Chariton courier., February 15, 1895, Image 3

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Border County Notes.
LIT1XGSTOX.
A mcceeeful protracted meeting !
in progress at Whaling.
Mrs. Lionie M. Bamsy died at ber
home near Springhlll, aged 54.
Mrt. Amanda Beckwith died at her
home in Wheeling, aped 80 years.
Benjamin Peck, a prominent far--per
ot Blue Mound township, is
dead.
An effort I? being made to build a
bridge across Grand river near
Lemon. ,
The citizens of Sturgis ars railing
money to build a combination echool
hone and public ball.
Peter MeArdle an aged citizen
ftf TJvinffston countr. died near
Graham's mill, aged 72 jeare.
The county court bat employed
ftwo expert! to straighten up the
county books, tbey being in a bad
shape.
p Since tbe new police policy at Chil
licotbe, the tramp route hat changed
i to about ten mi lee toutb ot tbat
city.
Supt. Jamison will go to Macon
February 15th. to be present at the
.8uperintendanta club ot North Cen
tral Missouri Teachers association.
At a double wedding at Wheeling
Uatt w-ek. the principal actors were
llr.Cba. L. Blost to Mist Lydia
lsmael and John W. Btose to Mist
LixxieM Billingt.
Sherman Lowe wat arretted at
Chillicotbelatt week on the charge
ot boot-legging, and in default ot
bond was placed in Jail to await the
action of the federal grand jury at
Kansas City.
A mad-dog passed through Medi
' -dns township three weekt ago biting
xjome bogs and cattle. Since then
e calf, taken with hydropho-
'lI. W a 1. fsMn lm .nrlninM anil
ha not been heard from since.
David Bowers, one ot the men who
'broke jail latt November and made
tfclt escape, wat re-captured last week
at Utica and . taken back to Chilli-
rot he. lie it under Indictment for
-Jhett and carrying concealed weap-
ay TteU. 4 St. Joe railroad trctle,
-Awo miles west ot Chiliicothe, wat
v?"mytteriously burned one night last
week, and the traint of tbat road on
L the following morning, bad to go
around via Galletin, via tbe Rock
Island and Wabash railroads, from
'Cameron to Chiliicothe.
X A man named Simt claimt to have
been robbed ot $51 by a man named
Ho veil at Chiliicothe. Hit story
wat not believed, at both Howell
.and hit wife were searched and no
money found on' either. Howell wat
arretted, however, for running a
Jackpot nlckel-In-ths-slot machine.
Foxes am becoming tnch a nujs-
-aaca In tbe vicinity of Meadville,
Wheeling. Fountain Grove, Bedford,
Halt and Avalon, that an extentlve
-drive is arranged for thie week, io
which several hundred men will take
part. They will form a large circle
nd center at a point about a mile
J -east of Bedford. Many will take
part in the drit' for tbe sport, "as
well at to r;l the vicinity ot the
roulilom iul try-yard thieve.
ic prvcauiii-i io o laicu, mat
no horses or r arms will be allowed
within a mU ! the place of meeting,
except thos. J the mounted mar
shals.
81U5E.
Mrs. Louisa Myers died at ber
home in Slater last week.
Tbe electric lights at Marshall are
not very satisfactory la their illumi
nating. effects.
F
It is a cold day when a marriage
license is not issued in Saline county,
Bays the Marshal Democrat' ews.
The Skater Index is under new
management. F. T. Doan of Liberty,
i having purchased an inteit in that
; paper ot T. E. Quisenberry.
. SJ tr-r is regularly honored with a
i wriii-i'ti ia the Kansas City Sanday
1 Snn.-.J it is eaid the demand for.
Sons in that . town alwajs exceeds
the supply.
It is astonishing what an amount
of satisfaction and comfort is de
rivid from wearing pants, eajt the
Miami .Yews.
Id digging the mill well at Gilliam,
solid rock has been struck and the
progrees is but two feet per day. In
tbe meantime the mill it unable to
run for the want of water.
Tim Strotber, the 18-y ear-old ne
gro bay who killed Lis father at Sla
ter thive years Hgo, wat caught
ttealiog from tbe C. & A. cars last
week, and taken to the Marshal jail
for safe keeping until bis preliminary
examination on tbe 14th lust.
Elder Robert L. Prunty of Miami
bat accepted a call at UnionvilIe,Mo.
Elder Prunty was raised in tbe
vicinity of Miami and tbe Aetrs
speaks in tbe highest terms of him
at a eooa citizen ana taiemea
young preacher.
