Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1903-03-25
All Around the State.
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The ST. Louis street ear is Il
modern iuggernaut which claims a
victim almost daily.
St. Louis BARRIERS are getting
matters in shape to raise the price
Of a shave from 10 cents to Is
cents.
A commercial club has been or
ganized in De Soto, and its chief
function is to be the promoting Of
the general Improvement Of that
city.
At New Madrid on last Wednes-
day Quincy Clark, aged 20, was
sentenced to % years in the peni
tentiary for the murder of Chas.
Arnold.
Nearly 900 claims have been
filed by creditors of the John j.
Ryan & Co. turf investment com
pany one Of the defunct get rich
quick" concerns of St. Louis.
In seven counties the prisoners
are worked On the county roads,
eight work them on the rock pile
and the remainder let them work
or not, as the prisoner pleases.
The House one day last week
decided the election contest over
the seat from Bollinger County by
ousting JAS. W. Caldwell, Rep,
and seating j. Marion Walker,
Dem.
The legislature has appropriated
$50. 900 for Il new state school for
blind. The present school is 10
Gated in St. Louis, which is to be
sold and the new school located in
some smaller city.
David Curry, negro convict in
the state penitentiary was killed
last Wednesday by j. W. George,
IA prison guard. Curry became
unruly and attacked the guard,
who fired in seIf-defense.
| The Mississippi River has donat-
ed to t',c schools of St. Louis land
| estimated to be worth S559, 900.
This land has been formed by ac-
crctions from the river since the
early part of the last century.
The members of the engineering
class Of the state uniyer rsity at
Columbia held a meeting on the
18th inst. and passed resolution
declaring St. Patrick an engineer
and the patron saint of all engin-
ecrs.
1t is now reported that Detective
Schumacher was only severely
wounded in his battle with Ru-
dolph and Collins, the Union bank
robbers, and was later murdered
bv them in cold blood as he was
lying helpless upon she ground.
! Gov. Dockcry has threatened
that in case the appropriations
made by the legislature exceed the
estimated revenue for two years
he would veto all the appropria
tiOn bills and call an extra session
to bring the expenditures within
the receipts.
In the exhibition case of The
Chillicothe postoffice is a letter adj
} dretsed to 1.-The Biggest Fool IN
ChilIicothe, Mo-" Modesty has
restrained any of those who have
seen it from taking it, and for di'
yers reasons the postmaster has no
attempted to identify its rightfu
: owner and deliver it.
Over 200 people took part in
!, grand wolf hunt in Oregon county
last Wednesday. One wolf wa
E killed. The animal weighed 9;
pounds and measured five feet il
, length. Great damage has beel
3 done to stock in that county by
I wolves and the farmers are deter
;. mined to exterminatc them.
0 That court subpoena may b
y served by telephone was evidenced
e in Clayton one day last week, whe
n the sheriff sat at his desk in th'
d court house, called up Allen Wen
It pIcr in Alleton, 80 miles away, b,
2 phone, and served notice upon hir
g to appear in court as a witness
}. The service is considered absolute
9 Iy legal.
# On last Thursday the Legisl'
, ture passed II Joint resolution t
V submit to the people an amenf