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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

AMONG the many proverbs that have
been smashed by the modern scientific
iconoclast is that one which runs:
early to bed and early TO rise makes
one healthy, wealthy and wise" An
eminent London physician has been
making study of the subject and finds
that eighty per cent of the people over
eighty years of age have been in the
habit of sitting up until the small hours
and never rising until the day is well
aired. "Early rising" says the doctor,
tends to exhaust the physical powers
and shorten life" There ought to be
great consolation in this for small boys
and newspaper men.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05
A TERRIBLE DROUGHT.
Rivers and Creeks Going Dry and Crops
Burning Up.


WHEELING, W. Va, July So.-west
Virginia is suffering from the most Sc
we're and long continued drought that
has been known in many years. There
has been no rain worthy of mention
since the first of the month, and dur
ing that time, the weather has averaged
s. degrees, while 100 has been reached
three and 9S several times The Ohio
river is but little more than a creek,
the wharf marks showing less than two
feet in the channel. Wheeling creek,
the principal stream of this county,
has almost dried up and its tributaries
are without trace of water.
The farmers are discouraged. Oats
are short and drying up without ripen-
ing. Corn has turned brown and is
drying up. Fruits and garden prod
ucts are failure, and potatoes will be
less than half crop.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

THE Railway Gazette has counted up
and finds that there have been eighty
SIX train robberies or attempts at train
robbery during the first six months of
1sa3. The railroads will have to carry
armed guards in a steel-clad car just a #
of the tender if this thing is kept up,
and it will be kept up as long as it con-
tinues to be SO dead easy"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05
THE WORLDS FAIR.

Remarkable Exemption from Fatal Cases
OF 0verheating in the White City, Over
which the Ohicials Congratulate Them
selver-Shirt Sleeves Don't Go In the
Wellington Cafe
WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS, CHICAGO,
July ga singular feature of the
Worlds fair thus far has been the alb
sence of heat victims. There has not
been a single fatal case of sunstroke,
nor even one of prostration from the
effects of the heat. although the ther-
mometer has been soaring up in the
nineties and over for the past few days.
This peculiar but happy coincidence
can only be accounted for by Of
GERS of the exposition medical bu-
reau by the fact that the proxim-
ity of Jackson park to the lake af-
fords a cooling breeze TO the tired and
exhausted visitors, saving them from
sunstroke and prostration from heat.
Another source of safety for visitors
comes from the ample shade afforded
by the big buildings of the exposition.
Many have discretion when they feel
the effects of the exposure to run to
the shade of the buildings either out
side or inside, and thus escape period
of prosrtation and ride to the Emer-
gency hospital.
The average number of ordinary
cases received at the hospital each day
is thirty, but not one is of sustrOke or
heat prostration. All are of exhaus-
tion or giving ont of physical energy.
The doctors report that in the most
heated part of the day the women pre-
dominate, and all recover quickly, but
in the case of men it is hard to bring
them around. The thermometer was
at 90 deg. and over all day, but tho
average number of heat cases remained
the same.
There was much complaining on the
part of patrons of the Wellington
Catering Co. because they were COM
peeled to put on their coats or leave the
lunch rooms or restaurants of the con-
Germ at department buildings. Many
men came in with their coats on their
arms because of the heat, but they
were met at the doors with firm re-
quest to cover their shirt sleeves or
leave the place. They usually did the
former and the dignity of the catering
company and the sensitiveness of the
women patrons of the concerned were
conserved.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

THEY are bobbing up serencly on
every hand, these lineal descendants
of Columbus, and soon they will be 'is
numerous as George Washington's body
servants. The latest accession to the
ranks is a remarkable person even
granting that he is mistaken in his as.
sumed relationship to the great ex-
plorer. lie is lO4 years old and is in
Chicago taking in the worlds fair
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05
The International Yacht Race.

