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J.T. Jordon, a prisoner who was be ing conveyed to the penitentiary from Peniscot county, jumped from the train at a point near Wittenburg and made his escape. Mrs. J. M. Sutherland of Stoddard county was awarded € 5,000 damages in the Butler county circuit court against the Garveston-Greason Lumber Co. Her husband was seridentity killed while in the service of the company. Henry Haggey of Dexter hias a “mud stone” that has been in his family for fifty years. It was recently applied to a wound on a party who had been bitten by a mule that had hydrophobia and adhered to the wound for nine days and then dropped off. L. M. Henson who was recently tried at Poplar Bluff for killing one, Mr. Adams,and was acquitted, has sued Geo, Orchant of the Poplar Bluff Citi zen for $25,000 and the St. Lewis Re public for $50,000 for severe things said of him about thes willing. The Iron Mountain depot at poplar Dluff burned down last Wednesday. Loss was about $25,000, fully insured, it was an old landmark, but the people of the Biull are glad that it is gone for they now hope that the company will give them an new up-to-date structure. At Poplar Bluff, last week, thirty-two men and and women were arrested for playing games for prizes, ‘They were the leading men and women of that city, They were arrested undead section 2212 of the Missouri lane, ‘Tie fine 1 not to exceed $200 for such an offense, and if minors are engaged in the games, six months imprisonment can be added. Each of these 82 prominent persons ard out on a $100 bond. So our gaming folks must be very careful for if the iiniator cannot persuade them to be good the law will make them. Fred Brooks, 4 years old, swaying at the farm of James Mason, hanged him self with a dog chain fore amusement of his play mates, it was unable to free himself and died, ‘The Brooks day and his play mates had gone to the barn’ on the Mason pric@ to play. Young Hrooks fastened a dog chain to a rafter and proposed to hang himself. This he did but his feet slipped from their sup port, and he banged there until he strangled to death. The children sum moned resistance away, but before any one arrived the boy was dead.—Dunk lin Democrat. It has just leaked out from what seems to be a reliable source that Conduter Holle, the Iron Mountain conductor, whose tragic demih at Brinkley, Ark, a few weeke ago suprised his many friends in this city, was not a case of suicide, an waa at first suspected, but a case of an overdose of chloral, or what is known among criminals as “knockout drops, advainiatered to him by a designing man of that place, Who stands high in busi ness and doin! oiroles of that city. From the report furnished up from a gentleman who is in a position to know whereof he speaks, it seame that Bob had certain business affairs in Brinkley that were much coveted by this particu lar individual and that he, Boile, had visited Brinkley for the purpose of go ing over the business proposition of de posing of his stock in the Brinkley en terprise, when he was murdered by this aforementioned business man for the purpose of stealing his stock certificates, which Bolle had upon his person at the time, and for other valuable personal effects carried by Bolle on that fatal day. The report goes to the effect that the murderer had Invited Bolle to take a drink with him and in mixing the drinks the murderer placed an overdose of “mockoute ’ in the glaes, unintention ally ah Boile too much, which caus ed his The authorities are now, tiated 4 Seeteee © ce one of prominent citizens A is =a Gages. Soph
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Doniphan Ripley County Democrat
Doniphan, Missouri, US
Fri, Feb 22, 1907
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