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MISSOURI NEWS. Cedar county sells mules to go to Spain and Portugal. At Mound City three revivals are being conducted in one block. The public school at Sheldon has closed on account of diphtheria. A Christian Bible school will be opened at Columbia January 28. A successful poultry show has recently been held at Clinton, Mo. Holt county has more corn in her cribs than ever before in her history. e I Glasgow has a society of young Hadies who call themselves "Bachelor 0 Maids." The secret orders at Cabool offer I to give $100 toward a free public library. A Holt county farmer lost ninety. nine hogs out of a hundred from cholera. A vinegar factory is among the new enterprises contemplated by Maryville. An old negro woman died in Cameron recently at the age of eighty. five years. The populists' national committee met at the Lindell Hotel, St. Louis, last Friday. Springfield will enter the contest to secure the next republican state convention. W. H. Young, a banker, of Harrisonville, has assigned. Assets and liabilities unknown. The Benedict Paper Co., of Kansas City, has failed with liabilities of $59,445 and assets about the same. The Young Men's Christian Association's annual state convention will be held in Fayette, February 6 to 9. Burglars entered the postoffice at 9 California recently, blew the sale 1 open with powder and secured about h $200. e Three hundred and sixty-four If marrrage licenses were issued by o the recorder of Saline county last t year. o The Carthage Electric Telephone e Company has filed affidavit of ine crease in capital stock from $5,000 to $15,000. Russell Lawrence, a farmer living a near Hatton, Callaway county, was d killed by a runaway team while gathering corn. J. M. Seyhold, a wealthy farmer of Verson county, was found dead in bad the other morning, He was 62 years of age. The Grisham Mercantile and Lumo ber Company, of Wayne county, has a been chartered by the state. Capital stock $22,000. e The entire business portion of the e village of Pleasant Green, six miles n southwest of Pilot Grove, has been e destroyed by fire. n The Grundy county circuit court g has just concluded one of the longest d and busiest terms ever held; 225 cases were disposed of. In 1895, the total value of all taxa able property, in Henry county, in e round numbers, was about $9,250,is 000; sixty years ago it was $351,888 al n Mr. Peter Schmidt, one of Moniteau'county's most prosperous and it highly respected farmers, died suddenly at his home north of Cli nton. Twenty divorces were granted in d three hours by Judge Neville in the g circuit court of Springfield. The hearing of one case lasted just two d minutes. g n it is said that a Boston man who to had large landed interests in Mis10 souri once circulated 1,000 state S nday school reports as an adverto tisement. n A man representing himself as h John W. Ellis has bean arrested in ve Macon, wanted in Kirksville upon 1the charge of swindling by means of on fraudulent deeds. in A son of Richard Powell, of New Philadelphia, was accidentally shot. Id In some manner the revolver he was 8carrying in his pocket was discharggn ed. He died shortly afterward. on x-State Representative Charles on Ie A. Millman, charged with administering poison to an election judge to election day, November 6, 1894, has te been acquitted in the criminal court eof Kansas City. The proposed electric line between at, to Lebanon and Bagnell, via Gunter ts. Springs is now an assured fact. It a will place Jefferson City in direct is- communication with a section of the er, state hitherto accessible only by way ats of St. Louis. lue The committee appointed to look the after securing the republican state on convention for St. Joseph, reported ral that the full amount of money re ns, quired to secure the convention had er been raised and was now available n. Arrangements were at once per the fected to make the necessary overed, tures to the state central commit mtee when it meets. bae The Bank of Newmarket, Platte but county, has been reported to Sec the retary of State Lesueur by Bank ste Examiner Gordon Jones as in a fail acing condition, and with impaired of capital stock, and it has in conse quence been closed by the secretary