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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-03-14

Wednesday morning last Governor
Francis sent 10 the House and Senate
his message relative to the Worlds
Fair appropriation. The message re-
cites the fact that Missouri, with its
wealth and resources, cannot afford to
lose representation at the fair of all
the nations. lie recommends that at
least n hundred and fifty thousand
dollars should be appropriated.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-03-14

Il am c Democrat" said Governor
Senator Hill: Il am an American"
said Prophet Cleveland; 81 I'M All In
decrat." said Senator-elect Kyle; all of
which reminds Us of the minister who,
in extolling the wonders of creation.
said: "The same hand that created
the ant made the elephant; the hand
that created HE made a daisy
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-03-14
Saturday, the Fourteenth Day
March A.. ID. 1891.

Between the hours of nine O'Clock in the fore
noon and five O'Clock in the afternoon of that
Cape Girardcau. county Of Cape Girardeau. and
State of Missouri, proceed 10 sell the said de-
srribel real estate. At public vendur. TO the
highest bidder, for cash in hand. to satisfy said
note ard expenses of executing this decd Of
trust. AUGUST BIERWIiTH.
fins Sheriff of Cape Girarieau comfy No.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-03-14
St. Louis and New Orleans
Anchor Line.
U. =.
Mail Line Steamers.

Leave st. Louis for st. Joseph, Rodney. wa
terproof, Natchez, Bayou sara, Baton Rouge
and New Orleans, Wednesdays and SATURDAYS,
at ; O'Clock ? m.
Leave st. Louis for Cape Girardeau, Cairo.
Memphis. Helena, Greeuyille, Arkansas Ct.r'
and VicksbGrg. Tuesdays, Thursdays. and sat
urdays, at 5 O'Clock p. m.
Returning: Leave Vicksburg Tpesdays and
Thursdays. at ip. m, Sundays at 10 a. IN.
Compsny's Once at 81. Louis on w'barrnat.
foot Of Chestnut street.
JOHN A. sCTpDER, President.
THO. c. ZEIGLEH Secretary.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-03-14

like 10 treat a. .sl-- llA.-. %. Lac
vita, issues be has brought up, but
for the moment we are obliged TO
Genuine ourselves 10 mentioning the
great ~desirability of obtaining a lc
postage just US soon as possible
Fianncisr.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-03-14

The sale by Mrs. King Of Corpus
Christi. the cattle queen of Texas.
of $4,000 2-year-old steers is probably
the largest single order for cattle ever
filled in Texas. The consideration was
$4,000. Mrs. Kings ranch is worth
100000.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-03-14
5. S. HARRIS
Phys C an and SURGEON,

once in rear OF Trckey's Drus stor.. co-n..
OF independence and Spanish streets, Can q;
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-03-14

OntraCi0r anu bIi.vSf,
Would respectfully ..fc-n tie public hat he lie
prepared % 10 al aiuis OF :--E - la Inc, a-d
tha; In the future he will allow no competent
workman to underbid him.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-03-14

Probably 40 town III .ac H.'ed
STATES ever jumped into popularity so
suddenly As did the little town of
Greensburg, Ind, which has been
proven by the census TO be the exact
center Of .he Union.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-03-14


The variety Of the resources of this
country are constantly receiving new
illustration. Some fine ago onyx
was discovered in Missouri. which j.
said TO rival the Mexican article.
Now we are told that u ledge of ala
bastcr has been discovered AT Canon
City. Col. The ledge is said TO be of
immense extent. the stone varying
from the purcst transparent white 70
various cOlors. and is susceptible of Il
very high polish. The waste and
poorer qualities can be utilized in the
manufacture of plaster Of Paris and
hydraulic cement.
The Interior Department has acted
harshly toward the Cherokee boom
crS, whom the troops are now driving
from the Cherokee strip. The boom
or. had trusted in the dispatches from
Washington which gave them TO III
dcrstaad that the negotiation with
the Chcrokecs for the surrender of
their lands had been completed and
that the strip was open TO settlers.
They had made their way in their
wagons from half a dozen States. had
camped along the southern border of
Kansas. and at last felt authorized TO
cross over the line and take up the
claims from which they are being
driven. They have endured great
harnships, and must now suffer yet
more. Secretary Noble ought to have
given notice. some time ago. that the
Cherokee strip WAS not open for set
Element; he ought to have warned the
boomers from crossing the line of the
Indian Territory and taken means to
prevent them from doing 50. The
cavalry force that is now engaged in
driving them off the strip would have
had very light work in preventing
them from going there.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-22
NgY Be A MURDER.
r,o Man Beaten by Midnight
Raiders Near Fairmont
M 4 VERY CRITICAL CONDITION
T., MAY Die From the EGccts of the
- rental Assault-An Interesting Relic
ronud In Preston CountyE.A SrSs-
,.riops Strangers Narrow Escape.

