The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-08
4 ~M,ssouRi c3LLines.

er day. .
William HEREFORD and Mrs. Scrog-
gins were married at Salisbury.
John l.. Miller and Miss Anna Kaechle
were married at Cape Girardeau n
Mr.. Frank Hugh Rogers and Miss
Emma ThrO were married at Boonville.
j. Ii. Connolly. proprietor of a War
rensburg hotel, has been declared in
sane. .,0fsi &fof ~ss -
John Davies, aged rs, and Mrs, Isa-
dore NJ. Mitchell, aged AZ, were mar
ried at Warrensburg.
The construction of the Kansas City
post office building of gray granite or
marble has been ordered.
Mr.. Frank r. Berg, of De Soto, and
Miss Rose Mathews, of MoberIy, were
married in the latter city.
The Security national bank of Grand
Island. Neb., has closed its doors. Sen
ator Vest, of Missouri, it is stated, is
heavily interested.
There was no holiday at the state
prison on Thanksgiving, but Warden
Pace gave the convicts an extra good
dinner to remember the occasion.
Fred Jones, whose brother was re
Gently arrested for conspiracy to rob
a train, was arrested at st. Joseph
for pilfering from a passenger coach.
Geo. Isenberry, aged Il, a farm hand,
employed by Joseph Simmons, 2 miles
north of Hughesville, Pettis county,
was badly beaten by negroes, supposed
to have been thieves.
At Kansas City Frank Rowland
struck his sisters lover, John Sellman.
aged II, because he would not return a
ring she had given him. Sellman died
and Rowland was arrested.
A warrant has been issued against
Mrs. Wilhelmina Eisenhuth, of near
Fenton, by United States Commissioner
Stray, charging her with making n false
affidavit to secure a pension.
Samuel C. Reed. of Curryville, re-
corder-elect of Pike county on the
democratic ticket. died suddenly from
an overdose of morphine, self-adminis-
tered. He was a sufferer from neu-
ralgia.
burglars have been busy at Farming
ton recently. Eight houses have been
entered or attempts made to enter
them. Watches and clothes were
among the articles stolen, as well as
money.
Rev. c.. T. Mcdaniel, of st. Louis, has
organized an English Evangelical
Lutheran church in Sedalia. This is
the first English church of that denom-
nation, and it starts of with a MEM
bership of over fifty communicates.
Claude Humphrey, aged about 20.
living s miles east .of Boonville, at
tempted suicide by swallowing two
ounces of laudanam.- disappointment
in a love affair is supposed to have
been the u of the young mans act.
All the Sunday-schools in Farming
ton will unite in a Christmas celebra-
ton. The superintendent and one
lady from each Sunday-school form a
committee for arranging a programme.
The exercises will be held in the opera
house. 81 -
The J. F. Stephens pharmacy, IN
East Sedalia. was destroyed by fire the
other morning. The loss exceeds 81
200, with $500 insurance. The Coentz
millinery establishment, adjoining the
pharmacy, was damaged; fully COW
cred by insurance.
The Auditorium, the largest play
house in Kansas City, was sold the
other day under foreclosure of mort
gage to the National Bank of Com
merce for SIS, 600. David Henderson,
of Chicago, will probably buy the prop
erty from the bank.
Samuel Washington. an old resident
of Sedalia, died. of consumption the
other day. He was born at .Shipley.
near Bradford, England, and was a
lineal descendant of the English fam:-
ly OF Washingtons, from which tie
first president of the United States de-
scended. o..
The wedding of Hon. William n.
Steele and Miss Helen Gallie took
place at the Christian church, Sedalia,
in the presence of GOO invited guests.
The bridegroom is a prominent Grim
inal lawyer, and the bride is the daugb-
ter of John b. Gallie, one of Sedalia's
wealthiest citizens.
Granville Mack, 3 young col ored man,
employed by the Tinsley Tobacco Co,
Louisiana, swallowed one-fourth of a
box of Rough On Rats and died. lie was
enaniored of the wife of a dining-car
waiter, it is said, and, she refusing tc
stay home from a dance while he was
at her house. he took the poison.
Peter Scully. one of the oldest citi.
zens of Sedalia, and a retired mer-
chant. died suddenly of heart failure.
Mr.. Scully was &c years old, and was
born in Ireland, emigrating from that
country when a lad in his teens. He
assisted in engineering the Cumber-
land canals, and later engaged in the
cattle trade. driving cattle over the
mountains to Baltimore from Ohio. He
settled in Sedalia thirty years ago.
E. E. johnson, n prominent merchant
of Sedalia, vas seriously burned by the
explosion of petroleum gas in the
furnace at his house. Mr.. johnson at
tempted to revive q low fire in the
furnance by throwing a pint of coal oil
on the slumbering embers. The heated
furnace converted the oil into gas, |
which exploded, covering him with
flames. His hands and face were bad. |
ly burned, but he escaped without in
ternal injures.