Potosi journal., 1904-02-10

NEWS FROM MISSOURI


The Fourth Missouri congressional
meet at ST. Joseph on March Is.
The Kansas City court of appeals de-
eided that city council has the right
to refuse to grant dramshOp license
even after the county court has grant
ed it.
The receipts of State Treasurer r. r.
Williams for January were 1892 ,39i
and disbursements S360,314. The bal
ance on hand January 81 was 81 2765,-
865.
Attorney General Crow, who is now
in California recuperating, will soon
return and actively enter the race for
the democratic nomination for gov
ernor.
Arthur Millard, aged q, is lying at
the point of death at Kidder as the
result of blow and consequent fall
on the ice. Several boys and young
men were playing shiny on pond
uear the Kidder college.
G. w. Maurice. a Chicago & Alton
brakeman whose home is at Slater, is
under arrest at Kansas City for the al
from Hazel holland, notorious wO-
man. After his arrest he weakened
and told where he had hidden the
jewels.
A sensation was created at st. Joseph
by the publication by Mrs. Rosa E.
nf to off haf
| she had divorced her husband, Robert
| A: MCGOWAN. The notice is referred
| to by Mrs. MCGOWAN as "a bill of
| separation and she maintains that it
| should be binding TO the same extent
as are common law marriages.
A brick fell off the top of building
at Glasgow the other day and barely
| grazed the hat of a passing drummer.
If it had hit his head it. would have
knocked his brains out. The same man
went through the IroquOis theater fire
and came out unscathed. A man who
so evidently bears a charmed life should
be able to get cheap life and accident
| insurance.
Paul Boehme, a 25-year-old farmer,
had his head blown off by shotgun
| i'll the hands of John Hutchinson, a
| California boy. Hutchinson and some
companions were getting rabbit from
under a pile of boards and Boehme
went to help them. AS the rabbit ran
out Hutchinson shot and hit his VIC
tim, who was only about four feet from
the muzzle of the gun.
An unknown German was knocked
from the bridge one mile west Of
Blackwater by westbound passenger
while he was attempting to cross on
his hands and knees. He fell 20 feet
to the ice, and died in a few minutes.
| He was about so years of age, 5 feet
inches tall, sandy gray hair and MUS
tache He had no money, but was
warmly clad. and had a valise ccntain-
ing bottles of medicine.
A rival to Queen" the big Galloway
county mule. has appeared in Jefferson
county. A. f. Ashbaugh, of Festus,
has mule which is nearly 19 hands
high and weighs nearly a ton. The
Fulton Gazette sticks to its original
assertion that Queen" ''for size and
smoothness is without a peer"
| hands high, and when last weighed
tipped the scales at $40 pounds.
The Kansas City court of appeals
decided that 'the right of one to he
secure against the poisoning of the air
by noXious and poisonous smoke is as
/ lou ~ .s<,I,& l, \
against open personal assaults or the
! more demonstrative but not more de-
| structive treSpass Of animals This
decision was made in the case of A. J.
| Powell against the Brookfield Pressed
Brick and Tile Manufacturing COM
pany of Brookfcld. Powell had ten
acres of corn near the kilns and sued
the company for damages because the
smoke killed his crop.
Anybody who has $4,000 that he
wants to invest and can't find place
for will be gladly accommodated by O.
c. Nilsson. of Carl Junction. Jasper
county. Mr.. Nilsson is a deaf mute
He is also the inventor of an airship
concerning the flying capabilities OF
| which he makes no doubt and he is
looking about for man who wants tC
hack him in perfecting it, He conf
IDENTIFY expects to win a 100000 prize
at the ST Louis worlds fair if he gets
the desired assistance, and he gener-
ously offers to divide the money equal
ly with whomever comes TO his aid.
A divorce petition with some very
peculiar allegations has been filed il
| the circuit court at Joplin. Harr,
Robertson alleges as a cause fol
action that his wife allowed the chick
ems to roost on the backs of the chairs
in the house: that she had a number
Of cats and dogs, and they were alst
| allowed to stay in the house and sleel
in the beds. He also charges that ther,
lis man in the case" and that his lift
has been repeatedly threatened. Tht
plaintiff also states that his wife al
ways carried a razor in her stockin:
and that on several occasions she at
tired herself in mems clothing ant
raraded the street. The couple were
married December 10 and separated
January 49, living together just on
| month to the day.
Warden Woodbridge, of the state peni
tentiary, has prisoner who puzzle
him. The man is Moses Wright, ne
gro, who has served a term in the peni
tentiary on conviction in the fedora
court in Hannibal. He is feebl
minded, but knows enough that h
does not care to leave the penitentiar,
in cold weather.
Cha ileS E,InNd Pntnr Cnldan Inl,1