The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-14
MISSOURI

CnrlSJldn cnurcn, nave been very sue
c~essful, many being brought to repent
ance.
Gov. Stone has appointed French
Strother school commissioner of Au-
drain county, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of c. j. Settle.
DIR. Burton L. Thorpe, of Billings,
and Miss Roberta Scott, of Gallatin,
were married at the Baptist church,
in Gallatin, 4 few days ago, DIR. Pope
Yeamau officiating.
Fanny Phillips, daughter of Judge
]. C. Phillips, of Butler, took Rough
on Rats" and died from the effects.
She was 10 years old. Her parents Oh
jected to her marrying.
Clarence 7. Evans, a deaf mute,
aged %. wa struck by a train on the
st. Louis, Keolluk & Northwestern
about a mile above Hannibal and in
stantly killed. The deceased resided
in Hannibal with his parents.
A special election held at Holden to
decide whether the city charter should
be changed from a village to that of a
third-ciass city, resulted in favor of
the latter proposition, the vote stand
ing 223 for and 81 against. Less than
half the vote was polled.
One of the attractive exhibits at the
meeting of the State Horticultural So
ciety ut Neosho was an orange tree
full of oranges. The tree is Il Neosho
product, belonging to Mrs. Charles
Lewis, is seventeen years Did, and this
is the fifteenth crop Of fruit. The
range are of fair size and well coll
ored.
Congressman Bartholdt has intro
duced Il bill to enable the secretary of
war to continue the reconstruction of
the military post at Jefferson barracks,
St. Louis. 1t provides that $500, 0O00
be appropriated. MIR. Bartholdt has
received assurances that the Fifty
fourth congress will be more liberal
toward the post.
A special election was held in Cole
county the other day to vote on 4 prop
Osition to issue $4,000 of ! per cent.
bonds for the purpose of building Il
new courthouse. Two-thirds of all the
votes east We're necessary to carry the
lA'DoSlAl'bs dlu lIlCI NtiC SCNlitht
OF the 1,G44 votes cast in jefferson City
only 10 We're against.
Rollin McNama, who has been
brought into prominence lately by the
number of times he has been arrested
on the charge of swindling, was held
in default of $500 bail at Mexico on
the charge Of having defrauded Bar
nnu ENnnnnunl1 1f faf,-In,-r ont
OF over 81, 900 worth of cattle. McNama
could not find n bondsman, and he was
remanded to jail.
The secretary of the treasury at
Washington has sent n fitting letter
to the widow of Assistant Comptroller
Mansur, conveying to her a beautiful
volume of the embossed resolutions
department at the time of Col. Man
sur's death. The volume is bound in
handsome and contains, be-
sides the beautifully engrossed resolu-
tions, a large picture of Col. Mansur.
The state board of railway and ware
house commissioners the other day
uSde an order requiring the Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. to
deliver grain shipped over it's lines
destined TO elevators on the tracks of
the Chicago Great Western, at st
Joseph. For some reason, not appa-
the Rock Island refused to deliv-
the grain, which is a violation of
the statutes regulating the inter-
change of traffic and the orders of the
board issued on that point about L
year ago.
Senator CockreIl has undertaken to
help the members of the various Mis- .
souri, militia organizations get pay for
the horses and equipments they lost
the civil war. BY an agreement
between President Lincoln and Gov. !
in November, 1861, it was ar
that the militia should be
called out whenever needed for service
in the state to help in preventing con
raids and suppressing the
Many of the members fur
nishcd their own arms, horses and
and lost them through no
of their own. =.
Representative BarthOIdt put in his
bill the other day for the appointment
IF a commission to investigate the pol
.ution of water supplies where such
pollution affects or threatens to affect
he sanitary condition of the people of
more than one state. This is the bill
if enacted, will lead to a very
thorough inquiry of the probable effect
IF the big Chicago drainage canal upon
he water of the Illinois and Missis-
'ippi rivers. 1t provides for three COM
n~issiOners, to be appointed by the pres
dent, to serve for SO a day and ex-
The commission is to report
% congress the results Of the investi-
TIE annual meeting of the State
Horticultural society was held at Ne
'sho. Among the interesting papers
cad was one by ]. NJ. Purdie, of Neo-
.ho, on "How to Take Care of Apples"
'Ir. Purdie showed by his simple meth
ID of constructing cold storage houses
hat there was no use of any great ex-
,ense. Frank Hammond, of Amoret,
me of the new orchard towns on the
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf rail-
Dad. read a paper on The Prepare
ion of Ground and Planting an Or
hard after which a general discus
ion on the question was held. Secre-
AIRY Goodman read a paper prepared