4 Sep 1903--The wife of John Wilcox, col, near Elliott, who has had typhoid fever for the past two months, died yesterday, aged 21 years. 4 Sep 1903--Died, on Sunday, August 30, the 2 year old son of Anderson Hanners and wife. The remains were buried at Armstrong Sunday. 4 Sep 1903--WM. SORRELL DEAD--Refused to Taste Food for Fifty-Seven Days--Was Reduced to a Skeleton.--Huntsville, MO, Sept 1--William Sorrel, the inmate of the County Farm at Huntsville, who has fasted since July 6, died at 3 o'clock this morning after having fasted fifty-seven days. He was a man of medium height, and when in the prime of life weighed about 200 pounds. He was very strong prior to his fast, but at his death was little more than a skeleton. Sorrel was born and raised near Renick, Mo. He was graduated at Mount Pleasant Baptist College. He taught school for a number of years and made a splendid record as a teacher. He devoted his spare time from school hours in studying law, and was admitted to the bar in this county, soon after which he went to Texas, where he practiced his profession successfully until his mind failed him about eleven year ago, when he was brought back to his home in Randolph county, MO, and sent to the Insane Asylum at Fulton. After it developed that he was hopelessly insane he was sent from there to the county farm at Huntsville, where he has been kept in the insane ward for the last nine years, during which time he was morose and melancholy. When crossed he became violent and dangerous. For the first few years of his confinement he was a willing worker about the place, but three years ago he began a series of fasts which reduced him almost to a skeleton and he was obliged to take to his bed. Since he began his last fast he took nothing but water. All efforts to induce him to take food were unavailing. A religious mania is said to have been the cause of his fasts, but this he would never explain to any one. 4 Sep 1903--Mrs. Martha Harlow is having a new roof put on her residence. 4 Sep 1903--Born, on the 28th, to Aubrey Humphrey and wife, a daughter. 4 Sep 1903--Born, on the 3rd, to J. O. White and wife, a son. 4 Sep 1903--Born, on the 29th, to Lee Wright and wife, a son. 4 Sep 1903--Born, on the 29th, to W. P. Webb and wife, a daughter. 4 Sep 1903--Born, at Springfield, Ill, Sunday, August 30, to David Reese and wife, a son. 4 Sep 1903--Died, on the 22nd, the one year old daughter of L. P. Murry and wife. The funeral services were conducted at the residence Sunday evening, after which the remains were laid to rest in the city cemetery. 11 Sep 1903--John Lloyd is here from Pittsburg, Ks, visiting his mother, who is quite sick. 11 Sep 1903--R. R. Jones returned Saturday from a visit with his brother at Chillicothe. 11 Sep 1903--Born, on August 31st, at Ninnekah, I. T, to B. F. Maxfield and wife, a daughter. 11 Sep 1903--Marshall Huston, aged 19 years, son of county judge J. J. Huston, died at his home near Cairo on the 5th of appendicitis. 11 Sep 1903--Mrs. A. C. Tatum, mother of Mrs. E. M. Whitmore of this place, died at her home near Fayette on the 9th, of general debility, aged 77 years. 11 Sep 1903--John Acuff, a Wabash brakeman of Moberly, was killed by his train at Brunswick Tuesday. He was formerly a compositor on the Moberly Democrat and had been in the employ of the Wabash about a year. 11 Sep 1903--Uncle Mike Basey of near Myers left here Tuesday for Jefferson City to attend a reunion of the Mexican War veterans. Though 78 years old he gets around as well as many men at sixty. 18 Sep 1903--Born on the 12th to Lon Hursman and wife, a son. 18 Sep 1903--Bill Edwards, a Monroe county man, who has been living near Mead, Kan, was shot to death by his sons, Ray and Doniphin, last Wednesday evening. A letter from an attorney states that Edwards had seduced his own daughter, Ada, and had threatened to kill her and other members of the family when the fact became known. The boys, aged 21 and 23 years, procured guns when they heard the matter and put an end to his life. He was buried the next day. The young men surrendered to the officers but will probably never be prosecuted. Edwards finished a term of four years in the Kansas penitentiary last January for some time. He was always a bully abroad and a tyrant at home. The sons who killed him are said to be first-class young men--Paris Appeal. 18 Sep 1903--Mrs. Margaret Lilly, mother of circuit clerk M. J. Lilly, died at her home near Levick's Mill on the 15th of pneumonia, aged 70 years. 18 Sep 1903--Wm. Embree, aged 76 and Mike Basey, aged 78, returned Saturday last from Jefferson City where they attended a reunion of Mexican War Veterans. They informed us that but twenty-three were present and that every courtesy was shown them by Gov. Dockery and all the state officials. 25 Sep 1903--Born, on the 18th to Robert Green and wife of near Burton, a daughter. 25 Sep 1903--David Carter, colored, died near town Wednesday morning of pneumonia, aged 45 years. 25 Sep 1903--Born, on the 26th, to Elsworth Little and wife a daughter. 25 Sep 1903--Mrs. J. M. Denny of Armstrong, and Mrs. J. J. Bradley returned Tuesday from Huntsville where they had been to attend the funeral of James Alderson who died at his home in Moberly Sunday. 25 Sep 1903--The following went to Roanoke Wednesday to attend the funeral of Geo. Newby, who died near Yates Tuesday: A. B. Heathman and wife, Mrs. I. J. Embree, H. S. Haden and sister, Miss Lucy Heathman, Lessley Burton and sister, Mrs. N. N. Dysart. 25 Sep 1903--We learn that W. M. Burton, who has been living near Harrisburg for a number of years, will move back to his farm south of town soon. 25 Sep 1903--Mrs. James Palmer and son, Audrey, will leave about the first of October for Oklahoma to join Mr. Palmer, who located there about a year ago. 25 Sep 1903--While Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hagar were attending church here Sunday their 6 year old son, who accompanied them, took suddenly sick with congestion of the stomach. He was taken home at once and a doctor called, but the little fellow continued to grow worse until Tuesday morning when death ended his suffering. The parents have the sympathy of all in their loss. 25 Sep 1903--Wm. (Babe) Avery, living south of town, met with a painful accident Tuesday, but in what manner he is unable to explain. Early in the morning he took an ax and went to the woods to do some chopping, but returned to the house in a short time with a big gash cut in the left side of the head, evidently done with the ax, and very weak from loss of blood. Dr. Nichols dressed the wound which he pronounced quite serious. 25 Sep 1903--D. W. Dillon, a cattle dealer of Wellsville, was killed on the Wabash Thursday night of last week about three miles west of Sturgeon, but how he came there no one knows. He had been run over by a train and horribly mangled, and his clothing torn from his body. Notes to the amount of $1600 were found in his pockets, and his vest, which was brought into Moberly next day on a coal car, contained a draft for $348.90 from the National Stock Yards at Chicago. His death is shrouded in mystery. 25 Sep 1903--Mr. Edgar J. Palmer and Miss Edith Bryant, both of this place, were married at the residence of F. J. Kellerstraus, 5961 Theodosia Ave., St. Louis, on Sept 22, 1903. The groom is one of Higbee's best young men, and the bride one of it's fairest and most popular young ladies. The News joins other friends in extending congratulations and wishing them a long and happy life. They will make their home in St. Louis for the present, Mr. Palmer being a baggageman on the Alton with headquarters in that city. Kathy Bowlin, Additions, corrections, comments welcome.