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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

MRS. Harrison and the wives of all
the cabinet ministers signed a petition
for the pardon of Mrs. May brick, who
is serving life sentence in England
for poisoning her husband, and for
warded it to Minister Lincoln to pres
ent to Queen Victoria
The president has issued a full par
don for Robert Sigel, son of Gen. Sigel,
convicted of forgery.
1T was shown by the annual report
of Commissioner Raum, of the pension
bureau, that on June so, 1891, there
were 676, 100 pensioners upon the rolls,
an increase of 1926 over the previous
year The total amount disbursed dur
ing the year was Sis, SIS, ,959. ii,
against S106. 493. .s99. 10 the preceding
year. During the last year 20, 525 PEN
sioners were dropped from the rolls,
IS, 229 by reason of death. There were
about 1,2O7, 20S soldiers of the union
now living
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven DAYS ended on
the 25th numbered a10, against 239
the preceding week and al9 for the cor
responding week last year.
SECRETARY RUsK says that it has
been found by experts that women are
better meat inspectors than men.
THE reports from the large centers of
trade throughout the country show
business was constantly on the in
crease.
COMMISSIONER CARrER's report on the
operations of the general land Office
during the fiscal year ended June 80,
1891, shows that the number of acres
of public lands disposed of during the
year was 1O.3a5,1l7. Total cash re-
ceipts during the year, S.. 429, 2ao. The
vacant public lands in the public land
states and territories was 519. 66i, ,6S3.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
81, 393, ,OS6,474 against 81, 30, $50, 404 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of 1899 the decrease
amounted to &c.
THE president has appointed Jere-
miah Coughlin, of New York, to be
consul general of the United States at
Bogota-
THERE were in the United States
in the census year $50 farms, with a
total of 169,s5l acres, devoted exclu-
sively to seed-growing, of which o.
567L4 acres were reported as producing
seeds
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

A VERY formidable war vessel is
about ready to fly Uncle Sans colors
She is the monitor Miantonomoh, is
259ls feet long, and carries in two
double turrets four ten-inch rife guns,
the most effective ship guns we have
yet turned out. She is belted with
twelve and one-half inches of steel and
iron, and sits low in the water. She is
intended for harbor defense, and will
justify confidence in her ability to
make a good fight against the strongest
iron-clad that can be sent against her.
She has two amiable sisters, the Puri-
tan and Terror.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

A MAN in Augusta, Me, who is the
proprietor of hair tonic, is getting up
some testimonials to spring upon the
suffering public One of his friends
who loves a joke sent him this very
sweeping Endorsement, which may be
printed on the outside of the book COW
er and may not: Dear Sir-A few
days ago accidentally spilled some of
your hair hatcher on the straw mat
tress at my lodgings, and when re-
turned home | found hair mattress"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

THE largest check ever drawn in
this country was that given by Jay
Gould to Thomas Allen for the Iron
Mountain railroad. He paid 5000, 600
for it and handed Allen check for that
amount. Allen looked at the paper and
said: Isn't this good deal of money
for one man to have in one bank?" Il
don't know" replied Gould. Per
haps it is Let me have the check"
Allen then handed the check back to
Gould and he handed it over to his
Office boy, saying: Here, boy, take
this check to the bank and have the
cashier certify to it" And the boy
went out and did it.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

EDWARD Il. GILES, of London, the
editor of the West End Gazette. as the
gnest of the banquet given by the as
sociation of Master Tailors and Custom
Cutters made some very sensible and
telling remarks on that occasion. One
was particularly pertinent. Fashion
should be based upon common sense
and adapted to the climate of the
country and the habits of its people.
None but Americans should originate
garments suitable for Americans
This fits Americans who return from
abroad in the universal misfit suits.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

After fifty years of married life. VIM
Zacharius and wife, Amelia, of Bren-
ham, Tex, decided that marriage was q
failure. and were divorced
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

