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Southeast News.

ooutneast News.
Mes hadnd soalhsAsi Mlr,oudap.
The melon cropof Mississippi and
Scott counties win not be harvested
nntil about August lst, being two
weeks later than usual.
AdjStant General W. 4. Dameron
has ordered Major Gibony Houek
20 muster out Company &C." Sixth
battalion, N.G.M., at Poplar BIuff.
81 Francois county claims The
biggest man IN the state. Heresides
at Hazel Run, and bis name Is
Thomas ]. Mosteller, and he tips the
beam at SOC pounds.
Hsv Madrid souihsssi MIssouriau.
Lightning killed Emmett MeicalfI
Saturday. He was yoang man,
about Is years old and was riding
on utioAd Of hay. Ho was the only
son Of james Mescalf residing on
Little river near Wcaversville.
Farmlne,on News
The yield ofwheat in this county
as reported 50 far Is not quito half
a crop, but the cropOfother cereals
and grain promises TO bevery good.
In fact hay and oats, which are
now being harvested, are ahead of
last year.
Herman Steinbach took his own
life at Cape Girardeau the night Of
July IS, by sending a bullet thru his
brain. He was an old citizen and
successful business man. He lost his
wife about year ago since which
time he is said to have been despon-
dent.
Tom Morris shot Tom Chapman
at New Madrid last Thursday even
ing, who died from the effects of the
wounds in few hours. Both men
were drinking and there seems TO
have been trouble between them
from an old grudge. Morris was
placed in Jail.
Fredericktown Demoerat-NswG
Politics are beginning to come to
the front in this county and we hear
of two gentlemen being frequently
mentioned as probable candidates.
fe, tbs democratic nomination for
representative. They are Prof H.
M. Aulsbury, of Mine La Motto and
A. v. Downs, of this city.
Charlottesville Democrat.
Circuit court will convene next
Monday. The criminal docket ia the
largest In the history of the county
more than a dozen persons being
charged with murder in the first
degree. Notwithstanding the fact,
that Pcmiscot has one of the best
prosecutors in the state, killings in
this county goes on.
Pennington News,
Two officers from Perry county
are here to take F. Parf back with
them on charge of horse-stealing,
PaT was arrested at Elvins on last
Sunday a-week for carrying conceal
ed weapons and is being tried on
that charge before Squire Porter at
Elvins this Thursday. If he is con-
victed and has to break rock to pay
his fnsthe officers will havet to come
back again.
Lead Belt News.
Sheriff Monda Murphy spent the
latter part of last week m Bolhnger
and the Rower portion of Madison
counties searching for William
Dooley, the fugitive slayer Of
William Harris, who was reported to
be in hiding near Mayfeld, a small
place in that section. Instead ofthe
man wanted, the sheriff found
Reuben Dooley, the halfwitted
brother ofBill Dooley. This brother
acknowledged that Bill had been
there, but said be had departed for
parts unknown.
Eminence Journal.
| Frank Rodgers has a force of
hands at.work at the Slater copper
mines, one mile east of this place,
and has found another one ofSlater's
old shafts. The shaft seems to have
been filled up and they have taken
ont about 80 or so feet Of iron pip
ing which had been used to pump
air downinto the old shaft in former
days. They have cleaned it out to
q depth ofabout twenty-five feetand
plenty of,eopper may be seen in the
walls of the shaft. 1t is thought by
many that this old shaft will lead
to a rich, find of copper.