sy1d' DiPd'ch 70 We l''S'y'''''' -,
Tr,,Ru@vr, W. Va, June 2l.-The as
.,,,l, made on Robert Thompson Friday
,;, s;,, bv Lee Dillon and Alex. Rhoden,
~' '.sr yosnR in his death, as he Is very
I,: Ir At this time. Justice Thomas A.
rI.mip, ri. visited him yesterday and took
t;,nyi,kuce as well rs that OF his wife,
.,jsIso brought away the stones which
Ioy had used in beating HIM on the
had. The facts are about as follows:
lIa,, Rhodcn has for some time been
making threats against Thompson, who
!. bis brother-in.law, having married
p,odcn,s sister. On Friday night late,
Io with Dillon, went to the house and
lr,cl;cd. and as Thompson was in bed
N,. S Thompson went TO the door, and
.ao,nr .''Ir who was there said they could
n1t come in and Immediately closed the
i0or Ior and fastened it with button.
The men at once forced the door open,
and one Going on each side Of the bed
ananIod .,,a his head in most brutal man
Nor bcsi,Ns shooting him In the side
vib ~ calibre revolver. AS soon as
tbe men lett Mrs. Thompson ran to her
nearest Reighbors and alarmed them
and seat ior physician. DR.. Jamison,
Tthis placc, went ut once and did all
@ssible TO relieve his suiferings. War
Ton,s were issued and the men were ar
nstel and Nre now in Jail.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-22
Is LAVE FOR LIFE.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., obIigOdto Give
up tho Stage.

UP tho btttHes
N1w YonK, juno 2i.-That Mrs.
James G. Blaine, Jr, will go back on
the stage as soon as the divorce pro.
ceedings against her husband, which
she has begun in Dakota, have been
brought to a successful conclusion, is
without any foundation whatever in
truth.
Although Mrs. Blaine has recovered
from her illness, and Is now enjoying q
fair measure Of health, still the rhea-
matism has left her slightly lame, and
her physicians are not able to promise
that this will ever disappear. Mrs.
Biaine's iameness forbids her, OF course,
to entertain any idea OF resuming her
interrupted theatrical career. She has
written friend in this city to corrent
report which was recently teiegraphed
from Chicago.
In her letter Mrs. Blaine says that
she is lame for lite and has therefore
abandoned all idea OF again returning
to the stage. She also denies that she
is "friendless," as was stated in the
paragraph mentioned.
"Who has more friends than II" she
asks. Certainly, have many"
She explains that the obnoxious para
graph originated with Chicago news
paper man to whom she had denied an
interview.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-22
coNDENsED TELEGRAMs.