CAPT. MARY MILLER, the woman
who managed steamboat on the Mis-
sissippi for seven years and then Sc
cured a government license as pilot,
has applied for the place of lighthouse
keeper on the gulf coast. She is an
intelligent and rather prepossessing
woman. Her husband is still an active
navigator and running steamboat in
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

The Youngest married couple in
Connecticut, probably, dwell in the lit
tie country hamlet of Sterling, among
the Windham county hills. They are
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Fenner. lie is four
teen years and seven months old and
she is fifteen years and four months
They have been married for several
months.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

vIsALIA, Cal, Sept 29.-Grstton
Dalton, convicted of the Alila train
robbery; John Beck. waiting trial for
horse stealing. and w. b. Smith for
robbing car at Tulare, escaped from
the county Jail Sunday night They
had secured keys TO unlock their cells,
after which the doors were again locked
and the men were not missed until yes
terday morning. A horse and buggy
which was hitched to 8 post in the
court house plaza, is also missing. and
the men are supposed to have gone Oh
with the rig. The sheriff aud deputies
sre in pursuit
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

THE late Bishop Caldwell, of India,
had been in charge of the great Tim
nevelly mission just half century.
having been appointed thereto three
years after his first arrival in Madras
The mission now embraces 6lS villages.
10000 Christian adherents, and 10
clergy, chiefly natives.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

A GIGANTIC tunnel, which is esti-
mated to cost $50. 900 and require ten
years to finish, is being constructed in
the Leadville mining district for the
purpose of draining the mines 1t will
be at least five miles long and will.
when completed, leave to easy access
millions of tons of good ore that can.
not now be properly got at and prob
ably never can be handled without the
use of proper drainage.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

Della, the 5-months-old child of John
Mcfarland, farmer near Sedalia, was
found dead in bed, having been smoth-
cred with a pillow
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

Our gold coins are alloyed with silver
and copper, chiefly the latter. Copper
alone is used to alloy our silver coins.
In both silver and gold there are nine
parts pure metal to one of alloy. Our
nickel coins are three-fourths copper
and one of nickel. The one cent is
ninety-five per cent copper and five of
tin zinc
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

Objections having been made to the
Catholic Bible in the schools at Read
ing, Pa, the substitution OF Shake
speare's works has been recommended.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03
Thelr Golden Anniyer.arv,

Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Miller, of Mar
tinsville, Ind. celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary a few days ago,
recerving a number of nice presents.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

THE telephone does not often develop
such an interesting romance as that
which occurred in Chicago recently. 1t
is owing to that instrument that Miss
Wheeler has discovered brother whom
she had not seen for twenty-five years
In telephone directory she chanced
upon the name of ". W. Wheeler. Those
were the initials of her long-lost
brother. With spring to the phone
she rang him up" and an hour later
brother and sister were clasped in each
others arms The telephone, as rule,
is very matter-of-fact instrument,
but it must be admitted that it brought
about decidedly romantic incident
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

A SOUTHERN genius is credited with
the discovery that very fine article OF
sugar can be made or distilled from
the long-despised cotton seed. The
product is claimed to be fifteen times
the strength of an equal quantity of
cane sugar and twenty times the
strength of sugar made from beets.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

DURANGO, Col, Sept 20. - Sheriff
Longnecker returned to this city yes
terday, having in custody Ralph Ray,
aged 20 years, who murdered his
mother last week. The murderer was
captured Saturday evening near Canon
Large, N. NJ, while on his way to
Mexico. He has made confession
to the sheriff. He says that
last Wednesday morning he quar-
relied with his mother, who
objected to his going to the fair at
Pennington. as he desired He struck
her on the head with a hatchet, and
stabbed her in the breast three times
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

NINE. PATTI, replying to an inter
viewer, declared that alcoholic stimu-
lants of any kind tend to irritate the
throat and should be entirely abstained
from by those who wish to cultivate
singing
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

A masked negro held up and robbed
Edward Ward and Miss Josie Young
while they were enjoying an evening
stroll in Kansas City park.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

Otto, the 4-year-old SON of John Rose,
was killed in St Louis the other even.
ing by being run over by an electric
street-car.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

A FARMER in Tennessee undertook to
rid his premises Of fleas by pouring a
gallon of kerosene down through a
crack in his kitchen floor. Shortly
afterwari he lit his pipe and dropped
the match through the same crack and
the fleas all disappeared. Noinsurance.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03
A Perilous Mission.

