The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-03-31
MISSOURI cuLLlNGS.

4. Goodman succeeds W. T. Dickson
as postmaster OF Hancock.
Several dwelling houses we're bur
glarized in La Plata the other night
A negro woman is said to have been
whipped by white caps near Fayette.
W. 5. Peter, aged %, died at his IA
theirs home in Marshall Of heart dis
ease. -- .. $3.50
Mrs. John Laughlin. wife CT farm
sr near Marshall, fell dead at the
washtub.
Phillip P. Ahern has been appointed
teceiver for the Walsh Vinegar Co. OF
Kansas City. -- z----
Rev. W. W. Boyd has accepted the
pastorate of the Second Baptist chdreh
Of St Loris. .r..-....---.
There were 100 ccrvsrsions during
the revival at the Park Methodist
church in Hannibal.
]. G. Newbill has been nominated by
the president to be register of the land
office at Springfield. r..
The Hannibal saw-mill has started
M and given work to 200 men who had
been idle all winter.
Mathew Bourke, a Kansas City retail
grocer, has assigned to John A. Boprke
for tbe benefst of creditors.
Henry Weaver, sell-known west
ern hotel man, has been selected to
manage the new Planters house, St.
Louis
The faculty of the Missouri universi-
ty declare officially that there is no
trouble or disaffection toward Presi-
dent jose
William Heath, farmer near Mont
gomery City, fell with an apoplectic
stroke and never rallied, dying the
next dat,:
George d. Van iioItef. q veteran
river pilot, died at his residence if So
Louis, recently, of pneumonia. He was
20 years of age.
Frank Clearly, who forged an order
for suit of clothes at DEXTER, has
been convicted and given two years in
the penitentiary.
Joseph Myrick, who killed Thomas
Edwards near Dexter, pleaded guilty
TO manslaughter and was given n sem
tence Of seven years
The Citizens bank, capital stock sa5,-
OO1. has been organized at Sheibyviile
by John J. Hewitt, W. w. Mitchell, A.
NJ. Priest and others.
y. u. George. the married SON and
deputy Of the Camden county clerk,
who eloped with Lila Lindsey, was
arrested at Monettc.
The Pettis county court has pur-
chased n Se-acre farm miles north OF
Sedalia, and will convert it into home
for the poor of Pettis county.
The George r. Smith college at Sc
dalia has received handsome United
States flag from the Sumner Avenue
Methodist Sunday-school of Brooklyn.
Louisa Helmer, a typewriter, aged
Is, is missing from her home, 1923 Hill
nois avenue. st. Louis. She had been
detected over failure to obtain employ
ment.
]. n. Cordell, charged with unlaw-
fully receiving deposits at the late
Cordell-Dunicka bank, of Marshal
| after he kne;y the bank had failed, was
acquitted.
Mrs. Sue Dehaven, a resident OF
WYATT Park, near st. Joseph, was per-
haps fatally burned by an explosion ol
gasoline. She was cleaning some
clothing and took the garment neal
the stove.
The democrats Of Macon county will
hold a meeting of township committees
Friday, April 6, to arrange for the Sc
lection of delegates to the Kansas City
convention.
Creditors in Missouri, Illinois, New
York, Ohio. Michigan and Pennsylva
mia have asked for receiver for thu
Kelk Bros. carriage manufacturing
| firm at Sedalia.
| Annie, the 3-year-old daughter Of
August Schonhoff, of Cape Girardeau
was accidentally shot in the head by q
Young son of Thomas Howell. The
bullet lodged in the child's brain.
| About 200 representatives of demo
cratic campaign organizations of Mis-
souri, met in st. Louis the other day
It was decided not to change the date
of the state convention, called to NEE
| in Kansas City, May Is.
Near Fayette whitecaps pinned g
card to the door of w. L. Sartain, no
tifying him to leave the country, Oh
both he and family would be .exter
minated. intimating that poison would
be used to carry out the threat
William Mathews, of Edgar Springs
Phelps county, was bitten. by a doi
1 February 9, at which time several hog
were also bitten. lie now fears tina
he will be attacked BY hydrophobia, a
some Of the hogs have shown symptom
Of rabies.
The kansas City Homeopath Medica
college dissension, which was referret
to the state board of health, was re
ferred back TO DIR. J. w. Cartlich, tll'
board deciding it had no jurisdiction
in the matter, and so sent it back to tn
complainant
A peculiar accident occurred to ;
freight train near Marshfield- A stocl
train, leaving the Springfeld-'Frisc
Yards at qO:3O a. m. for ST. Louis, wa
speeding along miles east of Marsh
field, when a bar from n drive-whee
on the engine. came loose. 1t ran on
end deep in the ground and the othe
in through the engine cab. strikin
Head Brakeman Bradley on the thisl
It tore nearly all the flesh off his lie
and badly fractured tie bone.
Constables Fleming and Barthick, O
I Lamonte, with a warrant for the ii
rest of a negro, Jerry Hutchinson, liz
ing miles north of town, for the IL
treatment of his children, rode ont (
his home where they met Hutchinso
armed with Winchester. He resiste
arrest, and the constables, KNOWN
him to be a desperate character, re
turned to town and wired for Sheri
Porter, of Sedalia, who went an
brought Hutchinson in. He gave bono
At the town of Wellington, Lafayett
county, burglars broke into the stor
of Daubert & Corse. and secured $50
some valuable papers and some mi
cellancous goods
The Salvation Army Of Kansas Cit
is bankrupt, and in consequence of tn
fact the captain and Lieutenant hay
! drawn u combined salary of but sil.i
for February, and the March return