Potosi journal., 1904-06-29
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!: NEWS FROM MISSOURI. ;
The Missouri state fair will be held

past week.
A young son OF William V. Clark,
of Shackleford, was kicked on the head
BY mule and killed.
Edward KusSin, a young farm hand,
was killed while trying to board Bur
linston train at Moody.
The stable of the r. j. Boyd Con-
structiOn company at Kansas City was
burned together with IS mules.
Don W. Nichols and wife have re-
turned to Louisiana after years spent
as Met cthodist missionaries In China.
The Hannibal street car line will be
extended to Palmyra and Taylor,
through rich agricultural community.
At Joplin. June %, was held the
state democratic convention TO select
36 delegates to the national democratic
convention.
J. S. Campbell, OF Monett, was
robbed of $40 in Il ro0mng house on
North Main street. Kansas City. by
stranger wto was his roommate.
Joint council of Methodist Prot
cstant. United Brethren and Consreaa-
lional churches was held at Brook
field, Chancellor Stephens, OF Kansas
City. making an address,
The ChlIicothe Athletics challenge
any baseball club in that part of the
country TO come to Chiliicnthe and win
two games for 500. The Kansas City
Hluns ana the Fort Scott team OF the
Missouri Valley league are preferred.
\ livery horse, the property of Carl
ton G. AIrrnt, at Chilhcothe. was in a
runaway with annt her horse and broke
through a wire fence and upset four
bee hives. The bees settled on the
horse, stincing him until he died with
in an hour and half in great agony
The city council OF Columbia granted
n franchise to the Missouri Central
Electric Railway company. allowing it
TO construct n line and operate cars
through Walnut street. This line, as
pro elected. will run from Kansas City
to st. Louis, passing through the prin-
Ciual towns of the route to ST. Louis.
The six votes for Walter S DicEey
for republican national committeeman
were cast by O. l., Houts, of Narr"ns-
burg: Louis i. Aloe. OF ST. Louis; Tom
X. NeiG,in2haus. cf St. l-oEis; John
II. Rcnley, of Hillshoro; George c. r.
WAGNER, of st. Louis. and two OF the
Kanaas City halt votes, J. A. McLane
and A. c. Kiuneard.
Over Gnn delegates were attending
the annual convention Of the state
Christian F,ndeavnr society at St
Louis. Wang Ching ChUn. Of the Pc
kin industrial institute, was one of
the speakers. Every Protestant
church except the Methodist (which
has the Epworth l"acua) was repre-
scnted in the convention
Harry Quinton and wife were arrest
ed at Bedford on the charge Of killing
tho formers son. the la1trr's StepSon,
ten-y"ar-uld Johnnie Quinton. who was
fnnnd with a rifle ball i'll his forehead
ar his home near Bedford The arrest
was ordered by Prosecuting Attorney
Miller IN 4 statement Of a seveE-ycar-
Old brother of Johnnie QUinton. who
said their stepmother fired the shot
I.illic Dean. aged is. OF 3lt East
Ninth street. Kansas City, swallowed
a pin as she was making her toilet,
but no serious results are expected
from the accident Miss Dean had
three pins in her mouth at the time
but only one Of them Slipped down her
throat. She suffered no pain. but
could feel the pin in her throat and
was afraid TO eat. so she went to the
police station and the surgeon save her
an cmetic, with the desired effect
Original experiments by the asricul-
tnrai department of the University of
Missouri have proven that many in
sects in Missouri as well as in other
parts of the United States, have TIE
tobacco habit and are as much slaves
70 the weed as are nrn. They may lie
said to be more addicted 10 the habit
FOR, to some Of them, tobacco is their
only food O'hcrs feed on tomato or
pot ato plants until the tobacco arrive
al a STAGE which suits their particular
fancy. when tho other foods are at
once abandoned for il. CT all these in
scots mono does more damage to the
market nroduc1 than the tobacco flea
hoctlr or flea bug
\ comparison of authorities by the
University Of Missouri shows that the
people of the Emitted States pass ont
annually through their back doors
nearly SO, 600 coo in the form of cid
clothes and cold yictuaIs to 46.o00
tramps. Still - per cent. of these
"Wcary Wiiics" have trade or pro-
fos>iOH and could make a living if this
antipa,hy for work he'd not seized
them. About 80 per cent of the Amer
lean ''huh0"s' are married men.
"Drivcn from home hy their wives
is the cOmme3f of one OF the Missouri
snecics. Statistics show that more
than 80 per cent. Of the tramp popula-
tion is cf American p2rentaGe Statis-
ticians say that G3 per cent. of the
number of trampS are made 50 by in
toNirlting liquors.
w. r. Cook. a farmer near Macon.
WIS arrested for swearing at Robert
II. Powell. Of Anahel, over the tele-
phone.
a Frisco engine ran into a cow east
Of Bartlett and was pitched off a T.
foot cmbanitmcnt and turned hottom-
side up.
The Hyde PARK CONGREGATIONAL
church. Bremen and Blair avenues,
st. Louis, erected at a cost of $50 .00o,
has just been dedicated.
Business men Of Hannibal have just
completed $4,000 building (as
honIs) for the Roberts, Johnson {:
EanI Shoe conpany. of St. Louis