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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
Its Friends Urged to Stand True, and WorI
For Its Best Interests.

Its Friends Urged to Stand True, and Work
For Its Best Interests.
President r. II. Jesse of the state
university, Columbia, is sending out a
letter to friends of the institution,
from which the following extracts are.
taken:
My DEAR SIR: We hope hat with
true loyalty to your Alma Mater, you
will try faithfully to send us for next
fall as many students as possible. We.
want. you know, only those who have
good moral character, ability to learn,
determination to work. and sufficient
attainments to enter. But we would
like to have next fall every student in
Missouri that a meet all four of
these qualifications. Please send as
many as you possibly can.
The professor of physical culture, g.
W. Cutler, NJ. d., is busy getting ready
the gymnasium, bath rooms and ath-
letic grounds. There will be a GYM
nasium for men, and one on the second
ioor for women About 81. 900 will be
spent on the equipment of the gym
nasium and athletic grounds. In spite
of the lack of a separate building the
gymnasium will be among the best in
the state, and the athletic grounds
will be better than can be found in any
state adjacent to the state of Missouri.
The director is a doctor of medicine.
an athlete and a trainer of expert
ence. The athletic association will
have, besides, a special trainer for
football.
In the medical department two labor
atories have been furnished, at an ex-
pense of several thousands of dollars.
one for physiology, under DIR. Como
way, and one for bacteriology, under
DIR. Graham. Excellent rooms have
been reserved for the.e laboratories in
the Biological building. Four of the
best rooms on the first floor of the new
Academic hall have been assigned to
DR.. Moss and DR.. McAlester. The old
Medical building will be used entirely
for anatomy. a thousand dollars have
been spent recently for medical books
and journals.
The contract has been let for provid-
ing the boarding club for students
with plumbing and steam heat. The
bathroom will be provided with tubs.
and shower baths. The kitchen viii
be furnished anew with appliances fo.
cooking by steam and by fire.
The five rooms, including a bath
room, reserved for the private use OF
the young women of the university
have been furnished beautifully and
every visitor to Columbia now goes to-
see them.
We are now buying in Europe a con-
siderable collection for the Museor Of
Classical Archaeology. This will be q
new and attractive addition.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
LATER.

IHE Gumry hotel on Lawrence, be-
tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets, in Denver, Col, was COM
pletely demolished by an explosion
shortly after 10 o'clock on the morn
ing of h 10Th. The wreck soon after
took fire, and the work of rescuing
the bodies of the killed and the in
Jured was further retarded by fear of
tottering walls. 1t is estimated that
OF the seventy-five persons thought
to have been in the hotel forty or fifty
persisted.
The now famous Holmes castle" at
SiXty-third and Wallace streets, Chi
cago, was attacked by fire-believed to
have been of incendiary original
midnight of the 18th, and was almost
totally destroyed, together with what
ever evidence it might yet have con-
tanned relative to the crimes commit
ted there. Loss to building and ten
ants, about SOS, 900.
The associated banks of New York
city, in their statement for the week
the 18th, showed the following
changes: Reserve, increase, 50, 226, 100:
loans, increase, S999, 100; specie, in
crease. S90s, 700: legal tenders, in
crease. IS, 003, 900; deposits, increase,
So, SAG, 900; circulation, increase, SSl, 800.
FROM present indications it looks as
though advantage was being taken of
the dispatch of large bodies of troops
from Spain to Cuba to inaugurate an
active movement looking to the over
throw of the monarchy and the estab-
hshment of a Spanish republic.
1T is the intention of the duke of
Marlborough to leave London for a
visit to the United States in the course
OF a few weeks to see the country, for
which he entertains great admiration,
winch his stepmother, now Lady Will
liam B~eresford, encourages.
The grand jury at Hannibal, Mo-,
on the 18th, returned an Indictment
against DR.. and Mrs. Hearne. charging
the wilful murder of Amos Stillweli.
the former husband of Mrs. Hearne.
The couple were arrested and taken to
Palmyra and lodged in jail.
TIE jury in the case of DR.. Arthur
Duestrow, on trial at Union. No. for
the murder of his wife in St. Louis,
failed to agree upon n verdict. and
were discharged by Judge Hirzel late
on the night of the nth.
STATE SENATOR CHARLES A. PORTER,
OF Pennsylvania, has entered suit
against the Philadelphia Inquirer for
500, 600 damages for alleged libel.
On the 18th the associated banks of
New York city held Sal, 266, s75 in ex-
cess Of the requirements of the 25-
percent. rule.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24