NEW YORK, July s9.-The announce
ment was made yesterday that the date
of the International yacht races for
the Americas cup has been officially
fixed for October S. This is q
very important action of the commit
tee," said ex-Commodore Smith 'tas it
places beyond dispute the date of the
international races The papers have
had cablegrams saying Dunraven would
leave England for this country August
II, in time to see the trial races OF
our cup defenders He willdo nothing
of the kind. and will reach here only .
few davs prior TO the real races.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

ABERDEEN, S. d., has an international
Cold Wave company" with capital
stock of 81, 100000. Its business will be
to produce cooling breczes whenever
the temperature reaches the uncom-
Portable stage. The company will'not
only furnish comfortable summer
weather to order, but will be open to
inducements TO bring early frosts for
the benefit of wheat bulls. Letters
of inquiry from proprietors of skating
inks. summer hotels and cough medi-
cines are invited.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

BALTIMORE Is to have two sprInkling
cars at work upon the electric lines OF
that city this summer. Each car car.
ries tank with a capacity of $500 gal
Ions of water, which vets down six
miles of road alongside the track. This
system is available in every city where
there are electric railroads. and bids
fair to supersede carts as well as water
ing pots in all the principal thorough
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05
NATIONAL. BANKS

The Number Of Failures ofNaiional Banks
Thoaghsdt the Coantry since the Finan-
eisl Furry Began and Those Yet In
Operatlon-The Percenfage Of Failures
Not Very Alarming.
WASHINGTON, July so.-Comptroller
of the Currency Eckles gives out the
following schedule showing the na-
tional bank failures by states and also
the number of national banks yet in
operation in each state in the Cnion:
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05
An Unsuccessful Revolutionary Uprising
In Argentina.

NEW YORK, July s1.-The Herald's
special from Valparaiso. Chill, says:
There was an unsuccessful revolution
ary uprising yesterday in the provinces
of San Luis, Argentina.
The Herald's correspondent in Bue-
nos Ayres telegraphs that when the
forces of the federal government at
tempted to disarm the state troops as
required by decree recently issued,
resistance was made which became so
pronounced as to amount to a revolu-
tion. Several soldiers were killed and
MANY wounded.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

: PATERSON, n. J., July 3l--United
States Bank Examiner Stone has dis
covered defalcation of s16, $50 In the
cash Of the First national bank of this
city. The money has been distracted
since July l. Stone made a COM
plaint against Abraham Pardon, the
paying teller, who was arrested Satur-
day evening. Ten dollar bills was alb
stracted from four packages of 5000
each and replaced with one dollar
bills The defaulting teller has been
connected with the bank for twenty
five years and has always besn eonsid-
cred an upright man,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05
LATER NEWS.

| INt En- VEWS.
MAYOR DEs JARDINEs of Montreal,
Can, has created something of sensa-
tion by declaring that personally he
can take no part in the reception of
the officers and men of the Italian war
| ship Etna, which arrived there on the
3lst lie says that being a good Ro-
| man Catholic. he can take no part
whatever IN the reception of n war
ship of country whose government
was under the ban of the vatican. The
mayor is Knight of tine Holy Roman
Empire.
THE imports of specie at the port Of
New York for the week ended on the
Goth were 81, 752, ss5, all of which were
gold. The exports of specie from the
port of New York for the same time
were 1901 $40. all of which was silver.
Of this amount ssOS, $40 went to Europe
and 81, 500 to South America.
Runs were started, on the 29th, on
the First national bank. the Bank of
Eau Claire and the Chippewa Valley
bank of Eau Claire, Wis, but were
counteracted by heavy deposits by
many leading business men. The
banks named remained open after
hours.
THE Riverside steel and iron works,
at Wheeling, W. Va. the largest plant
in that part of the Ohio valley. closed
on the Goth. indefinitely. The plant
employed over 1000 men. The state Of
trade was the reason given for the
shutdown.
A sEvES-sTORy brick and iron build.
ing in Pittsburgh, Pa, owned by the
Second national bank, collapsed and
crumbled to the ground on the 10Th.
OF the forty workmen employed in the
building all save two, who are missing,
escaped.
THE wife of Canon George Prothero,
a chaplain to Queen Victoria, who had
been i'll for some time, committed sui
eide while temporarily insane at Whip
bingham rectory, near Osborne house,
the queens residence on the Isle Of
Wight
The imports, exclusive of specie,
into the port of New York for the
week ended on the 29th were 50, s49,-
7sl, of which q, ,6s9, ,594 were dry goods
and 81, ,660, 137 general merchandise.
THE steamer Cienfuegos, which ar
rived at New York, on the Goth, from
Nassau, brought eighteen passengers
of the Santiago, which was ashore on
the Eleuthra banks.
EMPERoR WILLIAM, on board the i'm
perial yacht Hohenzollcrn arrived at
Cowes, Isle Of Wight, on the 29th.
CONSUL WILLIAM E. EMMETT, at
Smyrna, cables the state DEF irtment
that cholera exists in that port
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