Smallpox is epidemic at Great Norma.
Russia.
The coal miners strike at Foster, H.,
is at an end.
Oklahoma is harvesting mammoth
Wheat crop.
The drought in Quebec province is SO
bad that Catholic churches viii pray for
rain,
Fanny Dandy, member ofthe Gaioty
Company, was granted q divorce at
London yesterday.
The Railway Telegraphers, in session
at St. Louis, have adjourned to meet in
Chattanooga next Year.
Sherman Brooks was executed in pub
lie at Louisville, Ga, Friday for the
murder OF another negro.
Harriet Hosmer, at Rome, has com
pleted the model OF the proposed Queen
Isabella statue for the Worlds Fair,
The Powhatan Club, OF Richmond,
has started q movement for separate
street cars for white and colored people.
The German Hebrew Emigration
Committee declines to undertake to
send exiles to Palestine instead OF
America.
The shortage in the accounts Of the
National City Bank at Marshall, Mich,
has been found TO be 100000. A re-
ceiver isasked for.
Several battles have been fought be-
tween French troops and Chinese pir-
ates, yet the pests OF tho Eastern seas
are still unsubdued.
The Kansas Millers' Association has
passed resolutions urging Secretary
Blaine to hasten reciprocity negott-
atiOns with Mexico.
The Mayor Of Atlanta has vetoed all
beer license because most OF the sellers
have been selling whisky unlawtully.
Whisky licenses are untouched.
An ascending military balloon burst
at fair in Prague, Boheula. The off
GERS and crew were severely injured.
The balloon ignited and was consumed.
A heavy rain storm caused the break
ing OF two dams at Fort Scott. The bot
tom land settlements were flooded in
consequence, and houses were swept
away.
The memory OF William Maximilian
and the two generals, Mexia and Mira
mon, who were shot with him, WAS hon
ored in the City OF Mexico yesterday by
a grand requiem mass.
Coal miners at Spring Valley, ILL.,, have
been on strike since May "a on the
screen and other issues, have received
an offer from Operator Scott to submit
the matter to arbitration.
While investigating the ca,iso Of an
electric light fiicSer!ng In Buffalo Friday
night, George Kosslcr graspcd q hoist
ing rod. Il proved to be charged with
electricity and II killed h4m.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-22
rEN pAYs UNCONSCIOUS.

Young Lady Is Thrown Into Cataleptio
Fit, from Which She Does not Recover.
sr. NIARY's, o., Juno 2l.-Consider-
able interest Is being manifested in the
case OF Ella Ragan, who was, several
weeks ago, struck by lightning and still
lives, with every prospect OF long life
before her.
What makes her experience one ofun
usual interest is that Immediately after
the shock she dropped into deep sleep,
and slumbered almost uninterruptedly
for ten days, taking only little liquid
nourishment, perhaps three times, when
half aroused.
Miss Ragan Is prepossessing young
lady OF twenty summers, and lives with
her parents near Anna, Shelby county.
She describes the sensation of the shock
and says her mind was perfect blank
for the ten days she slept except for an
hour on the Thursday following the
shock.
She says there was no sensation OF
pain beyond that Of fright. She de-
scribes the bolt OF lightning as q big
ball OF FIRE, and the illumination was
almost painful. DR.. @. W. Harbour, OF
Anna, was called in the night of the
shock. He says Miss Ragan was typ
ical cataleptic.
In this the patient experiences sus-
pension OF the action Of the sense and
Of volition, the body and limbs pro-
serving the position given them, while
the action OF the heart and lungs con-
tinues. During her stupor, if the arm
or limb Of the patient was raised to a
position impossible to be held for more
than moment during consciousness,
it would remain for hours without
change.
Her body was placed on two chairs,
resting only on heels and the back OF
her head. In this seemingly impossible
position she remained perfectly notion
less and rigid until it was changed for
her. DR.. Harbour says the patient had
a good pulse during her sleep, and will
not suffer permanent inconvenience be-
yond greater liability to catalepttc at
tacks in the future.
He regards the case as one OF the
most interesting in his long career. A
singular thing about the case Is that
lightning has struck three times in the
Raglan yard and has never yet killed
! any one.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-22
AZ 111ra1r1MArE .cn11p.

