The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-22
MISSOURI

county tnlS year.
The st. Louis grand jury has taken
up the alleged election frauds.
Mr.. Dewitt was seriously shot at
Neosho by the accidental discharge of
a pistol.
Richmond has six churches of differ
emit denominations, and all are pros
porous
Miss Fannie Walters dan Frank
Smith were married at Fayette. The
bride is only 10.
The force in the Frisco shops at
Springfield is increasing, $50 men be-
ing now e%mployed.s
A Bates county farmer soaks wheat
in skinned milk and feeds it. He says
it fattens hogs nicely.
Warden Pace of the penitentiary is
arranging for a big dinner for his
guests on Christmas day.
The expenses of the Girls Industrial
home at Chillicothe fell $1,000 below
the appropriation for the fiscal year.
Wiley Ellis, of Marceline. was jailed
at Linneus, charged with breaking into
and robbing the First national bank of
Marceline.
John Brockway, aged "a, was ar
rested at Marshall the other night for
passing forged checks on several mer-
chants, and was jailed.
A wolf was killed Is miles north of
Springfield, which measured 5 feet 5
inches from the tip of his nose to the
end of his tail and stood 30 inches in
height.
At Kansas City recently wheat-fed
hogs brought cents higher figures than
the next highest sale. There were 14O
in the drove, and the owner said he
cleared $3.50 on the lot.
A valuable discovery of nickel and
cobalt has been made in the property
of. the Donnelly Lead Co., in st. Fran
co.'s county, which is said by mineral
experts to be by far the richest find of
these minerals ever made in this state.
III. NJ. Snyder, a well-to-do farmer,
who lived about 8 miles south of Sails
bury, committed suicide by hanging to
a rafter in the barn, and was found by
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financial trouble was the cause
Mrs. Mary E. Harris and daughter,
Myrtle, were arrested at st. Joseph,
charged with making false affidavits in
a pension case. 1t is alleged they
swore Mrs. Annie Thompson, who is
drawing a pension, had not been a
ried since her husbands death, which
proved to be false.
At Warsaw, Benton county, Judge
w. w. Wood overruled the motion for
a new trial in the case of W. S. Brown.
convicted of the murder of his brother,
Thos. Brown, in Benton county, No
vember 8 last. for which crime he was
sentenced to fifty years imprisonment
in the penitentiary.
The third annual meeting of the
Missouri State Poultry association was
held at Macon. There were about l.
500 entries from all parts of the state,
and a number from Illinoiseand Kan
sas. There were $50 prominent breed
ers present, and many others repre-
sented by coops of fowls.
George H. Lewis, a contractor of
Kansas City, who was in Mexico, be-
came suddenly insane from drinking a
tea made out of loco weed, and while
in hat demented condition he jumped
into the Rio Tigre and was drowned.
Lewis had been in Mexico several
months, and recently purchased an ex-
tensive coffee plantation ear Tuxpan.
Martin Robb was arrested in How
ard county on the charge of being I'M
duly intimate with his 13-year-old
niece, but escaped punishment by re-
fusal to prosecute on the part of the
girls mother. The other night he was
taken out by a dozen or more citizens
and whipped and given two days to
leave town. He says he got thirty
lashes with a strap, and looks badly
used up.
j. B. Lampkin, of Kingsville, John.
son county, recently took a drove of
hogs to Kansas City. Il find," said
Mr.. Lampkin, that the farmers of
johnson county have come to the con-
clusion that wheat is the proper diet
for hogs, for it makes them smooth
and they fatten quicker. Twelve of
the hogs 1 shipped in, and which aver
aged $50 pounds, were May hogs, and
they were fed on wheat"
2. d. Powell. of st. Louis, bought at
trustees sale the Joplin Electric rail-
way, for S35, 900, for the Carthage,
Webb City, Joplin & Galena Railway
Co. The road was bonded for $50, 600,
held by the Union Trust Co. 1t is be-
lieved the new company will at once
to Galena, Kas., and connect
with the road soon to be built from
Carthage to Carterville and Webb City.
Says a dispatch from Hannibal: The
of Frank Whitecotton passed
through here and were taken to Brush
Creek cemetery, in Rails county. for
interment. Whitecotton was convict
ed some time ago in Shelby county of
in the robbery of an old man
named Leland McElroy, near Hunting
ton, Rails county, of n large sum of
money. in 1891. He was sentenced to
five years in the peniteutiary, but was
granted a new trial and jumped his
bond. He was located in the state of
Mississippi, was arrested there for
burglary and sentenced to serve FIVE
years in the p~enitentiary under the
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