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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17
a VERY WEAK CASE.

The Local Commcnt on the Borden MUIR
der TriaI-The Defense Provided with =
Bomb Which They will shortly Explode
In the Camp of the Autborities-ThS
Dress Burning 7ncident Expisincd-The
Hatchet Stories
FALL RIVER, Mass, June 1f.-Al
day long talk has been plentiful on the
subject of the borden murders. and
there can be mo- denial that it is gen.
eral opinion about town that the prose-
This opinion is being strengthened by
rumOrs current here to the effect that
Lizzie Borden's counsel will shortly ex-
plode bOmb-shell in the camp of the
authorities. 1t is limited that the de-
fense will show conclusively that Liz
zie Borden purchased some paint
few days before the murder and that
it was not an uncommon thing to burn
dresses in the Borden household. Then
the fact that the girl burned the dress
in the daylight, while officers sur
rounded the house, will also be cited
to show there was not the slightest
concealmcnt. The defendants law
yers do not attempt TO disguise their
joyful feelings because of the present
status of the case, and the girls friends
here are jubilant. The hatchet incl
dent. with its accompanying denials, is
also a source of much comfort
But while the prisoners friends are
buoyant the spirits of the police au-
thoritics are by no means downcast-
Officer Maulley's strange. unexpected
statement about finding the handle. is,
they say. in keeping with the general
tone of the testimony given by him be-
fore in court. lie has been known
several times to take position in less
important cases. in defiance of the
fact that FIVE or six other officers and
witnesses testified positively that he
was wrong. One of the police au-
thoritics thinks so little of the circum.
stance that he says he will not advise
the district attorney to contradict
Naulley's alleged erroneous state
ment.
The matter of wrapping up the
hatchet. testified in two ways by Med
lev and Desmond. can he easily ex-
planned. They say both men did wrap
up the hatchet, Desmond wrapping it
up first and passing it to Medley, who
afterwards opened it in the cellar to
show another officer. II is a frequently
expressed opinion here that the de-
fcnse has built a mine under Medley's
testimony and will set it off before the
case is finally submitted.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17
THE MASSACHUSETTS.

The Launching of the Great Battie-shiP
Massachusetts at the Cramps Yards-A
sister ship Of the Indiana and Oregon
4 Powerful War Engine.
PHILADELPHIA, June IL. - The big
battle-ship Massachusetts was success
fully launched from the ship yard at
the Cramps at 9:59 o'clock. in the pres
cnce of Secretary of the Navy Her
bert. Attorney-GeT Olney, the lat
ter representing the state of Massa-
chusetts, number of distinguished
naval and army officers, and a multi
tude of $4,000 peoplr. Miss Leila Her
bert. daughter OF the head of the
navy department, christened the YES
vel with the customary and prettily-
decorated bottle of champagne
The Massachusetts, Is the second Of the three
IO.Snton battle-ships which were authorized
to .e constructed during Secretary Tracy's
term as the head Of the naval department. She
Is the sister ship 10 the Indiana. recently
launched by the Cramps, and to the Oregon,
now Icing built at San Francisco. and her lead
ing characteristics are great battery power and
her enormously heavy armor, which is ~ inches
thick at the water line.
The redoubts which project 3'i feet above
the main deck. and protect the turning gear of
the turretS are 10 inches tnlck. AZ also are the
tnrrcts themselves. There Is a h"aVlly-sloping
steel prot ctlre deck u, rect below inc water
line. at the sides while coal bnnkers are
worked over the belt deck and cOnerdams of
UNDERSTANDING materlal are pEhceu on 'ne
slopes OF the armor uecS. lorWaru ana ait-
There Is apoweriul ram oclow' Thc armored
coming tower Is OF lolnch plates- Tne mill
tiry mast has two tops Tor rapid-iire machine
guns. Inc ammunition Tor which Is sent 10 them
inside the maStS. Many water-tl2ht eompart-
mentS aid the defensive strength oil the yessei.
Admirable as Is the protective strength OF the
MaSsa" huS"tts. even more striking. II possible.
IS her aggressive power. She can throw ut n
single ,isrhar, 20 G PIt pounds OF proisctiIcs or
more than tbrec tons with n total energy of
sinn,t,.,, So,
-'',''' '""' t"hH.
The arnln mi VIII CONSIST OF ioar iSinch'
eight sinch and four 6-inch breech-loadin2
rifles four Gatling guns and six torpedo tubes
Tho n inrb guns are 10 10 mounted in pairs in
So, ,.-,, 80 ,o-,r,-d vi Ors ~, Thc
w" tIS'' IN ~ 81"
turr'lS arr at Such d helsn' tnat 'ne gums ave
u feet In hes above the load water line ana
feet Above the deck over which they fire.
Th~ guns can be lolded in any position or
boriznntal train which advantage IL possessed
b., ro,r :, ,n,. ,,-ato,r bo,,lr sbIns ~. I,-,e.,
- !, - -, ,,, a. -. ,;,i
guns OF "hl'h can De Aoaueu III one poshioh
only
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

