The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-05-12
MISSOURI CuLLINGS.

resigned as president OF ClarkSDurH
college.
John Brown, Of Rockport, was ar
rested for the alleged burglary of sew.
eral stores.
The post offices at Box, Phelps coun-
ty, and Tullvania, Macon county, have
been abolished.
R ii. Pratt n former prominent resi-
dent of Hannibal, died in Chicago. The
remains were inferred in Hannibal.
The Pike county Sunday-school as
sociation will hold its annual conven-
tion at Curryville July 81 to August ..
Mrs Rachel Mcfarland. 40 years old,
fell down a fight of stairs in St Louis
and Was so badly injured that she died.
The Continental national bank of st.
Louis has annSInecd reduction of its
capital stock from &, 600. 100 70 81 ,00Oi-
600.
The annual public exhibition of the
work of the artists and sculptors of St
Louis opened the other evening in the
Museum of Fine Arts
The name of ex-mayor NOonan of
st. Louis will be brought before the
democratic convention of the Eleventh
congressional district.
The executive committee of the JAS
per county normal institute will hold
n fonr weeks school of instruction at
Joplin, to begin July so.
Rev. II. C. Evans, assistant editor Of
the st. Louis Presbyterian, has re-
ceivcd Il call to the pulpit Of the Kirk
wood Presbyterian church.
The entry list of the Louisiana ia air
promises to be larger than any prcyi-
Gus year. A trotting dog-record ESQ
will be one of the attractions
It is reported that the entire Mirs
souri, delegation of democrats in con-
gress will probably attend the state
convention at Kansas City in a body.
Rev. ID. T. Denman. of the Fifth
Street Baptist church. Hannibal,
preached the baccalaureate sermon be-
fore the graduates of the La Grange
college
A. {. .Stait, 4 well-known yoling man
of Cameron, who is charged with har-
ing raised 4 check from s.. SO to S75, was
arrested In st. Joseph and returned TO
Cameron.
Joseph Hart. travelling for the DIR. A.
7. Sawyer Medicine Co., of Kansas City,
was jailed at Sedalia for attempting to
pass what his accusers pronounce q
bogus check.
Congressman Champ Clark has Sc
cured a favorable report on the bill of
the St Charles college, asking for
remuneration for the use of the build
ing as hospital during the war.
John Ileim was tried for attempting
to kill Elijah Webb near Spring Bluff,
Franklin county, last August, and
found guilty by the jury and sentenced
to three months in the county Jail and
fined 500.
William Whalen, of st. Peters mine
fame, was found guilty of obtaining
money under false pretenses in st.
Louis and the jury assessed his punish
ment at four years in the pcnitentiarv.
Whalen sold worthless mining shares
burglars entered the store of Henry
Kerstner, Il prominent merchant at
GOrdonville, Cape Girardcau county,
cracked his safe and stole $50 and
tried to blow a second safe, but were
unsuccessful. They also entered an
other store and stole some revOlvers,
etc, but were scared off
County Attorney Hoffman of Pettis
county was notified the other day by
State Treasurer Stephens to dismiss
the suit instituted some weeks ago
with a view to having the charter of
the Pettis County Investment Co. for
feited, on the ground that it had not
complied with the law by depOsiting
500, 900 with the state treasurer.
In st. Joseph. the other morning. .
second attempt was made to burn the
residence of +. c. Bischoff. There were
eight persons asleep III the house, and
had not the flames been discovered, it
family would have perished. The floor
of the basement, where the fire start
ed, was saturated with kerosene.
An intcracadcmic declamatOry con-
test will be held in the opera house in
Clinton, Friday night, the 18th inst.
The leading academies of south Mis-
souri, will he represented, and tho
honors will be hotly contested. Prof.
c. +. Lamkin, of Clinton academy. pres
ident of the association, has the matter
in hand, and expects number of good
speakers to take part
Frank Schulong found 5-year-oid
crippled girl wandering aimlessly
about Bellefontaine cemetery, St
Louis. Owing to her youth she could
not tell how she got there. Schulong
turned the girl over to Gatekeeper Will
liam Scott, who had her sent to the
city hospital, as she was in a very
starved condition. 1t is supposed the
girls parents abandoned her.
Louis Ncubauer, Il farmer near New
Madrid, was in st. Louis the other day,
stopping at Iiurst's hote!. lie called
at the four courts and reported to
Chief Desmond that he had been
robbed of S535. lie said that the money
must have been stolen from him. lie
had the amount in bills in n long
black leather pocket-book in the inside
pocket of his coat He could not re-
member the names of several men to
whom he had talked during the day,
one of whom he thinks got away with
the money. The police believe that
the job was done by an expert.
suit for the recovery of l2O acres of
mining land worth s2UO.OOO has been
brought at Carthage by Mrs. Pauline
B. Hatcher against her son, Il. +.
Hatcher, and her son-in-law, Jacob
Literal The plaintiff decided the land
10 defendants, as she claims, through
influence and false repre-
sentation on their part 1t has for
wears brought good income TO the de-
PENDANTS, who have neglected to care
for their mother, she having had to
work hard as n washerwoman and
clearinghouse keeper for miners at
Carterville. where the land is situated.
Other children are supporting Mrs
Hatcher in the contest
The late dean of the st. Louis law
school William q. Hammond, left by
his will Ia. s.I Ec and valuable coliec-
ton of law books to the institution of
which he was the head. The library
numbers many hundred books, aud
while including the modern works OF
the profession there are many of the
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