BosToS, Sept 2s.-The Boston branch
of the Russian Nihilist society met Sum
day evening and final instructions were
given to a member chosen TO be the Sc
cret bearer of the dispatches to the
nihilist headquarters in St Pc
tersburg. The dispatch-bearer Is
also charged to bring back complete
details of the political situation in Rus
sia. as it is believed the time Is nearly
ripe for events of great moment In the
history of the empire. The agent who
leaves on his perilous journey this week
) was formerly an exile In Siberia. and
escaped about four yesrs ago.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

A Lyons anatomist has examined the
skeletons of eighty-six monkeys
chimpanzees gorillas and orang-outangs
and has found diseases of the bone to
be as frequent as in man, and of a
strikingly similar character.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03
Good Work In Illinois

Rev. Mr.. Pichard baptized sixteen
persons In the Big Muddy river near
Benton. Ill Much religious work has
been performed there.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

In st. Louis. Addie Curtis, aged IL.
while at play. found an old revolver,
with (which she shot her playmate, Hat
tie Williams. in the forehead. The girls
did not know the weapon was loaded.
The wound is dangerous, but not nee
essarily fatal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

TOBACCO smoking is growing rapidly
in England During the last fifty years
the consumption per head of population
was nearly double
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

Mary sincup was dangerously shot by
some one unknown at Clifton Heights,
in st. Louis. while she was walking
with a new lover.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03
LATER.


GEO. W. JOHNSON and his son, who
lived near Beaver creek, N. d., were
burned to death in the great Emmens
county prairie fires. They had gone to
put head fire out, when the huge
flames, leaping high as the houses
tops, sweps over them, leaving them
burned and disfigured corpses.
COL JOHN A. ROBINSON, an influential
politician of West Virginia, and an in
innate friend of Senator German, says
that German will be in the race for the
democratic nomination for president
next year. and that the West Virginia
delegation will be solid for him.
ut the Grand Central depot in New
York, at 1888 a m, on the 2Sth, in
their special car, having made the trip
from San Francisco in days, 12 hours
and % minutes, three hours less than
the best previous record
As THE result of an explosion of oil.
on the 2sth, in the wholesale coal oil
house of Phillips & Cunningham, Of
Philadelphia, five large buildings were
destroyed and eight flremen were in
jured, none, it is believed, seriously.
IT is again reported that the duke of
Cambria ye may resign his Office as
commander-in-chief of the British
forces, recognizing the fact that his in
creasing feebleness prevents him from
fulfilling his duties.
EMMET p. STANLEY, superintendent of
the money-order department of the
post office at Atlanta, Ca, has been ar
rested, charged with embezzlement.
1t is believed his shortage is over 81, 500.
DR. CARPAR WIsTAR DODGE, profess
sor of New Testament literature and
exegesis in the Princeton IN. J.) theo-
logical seminary. died on the 27th. The
professor had been sick all summer.
FREDERICK HENRY PAUL METHUES,
second baron Methuen. died in London
on the 2sth. He was born in 1918 and
succeeded to the title on the death of
his father in 1s49
GRArTAN DALTON, one of the men
who robbed the Southern Pacific train
at Alila, and two other prisoner
escaped from the county Jail at Visalia,
Cal, on the 2sth.
AT the close of business, on the 2sth,
the treasury department had redeemed
s17, 500, 900 four-and-a-half per cent.
bonds, and continued SIS, ,09s, $50 at 9
per cent
THE secretary of war has approved
the new tactics for the government OF
army maneuvers prepared by board
of officers
IVAN ALExsIEvITcH CoSrscHARoFF,
the Russian author, died in St Peters
burg, on the 2sth. he was born In 1883.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03
A Big Fortune

Mrs Robert Kennedy, her son and
daughter, Mrs b. W. Armstrong of Du-
lutb, Mimi, are said to have fallen heir
TO a fortune of 30, 000, 600
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03
The Leader Of the FenIans In Dublin.

