but the
court held that he was. rather, a tres
passer and an intruder, and that the
action of the defendant was justifi-
able.
Two hundred dollars was paid near
AuNvasse for one haystack. This is
the largest sum ever paid for single
haystaek in Galloway county and
shows the scarcity of stock feed.
Barry county has over 5000 names
on its delinquent personal tax list,
the largest in the history of the coun-
ty.
Joseph B. Upton. postmaster, law
yer and republican politician, is dead
at his home in Bolivar. He was in the
Legislature in 1880 and 1882 and OPP
posed John T. Heard (dem.) for con-