The new saviors bank at Slater
opened up Monday, Feb. 11th, with
150.000 capital stock. Tbe officers,
I. W. Avitt, president, ilenry Clay,
cashier; and IL P. Price, assistant
cashier, are taid to be men of sterling
ability and solid at tbe rockt of
Gibralter financially. -
The "Truth Club" It going to give
a grand banquet on Washington's
birthday. We don't know in what
way tbe name it applicable, unless it
it tbat '-Truth" it tabooed in itt
councils. All the tame, tbey pro
pose to have a big time Miami
Xevra.
Some excitement wat occasioned
Wednesday by a negro deputy mar
shal, who wat appointed to look
after the colored people solely, tak
log bold ot a white man. The man
needed arresting we presume, but it
might be well for tbe colored mar
shal to understand that his interfer
ence in inch cases will most proba
bly secure for himself a coffin.
Malta Bend Qui-llre
Tbemavorof Slater it in trouble
over tbe refusal of th city council
to Day bit bill of $200. for
emDlovinar a special deteetiv to
soot" the gambling dens io tbat
city, that were recently raided and
routed. The prevaliog eentiment is
that the result justified tbe expendi
ture, bat tbe council considers that
It hat no legal right to pay tbe bill,
it not having been ordered by them.
At tbe last term of the U. S. court
at Kansas City J. C. Younger, a rela
tive ot the noted outlaws ot the tame
name, was tried, convicted and tent
to tbe penitentiary upon a charge of
bbinz the mailt ot a letter ad-
dressed to a party named Samuel
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Scott at Slater, containing a check
for 30. Younger failed to give a
satisfactory explanation of how tbe
check came into his possession, hence
his arrest and conviction. At the
time the letter wat ttolen J. K. Davit
wat deputy post-matter at Slater,
hit father being tbe recently retired
Republican postmaster, and last
week a deputy U.S. marshal arrested
the ex-deputy postmaster, tbe feder
al grand jory having Indicted him at
being implicated in the ttealing ot
thj letter containing tht check for
which Younger it now in the peni
tentiary. Davit hat been admitted
to bail in the turn of $1,000.
Quite an exciting adventure oc
curred near Cretcher, at the home ot
a certain young reprobate. For
sometime past petty thefts have
been committed in the Leigh bo r
hood, ot which not a few were
traceable to the above Individual,
and on Wedqeeday night ot last
week a mob ot masked men went to
his father's bouse and attempted to
take the young hopeful from the
shelter of tbe paternal roof, presum
ably to administer a severe Justice
without the aid of tbe law. A sharp
scrimmage tuoc piiice Deiween tne
white-cappers and (L young fellow
and bit brothers, but the accused
was draggtii into the yard, where he
foogbt Uk u cger uiiJ finally in tbe
darknesM uud confusion escaped
from bis captors, taking refuge in a
coal bank. It is baid be so He red
horribly, freezing bis hands and feet
before be was rescued by his friends.
From the hot reception given the
mob, they are of the opinion that
their expedition was not a bowling
success.
MAOOX.
A movement Is un foot to establish
n canning factory at Mucoo.
The llvi?r Citizen says there will
b a railroad bu tt from Bevter to
La Plata.
The report that the Macon Foru:n
bad suspended publication Is a mii-
take, for that paper appears regu
larly, and is at healthy, neat and
newsy at ever.
Jordan Lynch bt Round Grove
township died, aged 40 years, and
wat buried in Ten Mile cemetery.
The rabbit crop it plentiful at
Macon tbit year, tbe e ports supply
ing that town by the wagon load.
A county teachers association id
to be organized soon. A meeting
for organization will be held Februa
ry 23rd.
Meedamet Peters and ilowerton
the two Shelbina women who
eloped with better looking men, and
were arrested at Macon, have re
turnee to tneir dear bubbles, more
experienced if not better women.
Messrs. I. S. Miller and Chat
Weakley, of Macou will probably
erecetv a canning factory at that
place. They have been investigat
ing tbe matter and think there is
moneyin it. It is estimated tbat
such produce at It used by the can
ning factory will bring a farmer
from $50 to 00 per acre for hit land.
The Macon Enterprise estimates the
employment of 100 hands for 100
dayt each teaton. At a dollar a day
thit would be f 10,000 each teaton
paid out for help alone. A home
markeMs what the farmers need for
such produce, to make itt cultivation
profitable.
i
Mr. 3ail Griffin of Macon, bat
filed a auit for 3,000 against O. 11.
