The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-23
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Miss Julia Scott, of Hannibal, were
married recently.
Benjamin F. Smiley, of Lincoln
county, was married to Miss Edna
Dewey, of Louisiana.
Several prominent st. Joseph CMO.)
brokers have been arrested charged
with violating the state bucket shop
law.
Burglars entered the Racket store on
North Main street, Carthage, the other
night. and carried away $500 worth of
jewelry.
Gov. Stone has appointed Charles A.
Ellis inspector of oils for the city of
Maryville for a term of two years from
October 81, 1895.
The attorneys of DR.. Hearne and.
wife, who are charged with the muir
der of Amos j. Stillwell, recently took
dispositions at Hannibal.
Miss Emma IIiner and Adolph
Boeckler, vice-president and secretary
of the Boeckler Lumber Co. of st.
Louis, were married at Mexico re-
Gently.
Since the recent rains the wheat
planted this fall in the vicinity of Mar
shall, and supposed to be dead, has
come out nicely, and now promises a
good start.
st. Joseph is to have a rev S250,OO 0
hotel. L. a. Whitney, who represents
a syndicate of Milwaukee capitalists,
has beer there for some time arrang-
ing for its erection.
At Louisiana the Calvary Episcopal
branch of the Woman's Auxiliary is
preparing a box of hospital supplies
and clothing for the new hospital at
South McAlester, l. Z.
Mike Earl, aged 16. who resided with
his mother at co. South Broadway, st.
Louis, became entangled with the
shafting in the works of the Crescent
Color Co.. and was literally battered to
pieces against the ceiling, wall and
floor.
David S. Thomas, for many years
baggage-master in the union depot in
st. Joseph, was found guilty the other
day of defrauding the Park State bank
out of $500 on a forged check. and sem
fenced to the penitentiary for five
years.
The comptroller of the currency at
Washington has declared n third divi-
dend of ) per cent. in favor of the
creditors of the National Bank of
Kansas City, making in all IS per eent.
on claims proved, amounting tie SS92,-
243. So.
The jury commissioner of 81. Louis
reports 80, 35s men in the city qualified
to serve as jurors. There are 1862
exempt on account of their professions,
not being citizens and physically dis
abled. There are 40. 900 exempt on ac-
count of ignorance and being unable to
read English.
One of the largest contracts for
structural steel awarded in the south
west this, season, says a Pittsburgh
pa dispatch, has been secured by the
Carnegie Steel Co. The order calls for
500 tons of beams and angles for the
big tobacco manufacturing plant to be
built in st. Louis by Liggett & Myers.
At st. Joseph the jury in the case of
William Mercer returned a verdict of
mot guilty" Mercer was last Decem-
Der hunting for a man named Otto
Thersen, when he met Tracy. He
drew his revolver to show Tracy how
it worked, when the Weapon was dis
charged and Tracy was instantly
killed.
Suit has been entered against the
Wells-Fargo and Pacific express COM
panies at Carthage for SlO,O 600 damages |
by Miss Jennie Chandler. II milliner,
on account of injuries sustained Octo-
Der l6, on which date Il runaway oc-
CURED from which she received in
%juries. The horses belonged to the de-
PENDANTS.
WIN. z. Frogg, the Oldest man in
Buchanan county, died at his resi-
dence, 5 miles east of St Joseph, re-
Gently. Mr.. Frogg was 96, and had
lived in buchanan county for fifty
seven years. A widow and six chill
dren survive him. lie was known to
every pioneer resident in northwest
Missouri.
Four men charged with stealing ten
heifers from a pasture ut Noonan, !
Rails county, the property of Judge
David c. Smith, were given a'prelimi-
nary trial at New London. job John
son, Joe Dowell and John DowelI
were held to await the action of the
grand jury, the former on $500 bond
and the latter two on $500 each. Jim
Livers was discharged.
The farmers institute held it's an
nual meeting at Sarcoxie the other
day. DIR. Hopkins gave an address of
welcome. J. \. Taylor, of the Indian
territory, gave 4 talk on the subject:
"From an Adventurer in a New Coun-
try" Mayor Mckinney of Pierce City
recommended diversity of crops. and
dwelt upon superiority of American
wheat for foreign markets.
A delegate meeting OF Grand Army
of the Republic posts of central Mis-
souri, was held at Sedalia for the pur-
pose of perfecting the organization of
the Central Missouri Veterans a~ssocia-
ton. Delegates were present from
Green Ridge, Lamonte, Windsor,
Smithton, Lincoln, Warsaw and other
towns. a constitution and bylaws
were adopted and the preliminary
taken to hold a big encampmeat
next summer.
Jas. a.. Speaker, aged sc, of Buckner,
Jackson county, and Mrs. Malinda
Miles, aged ~, of Glens Falls, n. Y,
were married recently by a justice at