NAT MORRIs, John Smith, Robert Mo-
wat and Henry Whitfield were drowned
at Pine Tree IIarbor, Ont, by the sink
ing of their boat.
1N Galacia and Kukowina. in Aus
tria, fifty villages were partially de-
stroycd by floods.
BY the explosion of shell from the
military drill grounds at Luxembourg.
Germany. in the midst of procession
of Catholics seven persons We're killed
and thirty others fatally wounded.
TnE sum OF money given to the pope
during his episcopal jubilee by bands
of pilgrims, by Catholic orders and by
individuals amounts to 9,06O,0 francs.
FLAMES DESTROYED the Vile Marie
convent at Monklands. near Montreal,
involving loss of q. 200. 900: insurance,
500. 200.
THE stables OF the street railway
company at Winnipeg. Man, were de-
stroycd by fire and sixty-one horses par
ishcd in the flames.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

Mrs. EMMA MORROW, Otto Stevens
and Luther ". Turner were drowned
hear Spring Valley. Minn. Their team
plunged into Deer creek, upsctting the
carriage.
THE republicans of Ohio in convention
at Columbus nominated William McKin-
ley for governor, 4. J.. Harris for lieu
tenant governor. W. T. Cope for state
treasurer, J. X. Richards for attorney
general and J. z. Bradbury for supreme
judge. The platform favors protection
to American labor and industries: pro-
lection against the influx of vicious and
criminal classes; favors pensions to dis
abled soldiers and sailors of the late
war and the widows and orphans of
such as are deceased, and favors honest
money composed of gold, silver and
paper, maintained ut equal value and
under national and not state regulation.
In the Texas regatta Oarsman Petef-
sofi won a quarter of mile dash in
l:l69i, defeating Stansbury, lIanlan,
Teemer, Ten Eyck and others.
lsfASTA EULAIIA, of Spain, and her
husband, Prince Antonio. togetherwith
hieniDcIS VI tHtlT party, NlSlttu tnc
worlds fair
IT was decided by Judges Woods and
Jenkins of the United States circuit
court that the gates of the Worlds Co
lumbar exposition should be closed on
Sunday. Judge Grosscup rendered
dissenting opinion.
A NOR lynched l.. c. Dumas, young
colored man. at Gleason, Tenn, for as
saulting a daughter of a farmer.
THE men and women whose official
positions make their duty the caring for
the unfortunate in the public institu-
tions of the country inaugurated con-
gress of charities and corrections in
Chicago.
SIN masked men held up the Mobile
& Ohio New Orleans express train at
Forest Lawn, ILL.,. and robbed the ex-
press ear of $4,000
THE Nebraska state building on the
worlds fair grounds was dedicated with
great enthusiasm.
IN Chicago the congress of vrgetari-
ans was opened and papers setting forth
the benefits to be obtained from Austen
ton from eating flesh were read.
A wINDsTURN swept Rice county,
Mimi, doing fully $50. 900 damage. The
village of Dundas suffered the most
severely.
Al the annual meeting in Peoria. ILL.,,
John 4. Lee, of st. Louis, was elected
president of the Travellers Protective
association.
THE recent fire in Fargo. y. D.,
caused a loss of S:;.5OO.OO0, and an ap-
peal for aid for the many persons left
destitute has been made.
AT Mayfirld, Ky, Bob Brown, a ne
gro. was hanged for the murder of Al
bert Colley. a well-to-do farmer, on the
night of December 10, 1892.
BANKS failed at MaScoutah, ILL.,. IIud-
son, Wis. Ellenburg. Wash. Missoula.
Mont. Gillespie. ILL.,, and two private
banks in Chicago.
Ar the session of the Women's Chris
tim Temperance Union congress in
Chicago the worlds fair directory was
denounced for permitting the sale of
liquor on the grounds.
OS the line of the new drainage ca
nal at Lemont, ILL.,. sheriff's posse
met and put to rout 400 striking quar-
rvmen. killing seven of the number
and seriously injuring n score of 9TH
ers. Gov. Altgeld ordered troops to the
scene of the strife.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