Randall who lives thrc.-). miles south
west of Shelby vllle. In 1888 Griffin
was worxing lor iiandaii and one
day the tatter's temper got away
with bio and struck Griffin over the
bead with the linet to the team be
wit driving, tbe tharp tongue of the
buckle sticking into his head, inflict
ing a wound which eventually caus
ed bim to have epileptic fits, from
which he has never recovered. 11
jut returned from St. Louis where
he hat been receiving treatment, and
phyticlant attribute bit trouble di
rectly t the blow from Randall.
Uenc tblttuit.
The directors in district No. 2 In
Morrow township, brought suit
against a young scheol boy named
Luther Sisftnn for 75 cents. 1 1 seems
Sisson was trying to get a drink of
water and leaning his weight upon
the water -stand upon which tbe
bucket set, it gave way and fell to
pieces. The directors demanded 75
cents for the damage, which was
flatly retused, to tuit was brought
to iorce payment, ouson took a
change of venue to Chariton town
ship and when the trial came off tbe
jury found a verdict for tbe defense.
Thit so enraged tbe directors that
tbey appealed tue case to the circuit
court and tbe papers have been filed
with the circuit clerk. Tbe Macon
Times eayt the case has only reach
ed tbe pitiful sum of 59.C0.
BAKDOLPH.
Moberly't new fcity directory for
1895 has jus made Itt appearance
Miss Sally Penn of Uoberly, while
ascending an icy step, fell, breaking
two other ribs.
More money or free sleighs in Mob-
erly.else the sleigh-riding in that city
will have to stop.
Mrs. Elizabeth McCune, wife of the
late Elder John McCune, died at
Renlck aged 63: Mrs. McCune was a
sister of J. O. Dougherty of Salis
bury.
At tbe trial of Comer Mitchell and
Matbew Elliott, charged with dis
turbing a meeting of the Salvation
Army at Moberly recently, they were
discharged.
There will be no change In the
number of tbe wards In Moberly, tbe
effort to reduce tbe number, from six
to four having failed to meet the
approval of the city council.
A Moberly postman named Geo.
Awarded
Hlfbest Honors Worlds Fair.
MEWS
.!OST PERFECT MADE
A pr t aje'l"rra ofTartar Powder.
Fre.
'rt 'HimonL, A!- " t any other adulterant
wm
-J YEARS TKiTANDARD.
Scott's
r
Emulsion
the cream of Cod-liver Oil, with
Hypophosphites, is for
Coughs,
Colds,
Soro Throat,
Bronchitis,
Weak Lungs,
Consumption,
Loss of Flosh,
Emaciation.
Weak Dabios,
Crowing Children,
Poor Mothers' Milk,
Scrofula,
Anaemia;
in fact, for all conditions call
ing for a quick and effective
nourishment. SenJferPampkUt. Fret.
ScotU8oMM.R.Y. AllOrvcgitU. 60c and It
Elsea, in turning on an icy door
step, slipped and throwing op his
bands to catch himself, his right
fore-finger caught in a heavy door
that ffas closing, mashing it into a
jelly.
Henry B. Tobias, once a promi
nent Moberlv photographer, died at
St. Margaret's hospital in Kansas
City, aged 45 years. A few days be
fore his death he handed $17 to e
friend to pay bis funeral expenses,
that being all he possessed, together
with a letter for his daughter who
lives somewhere In New York, he not
knowing where.
J. W Moberly, a traveling sales
man selling shoemaker's supplies
for a Uoberly bouse, was arrested at
Glasgow, being mistaken by the of
ficer, as one of the men connected
with the Burlington train robbery,
near Ottumwa, Iowa, his discription
being almost identical with tbat of
tbe robbers. Of course he was re
leased.
HOWAKD.
Sebree is now patting on airs
with a tri weekly mail.
The water famine in the vicinity of
Glasgow is still causing great incon
venience.
A Glasgow borticulturaliet says It
requires a fall of 15 degrees below
zero to kill tbe peach crop.
The Fayette Democrat-Banner has
"branched out" into a eemi-weekly
mere a. lew more enterprising pa
pers thei .ue D.-B.
Turner Williams of near Fayette
has sheep that are sheep. One of his
ewes has dropped twins and two
others triplets this season.
lhe tajette Leader Is prepanng
to issue a souvenir edition. The
principal 'souvenir" the owners ex
pect, Is tbe fllthy lucre they hope to
make ont of the enterprise.
