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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1902
Page
4
A garbled report notes Prince Henry departing St Louis while a Baron Bum Bum remains in Se lia and Republicans plan ward tonight. references to Charles Broadway Rouss in New York City and Roosevelt. South Carolina politics and baseball adjournments feature alongside a joke about a comedian and the Carolina senators.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat reports Pettis county lacks a clear candidate for Congress as ambitious locals hesitate to seek the nomination. Steele backs off for Cooney while clinging to hopes of a dark horse showing at the district convention amid intra party rivalries and the State Fair duties.
The column notes St. Louis World's Fair concerns, Boonville’s new railway station and opera house, a new local paper The Advance, and the sale of the Jefferson City Press ledger accounts for $3. It also lists Sacred Heart church Easter week party plans with officers and helpers, and reports Missouri mule ownership at Gunn City with two five-year-old 18-hand animals valued at $1000.
Fort Scott broommaker W H Love seeks legal advice to sue Burlington Great Western and another railroad for infringing his patent conductor's check holder. He claims the devices have been used for years and plans to pursue action. Funeral services were held for Conductor Thomas McSweeney at St Johns Church with burial at St Marys cemetery. George Kerr, engineer on St Louis Iron Mountain and Southern, killed in a Pine Bluff Arkansas wreck, will arrive on the Missouri Pacific Sunday morning. funeral plans not yet set.
This morning the narrow gauge began distributing from Sedalia along its line with six handcars and fourteen push cars of standard gauge.
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