| to raise the funds necessary. This COM
mittee secured the charter for Tho
Confederate Home Association of Mis-
souri," and then turned the whole
work over to the ex-eonfcderate assOci-
alton of the state. Vigorous efforts
were put forth. and the fact that in five
months over $4,000 was reported on
hand shows that these efforts were sue
| cessful. \ committee of seven officers
were selected to examine the sites and
settle upon location. The first ballot
! of the committee was unanimous to ac-
cept the generous proposition made by
the citizens of lligginsville and vicini-
ty. They offered what was known as
the Grove Young farm, a beautiful
tract of land containing 3G9 acres, at
purchase price of 800, and pledging
to make a cash donation of $500.
To show the people that the associa-
tion really meant business, ten three
foOm cottages We're Immediately erect
ed on the site selected, and these, with
two nine-roUfil houses already on this
farm. were filed with about eighty
men, women and children. Twenty
ragged little ones, snatched from life
of destitution, We're soon comfortably
dressed and going to school. The cot
tages were given to men who had fam
lilies, while the two larger houses Were
devoted to the single men. This really
result encouraged the charitable peo-
pie of Missouri to unexampled efforts,
and now, after three years hard work,
about s96, 900 have been raised entirely
by personal contributions in this state.
of this sum about SOL, 900 are invested
in the plant.
The building dedicated to-day is an
elegant monument to the earnest work
and untiring efforts of the ladies' of the
state, and possibly to no one lady is
more credit due than to Mrs 4. c. Cas-
sidy. of St. Louis. 1t was her fertile
brain that conceived the idea that the
ladies of st. Louis could and would rem
der material aid to the Confederate
Home of Missouri The name "Daugh-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

AUSTRALIA has invented the stump
jumping plow. The farmers who use it
are claim jumpers. The dealers who
sell them are counter jumpers. With
the boomerang and stump jumping plow
AS the principal implements of war and
peace, the kangaroo and jack rabbit as
the typical fauna. and even the banks
jumping their liabilities, Australia
should follow up the simile and make
every year leap year, every season
spring. and the national coat of arms
iumpinp lack
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

NEAR the Woman's building on the
worlds fair grounds is nm cdificc for
the accommodation of the small chill
dren whose parents take them tn the
fair. but who do not wish To have the
trouble and care of them while there.
For a small fee the child can bc left in
the hands of trustworthy nurses and
can stay contentedly in the comfortable
playground which has been provided
until its parents are ready to leave.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17


bare HAWKINS. the dcSperado, with
gang of about thirty men armed
to the teeth, surprised the town of
Shelbyvillc, Ind. on the 10th, by ap-
pearing on the streets for the purpose
of avenging the death of his brother
Charles Hawkins, who was lynched n
year ago for shooting the city marshal.
After desperate fight with couple of
ex-sheriffs and about 500 citizens who
rallied to their support. the desperate
was disarmed and captured. lie was
afterwards released under bonds.
By digging out of his cell in the
Tombs prison in New York city and es-
Gaping undetected. John Myers accom-
plished feat which will make his
name memorable in the history of
crime in that city. His is the first sue
prison since it was built, nearly sixty
years ago.
THE forty-first convention of the In
ternational Typographical union. which
met in Chicago on the 12th, was in
point of numbers, the largest in the
history of the organization. The ex-
position drew to Chicago representa-
tives from every subordinate union
REPORTS from Paris, on the 1ith. rep
resented the condition of James Cor
don Bennett, who was so badly injured
by falling from a coach, as steadily i'm
proving. and it was thought by his
friends that the sufferer was ont Of
danger.
A REPORT from Vienna says the exc
quater of Max Judd, the new consul
general of the United States to Aus
tria. had been signed by Count Taafe,
and would be delivered to Mr.. Judd
soon.
EDGAR r. SIssoN, a prominent
churchman, and well known in South
Bend lind business circles. is wanted
for forgeries aggregating about 5000.
He is believed to be in Canada.
MORE than 1000 men quit work in
the coal mines at Kladnow, Bohemia.
on the 10th, and the strike was spread
ing rapidly. Troops were ordered to
the mines from Prague.
SANGER, the American cyclist, was
beaten in the mile scratch race at
Herne Hill, England, on the 10th, by
Harris, the Englishman. Time, 2:34.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER issued a stay
of proceedings in the Worlds fair Sun
day-closing case, on the 10th, and the
fair was opened on the 11th.
On the 10th the New York city
banks held s14. 4s9, 500 in excess of the
requirements of the s5 per cent. rule.
CHOLERA has appeared at Norbonne,
France, on the railway from Bordeaux
to Cette.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17
Missourian. who Were There.

