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Newspaper
Sedalia Sunday Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1902
Page
8
A movement to form a six to eight town baseball league in northern Missouri is under way. Chillicothe and Macon Moberly Trenton Keokuk Brookfield Shelbina are invited with two more including Hannibal possibly. The circuit would cut railroad costs and boost pay.
Joplin fell 5 to 2 in ten innings after errors in the fourth and missed opportunities on Courtwright. Batteries were Companion and Meek for Joplin against Courtwright and O'Halloran for Jefferson City.
Fort Scott won 5 to 0 at Lola in a game noted for better all around play. Lola failed to hit Cravens safely while Fort Scott collected 5 runs on 8 hits with 3 errors. Batteries were Cravens and Moore for Fort Scott, Millsap and Wuran for Lola.
Heavy rain in Chanute Kansas forces postponement of Thursday games against Nevada. A doubleheader is rescheduled for this afternoon with Chanute debuting new pitcher Bryan from the Western league.
Gray of Joplin quits baseball. Hawkins leaves for Lee's Summit to visit Lee Garvin. Driscoll to Fort Scott and Meek to Joplin. Shanks with Tola. Fort Scott loans Layne to Joplin. Roxy Roach substituted for Peck Herrington in the ninth, foul pop to first base. Sedalia fights to keep Valley league status amid fan chatter. Quigg, Missouri Valley umpire, praised yet doubted by Fort Scott fans. once lived in Sedalia.
A lengthy Wallace Show street parade promises a standout miniature menagerie with 120 Shetland ponies. The display includes 15 miniature cages and chariots and 25 clowns, plus trained Arkansas razor backed pigs and sheep. The Great Wallace Show appears in Sedalia for one day only on Saturday August 2.
The Detroit and New York Express of the Grand Trunk railway runs daily from Chicago at 11 05 a m to Detroit Mt Clemens Niagara Falls New York and Philadelphia. It offers vestibule coaches cafe parlor car and Pullman sleeping cars. Information and timetables available from George W Vaux A G P T A room 917 135 Adams street Chicago.
Masonic lodge Sedalia Lodge No 256 2156 A F and A M will hold a regular communication this evening August 1 at O o clock All Masons are invited to attend W M E Codding Secy Sampson
Attorney C. C. Lawson of the Katie building is associated with private loans as indicated. Bell telephone 467 is listed as a contact reference.
Ten thousand striking tailors on the east side will go back to work following a verbal settlement between the New York Clothing Association and the Garment Workers' Trade Council. Leaders report the accord ends weeks of labor dispute and restores production in the district.
New York plans to demolish the Stevens house on Bowling Green to clear space for a nine million dollar office structure described as the world’s largest. The project aims to transform the area and redefine the skyline.
Montgomery reports indicate a severe drought in Alabama as weather bureau data show the past three months brought less rainfall than any similar period since 1839. The drought threatens crops and water supplies across the state.
The worst wind storm in Winona history struck Wednesday evening. The Bay States elevator and the Central Methodist church were partially unroofed and many smaller structures suffered damage.
A waterspout northwest of Herman Nebraska washed away about 1000 feet of the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha railroad track four miles north of Herman. The incident disrupted rail service in the area as reporting continued.
Philadelphia reports the Storey Cotton Co has acquired land in the Transvaal and experiments indicate cotton can be grown much cheaper in South Africa than in the United States.
News from El Paso Texas reports the capture at Nacapami Mexico of one of three Mexican Central train robbers named Bill Taylor. He allegedly held up the Wells Fargo Express Co near Bermejillo on August 23 and escaped with $50,000.
Chicago and Indianapolis quote wheat corn oats and oats with July September and December futures. Prices show No 2 red wheat around 68 cents in Chicago and timothy hay near $12 to $14 per ton. Lard pork bacon and butter ease with various futures and spot quotes across markets.
The report lists shipping and market asking prices for cattle hogs and sheep across St Louis Indianapolis Chicago Kansas City and Texas markets. Prices cover cattle steers cows heifers calves and stockers with ranges for hogs including packing heavy and light categories and for sheep including ewes lambs and wethers.
Quotations appear for St. Louis at 8 cents New York at 9 cents and Memphis at 1 dollar per unit. The figures show varying merchant rates across cities, indicating regional pricing differences for middling range commodities.
Money on call steady at 2 percent. Prime mercantile paper at 44 45 percent. Sterling exchange steady with bankers' bills at 487 4388 for demand and 435 48554 for 66 days. Posted rates 486 and 488 percent. Commercial bills 48444 485 percent. Mexican dollars 4144. Government bonds steady.
During a severe storm in Altoona Pennsylvania Annie Smith age 15 a silk factory worker stepped into a manhole and fell 14 feet into the sewer. She was carried about 300 feet and ejected from a second manhole alive though seriously injured.
A horse belonging to F E Hoffman was struck by a ball from a mischievous boy as it stood hitched near his office at Firth and Ohio. The rocking incident sent a 200 pound rock twenty five feet, around a telegraph pole, tearing the shaft and pulling the horse to the pavement.
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