George Williams and Dick Stiles,
both negroes, are serving a 90 days'
sentence in the Howard connty jail
They butchered a hog belonging to
Cbas. Besgron without bis know
ledge or consent.
A mad dog made Its appearance
at Glasgow one dar last week and
bit Wm. Pennock, who immediately
went to Armstrong where a mad
stone Is owned, and applied the
stone to the wound to which it at
once adhered. It is thought tbe
poison was entirely drawn ont, says
tbe Missourian.
CoL Jack Williams, after contin
uous service of more than 20 years
has concluded to resign tbe superin
tendency of tbe connty poor farm.
There are said to be some 20 appli
cations for Col Williams' official
shoei. which would Indicate that
looking after Howard connty
pan
pen was a paying job.
Tbe. story published In the
New
tbat
Franklin Echo to tbe effect
Mrs. Wm. Hickman's bonnet.
with
blood In It, bad been louod on a
brash pile in tbe woods, and tbat
suspicions of foal play had been
aroused, has proven to be without
oundation as Mrs. Hickman is alive
and well and enjoying a visit to her
aunt, Mrs. Moss, at Pullman, Wash.
mabelaqea:
Smith and
Mr. J. C.
Mips Annie
Miller.
Mr. James L. Murphy and Miss.
Annie Downey, both of neat Fayette.
Mr. Luther C. Overstreet of Black-
born, Saline connty, and Miss Mattie
Jones of Fayette.
At Glasgoy, Mr. .John Schiegzer of
Saline county to Mis Mary Kedder
man of Chariton connty, by Bev.
Father Thobe. '
cabeoll. ....
John Zimmerman, who had
his
skull fractured two weeks
ago by
the kick of a horse, died last week at
his home near Norborne.
An an U-cfgarette league has been
organized at Una.
An old resident named Oliver.
Boyer died near Bogard.
Miss Luanda Hard wick died at
Carrollton, aged 75 years.
Their are two men at DeWitt who
claim they can each euck 14 dozen
eggs inside of an hour.
A man from the Gourd, south of
Wakenda, claims to have a chicken
with a human face.
The public echool enrollment at
Carrollton is 1.1G6, of which 923
are white and 213 colored.
The nigh echool pupils at Carroll
ton are arranging for a Washing
ton's birthday entertainment.
Tbe solicitude of some ot Carroll-
ton's young bloods causes them not
to take their girls sleigh-riding for
fear the dear creatures will contract
pneumonia.
A Carrollton paper tells of a crazy
colored boy of that place known as
"Andy," sleeping in a furnace at the
jail in order to keep warm. ' That
town must indeed' be. cold, if each
extreme measures are required to
keep from freezing.
When the ill-fated steamer "Elbe,"
tbat was recently sunk in the
British Channel carrying with her to
a watery grave 374 people, made
her rirst voyage from Bremen to
New York, Mr. John Valbrachl of
Carrollton was one of her passen
gers.
In the circuit court Friday last,
Judge Bucker granted an applica
tion of the state for a continuance of
tbe case of the State of Missouri vs.
n M . m m m .
cam i bneiton, cnarged witn mur
der, at the state's cost, one of the
atate's witnesses being sick and una
ble to attend.
The commissioners appointed by
the county court of Chariton to con
fer with the county court of Carroll,
regarding the building of a bridge
across Grand river, connecting the
two counties at Brunswick, did eo
last week, bat the judges of Carroll
county refused to make the appro
t nation of $0,000 as requested by
theChatlton county commissioner.
Andrew Jenkins a Wakenda mer
chant, is in tbe habit of carrying
the days receipts of his store to. bis
home every night, protecting him
self with a cocked six-shooter. Last
Thursday morning, after returning
to his store, he accidently dropped
the revolver, whicb went off inflict
ing a severe wound in one of his an
kles.
There has been organized at Mead
ville a K. O. T. M. tent. 1
Thomas A. Rowland of Bevier, has
been appointed deputy recorder of
the county.
A mandoline and guitar club has
been organized at Bevier with 10
members.
Tbe sports at Meadville are amus
ing themselves with circular fox
hunting.
. Mrs. G. H. Jackson of Brokfield
and Lt. T. Jackson oi Trfplett were
married atBrookfleld last week.
On accoant of an unusual amuunt
of business, the county court has
been compelled to hold several
night sessions.
The work of numbering houses in
Brookfleld is progressing rapidly
The work on the city directory will
be commenced next week.
There is an interesting revival
meeting In progrees at. Brookfleld,
conducted by Bishop Albert Mack,
a colored evangelist, who is scid to
be very talented.