The July poetry is all in now and
the magazines are working on the An.
gust stock. Autumn verses, and those
that read lessons of life in the falling
leaves, will soon be along.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

A sIN-YEAR-oLD Tennessee boy can
play on almost any musical instrument
without teaching. That is what Ten
ncssee gets for having once upon a time
elected man governor because he
could fiddle.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

Hon. GEORGE :. BOCTwELL. when
elected governor of Massachusetts,, was
the youngest person ever elected to
that Office Now he is the senior ex-
governor of the state as well as the old
est in years
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

The last census bulletin contains the
statistics of the smallest religious or
ganization in the United States 1t is
the Adonai Shomo, with twenty men,
bers and property worth $4,000. 1t has
no church or temple for worship This
community was organized at Petersham,
Mass, in 1876, with eleven members. 1t
grew out of the adventist movement
and its principles are faith in Christ as
the Son of God and a community of
goods There is a common treasury
from which individual needs are sup
piled. All labor is common. Agricul-
ture is the chief industry. Women men,
bcrs have an equal voice with the men.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05
Portland, Ore, Has q Little Wrestle with
the Financial Bugbear.

PORTLAND, Ore, July 2S.-The fail
ures of the Oregon national and the
Northeast Loan and Trust Co. Thurs
day were followed yesterday by run
on the Merchants national and the
suspension Of the Union Banking Co.
The former met every demand, paying
dollar for dollar. This seemed to have
a most quieting effect, and none of the
other banks suffered any trouble at all.
The Union is a small concern, and is
thought to have been anxious for an
opportunity to close for a long time
because of its small business.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

- A NEBRASKA farmer recently lost
$1,000 by the collapse of bank. The
Missouri river was seized with an in
sane desire to change its course and
scoopei out one hundred acres of the
Nebraskan's land.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

STATISTICS from sixty cities which
contain more than 10000 inha bitants
by the census of 1899 show that out of
II, ,095 fires 203 were attributed to cleo
tricity and that the loss was sl.25 for
each 800.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

The Wells-farso people have just
started new bank in New York dc,
spite the fact that several second-h hand
ones, only slightly worn. could have
been obtained at ridiculously low
nrice
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

PRINCESS Ton, one of Sitl<a's richest
women, has lately been Christianized,
and as an evidence Of good faith has
discharged two of the three husbands
she had previously married.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05
CORPORATIONS.
Congressman Hatch.s stand.

The st. Louis GlObe-Democrat few
days ago contained the following dis
patch from Hannibal:
Congressman Hatch thinks the extra session
will run into the regular session. and that but
little business will be done except organizing.
He says 1t requires about months time to
get the house thoroughly organized. He thinks
however that speeches will be made on the
silver question Immediately on the opening
but" said he. Il am not prepared to say what
will he done. II both houses should agree up
on an unlimited coinage OF silver, it would be
necessary for a committee to agree upon a
ratio and consequently we need not expect
much TO he done for several months yet"
On being asked how he stood on the free
coinage OF silver he sail he never yet voted
against the free coinage OF silver
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

A CORONER in Minnesota has decided
that when a man has been adjudged
dead by the coroner he is dead, even
though he return to the bosom of his
family in good health and exuberant
spiritS
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

