The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-10-13

| nv "hSob Siop Ii PiSSbs "SAA SO'h,
especially in the southern part of the
state.
The clay near PIERCE City Ear be
turned into aluminium at small eX-
pense.
Fred Bishop, an 11-year-old boy of st.
| Charles, was run over and severely in
jured.
DR.. Charles E. PEPPER and Miss Vir-
ginia Emison were married at Mar
shall.
r. b. Andrews and Miss Emma Pill
ty, of Cape Girardeau, were married re-
Gently.
Miss Minnie Ramsey committed sui
eide at Belmont by shooting with a
shotgun.
j. j. Summers, of Audrain. has a rifle
which was used to kill Indians seventy
years ago..
One hundred and fifty natives of Ken
lucky registered at Lamar on Ken
lucky Day"
A crazy man is said to be roaming
about Saline county frightening women
and children.
c. W. Volkenning and Miss Cinderella
Lester, of Hannibal, were married the
other evening.
J.. C. Wilson and Lucien Hubbard,
counterfeiters, have been held for trial
at Poplar Bluff.
William Richardson, aged 30, and
Miss Julia Painter, aged 46, were mar
ried at Versailles.
Claude Hornbeck rode on a bicycle
from Willard to La Plata, s miles, in
thirty-two minutes.
Mrs. Tilberry. of Union Grove, Gem
try county. was thrown from n buggy
and severely bruised.
A soldiers reunion, comprising the
blue and the gray, will be held at Gen.
ter October IS and 10.
Judge j. ID. Thompson, aged 50. died
at Eldorado Springs of dropsy. He was
| a prominent odd fellow.
The new creamery at New Hamburg.
Scott county, sold its first pound of
butter at auction for $3.50.
Abner S. Smith, ex-member Of the
legislature, has been elected state
lecturer of the Triple Alliance.
"Evangel' chapel car No. l of the
American Baptist association is travel
ling over the Missouri railroads.
The Missouri state missionary con-
vention of the Christian church was
held at Columbia October s to IL.
Mrs. David Hendricks barn, in Cald-
well county, was struck by lightning
and consumed, with its contents.
Mrs. Cook, the first white child born
in Pike county, was present at the old
settlers reunion at Bowling Green.
Some young ladies of Mexico have
formed a mutual improvement club to
work in literature and embroidering.
A 4-foot vein of coal was struck by a
mining company at Mount Sierra, east
of Warrensburg. 1t was found at a
depth of los feet.
Nearly sixty ex-confederates met at
Thacker's grove, Carthage, and had a
basket picnic, under the auspices of
Jasper county ex-confederates.
A cyclone swept over Hopkins, Noda-
way county about fifteen years ago,
Ill v III thCh 6Ooo u VA
storm v have been maintained.
w. n. Baugh, of Charleston, has be-
gun proceedings to obtain possession
of his 5-year-old daughter, who was
adopted by W. II. Cue two years ago.
A three days session of a foreign mis-
sionary conference, under the auspices
of the synod of Missouri, was held at
Sedalia. Returned missionaries related
their experience.
Fred Jones, enc of the suspected
train robbers, is said to be the lone
highwayman who has been holding up
persons neal Lake Contrary, in the st.
Joseph neighborhood.
Thelocal creditors of Steele Walker,
st. Joseph grocers, have accepted a
proposition % pay fifty cents on the
dollar. Judge Lazarus has gone east
to present the offer to TIE eastern cred
itors.
Silas Boyd. aged 80, a farmer living
5 miles south of Louisiana, during a
moment of dependency, oceasioned
from n long attack of malaria, slashed
his throat with a razcr. Death fol.
lowed in a few hours.
At the synodical conference of the
Presbyterian church, held at Macon,
Mrs. j. A.. Allen, of St. Louis; Miss
Lulu Collins, of Louisiana, and Mrs.
Richardson, of Moberly, were among
the leading workers in the daily ses-
sions.
A second attempt was made the 9TH
er night to rob Leland McElroy, an old
farmer, near Rensselaer,, Rails county.
Two masked robbers went to his home
and assaulted both him and his daugh-
tiers, but did not succeed in securing
any money, although they threatened
all with death. The old nan escaped
from the house and wandered about
the neighborhood in a hslf-demented
condition for several hours. The rob.
bers said they were neighbors. Some
years ago McEiroy was robbed of some
$4,000 by masked robbers. Frank
Whit ecotton and Morgan Maddox were
arrested on suspicion. Maddox was re-
GENTLY acquitted of the charge