There We're number of MiSSourians
among the clerks employed in the old
Ford opera house in Washington when
the building collapsed.
ID. c. ordan. Of Sullivan county. was killed.
He was al out -. leaves widow and three
thildren. He was assisted TO appointment.
six years ago. bv Maj. Warner. His body was
mangled feyond recognition. Missouri friends
rendered assistance TO his family. c. d. Shad-
tolt. of Kansas City. arm injured. He was ap-
pointed five years ago. and is widOwer. Col.
Thomas Haynes. OF st. Louis, fell with the top
floor. was rendered unconscious. but he will
recover He was colonel OF the Eighth Missouri.
J. Fl. Thomas, OF Pettis county. was on the Sec
ond floor. but miraculOusly escaped with severe
ruts and bruises. Arthur Shatz. Of St Louis,
was indy shaken up. hut escaped from win
dow by means of ladder. Less than a year
ago Capt. +. &. Jones. of Kansas City. was en-
hloyed in the building, hut was transferred to
another department. John Bueius. who oc
cupied the desk vacated by Capt. Jones. was
killed Among other MiSSOurianS in the build
ing were: C. ID. Bulla. Gentry country: ID. II.
p Brown, Jackson: G. A. johnson. ST. Louis;
{. l.. Ehaugh. Montgomery: II. J. Dnnnelly.
Andrew: b. +. Edwards. st. Clair: g. w. Davis,
Phelps: l.. h. Bowman. Barton: j. II. SchoOley,
jackson: ". F. Kirby. Howard: T.. A. Clarke.
Cole: II. &. Chamberlain ST. Louis; W. Barnes,
St Louis.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

IRON ore was first mined in the nited
States in zoos. when about thirty-iive
tons We're exported from jamestown.
Va. The ore production was inconsid-
erable until the present century. In
1910 it was but 100. 600 tons per year: in
1850 it reached about 600. 900: while in
1890 the vast total was more than 49,
800. 900. 9.OOo,OOO of this coming from
the Lake Superior mines.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

WHEN man has accumulated wealth
he seeks fame. Some rich men become
patrons of art, Others distinguish
themselves by works of philanthropy.
and still others purchase seats in the
senate of the nited States. There is Il
Maine millionaire. however. who avoids
the common avenues to glory and wins
the plaudits of the multitude in the
dazzling uniform of drum major of a
village band. And if there is anything
more impressive than the drum major
of rural band-well. it can only be
the drum major OF some other rural
band
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

THE rate schedule of one of the trans
atlantic steamship com panles sets forth
that the price of passage for dogs. eats
and monkeys is $40 each, and that those
animals must he Gagged before being
brought on the steamer, and will then
be placed in charge of the butcher"
The idea that this may suggest to a sea-
sick passenger is almost petrifying.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

THE total silver production for 1881 is
placed at 1850. 900 troy ounces, of
which the United States produced S.
33O.OO0. The government purchased
54,3l2.sl2 ounces in that year, a very
considerable proportion of the worlds
output. In 1892 the United States pro-
duced 10000, 900 ounces. at an average
cost of rs cents per ounce. The value
of our yearly silver production has
steadily increased. The production of
gold, on the other hand. has been much
less in the United States during the
past twenty years preceding. The
value of gold mined in 1891 was $685.,
Il 600 o4i
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

A GENTLEMAN who economies by de-
clining t" take newspaper may save
money for a time, but he is dead sure to
lose every cent in his clothes the first
time he meets the gentle confidence
man. This statement can be verified
by glance at the police records of any
large city any day in the week.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