On the occasion OF ono OF his stays at
sandringham, three years ago, his fellow
guests included the Countess Of Dudley,
and their niece, Miss Violet Mordaunt,
who has since become Viscountess Wey-
mouth. The meeting was, to say the
least, peculiar. For Lady Dndleyis the
sister and Violet Mordaunt the daughter
of the notorious Lady Mordaunt, Sir
Frederick was therefore brought face to
face under the roof Of his fellow cores
pondent, the Prince Of Wales, with the
girl who had been declared by the
courts to be his Child, and not that OF
Sir Charles Mordaunt, and he was able
to convince himself that'his daughters
superb eyes showed no trace of that ter
rible blindness which threatened her at
her birth, and was publiclys6attrlbuted
in court to the state Of health OF both
Sir Frederick Johnstone and OF the re-
morse-stricken mother.
Another very questionable member
OF the Princes entourage was-1 use
the past tense. for he is dead now-the
Polish adventurer who figured SO long
and so prominently us Count Jaracewski
in London society. The Prince picked
him up somewhere on the Continent,
and without taking tho trouble to in
yestirate his antccedents invested him
with the halo of membership of tho
Marlborough House set. One morning
tho Count was found dead in bed, Il
suicide BY means Of either q pistol bull
let or poison. / forget which. Before
noon his apartments and papers had
been rnnsacked by General Sir Dighton
Probyn, who hastcned over from Marl-
borough House O few minutes after the
death had been made known to the
Prince, and when the general returned
to the latter be brought back with him,
much to the relief Of II. II. H. q huge
parcel OF letters, photographs and con-
tdential documents of various kinds.
The reason OF the Counts suicide did
not long remain secret. Ho preferred
death to the exposure OF his question:
able aRteeedents and Of his false colors.
Far from being o count or entitled to
the name which he had adopted he was
merely the son of head servant and
maior.domo Of Prussian-Polish noble-
man. He had been guilty df forging
the latter's name and OF embeZzling his
money, besides possessing an unsavory
record in connection with cards. And
yet for several years he had figured both
in England and abroad as ono Of the
Princes dearest friends, and had even
enjoyed the, privilege Of wearing the
rOVal button.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-22
A TEAfpTING OFFER.
The FREQ Coinage Men Want TO Furnish
DoodlC for Ohio Democrats.


Doodle for Ohio Democrats.
Ngw YoRK, June 2l.-'rhe free coin
ago silver advocates are going to mako
q strenuous effort to secure free coin
age plank in the Democratic platform
Of Ohio, with view OF making that
question an issue in the State and of
bringing on general issue on that sub
ject in the presidential election next
year. This decision was reached to-day
BY the executive committee Of the Ma
tional Silver Association, which has
been in session for two days at the Hott-
man House. The chairman Of this
committee is General A. ]. Warner, OF
Ohio, who was formerly in Congress,
where as silver advocate he became
known rs "Silver Bill" Warner. Heis q
Democrat Of prominence in Ohio, and
under his direction the silver associa-
ton has for two years past been seek
ing to make silver political issue in
the East. He came to New York dur
ing the campaign for Congressman Last
fall and made a speech at Cooper Union
solely for the purpose OF injecting the
silver issue into the political atmos-
phere. He said at the time that all he
wanted was to keep the East alive to the
fact that there was growing silver
question which must be settled. The
association 1t made up of wealthy silver
mine owners. DR.. L. NJ Ramsey, who
was in attendance on this meeting, is
the largest stockholder in the Granite
Mountain Mine, OF Montana, and owns
a fifth interest in the famous Bi-Mctal-
lie. Gen. I. G. Eeelands, another
member, is executor OF the Sharon es-
tate in Nevada and California, and Is
himself one OF tho millionaire mine
owners Of that section. The associa-
ton Is able to secure contributions to an
unlimited amount from silver men for
the work Of securing free coinage. The
plan about Ohio is first to induce the
Ohio Democratic leaders to insert an
out-and-out, absolute free coinage plank
in their platform. 1t Is further argued
that to raise the silver issue will lessen
the importance Of the tariff
issue, on which Major McKin-
lev has an enormous advantage
over his probable adversary, Governor
Campbell. But greater than all OF these
inducements in the more potent one OF
money. The silver men will agree to
raise $500, GOO for the Ohio campaign II
the silver issue is put to the front In
determining on this offer they reasoned
among themselves that 1t can be made
the chief Issue in Ohio and the Demo-
Gratis win on it, the issue will over:
shadow everything else for 1892, and
that Is q stake they think worth play
ing for. They claim to have the West
and South almost solid with them, but
fear the East and Middle States. The
influence of conservative banking and
financial forces in these sections pre-
vents them from securing what they
claim as their own-that Is, the West
and South. So theydesire to capture at
least one OF the great States.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-22
AN EXCURSION TRAIN
Filled With Happy People Wrecked
Near Dover, Ohio.
SEVEN LOADED CARS DITCHED
Ono Man Killed and Thirty Injured,
Some acknowledgement by Spread
ing Rails---SIerrImen Turned to
Sadness by an Unlocked for Occur
renee.
renee.

