The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1906-01-04
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Many Missouri merchants report a
record.breakiug holiday trade.
Brookfield, Chilicothe and Carrolltou
are each trying to get a $4,000 federal
building.
A million-dollar sash and door manu-.
featuring company has been organized
at st. Joseph.
The NJ. X. & 7. office building at
Sedalia burned, involving loss OF
about $4,000.
Plans are under consideration for the
erection of modern six-story hotel
building in Joplin.
The temperature December was
about two degrees above the average
temperature of the month.
The safe OF the saloon in New Madrid
was blown open and $500 in cash taken
therefrom one night last week,
The compulsory school attendance
law will be tested as to its constitutions
ali,y on case brought from st. Joseph.
Fulton had $50, 900 fire on the 9th
ult,. consuming the Odd Fellows build
ing and the D. NJ Tucker business
house.
Webb City is overrun by "fre.bugs,' "
and there is talk of a vigilance com
mittee to catch and summarily deal
with the wretches.
John II. Greene, postmaster at Ga.
lena for five years, died Tuesday after.
noon. He was prominent Mason and
Republican politician,
John Jaeger, one OF the best known
men in Newton county, celebrated the
incoming of the new year by blowing
his head off with shotgun.
Mrs. Coffey has just won a suit
against the city of Carthage for $500
for damages sustained by falling
through "a defective sidewalk.
The Central Railway company OF
Marshall proposes to build an electric
road from California, Mo-, through
Prairie Home and Bonneville TO that
place.
A Newyear's wolf drive at Oak Grove
was participated in by a thousand
mighty hunters, but Sir Lupus was toe
wise to be caught, though three of him
were seen.
In Kansas City Edward White, a Il.
year-old black boy, was shot, probably
fatally, by revolver in the hands of O
reckless rowdy celebrating the advent
OF new year.
a special grand jury convened Tues
day morning at Jefferson City to indie
the mutinOus and murderous convict,
who recently made sensational at
tempt to escape.
1t is reported that capitalists have
secured leases on large tracts OF lane
near Springfield on which valuable de
posits of iron are indicated, with {
view to development.
The goose-bone, corn shuck, muskrat
weather-prophet has been predicting 9
hard winter for some time, but at The
rate it has been holding back its dura
tion cannot be great.
j. w. Wilson, supposed to be a con
vict, got his Newyears present in the
form of an arrest at st. Joseph for rails
ing four money orders on Lincoln
Nebraska, from Sc to $50 each.
Squirrel and quail passed under the
protection of the game laws on the irst
instant, as several participants in the
Oak Grove wolf drive are about to fint
out through special instruction by the
state in the way Of prosecutions.
According to the report OF com
mittee which has been investigating
conditions at the wOrkhouse 10 Kansas
City it is not certain but that the place
might find favor with Russian author
tiles as penal colony for her political
outcasts. In some respects 1t allnos
out-Siberias Siberia itself.
Joplin reports a severe electrica
storm on the morning of the 2nd in
slant, in which several houses wer,
damaged by lightning, and one life 4
believed to have been lost in the sam,
storm at Alba, the dead body OF Franl
Byrd being found in the Teddy B. min,
at that place after the storm.
On the second instant, 10 st. Joseph
William 7. Kessells, charged will
keeping saloon open on Sunday II
violation of the State Sunday law, wa
fined $500 and his license declared for
feited. st. Joseph has an ordinanc
permitting saloons 10 be kept open o.
Sunday. The case will be appealed.