The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-18
MISSOURI CULLINGS.

W. H. Forsythe has taken the Clinton
academy.
Sedalia has organized a kindergarten
association.
Maryville will have a horse fair Au-
gust Is, 16, Il.
A children's home is to be established
at Springfield.
The taxes of Boone county amount
to about 500, 600.
Wolves are playing havoc with sheep
in Douglas county.
The colored folks of Springfield are
having spelling bees
Pattonsburg wants connection with
Gallatin by telephone.
The Auxvasse Galloway county, bar
becue was a grand affair.
On account of the long drought Adair
county will have no fair this year.
Mrs. Mary Hines. of Hannibal, was
severely hurt by falling down stairs.
A Shelby county farmer challenged a
n%eighbor to a duel and was arrested.
4 Springfield policeman must be 5
feet : inches tall and weigh $50 pounds.
Three young men were convicted at
Kermit of disturbing a religious meet
ing.
Missouri papers generally advocate
broad tires in the interest of good
roads.
Alittle colored boy of Moberly, named
Willie Richardson. was arrested for a
clever theft.
The new school building in Webb City
will be one of the h~andsOmest in South
west Missouri.
Blairstown. Henry county. was en-
%tertained by Ray Good. the boy preach
err, l. years old.
Col. Bob White. of the Mexico Ledger,
offers a silver cup to the handsomest
baby in Audrain county.
George c. C~rowthers, of st. Joseph,
has been nominated by the republic
ans of the Fourth district.
Cottonwood yields two tons to the
acre in Platte county. 1t is used in the
manufacture of writing paper.
Rain fell on every side of Thomas
Hughes eighty-acre farm near Mary
vile, but did not we his land.
The @-year-old daughter of Harris
Thomas, of Willard, near Springfield,
fell from a horse and vas killed.
Miss Jessie Carter. near Worcester,
Audrian county, was burned about the
head and arms by a coal oil explosion.
Since the recent serious fire Bos-
worth, Carroll county, will allow no
more frame buildings to be erected in
its business district.
The Henry county fair was a success.
Eight thousand people attended on the
next to the last day and G.0OO on the
last day. The races were 4 success.
The Stanbrrry Press Brick Co.. cap
ital stock so, 900, has been incorpor-
ated by ID. +. Hill, Frank Jones. j. d.
Halstead, j. j. Eyart and Louis Vain.
John West. engineer, was killed and
horribly mangled and three men in
jured by Il boiler explosion in a saw
mill in Sullivan county. The water
was too low in the boiler.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Shapleigh. wife
OF 4. T. Shapleigh. a well-known st.
Louis merchant, died recently. Mrs.
Shapleigh was - years of age. She
was held in high esteem by a very large
circle of acquaintance throughout the
city.
The third annual encampment of the
old soldiers of south Missouri and north
Arkansas will be held at West Plains
August n t o p. Arrangements are be-
ing made which viii insure a pleasant
time To all hat come, and everybody is
invited.
The accidental upsetting of a gaso-
line stove in the two-story brick house
at 1910 North Sixth street. st. Louis,
caused Mrs. Louisa Woodson to jump
out of a window to escape the flames.
alighting on the pavement, a distance
of 20 feet. unhurt.
The county court of Montgomery
county, in session at Danviiia, on the
petition of nearly $500 men, ordered
that the proposition to remove the
county seat from Danville to Mont
gomery City be submitted to the voters
at the November election.
The Veterans association of south
west Missouri. composed of Bates,
Cedar. st. Clair and Vernon counties,
will hole their first reunion at Fair
Haven Springs, August Is, 16 and II.
On the last day they will have an army
supper, composed of pork, beans and
black coffee.
The eighth day in the rain-making
operations at Trenton ended upon the
9th, but not a dropof water had fallen.
A. Chapman was still sending gases
heavenward, and hoped it would rain,
but he was not very enthusiastic in re-
gard to the matter. A committee of
five farmers from Sullivan county Wis
tied Trenton to inquire about rain-mak-
ing. but they were given no encourage
ment. Those who paid the 500 for
JEWELS secret have lost faith in the
scheme.
BY saving off several steel bars and
tu~nneling through a brick wall four
prisoners escaped from the Howell
county Jail the other night. They are
William Patrick, grand larceny; James
Lockhart. assault; William Morgan,
colored. grand larceny. Henderson is
wanted in Calcasieu parish, La, for
stealing eighty head of cattle. Four
prisoners refused to escape.
The recent jefferson county normal
institute was the most successful ever