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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1899
Page
2
Where you can get the best there is on the market at prices to suit the times. We also have furnished rooms with or without board. Electric fans to keep you cool while you eat. GIVE US A CALL. We want your trade and will do our best to please you. FRANK WILLIAMS, 108 Osage street.
J W Brown, a popular shoe maker, resumes business at 1105 East Third street inviting old and new customers. He offers half soles for 50 cents and guarantees all work as first class. He reports a large stock of leather available for repairs and new footwear.
Manila dispatch reports Gen. Young’s movement toward Benguet as Aguinaldo's forces retreat into eastern mountains. American troops face supply shortages and worn horses while civilians in Tagudin and Santa Cruz welcome protection with bands. Capt. Rubold’s unit routs 70 insurgents and recovers weapons from a fallen naval officer.
A Wabash passenger train struck a Thirty-first Street electric car in Chicago at seven last night. The high speed collision tore the car apart and injured 11 passengers as over 30 people on board rushed for the exits. Motorman Charles Shaw died at midnight from his injuries.
The December Cosmopolitan offers a Conan Doyle war story and other pieces by Frank R Stockton Maarten Maartens Olive Schriener and Edgar Saltus in its Christmas number Olga Nethersole adds a revealing sketch of her stage struggles Life notes kidney disease hope with Foley Kidney Cure promoted Osiris club discusses Early Chinese Literature at Mrs Donohue’s home with Rev Scott Donohue Albert and White in attendance
Equity lodge No 26 A O U W met Monday night and elected officers for terms through July 1 1900. Names include James Jenkins James as P M W J, H B Wieman as M W, Lee Looney as Foreman, Walter Mitchell as Overseer, C W Turnham as Recorder, J S Bosserman as Financier, William Baldwin as Receiver, Charles Gross as Guide, David Roderick as Inside Watchman, Peter Mueller as Outside Watchman, George F Williams as Trustee, H B Wieman as Grand Lodge Delegate, C W Turnham as Alternate to Grand Lodge, physicians Drs O P Kernodle S K Crawford J N Ferguson, Librarian J S Bosserman. Ladies urged to use Rocky Mountain Tea for complexion. Dr Ed Jones, shot near Pleasant Green Thursday, improving and likely to recover.
The Missouri penitentiary consumes vast supplies daily including 24 bushels of meal 20 barrels of flour six beeves 65 bushels of potatoes 10 bushels of onions and one barrel of syrup. The system shows a heavy daily ration with enormous coffee intake.
Warrensburg and Knob Noster are digging town wells. Both have gone down more than a dozen feet without striking lead or zinc, a discouraging sign for the projects.
In Washington on December 5 Gen Henderson was presented a handsome silk flag cut from Fayette College campus, Fayette Iowa. Several ladies attended the ceremony as Henderson thanked them and spoke of the gift's patriotic significance.
The person who disturbed the congregation last Sunday by coughing is asked to contact A. S. McGowan to obtain Foley's Honey and Tar, a remedy said to provide relief. Dick Gentry, Jacob Chasnoff and Lawrence Bothwell left for Columbia Monday after spending Thanksgiving at home.
John Wilson, a negro in Oklahoma City, pleaded guilty to killing Will Austin in a deal for a life sentence. He asserted the act was cold blooded and that he should be hanged.
Mobile report from State Line Mississippi says Edmond Boykin, five, shot and killed his older brother Roderick eleven during a toy dispute over an air gun. Tom thirteen was wounded in the right arm and survived.
John Bergan of Seattle aboard the steamer Vancouver arrived from Liverpool made two attempts to take his own life during the voyage. He is detained by the immigration officer awaiting examination in Portland Maine.
The Good Will club met Monday afternoon with Mrs. George E. Dugan on West Fifth. Papers were read by Mesdames A. W.Winzenburg and T. H. Eisenmayer. Missouri Pacific Conductor Barnes went to Lexington to take the preferred run of Conductor Swickhamer who is laying off. Adverts urge Dr Bell’s Anti Pain and Rocky Mountain Tea for various ailments.
The Kansas Editorial Association at its forthcoming annual meeting will devise a fundraising plan to erect a monument honoring Judge Franklin Adams, late secretary of the State Historical Society, in Topeka Kansas.
The Sentinel notes Joe Paradis resumes beef roasts as a leading specialty with careful selections. He promises prompt service and free city delivery for fresh meats including spare ribs pork sausage beef steaks veal lamb brains. Callao Journal obituary mentions its death after a four year struggle at sea.
The Sentinel notes Sedalia’s leading printing workforce with all workers described as first class union artisans. It highlights the shop as employing more printers than any other local establishment and praises collective bargaining and skilled trades.
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