LONDON. Sept 2e.-Jas- Stephens, the
former leader of the Fenians, has ar
rived in Dublin. 1t is reported that the
government has given him permit TO
remain during the rest of his life in
Ireland or any other portion of the
empire he chooses In an interview he
said that he was a supporter of Par
nell He had not changed his mind as
to the right of Ireland to be an indie
pendent nation, or the way in which
that right should be enforced. brt
majority Of the Irish people having
chosen to try constitutional agitation
he acquiesced in their Judgment
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

The st. Louis Safe Deposit and Saw
ings bank, capital 5000, 900, is the name
of a new banking institution in that
city. The shares are of the denomina-
ton of 500 each and are all paid up.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

Revival meetings under the manage
ment of Rev. b. Fay Mills, of Boston,
have been held in St. Joseph with re-
markable success The meetings are
held in the old Sam Jones tent. and are
attended by 5000 people nightly. and
are supported by the combined inter-
csts of thirty mine churches
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

Mrs. Ellen Belt, old and crippled by
paralysis. and who made living sell
ing pencils, was run over by switch
engine in Springfield and killed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03
B.,,ev,. m rot.I Abstinence.

Cardinal Manning. In Q recent letter.
pointed out the necessity Of rearing
children In the principles sns ursetiees
Of total sbstipeueA
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

GEN. WIcHcoTE, aged ninety-seven
years, the last English officer who
fought at Waterloo, died recently. He
was born in 1884,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

The seventy-second conclave Of the
Sovereign Grand Lodge Of Odd-Fellows
was held in St. Louis The parade was
Gorgeous
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

A MOUNTAIN of coal in Wild Horse
valley, Wyo., has been burning for
more than thirty years.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

OF the twenty-seven royal families
of Europe two-thirds are Germans
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

The 3-year-old son of Thomas Dillin,
of Archie, Cass county, was bitten by
cat which was supposed to have hydro
phobia- The boy was taken. to Nevada
by his mother, and a maidstone applied
to the wounds. 1t adhered several
times When the mothers attention
was called to the boy by his screams,
the cat had him by one of his great toes.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

The st. Louis Stamping Co. claims tc
be making from three to four tons of
tin-plate every day, which is used in
their works. The tin is secured from
the Black Hills tins mines, and the
basis of the plates is steel from Ala
bama and Tennessee. A new rolling
mill is in course of construction, which
the firm says is for the purpose of pro-
ducing tin plates, and will have a ca
pacity of about twenty-five or thirty
tons daily.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

A few days ago Mrs. Otto Heberer,
wife of St Louis sausage manufac-
turer. gave her three children, aged 81
6 and s years. arsenic, and then swal-
lowed some of the deadly stuff. She
told her husband what she had done,
and started on a run down an alley, say
ing she wanted to jump into the river.
Mr.. Heberer ran for physician to save
his children. After hard work the chill
dren were saved, but the little ones suf-
fered great agony. The next day the
body of the mother was found in n
patch of weeds near the house. where
she had fallen and died. Mrs. Heberer
was undoubtedly insane. A year ago
she fell and injured her head. and since
that time the poor woman had not been
in her right mind.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03
Ex-Gov. Moreho house's Funeral.

