The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-29
CULLINGS.

Annie Baxter is the name of a Joplin
street.
Salisbury's water-works will cost
$4,000.
A new bank has been organized al
Russellville.
The Colored Baptist association me-
at Salisbury.
Galloway county has an apple tree
fifty years old.
Salisbury voted for water-works by a
large majority.
There is an epidemic of horse stealing
near Hannibal.
Champ Clark will make nlnety-three
speeches in his district.
Aunt" Dice Walker, colored, OF
Trenton, is lib years old.
Large numbers of immigrants are
settling in fancy county.
The Sedalia baseball club is torn
with internal dissensions.
Mrs. Cousins. of Gorin, Scotland
county, attempted suicide.
William Patrick and Miss Bertha
"ClC ~ u
Sidney L. Brock and Miss Jennie
Wardell were married at Macon
Marshall feels confident of getting
the Odd Fellows orphan asylum.
Charles E. Breeding and Miss Annie
Lower were married at Hannibal.
a Knights of Pythias lodge is to be
organized at Hume, Bates county.
The cry of o~vercrowded schools is
heard in nearly every town in the
state.
The Fifth district W. C. T. L. held
its second annual convention at Matt
land.
Corn in Carroll county grows so high
that farmers must stand on barrels to
reach it.
Mexico has a home talent dramatic
company which amuses the neighbor-
ing towns.
The Moberly Bachelors Speciality
company will reorganize for the COM
ing season.
Little Hattie Shorty, of Saline coun-
ty, was thrown out of a buggy and in
SIdHlly hllleu.
a wolf attacked and seriously in
jured Henry Loux's little daughter,
near Mayville.
T Gov. Stone has appointed Arthur
Braton commissioner of public schools
of Boone county.
Joseph Baldwin, an old Missouri
school teacher. is one of the faculty Of
Texas university.
Louisa Darlington. of Fulton county.
thought she was hoodooed and was
t Ii to the asylum.
Miss Linda Sullenger. of Mexico. and
Mr.. f. II. Bruce, of Fort Smith, Ark,
We're married recently
John Beatty. a teamster. fell beneath
the wheels of his wagon at st. Joseph,
and was fatally injured.
The largest wheat crop in northeast
Missouri is that on the Estee farm in
Pike county. $4,000 bushels.
Hermann Reinkle, a st. Joseph news-
paper man, pleaded guilty to black
mail. Sentence was reserved
a surveying party to survey the new
line from Springfield to Harrisonville,
Ark, started u a few days ago.
Elder Sommers. who has been con-
Quoting a revival at Centralia, de-
nounced base ball and its devotees.
A colored preacher of Monroe City
preached a sermon against marble
playing from the text marvel not"
VIM. Richardson. of Hazel Run,
killed an eagle which measured six feet
one inch from tip to top of the wings.
Scotland county shipped 1850 head
of cattle and 14,450 hogs in 1895, ac-
cording to the state report recently
published.
Frederick Gross. n prosperous Ger
man farmer of johnson county, has
beer adjudged insane and sent to the
St. Joseph lunatic asylum.
The subject at the next meeting of
the Vale Mines Debating society is:
Resolved that a printing press is more
useful than a locomotive"
A thief broke into A. $. Kemper's
house rear Prairie City, Bates county.
and stole thirty-five cents, overlooking
$40 in bills which lay concealed in the
same trunk.
The famous Catron will ease wa
given to the jury at Marshall, and they
returned "A verdict in favor of the plain
tiff, Mrs. Evaline McFadden. The ease
will be appealed
w. +. Halle, a young man, committed
suicide at Piedmont by shooting. lie
proved to be a brother-in-law to Merrill
Pipkin, prosecuting attorney of st.
Francois county. Mr.. Pipkin identified
the body.
The following appointments were re-
Gently made by Gov. Stone: Charles ID.
Mckay, circuit clerk of DeKalb county.
vice II. J. Whitesell, deceased; Charles
J. Harrison, assessor of st. Clair coun-
ty, vice Joseph Meeks, deceased.
In the circuit court at Carthage Liz
zie Christy.an attractive girl of modest
pleaded guilty to stealing a
horse, buggy anu harness at Webb
City last summer. and was sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary. The
officers say they have evidence to show
that her sweetheart, a sportive young |
farmer, who lives near Webb City, |
really committed the theft. When she
was arrested she would not inform on
her sweetheart, and now pleads guilty
and takes 4 penitentiary sentence
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