IMMEDIATELY after the great inter-
national firemen's congress in which
the latest Yankee notions in the art of
fighting fires were elucidated to the
Britons, London proceeded to indulge
IN 5000, 900 confagration. The les
sous were not well conned
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

WITH one president In the chair, an.
other in Jail and third in the United
States, Nicaragua has an embarrass.
ment of riches in that line.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

The newspapers have reported an un-
usual number of ;.'sad drow1igYs,.' this
summer and NOT a single jolly or hila,ri-
ously happy one
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

At st. Louis the excise commissioner
and Retail Liquor Dealers ASSOCIATION
will test the legality Of fees charged b,
the commissioner.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

Thomas B. Haw, aged IS, who had
resided in Macon county for forty-five
years, died the other day from the eff
fects of sunstroke.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

The bank of Osceola made an assign
ment the other day. Assets, about
s20, 200; liabilities, same. Stringency
in the money market
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05
Bold Robbery OF Pacific Express Wagon
at wichita, Kss.

WICHITA, Kas., July 3o.-A Pacific
express wagon was held up on the
streets here about $50 o'clock last
night and robbed of $500. On a tele-
phone call wagon went to the Wichita
creamery to collect goods When the
wagon arrived at the creamery two
negroes jumped in and told the driver
to drive to the rear, and while in an al
ley third negro appeared. Covered by
three revolvers, the messenger was
compelled to open the safe and after
emptying its contents into bag, the
negroes drove of.
A bold Robbery and . Startling Theory.
CHICAGO, July 3o.-Two men repre-
senting themselves to be police officers
called at the house of Mrs. r. Ammon,
2a9 rorty-second place, yesterday after
noon. and, pretending that. they were
searching for stolen diamonds alleged
to have been secreted ifsthe servant
girls room by herr lover. succeeded in
robbilg Mrs Ammon of 5000 worth
OF diamonds and jewe|ry. They pre-
vailed upon the lady to send te girl
ont of the house. when they, assaulted
Mrs. Ammon and obtjned fhe Jewels
A theory is that the thieves were 40
tually policemen.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

W. J. Millby has been appointed, by
the Pettis county circuit court, receiver
for the Missouri State Fair association.
He gave bond for $50, 600.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

JEFFERSON CITY, July Estate Auditor Sci
bert has completed the tabulaiiOn and appor.
tionment Of the valuation of railroad. bridge
and telegraph property for the taxes of 1893 as
fixed by the state board OF equalization. On
June J, 1892. on the basis Of the assessment just
made. there were Il. .Is1 34I miles OF railroad in
operation and subject to taxation in the state.
The value Of each class Of property is as fol-
lows
Railroad property. s6e Gs3. AZ IS
Bridges. ....................... aiJ00O 00
Telegraphs. hs................... gs3.5l0 &c
1Otal- sho-syb.Hys ~
This is an increaee Of s1,5il, ,s70.1i over the
assessed value in 1892
Following shows the value per mile Of each
leading road in the state subject 10 taxation
June I. 1892. for the taxes of 1905 fixed by the
state board. and the total value OF such road In
this state:
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05
The Hisrin.vilIe Court Act.


The county court of jackson county
has ordered the payment of 100000
worth of bonds. issued in 1878 by Kaw
township to aid in the building of the
Kansas City. Topeka & Lawrence rail-
road. This road was never built, but
the county has paid interest for TWEEN.
ty years, and will pay the bonds at
their maturity, August /.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

During the week ended on the esth
the bank clearings of st. Louis were
SIC. SIS. .553, a decrease of 200 per cent.
compared with same week last year.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05

Maud McKibben has been indicted
by the St Louis grand jury for murder
in the first degree, having. it is charged,
poisoned her father and sister.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-05
School Children in Pettls County.

