The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-03-03
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". K. Mctr.i.s, a hc., died at Kan
! sas City as the result of a fall from &
trapese.
The city council at West Plains has
made it a misdemeanor to be 4 tramp
In that city.
| The At. louis t,ar assupiation held
its annual reunion and banquet the
other evening.
The garment makers assembly OF
st. Louis has entered into a crusade
against sweatshops.
The Temple building. r well-known
Jfiice structure IN St Louis, was
scorched the other morning.
John Brennan and Charles Duncan
are held for burglary at st. Joseph.
They are said to be bad couple.
The Y. NJ. c. A. of Kansas City pur-
POSES to take n hand in the coming
Election and purify Rdnsas City boli-
tics.
The total assessment of st. Louis is
1904, 122. 21O. This is about $50, 900, 900
more than. the total assessment for
1923.
The revival at the Baptist church in
Cape Girardeau resulted in eighty-two
cSnvr-si"ns and sixty accessions to the
church
The report of the superintendent of
the public schools of Hannibal shows
an average attendance for the past year
of Ass.
John Honald. an employe of a pork
packing house in St Louis, fell into q
caldron of boiling water and was fatal
ly scalded.
The dwelling on Honey hill. south
of Louisiana, owned by John bancas-
ter and occupied by Mr.. X. Thurmdn,
'tas DESTROYED Ey fire.
-. A lamp exploded in the, boarding.
house of Mrs. Cornelius Murphy in
Hannibal, badly injuring the proprie-
tress and doing damage to kouse and
furniture.
The Warrensburg & Fertile Springs
Waterworks Co, with capital stock
of S150,00o, has been incorporated by
]. ii. Christopher, Marion Christopher
and ". F. Hunt.
The Greene county court has ordered
an election for March 2T to determine
whether 100000 worth of bonds shall
be issued for the purpose of building a
new courthouse.
Congressman John Allen, of Missis-
sippi, the wit of the house, has prom
ised to make a speech ut the banquet
Of the Knights of St Patrick In st.
Louis on March Il.
Young Stanard, son of ex-Gov. STAN
ard of Missouri, who is spending the
winter at San Antonio, Tex, was
thrown from horse and one arm shat
tered i'll three places.
A beautiful national flag, 20 feet long
by 10 feet wide, was raised at the st.
Louis high-school building on Washing
toms birthday. 1t was gift from the
Junior Order of American Mechanics.
The Missouri Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution were right
royalty toasted and banquetcd at the
Mercantile club, st. LoaiS, on the even
ing of Washington's birthday. \ good
number were in attendance, and what
with speech and banquet song the
hours passed swiftly by.
Sheriff Pratt of Marion county pre-
vented Jail delivery by discovering in
the cell of Patrick MalOney n quantity
tools. Maloney has recently been in
the penitentiary, but was remanded to
county for n new trial, and it
is supposed that he brought the tools
with him from jefferson City.
Brasuer, who was arrested, charged
with the Comstock poisoning at Nc
vada, was released on bond of s., 900,
and Justice Davis, who tried the case,
has published a statement explaining
his course, by saying that the evidence
was incomplete and that there is
strong probability of Brasuer's inno-
cence.
The parties to the following damage
suits have settled them by compromises
at Marshall: Charles 5. Bulkley
against ID. 4. Hancock for s25, 900 and
Joseph Francisco for s1O.OOO for malli-
cious prosecution, and for $4,000
against Larkin Hancock for SANDER
The jury in the first case spent five
days in consideration of 4 verdict. All
the parties live in the western part of
Saline county.
Rev. Frank G. Tyrrell, pastor Of the
Central Christian church of St Louis,
and chairman of the St. Louis Law and
Order league. is preparing list of all
the immoral resorts in the city. and
also the names of the owners of the
houses in which these people dwell.
lie purposes to inaugurate a second
Parkhurst crusade in st. Louis agairst
this class and place these resorts under
the ban of the law.
The 11-year-old son of II. G. Calvert,
a farmer living near Missouri City,
Clay county, while asleep the other
night dreamed that eight Indians were
about to kill him and he jumped
the window of the upper story
IF his home. His father heard the
crash, and discovering that his boy was
gone, he started in pursuit A quarter
Of a mile away he met the little fellow
in an almost frozen condi-
ton The cold weather had awakened
him. His only injuries were 4 few
For some time n. b. Henderson, a
citizen living at Twenty
second and Messanc streets, st. JO-
'eph, has been suffering with what the
physicians diagnosed as Inflammation
IF the bowels, caused supposedly by
he presence of some foreign substance.
kept growing worse, and it
was decided to perform an operation.
Doctors cut into the abdomen and
'ound and removed an old-fashioned
pin which had become firmly encysted
n the bowels. As Mr.. Henderson does
1ot remember having swallowed a pin.
{ is supposed that he swallowed il
when n child. II is thought he may
A most daring robbery and wonder.
'ul display of nerve occurred at Han
.ock. About o'clock in the afternoon
stranger entered the store of w. A.
Allen & Son, and, with revolver in
,and. ordered Hands up!' Mr.. Allen
md five or six men were in the store,
md the order was promptly obeyed-
The robber then proceeded to the
money drawer, taking the contents,
helped himself to some jewelry, a re-
oliver and all the cartridges in the
took, coolly bade the occupants good |
". backed out of the store and es- |
aped. The robter wore no mask, and /.