The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-03-17
MISSOURI CuLllNGS.

The Clinton republicans nominated
city ticket
The Louisiana Fair association has
teed orgaiiizcdi
Mike Ryan was fined 500 in St.
Louis for election repeating.
Mary A. Greenby, of Macon. has be-
gun suit contesting her fathers will
The state banks of st Louis held ST.
$4,000 in gold coin on February 2.
The Home Savings bank of Lafayette
has been Incorporated; capital, 500
The post office at Prosperity, Jasper
county, was burglarized the other night.
The expenditures of St Charles coun-
try during the past year were $751;
s22.42.
st. Louis has humanity club with
the motto: Nothing human is ali:n
to me-"
The Farmers Mutual Benefit fnsur-
ance Co. of Lynn county has been in
corporated.
William A. Keller, a financially en-
barrassed saioon-keeper at st. Joseph,
shot himself
John Oehler, st. Louis barber, is
supposed to have committed suicide
with poison.
Miss Susan holland, for fifteen years
a teacher in the Independence schools,
died of consumption.
The st. Francois county democrats
will elect delegates to the Kansas City
convention March II.
Samuel Vaughn, colorcd, of Warrens-
burg, was killed by the cars at Center
View, johnson county.
J. CASTOR Soulard, aged Al, descend
ant of an old st. Louis family, was
buried few days ago.
burglars entered S. b. Whitsett's
store at Pacific and secured a varied
assortment of merchandise.
The Improved Order of Red Men of
Missouri will meet at 1900 South
Broadway, st. Louis. on the 10th.
The republicans of Salem have NOM
mated John S. Ault for mayor and the
democrats Anges E. McGlashan.
Rev. John b. Brandt, of Fairfax mis-
sion, st. Louis, has received call to
take charge of church in Pittsburgh,
Pa.
William Farmer was killed at Allan
ta. Macon county, by a rebounding
sapling that tree he felled broke in
two.
James Minor, of Huntsville, was SEN
teEced to six years in the penitentlary
three for burglary and three for lar
ceny.
The safe in the railway station at
Marble Hill was blown open the other
night, but entrance to the vault was
not effected.
The water-works contractor and Ia
borers of Clinton have settled their
differences and work has begun on lay
ing the new mains.
At Independence, the other day, w.
7. Johnson, Il well-known young man,
was given two years in the penitentiary
for stealing horse.
The marriage of Charles Hart Nc
Lean, of st. Louis, and Miss Minnie
Brandreth, of England, is n union of
millions as well as hearts.
Gov. Stone, the other day, commuted
the sentences of six youthful prisoners
in the penitentiary to terms in the re-
form school at Boonville.
A large quantity of jewclry belong
ing to Jeweler Jacob Gariner, of Lin
ncus, whose store was burglarized, was
found in a straw stack : miles from
town.
Great interest has been manifested
in religious matters in st. Louis dur
ing the past winter. Almost all the
churches have added largely to their
membership.
Tess Henderson, aged 16, told Judge
Woodsop, of st. Joseph, that he stole
horse lust to be doin'," and the
Judge gave him six months in Jail lust
to he doin'."
Robert Russell, republican, was elect
ed mayor of Louisiana The repub-
licans elected the remainder of the
ticket with the exception of one alder
man. The school tax carried.
James Owens shot and killed his ia
ther-in-law. Seneca Noblett, in Atchi-
son county. Owens surrendered, claim
ing the shooting was in self-defense.
He had been separated from his wife.
In the circIit court at Huntsville the
case of the state against Ed II. Davis
and Mrs. Dcliah Davis, his stepmother,
indicted for infanticide, WAS nolie
2ros'd and the defendants discharged.
Rev. +. W. Dow, of McCune college,
at Louisiana, has been ordained minis
ter in the Baptist church, and has ac-
cepted call at Troy, y. ii. Prof. w.
ii. Greenwell, of Bardstown, Ky, will
succeed Rev. Dow as president of the
college.
burglars entered the Wabash depot
at Renick, Randolph county, at an
early hour and drilled holes in the ex-
press company's safe, blew the door off
and gained access to where the money
is kept, but they only secured about IS
for their trouble
John Smith, watchman at the Clarks-
vile Lumber Co.'S yard, at Louisiana,
was severely beaten by burglar the
other night, and but for the timely ar
rival of the watch dog, who savagely
attacked the intruder, in all probabil
ity Smith would have been killed.
Burglars entered the post office at
Syracuse Morgan county, and carried
off $50 worth of stamps They also
broke into Keevil's general merchan-
disc store and blew open the safe. from
which they took 500. The work is
believed to have been done by Sedalis
crooks.
Prof W. II. Doyle, who was arrested
on charge of having burned the Ash
Grove (Greene county, college, an in
stitution owned and conducted by him
self, has turned the tables on his ac-
cusers by causing the arrest of AttOr-
ney ]. Brock, of Ash Grove, charg-
ing him with inducing witnesses to
swear falsely.
A. F. Van Pelt, who, on the 1st inst,
shot and killed Constable Cawlfield in
the streets of Ash Grove, Greene coun-
ty, rode into that town the other day
and delivered himself up. He was ar
raigned before justice, and after a
seaching preliminary held to answer
to the grand jury in a bond of sa,5OO.
Senator Cockrell has introduced q
bill to authorize the jefferson City
Bridge and Transit Co. to bridge the
Missouri. The location must be within