Pettis County School Enumeration Under Scrutiny
County Clerk Robert Gray reports Pettis County's 1899 school enumeration totals 10 148 pupils with 4 734 in Sedalia and shrinkage of 315 from the prior year. He blames lax canvassing and lack of funding for the net drop and calls for renewed effort and funds to ensure accurate counts.
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Robert Gray
Pettis County
City of
Sedalia
Lamonte
Green Ridge
Smithton
Houstonia
Power Failure Darkens Liberty Park Concert Night
A large crowd gathered at Liberty park for the Second Regiment band concert but a power outage spoiled the event with encores and orderly departure. Forest park also drew a late crowd as streetcars awaited boiler repairs to end future outages.
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Liberty Park
Second Regiment
Powey
Forest Park
Muskrats Cause Leak in Forest Park Dam
A bad leak in Forest Park dam is caused by muskrats and concerns park management. The extensive water makes repairing the defect impossible at present.
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Forest Park
Unfortunate case at city hospital involving Marins and wife
A sad case of affliction and distress at the city hospital involves Jas A Marin and his wife. They arrived on the Katy last night en route to Warsaw from Nevada where they had gone to look for work.
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Jas A Marin
He Katy
Warsaw
Nevada
Sim
Heartache in transit as blind couple seeks help
A 66 year old blind man and his 32 year old partially blind wife arrived penniless. On the way downtown the wife suffered heart failure and was taken to the hospital.
Narrow escape at Katy depot as rider falls before switch engine
A young woman from New Franklin excursion party nearly died at the Katy depot last evening. She stepped back onto the track as a swictch engine approached and was saved by Carl Werner when the engine was within three feet. Authorities described the incident as a very close call.
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New Franklin
Katy
Carl Werner
Elevator Fall Causes Near Miss at Lamy’s Factory
Excitement erupted at Lamy's overall factory last night when a large freight elevator plunged from the third floor to the basement. Employee Henry Kueck had just stepped off as the cable snapped, the lift only partially loaded, sparing more serious injury despite heavy potential loads.
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Lamy
Henry Kueck
Pettis County Residents Missing or Dead in Tax Notice Batch
Ex residents of Pettis reported missing or dead as hundreds of delinquent tax notices were returned by postal authorities. John Henry Summers appears in a local day note, though the item is dismissed as not news.
Distinctive local items from Sedalia and Osceola
County collector shows gains with over six thousand delinquent notices issued and a $5,000 rise in June payments. Post office returns bring 1 165 notices. Fishing party members reported near Smithton. Summers jailed again for old charges. 15 month old Newman child dies. funeral at Ramsdell cemetery. Slim McVey defends theft case before Judge Burr amid park gun club medal shoot blue rock events. ri valry noted as blue rock sport heats loom. Englebrecht reveals not recalling who tipped him on intoxicated names. Lovinger and Higdon suffer runaway collision during evening drive.
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P Newman
Local notices recount uneasy events and biographic snippets
The passage records various local items including encounters with teachers McKinley Bryan and Blaine, Elmer Rhine’s embalmers work in El Paso, postal difficulties locating residents, and five year notice changes. It also mentions Judge Burr’s order against Mary Stewart, a proposed Battle Row relocation, a fishing mishap, William Stern’s disturbing the peace warrant, Minnie Hearn and Laura Lewis’s acquittal, and Ed Cunningham’s arm injury from a sausage grinder.
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William Stern
Pinhook
Tom Gresham
R J Scott
Minnie Hearn
Laura Lewis
Kinsey
Lee Lovinger
Ed Cunningham
Public Administrator Sells Busch Effects on Market Square
Public Administrator Clap ton sold the effects of John Busch yesterday afternoon on the market square, disposing belongings from the estate in a public sale.
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John Busch
Clapton
Market Square
Cutting Appra y Ca a Thal Elias Fletcher Victim
Elias Fletcher, a colored porter for M. Kt. and T., is named as the victim in a cutting incident described in a fragmented notice. The readable text mentions the assailant or context vaguely, with no clear date or location provided.
Assault on Katy porter by New Franklin ball team
A mob from New Franklin attacked Elias Fletcher, a colored porter for Conductor Temple of the Katy, after missing a train. Fletcher was slashed and beaten, with others aboard the train injured or frightened. several gang members were identified and injured in the melee.
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Elias Fletcher
Temple
Katy
New Franklin
Franklin
No 4
Pilot Grove
Lee
Newrick
Porter Fletcher
Edgar Robinson
Conductor Temple
Fletcher
Con Temple
L D Palmer
Hank Russell
G M Jones
Sedalia
Katy Hospital
J Guffey
Boonville
Investigation Underway After Road Incident Prompting Prosecution
An investigation is in progress following a road incident described as serious. Authorities state the railroad will prosecute vigorously all connected with the affair.
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Ra Road
One Fifty Fare to Hannibal on Special Katy Train
The Katy line announces a round trip fare of 1.50 from this city to Hannibal and back for the first of August. The excursion covers over 300 miles at under a half cent per mile. The train departs at 4 30 AM, promising a rare yearly opportunity to travel to Hannibal and intermediate points.
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Katy
Hannibal
Hospitals Fill Up As Railroad Workers Suffer Ills
Over the past two weeks railroad laborers faced harsh drinking water and sun exposure causing head and bowel troubles. Katy hospital today registered 98 patients, near the peak, with 10 to 15 more arriving daily.
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Katy
Railroad casualties dwarf wartime losses in year
The interstate commerce commission reports 6,859 killed and 40,558 wounded on American railroads in the year ended June 30, totaling 47,741 casualties, far above American military deaths and injuries in the Spanish American War and the Luzon campaign.
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Spain
Luzon
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennington of Warrensburg Tells of Lincoln Murder Message
ET Pennington of Warrens burg long employed by Missouri Pacific rode to Kansas City with his son en route to Cripple Creek Colorado where he has a gold mine interest. He recalls delivering the Lincoln assassination message on his first day as telegraph operator.
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ET Pennington
Warrensburg
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City
Colorado
Cripple Creek
Pennington
Lincoln
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John
Henry Summers
H A Gass
Carrington
Teachers’ Institute
Osceola
Babcock
W M Johns
E R Smith
Walter Shirk
A W McKenzie
Seymour Williams
John Henry Summers
Jim Englebrecht
the Sentinel
Harry Carpenter
Henry Smith
R A Higdon
McKinley
Bryan
Clinton
Blaine
Rhine
Elmer Rhine
el Paso
Texas
Mary Stewart
Burr
Sentinel
Battle Row
Jud
The
New
Franklin Ball Team
James Thomas
Dents
Fort Scott
Knox
Geo Stone
North Jefferson
E F Gruenwald
Franklin Junction
John Woods
Extra Gang
Smithville
Will McCowan
Coryza
J F Harris
Elm Mott
H McGee
Parsons
Lumbago
Chas Graham
Denison
Bill Brown
Lancaster
Louis Carr
Chickie Chockie
Jim Cunnigham
CT Wallace
Gus Shelby
Ross Cooper
John Mitchell
Caney
W A Griffith
Alvarado
J .O Jameson
J Zinn
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