The Linneus News very gracefully
dons the attire of being the "official
paper of the county," after a vaca
tion of eight years from that dis
tinction. At Sc. Catharine a man was so
elated over the arrival of a fine boy
at his house, that he worked outside
all day in zero weather, wihout coat,
vest or hat.
Peter Carmichaei, who left the vi
cinity of Marceline "to find a better
place than Missouri," after spending
year in Kansas, has returned to
hie first love.
Tbe Linneus Bulletin, eays.there is
no likhhood of hard times in that
county this year, there being ' plenty
of money in circulation and good
crop pro pect.
Wes Collier of Seeley Chapel while
unloading cord wood at Brookfleld,
his team took fright at a locomo
tive and ran away. Collier was
badly hurt by some wood falling up
on him.
The Marceline Mirror advises its
readers not to "search its columns
for proceedings of the legislature, for
it isn t ooing anytning worm men
tioning." That is poetry well put
in.
Only $ 601 has been collected out
of .the $3,707.95 due the Marceline
school district, and unless more is
forthcoming shortly, the schools
will have to be closed for lack of
funds.
"Captain Tom," the burly good
uaiureu utrgru r nuu uutre cuures
around Marceline for "tbe drinks,"
drew a "razah" on his lady love, for
which he was arrested and sent to
the Linneus jail.
The Bucklin Herald, is evidently
not appreciated in a manner that it
deserves, and will cease publication
with its next issue. Eugene Williams
is getting up a good paper for Buck
lin and enouid receive a liberal pat
ronage. The Gazette tells of a unique
baby's party at Brookfleld, the in
vitations of which, being a dainty
little card with a dainty little photo
graph of a dainty little lady, who
bad arrived at the ripe old age of
one year.
Wm. McConnell, aged 83 years,
who had resided in Linn county
since 1845, died at bis home 4 miles
southeast o! Brookfleld last week.
His eon Wm. S. McConnell. resides
in uuanton county.
When the calaboose at Linneus
was burning one night last week, a
sleeping tramp was dragged from
his cell therein, and when asked if hs
would have awakened of bis own ac
cord, answered: "Yes, in h 1." ;
Editor Will C. Walker's Citizen
seems to improve with every issue,
and is a paper that Bevier may well
be proud of. It is undoubtedly the
best ever published, in that, black
diamond city, and it is no wonder
that place is improving with so able
a champion as the Citizen.
A petition was presented to the
Linn county court asking that body
to order an election to decide wheth
er the county should avail itself of
county school supervision. Tho pe
tition not having the requisite num
ber of freeholders, the prayer . was
decnied.
"
The assistant station agent; at
Bucklin, Ollie Osborne, fell i& love
with Miss Lou Wyett, daughter of
the late James H. Wyett. The girl's
family objected to the match, so the
ennnrv nnnnla rxiart thma..M rn
Macon where the sacred f obligations
of man and wife were taken.
The rabbit plague has reached
Marceline in a most virulent form,
and the animal now . serves as a
butcher shop sign, a center for pies
on the restaurant, hotel and board
ing house tables, a decoration for
show windows, and in life following;
his old line of usefulness in pruning;
orchards.
J. J. Fruin, a farmer living near
Meadville. uses rwrularlr Drinted
stationery. In speaking of the
same, the Messenger ' Informs its
readers tbat any printing office can
famish paper, envelopes, etc', co the
farmers, all printed nicely, for less
money than they can buy the plain
paper eieewuere.
Dr. Lewis H. Bogers, who died . at
Meadville last week, was in the con
federate army four years, and dur
ing that time was captured by the
federals three tiaaos. escaping and re
turning to his army each time. He
was a brave soldier in the battles of
Booneville, Lexington, Fulton and
Dry Wood, besides an extended cam
paign in the South.
Dick Bruce, who was raised in
Grantsville township and went to
Oklahoma during the boom, bas
ufpu srrKHieu auu is now 111 jail ai
1 ' J . : I a.
Kingfisher in default of $1,500 bond.
on the charge of murder. - He claims
that the man whom be killed, met
him in the woods and attempted to
kill him, and tbat tbe murder was in
self-defense. Bruce bore an excellent
reputation at Grantsville and vicin :
ity. - -
A man's reputation depends upon ,
the kind of material bis character is
built of. If he . lays down a few
stodes' Of 'deceit; dishonesty and un-
be a'very weak structure inheed; but
if be is careful to .select the square. .
smooth stones of principles and up-,
rightness he need not concern him
self about reputation.