CLEVELAND, June 2l.-An excursion
train OF fifteen cars, which left this city
this afternoon on tho Nickel Plate rail-
way, jumped the track near Dover,
Ohio, and seven cars were wrecked.
Tho train was loaded with street rail-
way employees and their families, who
we're going to Oak Point, pleasure re-
sort on the Lake Shore. One man was
killed and more than thirty persons in
jured.
as follows: Henry Rogers, aged twenty
three years, crushed to death; Burt
Kceie, aged eighteen, skull fractured
and legs hurt, will probably die; Peter
Credon, aged twenty-one, foot crushed
and bad wound in jaw, may not re-
s. M. Clark, aged 20, ribs broken;
Thomas Graulty, badly bruised and In
ternal injuries; Mary Redd, aged 80,
ribs broken; Edward Sheppard, aged
%, right leg crushed and hurt inter
nally; William steghemper, aged "a
years, acalp wounds and leg crushed
LlLLlt Nay uESlA - yCN1oJ AAP SHAA
bruised; Charles Quark, aged q years,
cut in neck and badly bruised; Ernst
Schriefer, aged "a, bad scalp wound; w.
]. Hemstreet, aged II, right arm broken
and leg crushed.
A score or more Of the others were
more or less injured but were able to be
removed to their homes, and names
could not be ascertained.
When the accident occurred, tho train
was running about thirty miles an hour
The engine went down the bank on
one side, the seven cars being thrown
across the rails in both directions.
One coach was split in two
and the others all were badly smashed
Rogers, the man killed, was caught in
the wreck and had to be chopped out.
The engineer and fireman escaped by
jumping. Farmers living near the
scene OF the accident came to the res.
cue and the injured were taken care Of
until a corps of physicians sent from
Cleveland, arrived on the scene. The
seriously wounded were then brought
to the city and taken to hospitals.
The engine was running backward at
the time OF the smashup, though it il
said the accident was due to the spread
ing Of the rails.
The track will not be cleared before
tomorrow.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-22
THE QUEEN I'M PoLlTIcs.
Indications of Coming Crisis in Parlia-
n,ontnry Afn,irs.


LONDON, June 21.-The position Of
the Queen in English politics is usually
supposed to be generally passive, In
foreign politics she has been known to
be greatly interested, but with internal
English politics she has hitherto been
credited with interfering little.
At an opportune moment, when
the conservative scheme Of local
self-government for Ireland is about to
be contrasted with Mr.. Gladstone's
home-rnle proposals, her majesty has
permitted the publication Of a conr
tdential Communication which shesent
to the Arch Bishop OF Canterbury on
the eve Of another crisis in Irish polit-
ical history-the introduction OF Q
bill for the dis.establishment of
the church in Ireland. The in
ference is that her majesty de-
sires to make Archbishop Tait's
memoirs the medium OF divulging what
her attitude then was with Rview to
application OF the information to pres
ent events. Her majesty did not ap-
prove OF the disestablismont policy, but
she accepted the decision OF the ceun-
try and the commons used her influence
to induce the lords on the one hand to
accept the bill and Mr.. Gladstone to
take conciliatoty method with the
lords.
When the bill went into the lords the
general expectation was that they would
reject it, and that another OF those con-
constitutional crisises would arise
which threaten the existence of the
upper house as now constituted.
The Queen wrote to the Archbishop:
"Consideringthe circumstances, under
which the measure has come to House
Of Lords, the Queeh~Seannot regard,
without the greatest ALARM, the probable
effect OF its absolute rejection
in that House. Carried as it hos
been by IN overwhelming and steady
majority through House OF Commons
chosen expressly to speak the feeling
of the country on the question, there
seems no reason to believe that any
fresh appeal to the people would lead
to different result"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-22
AMnrhcrous 1n.nne Nam.

New York, June 2l.-The steamer La
Bretagne, which arrived here to-day
from Havrc, reports that Joseph Feys,
aged 40 years, storage passenger and
native OF Switzerland, while conversing
with his family, consisting of awife and
five children, suddenly dragged his five
year.old son Pierre from his mothers
arms and threw hip into the sea. The
child was lost and the father, who was
apparently insane, was seized by the
officers of the ship and put in irons,
He had threatened to throw all his child
ren overheard,