Thur Mar 29, 1900

The infant of Mr. And Mrs. Tom Baker died Friday Mar 24, and was buried on Saturday following (Scrub Ridge items)

S. .B. Stone writes accident insurance cheaply and correctly (Scrub Ridge items)

Last Wednesday a singular and alarming occurrence took place within the palatial Wright residence. When Lee Carson the gentlemanly foreman on the F. R. Yount plantation was to have been married to Miss Maggie Wright. As they marched and stopped within few feet of Judge LaFont who was to have performed the ceremony, for an understood amount of sorghum molasses, the assuming groom was stricken with a frustrated stroke of paralysis and fell apparently lifeless upon the floor. The invited friends and relatives on the contracting parties were forced to extend words of sympathy instead of congratulations. It was of course thought best to summon a doctor which was quickly done. The doctor came and after carefully examined the suffering victim, said his condition was critical but not fatal. Later Lee is much improved and it is rumored that another effort will soon be made to unite this charming young couple. Consequently Judge LaFont, who is himself one of cupids late victims, is hourly expected in this vicinity to perform the ceremony and haul away the above mentioned delicacy.

Mrs. White of Fredericktown died of pneumonia. She did not have the service of a physician She belonged to a sect known as the Divine Healers, and depended upon faith cure.

Married at the residence of Wm. Minner in this city by Squire Joel Cook, Saturday evening , Mar 23, Mrs Sarah Jane Sanford, of this city, and F. C. Holloway, of 3501 Ohio Levee, Cairo, Il.

Married in this city at the residence of Mr. P. Murphey, Mar 24, by Squire Joel Cook, James Gaddis and Mrs. Willie Simmons.

Judge C..C. Hudseth, died at his residence two miles north of Pt. Pleasant, Thurs last of Pneumonia, at the age of 62 years. He was a valuable citizen and was an associate Judge of the County court at one time.

An unknown man who was stealing a ride on the ferry boat from Birds Point to Cairo in a box car Mar 19, was ordered out of the car, and in attempting to get out he fell to the deck of the boat and his body rolled into the river. It was soon afterwards recovered, but life was extinct, his neck having been broken by the fall. The body was buried on the bank.

A duel was once fought between two men named Shott and Nott. Nott was shot and Shott was not. In this case is better to be Shott than Nott. There was a rumor that Nott was not shot but that Shott was shot. However circumstantial evidence is not always good. On trial it might appear that the shot Shott shot shot Nott or it might be possible that the shot Shott shot shot Shott himself when the whole would be as first and Shott would be shot and Nott would not. We think however that the shot Shott shot shot not Shott but Nott any way it is hard to tell who was shot.

Last Sunday morning about 8 oclock at the Wat Jackson farm seven miles below here, Ulysses Jackson, a young negro man shot Fannie Williams, also colored, wife of Essex Williams from the effect of which she died Monday afternoon about 2 oclock. The negro boy was enamored with a daughter of Williams which was against the wishes of the old folks. He called Sunday morning and was ordered away by Mrs. Williams. He became enraged and drawing a 38 calibre pistol, shot Mrs. Williams, the ball entering in the right of the abdomen, just between the ribs. Dr. Watson was summoned but pronounced the wound fatal, and after suffering great pains for 30 hours the woman died. A warrant was sworn out by Williams Sunday and placed in the hands on Constable Phillips, who was too sick to serve it then. Sheriff Willitt is not out searching for the negro.

Married at the residence of the brides parents Mr. And Mrs. Richard S. Mott at Pt/ Pleasant. Wed morn Mar 28, at 8 oclock, by Rev. Jones, Capt. H. V. Nedaroy and Miss Heddie Mott. The bride is one of Pt Pleasants most charming young ladies and society there will regret her absence. The groom is connected wit the Miss . River Commission. He commanded the dredge Beta during working season and is now Master Mechanic of repairs in the dredge fleet at Memphis. The couple came up to New Madrid just after the ceremony and departed on the train for Memphis.

Born in Jonesboro, Ark, Mar 17, to Mr. And Mrs Dave Haas, a daughter.

Goldie, second youngest child of Rev. Boehm, formerly pastor at this place, died recently at Bonne Terre.

Godfrey LeSieur and John Ransburgh have just completed building an additional room to the front of the residence of Mrs. Eva Pack.

Mrs. Caroline Kochtitzky of Jefferson City is visiting her brother H. L. Shidler and wife, at Marston.

Among the children of the negro woman who was killed by the negro Jackson last Sunday, were seven who were born at three births, two at two different births and three at another so we were reliably informed.

Judge L. F. Lafont, Associate Judge of the county court was married in Calroon the 15th inst, by Judge Comings, to Miss Etta McGill of Scott County.

The wife of Sam Tibbetts died at their home on Barnes Ridge Monday. She was a daughter of the late George Parks and leaves a husband and three children