MARYvILLE, No. sept. 81. - The
funeral of ex-Gov. Albert p. Morehouse
was held at the residence. at p. m, yes-
terday, under the auspices of the Mary
vile lodge A. +. & A. NJ, of which
lodge he was worshipful master. Mary
vile commandry, No. 40, X. T.. acted
as escort. The masonic services were
conducted by Rev. John ID. Vincent, of
st. Louis, secretary of the grand lodge
of Missouri. Gov. Francis, accompanied
by his staff and state officers, attended
the funeral.
PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR.
Gov. Francis, under date of Septem-
ber "a, issued proclamation setting
forth the sterling qualities of the dead.
and ordering that the flags on state
buildings be placed at half mast and
that the state offices be closed on the
afternoon of the day of the funeral.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

The boldest robbery on record in st
Joseph was committed at o'clock the
other morning at the Pacific hotel. AT
that hour there were four persons in the
corridor, two guests, Night Clerk James
Fitten and Bartender Al Simmerman.
Three men approached the counter from
the ladies' entrance and the clerk,
thinking they were guests, turned the
register towards them. He had dipped
the pen into the ink, and as he handed
it to the nearest man he found himself
covered with pistol The two other
robbers covered the bartender and the
other guests. The clerk was ordered
to open the safe. The amount secured
is about Sl,sOO, while the bartender
yielded up a diamond worth $50 and a
watch worth $50. The guests were G.
d. Washer. travelling man from Chi
cago, and Frank Rosenblatt, of st. Jo-
seph, but the robbers were in too big a
hurry to search them. There is no clue,
but they are supposed to be a gang who
came from Sioux City.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Not the First to Suicide.

Gov. Morehouse was not the first
among those who have filed the chief
executive Office of the state to die by
his own hand. says the Globe Democrat
Thomas Reynolds, OF Howard county.
was elected governor of Missouri In
1s40. On the 9th Of February, 1874.
eleven months before the expiration of
his term, he committed suicide by put
ting pistol ball through his head. His
death occurred several hours after the
shot was fired, and he is said to have
suffered great agony. lie had been in
ill-health for some time previous to his
death, and it was generally believed
that his mind was affected by his ill.
ness, but he gave as reason for his act
the violence of his political enemies.
Gov. Reynolds had been judge of the
Supreme court of Illinois before coming
to Missouri in 1928. Upon his death
Lieut-Gov. NJ. NJ. Marmaduke. father
Of John S. Marmaduke, became acting
governor, and acted as such the remain.
der of the term.
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SCHOOL HOUSE WHERE THEY NET
therefore sprang into being. But the pub
lie mind wants facts more in the concrete
and it may now be taken as proved that
Ripon. Wis, was the place, March 20, 1854,
the time, and Mr. A. r. Bovay the man
who devised the name.
The Kansas Nebraska act was not passed.
but it was plain that it soon would be, and
all tho northern states were in Il ferment
The popular mind had settled down to the
belief that the Missouri compromise of
1901 was u sacred compact, even less La
Bile to change or repeal than tho constitu-
tion itself. The Wing party had been de-
stroyed, Us one might say, by the election
of 1852, and only the Abolitionists main
taincd any formidable opposition to the
compromise measures. But all the Aboli-
tionists, nearly all the Wings and Il large
part Of the Democrats earnestly opposed
the repeal OF the compromise and reopen.
ing of the slavery issue.
a call was published in the l2ipon Her
aid. signed by fifty four citizens, of all par
ties, and meeting WIS held in the school
house. There was II hard struggle Ola
Wings hated to give up the old party
name, and old Democrats hated TO afIili-
ute with old Wings, but the thing was
done at last and the name Republican,
suggested by Mr.. Bovay, wi.s adopted. 1t
was wise suggestion. The Democrats
have always gained much strength by
their name. 1t means something definite
and plain to common minds. "Fedcralist"
had long been odious, and to Americans
generally "Whig0 WIS meaningless. ere
publican had had a definite and tolerably
uniform meaning for $500 years, and was
the honpred title OF the party which over.
it,, irt Il ~,