THE prettiest scene in the tour of In
fanta Eulalie was when she visited the
New York normal college and saw the
bright faces of the nineteen hundred
young schoolgirls. The school was
presented to her highness, who bowed,
and nineteen hundred girls arose and
bowed in return, and one girl, an
American born of Spanish parents,
made speech of welcome, speaking
Spanish. To this the infanta replied,
saying among other things: II can only
add that | wish | was seated on the
benches with you" The exercises
that took place highly pleased the prin-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

FRANKLIN J. APpLEY, of the Paw
tucket (R- H. boat club, intends to
row from that city to the worlds fair
in a thirty-one-foot aluminium racing
shell. Last year Mr.. Applcy performed
the feat, till then unprecedented. of
rowing to New York in racing shell.
lie will follow the same route on his
worlds fair trip-down Narragansett
bay and through Long Island sound
He will connect with the lakes by the
Erie canal, after rowing up the Hud-
son river. The actual rowing distance
will be between 1,5O0 and 1000 miles,
and Mr.. Appley expects to be from six
to ten weeks on the journey.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17
steamer Rrnort.d Found-red.

BUFFALO, n. Y, June lit Is ru-
mored that the steamer Nyack. an ex-
cursion boat from Buffalo to Chicago,
via Cleveland and Detroit. has found
cred in Lake Erie She has 200 pas
senpers on board and was due in De
troit last night The source of the
rumor cannot be definitely traced.
The vessel has not yet reached Detroit,
and no tidings of her can be heard
from Cleveland The Avon, a slow
steamer, followed closely behind the
iSyack, but turned back when the form
broke and has reached Buffslu. Vha
Nyack proceeded on her wrv
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17
Another Triumph for American War ship
Builders.

New LONDON, Conn. June 12.-The
official run of the Machias was made at
3 o'clock yesterday afternoon The
corrected average time of the sixty
miles of the course was Is 640-i. 600
knots. This lacks only tritie of be-
ing IL knots in excess of the required
speed, but the builders only get a
bonus on ala knots at $1,000 per
quarter knot-a total of $4,000. The
performance is considered the most
remarkab bic in the history of the new
navy. The Machias sailed for Bath
at o'clock Yesterday evening.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

a CURIOUS will was placed on record
in Louisville. 1t was written by a
young woman who recently committed
suicide by taking poison. In the last
agonirs of death she had scrawled her
parting injunctions to her friends in
this world on the pillow with dull
pencil. This pillow case is to be rrgu-
larly recorded and filed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

To Make 1t Binding.-A little in
cident of late occurrence NJ hotel is
only more amusing than many others
of that sort in that we can voach for its
truth. A visitor. ruffied at being pressed
for a settlement of his bill, threatened
to leave. "You don't stir from this
hotel until you have paid mp, pro
tested the manager. Just put that in
writing, and I'll stay here for the re-
mainder of my days" was the retort.
The visitor is still at the hotel.-Yan-
kee Blade.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

SIAM. which has never had legation
in this country, has established one at
Washington. where her dreamy repre-
sentative will be able to show the
hustling diplomats of other countries
the real Siam ease
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

IN a Boston paper we find this adver-
tisement: "A middle-aged young lady
wants a situation" Where else in all
the world would one find middle
aged young lady" except in Boston?
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

The Columbian stamps are really
steel engravings, and form the third
special issue of stamps in the country.
The first of these was n fifteen-cent
stamp representing the landing of Co
lumbus, which was issued in 1869. and
the second commemorated the 1876 CEN
tennial by a souvenir envelope, with a
shield-shaped three-cent stamp in tho
corner, having at the top the fgures
l776 and at the bottom 1874
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

The census bureau has issued bull
letin which shows that there are forty
seven Chinese temples in the United
States, valued at &c., 900, claiming 1OO,-
900 worshipers. Forty of these temples
are in California, four in New York,
two in Idaho and one in Oregon.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

BABIES may be checked at the worlds
fair now. We have seen babies with
fog-horn accompaniment that sounded
as though even worlds fair wouldn't
cneck them.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

IRELAND sends annually 40. 900 tons
IN round numbers some $40, 1000, ,OOO-ot
eggs to England. This is something of
an offset to the English yolk of which
she COMPLAINS.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17

Campbell says that kissing ruins the
complexion. We wondered what was
spelling the complexion of so many
Chicagn girls