The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-04
CULLINGS.

Higginsville is taking action to Sc
cure the establishment of a college.
Bert Blackburn. a farmer near Leb-
mon. fell from his wagon and was
killed.
b. \. A.lsup. a weIl-known citizen of
Wright county, was killed in a run
away
Mrs. Elizabeth Stone. aged n. the
oldest resident of Hannibal. died the
~otherday.
So far this season about ST.. 200 has
been received at Morley for the ship
ment of c~antalopes.
The North American Turner bund
has decided to locate executive board
headquarters in st. Louis.
1t is believed that Judge Thayer. of
st. Louis. will get the recently-created
judgcship in the Eighth circuit.
Ed Nelson and Froggy Ford, gam
blers. quarreled over Nelson's divorced
wife at Webb City. Frog was nortally
shot.
six brick and three iron business houses
this year. beside Il large number ofresi-
dences.
Eldorado Springs wants a dummy or
an electric line to Rich Hill. To give the
springs connection with st. Louis and
Kansas City.
Engineer John Reynolds and Fire
man William XiSer were badly >calded
in a collision on the Missouri Pacific
near Kirkwood.
VIM. IIunneke. of Pacific. was struck
by an cast-hound Frisco train between
Attention ana Eureka. and his head was
badly cut and shoulder bruised.
James Murray. convicted of the Il
der of Street Car Conductor Fitzwil-
liam. in st. Louis county. has been
sentenced to he hanged September >.
The LiebstaGter Millinery Co.. capt.
tai stock So. 900. has been incorporated
at Kansas City by Bernard Liebstadter,
L. bingham and John VI. Dennhoefer.
Mrs. Gus Leftwich. wife of the editor
of the Miami News. died at her home
in Miami. She was formerly a Miss
Waters. of st. Louis. She leaves five
children.
F~orty-nine homestead entries. aggre-
eating 4.6S0 acres. were made at the
Springfield land office by Laclede coun-
ty citizens. during the fiscal year ended
June &c.
The wife of Harry PembertOn. a
wealthy farmer $ miles south of Hol-
den, was fatally burned while solder
ing a dish-pan over a coal oil lamp,
which exploded.
The Winfrey school, Carrollton. dur
ing the last twenty years has turned
out twenty-ore teachers, two lawyers.
two doctors. one preacher and some of
the best business men in the country.
OF the state officers of Missouri. Sec
rotary of State LeSueur and Railroad
Commissioner Hickman served in the
confederate army and Railroad Com
missioner Cowgirl in the union army.
\ cave has been discovered about ;
miles from Hannibal which is said to
surpass the Hannibal cave. made ia
nous by Mark Twain's writing. The
aisles and chambers are much wider.
1t will be explored and opened to the
public.
Noah Weaver complained to the st.
Louis board of health that the potter's
field was : % filed with graves that in
opening new ones the old ones were
broken into. and the stencil from them
was unbearable. Weaver resides in the
vicinity of the p~otter's field
Suit has been brought at Nevada. by
change of venue from Bates county. by
Il coal miner named Frank DeBoth,
against the Rich Hill Coal Co. for So
600 damages. The amount is asked or
injuries received by DeBoth in a mine
of the company in June, 1893. by the
fall of a slate roof.
The contract for the erection of Bap-
fist college at Pennington has been let
to Louis Miller, the contractor. who is
Just completing the Odd Fellows tenn
pie. The building will no be finished
in time for the September opening. but
school will be held in the Baptist
church until the school-building is
completed.
The twenty-ninth annual convention
of the Missouri Sunday-School associa-
ton will convene in Chillicothe. August
5. and will remain in session Thursday
and Friday. With the near approach
of the time for the convention. the sun
dav-school leaders of st. Louis and the
remainder of the state are busying
themselves in preparation for the occa-
sion.
suit to set aside the will of the late
John ii. Reid. who died about a year
ago leaving practically all OF an estate
worth about $3.50, 900 to his half broth
er. William Reid, was filed in the Jack
son circuit court by Thomas f. Flour
noy. a half brother, Joseph b. Morris
and Nellie +. Morris, daughter of Mrs.
Fannie Morris. a half sister of the tes-
tator. all of whom live in %Independ-
ence.
Rev. X. l. Fleming. chairman of the
st. Louis conference Epworth League
state convention committee of the VI.
f. church. and Rev. c. W. Casely. chair
man of a similar committee in the Mis-
souri, conference. state that word has
been received from various parts of the
state indicative of a widespread de
sire that a convention be held. but
that the committee 60 the present
have concluded to hold the matter in
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