The school enumeration of Pettis
county shows total number of school
children of 1856, of which s.6s7 are
white and $40 colored, male and female
being about equally divided.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-05-27

was administered to il. The dog
bit him on the hand. Again, few
days afterward, the dog bit him,
and also his wife and child. In a
day or two the dog died, and the
judge, becoming alarmed, sent for
a physician, who after a microsco-
pic examination said that there was
no doubt that the dog died of ra-
b;es- The judges hand has begun
to swell and give him trouble, and
he has been compelled to suspend
his duties. Yet people will continue
to keep pet dogs, and communities
will allow themselves to be overrun
by-mongrel ours that have no earth
ly function to discharge, except to
go mad and bite somebodF.-N. O.
Picayune.
The reading of the above recalls
to mind the fact that Lafayette,
town and parish, have an excess of
the most worthless ours imagina-
BILE. Little objection will be inter
posed 70 the. possession of a useful,
or finely bred dog, still even these
should be carefully watched these
days, and upon the first signs of
illness immediate steps be taken to
ascertain the nature of the malady,
but all those mongrel ours that are
permitted to roam about, and only
live to consume, entailing some ex-
pense and serving no useful purpose
should be speedily exterminated.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-05-27
THE Ell DORADO.

No fairer field for the profitable
investment present itself in the
whole extent of this grand section
than Lafayette parish. Nor can
the immigrant fad a better place for
his permanent home. Is the farmer
in search of lands that are both pro-
ductive and cheap7 Here he will
find lands-unsurPasse in fertility
that he can purchase at from $25 to
$3s, and in some instances less, per
acre.
Do the capitalist, who has been
putting out his money at the meagre
percentage OF 3 or 4 per cent wish
to triple or quadrurle it7 Let him
come here. He will surely find OPP
portunities, and if he should grasp
them by erecting factories for con-
verting our raw material into mar
products, he will reap an
immense profit on his investment.
Then let him come, investigate
carefully and fully, and we have no
doubt he will invest.
The people of Lafayette should
bend all their energies to reach the
money man. Let our manifold
material attractions be placed be-
fore him; invite him to come; tell
him we shall extend the hand of
and when he comes car
nv ont your promises. and the pro-
liabilities are that he will stay.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-05-27
A Call.

Realizing the great benefit that would be
derived by the people of our State from the
incoming of desirable class of immigrants
and improved public roads the Business
Mems Association decided to call a Road
and immigration Convention, composed of
delegates from the Attakapas district, to
meet in Lafayette on Wednesday, June I4th.
The Association earnestly request and in
vite the Presidents of the different Police
Juries, the Mayors of the different towns and
cities, or the people in mass meeting to ap-
point delegates to attend said convention,
and sincerely hope that the call will meet
with a hearty response from the people Of
the district.
C.. O. MoyroN, Pres.
A. G. ORDway, Sec.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-05-27
zIGHT1 DzscREeANcH

The New Orleans Mint is conceded to the
Third District, and while both Senator'S
favor Mr.. Oveson Cade for the SuPerinten-
sticking like porus plaster 20 Mr.. Gabe
Mouteeut- Far this We admire the Con-
gresham. MIR. Montegat y an influential
and active politician. 1t was him who Sc
cured the nomination of Mr.. Price, and
although an ex-official, is entitled to the
paace. Mr. Price can iaMd him If he <ssticks
to the text.''-Morgan City Reveiew.
We are inclined to the belief that
Mr.. A. l.. Monnot, the large sugar
refinery owner of Jeannerette, did
as much, if not more, to @ssecura
the nomination." of Mr.. Price, than
any other person. It is a we'll
known fact that previous to the hold
ing of the nominating convention
Mr.. Price had announced that he
would not be candidate, and but
for this announcement he
would have had little or no opposi-
ton.
Mr.. Monnot, day or two before
the nominating convention met, Sc
cured the assent of MI. Price to ac-
cept the nomination in the event
that it was rendered to him. With
this assurance from the gentleman
Mr.. Monnot went among the dele
gates and stating these facts the no
mination of Mr.. Price followed
And this was easy to accomplish
because large number of the de-
legates were uninstructed and were
favorable to Mr.. Price in case his
name was submitted to the conven-
ton.