The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-10-20
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is now complete.
Apples are selling for fifty cents a
bushel at Ce~ntralia.
The ''Salamander" block, Centralia,
was destroyed by fire.
W. II. Blatt, of independence, drop
ped dead in Kansas City.
Jerry Kelly, near Higginsville, took
a fatal dose of morphine.
Diphtheria RACES in the King school
district, south of Richmond.
A stone wall fell on John Wheeler,
of Carthage, and broke his ribs.
The Sedalia kindergarten has thirty
five little ones under instruction.
The Independence Water-works Co.
will make extensive improvements
Cole county farmers have, most OF
them, decided to prohibit hunting on
their land.
Sedalia Sundays are not absolutely
dry, but they are not SO wet as they
used to be.
At Hopkins. Nodaway county, a
butcher was arrested for selling meat
on Sunday.
VIM. Rowland, a former Sedalia rail
roader, was cut in two by an engine at
Las Vegas. n. NJ.
After being shut down for many
months the Carthage wooden mill has
resumed operations.
George williamson, a st. Louis negro,
sent to the penitentiary for ninety
nine years, has escaped.
The Missouri Christian convention
was held at Columbia. The society has
1850 members in Missouri.
A waterworks and electric-light COM
pany, capital 500. 600. has been incor-
porated at Cape Girardeau.
In twenty minutes Sl.257 was sub
scribed for improvements on the Chris
tian church of Mound City.
Mary Wilson, a Dent county public
charge, suicided because she was tired
of working in other peoples kitchens.
The first month of the public schools
at Aurora shows an enrolment of $50
and a daily average attendance of sci.
The handsome new Baptist college
building at Pennington will be COM
pleted by the latter part of the month.
Farmer W. H. Lingley, of Henry
county, gave lime to his hogs. He
buries them at the rate of three or foul
a day.
James Finley, chief of the detective
force at st. Joseph, was brutally beaten
by a gang of thugs, who escaped, and
may die.
Citizens of Schuyler county are agi-
tated over the vote IN November as to
the removal of the county seat from
Lancaster to Queen City.
Nathan Spencer's team ran away
with his little boy in Audrain county.
and Spencer broke his ankle in stop
ping it. The boy was unhurt.
A stick of dynamite and fuse were
found hid in ties piled near the depot
at Pacific, and it is believed that train
robbers were again plotting for n hold
up.
At Maryville public school pupils
made their exit from the building with
out confusion on a false alarm in sew
enty seconds. The school has a fire
drill.
Gov. Stone has offered a reward of
$500 for the capture of Columbus Hayes,
who murdered William Sneed, of Blu
chanan county, and escaped from the
sheriff of Andrew county.
The town of Leonard, Shelby county,
sued James Hall for poll tax, gaininG
the suit before a justice. Justice Eli
son, on appeal, ruled that the village
had no light to levy a poll tax.
d. H. Hodges saw and grist mill
boiler, at a point 90 miles northwest of
Dexter, exploded, killing two brothers
named johnson and a young man
named Lee. Another. named Wilkin-
son. was hurt.
While the family of V. w. Hanson,
3 miles north of Tina, Carroll county,
were at work in a field, the house
caught fire and was burned to the
ground. An infant child, who was
asleep in the house, was burned.
At Louisiana Cleveland Barker, a g.
year-old child, fell into an open well
the other night containing about 20
feet of water, and would have drowned
but for Charles Brown, who was low.
cred and held by the ankle by Mrs.
Brown and Miss Lucy Snyder. Brown
seized the little fellow as he rose to the
surface.
The fifth annual celebration of Ger
man day at Sedalia was a splendid sue
cess in every particular, the attendance
being far larger than on any similar
occasion. At l p. IN. the parade took
place, the procession marching from
the business center to Association
park, where the festivities were held.
The address of the occasion was deliv-
cred by Congressman Richard Bar
tholdt, of st. Louis.
A serious ARRAY occurred at Jeffer-
son City in the stabbing of Walter Ber-
riman, assistant cashier of the Elem
ing bank, by Hon. S. w. Cox, a promi-
nent business man. The latter went
to the bank about 1890 o'clock. and,
calling Berriman out on the sidewalk,
attacked him. Berriman was unarmed.
and in the fight was stabbed in the left
side, a deep wound being inflicted. He
was also cut seriously on the left hand
His wounds are serious, but he will re-
cover. The trouble grew out OF some
insurance matters, both men being in
surance agents.
The annual synod of the Southern
n-zlxoo- ohnroh in Missouri was