The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-04-28
MISSOURI CyLLlN0S.

Inc republlcanSO OF La GranSe elected
their entire ticket.
The Howell county democrats viii
dominate on June >.
VIM. G. Golf has been appointed
postmaster of De Soto.
c The Palmyra presbytery held it
regular session at Perry.
Z. l.. Cook, a st. Joseph druggist
despondent, shot himself.
Near Cedar Gap, Wright county, &
storm wrecked 4 schoolhouse.
The Randolph county republican!
will hold their convention May 10.
The democrats of the Thirteenth con
gressional district VIII meet at De Soto
June 56.
The Concordia Canning Co; Of Con
cOrdia, capital, S12,0 900, has been Or
ganized.
The city council of Springfield wants
to assess nlckel-in-the-slot machines
S25 per year.
ii. f. Avery, mayor of Clinton, is the
youngest mayor of any city of the third
class in Missouri.
Alta special election the people of Cape
Girardeau indorsed the proposition to
erect watcr-works.
Miss Nellie McGuire, for thirteen
years popular st. Joseph teacher,
died of consumption.
Ted Ryan, a laborer, aged 80, was
killed in st. LOUIS by tank weighing
$500 pounds falling on him.
J. s. Lynch, the new United States
marshal for the eastern district, will
take charge of the office May /.
The late-hour law has been put in
effect in Sedalia, and many all-nighters
have been sent to the Gala bOose.
At Marshall two boys and two dogs
killed $50 rats while Conway Bros
We're moving their slaughter-house.
Mrs. T. c. buchanan, wife Of a
wealthy merchant of st. Joseph, eloped
with college student named Mason.
| William Cannon, aged SO, st.
| Louis fireman, was working at fire,
| kicked an electric-light wire and fell
| dead.
| Chas. d. Horton, cashier of the CHI
cago, Burlington & Quincy system iii
Hannibal, died very suddenly of cervical
| absceSS.
In Moniteau county there will be a
good many fall apples, cherries, plums,
pears ard berries, but no peaches or
early apples.
Rev. :. II. Dana will preach the bac-
! calaurcate sermon before the gradual
ing class of the Hannibal high school,
Sunday, May -.
In the circuit court of Scott county
Thomas Jones was sentenced to three
years in the pcnitentiary for stealinga n
horse and buggy.
The grocery store of J. Swearinger,
in East Mobcrly, was burned. 1t is be-
licved that burglars robbed the store
and then applied fire.
Res. W. l.. NcEyon, of the Webster
Groves Presbyterian church, has re.
ccived Il call to the Third Presbyterian
church of Pittsburgh, Pa.
The contract for the new courthouse
at Carthage has been let. The build
ing is to cost over 500, 900, and of this
sum Carthage voted $4,000.
The 4-year-old son of Levi Reynolds.
proprietor of Il saw and grist-mill at
Forsyth, fancy county, was caught by
a belt and whirled to death.
Charles Brown and George Malon,
alias Wilson, confess that they have
committed over fifty burglaries in st.
Louis in the past three months.
Thomas Grim, aged - years, died of
tive of England, and had been a resi-
dent of Louisiana for fifty years.
The public schools of Louisiana have
closed. The graduates Of the high
school this year We're Misses Lizzie
Anderson, Rosie Pride and Maud Bax.
ter.
John Smiley and Ben Ware, farm
hands on the farm of James Offutt,
near Bowling Green, We're struck by
lightning the other day and almost
killed.
Near Summerville, Texas county, a
storm destroyed much property, and
the wife and three children of Val
Keel, an influential citizen, were in
stantly killed.
County Treasurer James c. Orr, who |
had held public office in Boone county |
for thirty years, and was the best |
known man in the county, died at |
Columbia, aged 30.
The Northwest Missouri district con- |
vention of the Young Peoples Society |
of Christian Endeavor will meet in st. |
Joseph. May 10 and 20. About 800 dele
gates will be present
John lIayner, charged with being an
accomplice in the attempted robbery
Of the bank in Gillian, Saline county,
in 1892, was acquitted in the Pettis
county criminal court.
George W. Seasholtz and William f.
MintOn, real estate dealers of St Jo-
seph, after four-vears' struggle in
the courts. have been acquitted on
charges of forging 4 large number of
warranty deeds to land in Stone county.
After three days trial in the Greene
county criminal court A. T. Van Pelt
was acquitted of the killing of W. L.
Cawltield. 1t was proven to the jury
that Van Pelt's life had been repeated
ly and openly threatened by Cawlield.
NV. 81. d. "
rector of Calvary Episcopal church, of
who, two years ago, was
deposed from the ministry at his own
request, has been restored to the same
and has accept a call to Mammoth
Springs, Ark.
The store of Geo. W. Miller, second
hand furniture dealer and money lend
er. in st. Louis, was burglarized, and
81, 900 in money, jewelry and diamonds
taken. The safe was opened.
The officers of the State Sunday
School association are preparing for
the hOuse-to-hOuse canvass of every
county and township in Missouri The
canvass will commence Tuesday, May S.
Ninety-three oil paintings from the
of the late :. A. Coale, Jr.,
1f St Louis, were sold at auction in
New York, bringing the pitiful sum of
'12,5S7, or about One-tenth of their
Talue.
John c. Bender, the pension attorney
1f st. Joseph, who has been before the
federal courts for alleged pension
rauds number of times lately, was
pound over to the federal grand jury
m charge of extOrting.sl75 as PEN
ion fee from one of his clients.