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"I895, OCT. 1043 I. M. FRAZIER.
Oct. 6 Elder J. Blalock takes eliargze of the Platte City Christian Church.
Dearborn and Platte City are each building a fine hotel.
The Dearborn cannery has put up this season 130,000 cans of tomatoes.
JAMES M. FRAZIER shot and killed his father-in-law. Jacob Oxford. at the door of the former, five miles north of Platte City.
The parties had been at emnity over the separation of Frazier
from his wife. a daughter of Oxford. The evident-e tended to
show that Frazier sent for Oxford. and when the latter arrived.
shot him down. He was tried for murder. found guilty. and the
T(l(ll(l xed was 10 years in the penitentiary. A motion for a
new trial has been led, and the ease continued.
()-t. 12.3 lhe Bank of Kemp M. Woods & C0,. Liberty. Mo..
male.s an assignment to F. H. Trimble. Assets, $13,000; depos-
its, $511,000.
Oct 24 - The house of R. P. C. Wilson, on Block 35, Platte City burned.
It was occupied by Geo. T. Jones and family.
A railroad train wrecked at Waldron, and one man severely
wounded.
()rf. 27Dr. J. M. Hale, of New Market, shot and killed a
burglar, who had entered his room at night by the window. The
burglar was not recognized, but he was supposed to be Harry J.
Hugzuely, the wild son of a Boston millionaire brewer.
. literary weekly paper. called the Stylus, is issued b4v the
Senior class of Park College.
Oct. f28The great apple carnival at Leavenworth.
llatte City now commences ringing. at 9 p. m., the curfew,
when all hasten home.
not. 31A slight earthquake.
NOVEMBER.
Nor. 1Miss Phoebe. Paxton havintr returned from an excur-
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sion to Europe, 1S publishing a series of descriptive letters in the
A rqus.
The crops of wheat and corn are immense, but low prices
reduce prots.
Nor. 6A halfinch rain4the rst for 40 days.
The election in many States resulted favorably for the Re
publican party, and for sound currency.
T. 1. Bruce, of Edgerton, gathered 600 barrels of corn off 43
acres of land.