The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-15
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SchOOl Tor the bllnd. vice D.. L. hcnodIl
resigned.
i Hog cholera is raging in portions OF
Pettis county, and especially in the
vicinity of Longwood. John R. Her
nearly 100 head. and others have lost
from five to twenty head each. In the
Stokely neighborhood many animals
have also died, but the disease is now
under control there.
The state executive committee of the
Congregational Home Nilsson society
met at the Congregational church, Sc
dalia, the object of the meeting being
to extend mission work in Missouri.
Reports were presented showing what
was accomplished during the past
twelve months, and plans were dis
cussed for future work.
George d. Sherwin, a well-known at
torney of Kansas City, died from the
effects of a self-administered overdose
of morphine, taken as his relatives
claim, to alleviate suffering due to
asthma. Sherwin was 81 years old,
had been an old practitioner in Kansas
City, and was at n time solicitor for
the r. G.. Dun Mercantile Co.
A. Il. Fouts, a farmer, who lived 4
miles west of Thompson, Audrain
county. killed himself by blowing off
his head with a shotgun. He placed
the muzzle of the gun to his left ear
and discharged both barrels with a
stick. Fouts left a note to his ions re-
garding the management of the farm,
but gave no cause for the deed.
T. A. Affect was found dead in a
pasture adjoining Boliver. The cir
cumstances indicate suicide, the body
being found in a spring. Financial
trouble is supposed to be the cause.
Affect had been circuit clerk of Polk
county for eight years, and was re-
elected last month. He was prominent
in church and social circles and in
masonic and other fraternities.
The other night burglars effected an
entrance into the bank of Marceline
through a window. drilled a hole along
side the combination ir the vault door,
jammed in the tongue of the lock and
introduced nitro-glycerine into the
safe, which, when exploded. tore the
door off. They damaged, but did not
open, the money chest, containing
$1,000. The bank safe and vault were
completely demolished. but no money
secured. A reward of $50 has been
Offered for the craftsmen.
The case Of the State VS.. Alva C.
Ross, wherein the defendant was on
trial, charged with being an accom-
plice of VIM. P. Taylor in the burning
of Gibson's lumber and implement
building in Browning, Linn county,
some time ago. after a long and bitter
trial, went to the jury, which returned
a verdict of guilty, and fixed his pun
ishment at five years in the peniten-
tiary. Ross was n member of the Tay-
lor gang. of Browning, which ter
rorized Linn and Sullivan counties for
years.
The Ease of J. A. Bovard, receiver,
against Thomas Il. j. Jones and others,
of Bevier, was dismissed in the United
States district court at Hannibal. Jones
and twelve other coal miners were ar
rested and brought for trial before the
federal court On a charge of i%ntimidat-
ing and interfering with scab workmen
at the LOOMS coal mines during the
strike a year ago.. The case had been
continued from time to time Upon
promise of good behavior, and as there
were no more outbreaks or trouble at
the mines it was finally dismissed.
Miss Willie Crigler, daughter of
Sheriff George c. Crigler, and Waite
Z. Swain, were married in Fayette at
2 o'clock the other morning. SWANS
attentions had been objected to by
Sheriff Crigler. There had been pre-
vious attempts made by the lovers to
elude parental vigilance. So when
Miss Willie was missing at Z p. N.
Sheriff Crigler and son Roy, secured
the town, and finally located her at
DIR. A. w. M~oore's. The father told
Swain that he would interpose no fur
ther objection, and wrote an order for
the license, Miss Willie being only II.
License were procured. a minister
summoned from bed, and the marriage
took place.
Capt. r. T. Hawkins. deputy col
lector of internal evenue at Kansas
City, received a box of red, ripe and
juicy apples the other day, a present
from George Barker of Weston, No.,
the first consignment of the regular
fall supply. In 4 few days" said
Capt. Hawkins, ''our hickory nuts,
cider and other things, such as we
had when we were boys. will begin to
come in. Then we old fellows will get
together somewhere, build an old log
fire and hold a 'swa-roo.' l think,
though" he concluded, looking mourn
fully at the box that unless we put
that box in a vault, we will have to
get another supply of apples"
At Kansas City, William Huke, IS
years of age, formerly a clerk for the
Buford & George Implement Co., was
taken from his cell, where he is await
ing trial for grand larceny from his
employers, and was welded to Miss
Minnie Brown. aged 16, whom he has
known since childhood. The girl, who
is quite pretty. said she wished to en-
phasize her belief in his innocence by
becoming his wife, even while he was
behind the bars. When Huke was
brought from his cell he vas overjoyed
at meeting his bride. She stood by his
side and Justice Kruger pronounced