At 10 o'clock on the morning of July
% Mrs. ]. w. Cain, IS years old, the
wife of a young farmer. who had been
married only two months, was alone
at her home. Divers. who lived IL
miles distant, entered tine house ur-
observed. y terrific struggle ensued,
but Divers succeeded in binding
the unfortunate woman with Il rope,
around her neck and tied to her right
hand. He then accomplished his vile
purpose, but she continued to fight
him, and in order to quiet her. and at
the same time shield himself, he cut
her throat repeatedly, until the blood
poured from eight CHASTITY gashes.
He then went to work for a farmer
living only . miles away. He
was captured at . o'clock in
the afternoon with evidences of
his crime upon him. An effort was
made to lynch the negro, but Sheriff
w. II. Windsor succeeded in getting
him away, and hurried him from one
LOWD 10 another 10 dVOlU the MODS
which collected. Finally. on the fol-
lowing Saturday, be was taken to st.
Louis from Hannibal. After confessing
his crime the negro begged that he be
allowed to meet death in the st. Louis
Jail, experimenting a terrible fate
should he be taken back to Fulton.
Divers acknowledged the murder.
but denied the other crime. He said
he did not intend to kill the woman.
but did so in the fight she made when
he tried to rob her of a gold ring she
wore. He seemed greatly relieved to
be in the st. Louis Jail, as he fully real
lied the danger he had escaped.
One of Divers brothers has served in
the penitentiary for assaulting n wo-
man, and another brother is still in
confinement for a similar crime. About
three years ago Divers assaulted q
colored girl near Fulton. and was in
dicteG for it, but before the case came
to t-ia! the prosecuting Witness died.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES.

a GLOW worm has a brush attached
to its tail, because il is necessary that
the back be kept clean in order to show
its light.
THE song of the English male sky
lark is best when the female is OF the
eggs. At such times he scars to great
heights and sings r~apturously.
One of the most remarkable features
of earthquake pulsations is their great
duration. The originating earthquake
may last but a few seconds, while the
ground at a distance may rock gently
through a small angle for hours.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
John X. Barrett.

John r. Barrett, a prominent mason
and A. O.. U. W., a native of New York,
but a resident of Sedalia since 1854.
died recently, aged 81.
Mr.. Barrett was one Of the original directors
Of the LebO & NeOshO Railway Co, and 1t was
largely through his efforts that the SeGalia.
Warsaw x Southern railway. a ~narrow-guare
line. 80 miles in length, extending south to
Warsaw, was built. He was also one OF the
original stockholders and directors in the First
national bank Of Scdalia. which failed in Nav.
1884,. With the suspension Of the bank. Mr.
Barrett'S health gave way. and he has since
been a victim OF Bright'S disease. He owned
20 acres CT land within the corporate limits.
and it is upon property given by him that the
proposed capitol building Is to be erected. Mr..
Barrett leaves a widow, and two children by
his first wife
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
A MISSOURI LYNCHING.
Emmett Divers Hanged by a Mob
Near Fulton
the Murder of Mrs j. W. Cain-Ths
sheriff ~Overpowered and His Pris
oner Taken and Swung From
"a Bridge Beam.

FULTON, Mo-, Aug. 15.-The people
OF this community have taken the law
into their own hands, and the corpse
of h negro outrager and murderer,
Emmett Divers, IS dangling from
bridge near Fulton.
The lynching took place at l o'clock
this morning.
Divers was met on the road, as he
was being taken here from St. Louis
for trial, by Il mob of determined men,
who dragged him by force from the
custody of the sheriff. A rope was
quickly placed around his neck, and
he was hanged from the middle span
of a high bridge about 9 miles east of
here.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
For University Students.

A handsome greenhouse will be
erected IN the state university
grounds, Columbia.
II will be divided into three compartments
TO represent cold. temperate ana hot climates.
The compartment in the center will be much
larger and higher than the others. that it may
be used for growing palms ana other large
tropical plants. The foundation will be OF
stone, with walls of brick and glass. The pur-
pose of the building is for experiments in hor-
ticu!tGre and the instruction Of the botanical!
students OF the university. Work is to begin
at once, as the building is to be completed by
November !.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24

Mrs. Caroline Freimuth, quite aged,
2G02 Papin street, st. Louis, died from
the effects of being struck on the head
with a brick, thrown from Il crowd of
boys who were throwing stones at
oneanother. She was sitting in her
yard in the evening with her husband.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24

The King HOtu festivities in st.
Louis-the parade of the Funny Eel
lows"-will occur in st. Louis Septem-
Der 2s. The railroads will sell tickets
for one fare for the round trip within
$50 miles of st. Louis. Tickets good
till September 30.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24

The post Office at Old Franklin, How
ard county, kept in a general merchan-
disc store, was robbed at an early hour
a few mornings since. The thieves Sc
cured about $50 worth of postage
stamps, n few dollars in cash and car
ried off goods, the value of which is not
known.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24

Ex-senator Waller YOung's barbecue
1T Easton, buchanan county, was at
tended by 5000 persons, and was con-
sidcred the most successful event of
the kind ever held in that section.
Two corn-fed oxen and several grass
fed sheep were served to the crowd.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
WEALTH.

Amount of Taxable Property In the Varf-
Gus Counties of the State--It Reaches .
Total of Over One Thousand Millions
State Auditor ]. NJ. Seibert has fur
nished the press a statement of the
taxable property in each county of the,
state. This includes real estate and
personal property and pro rata of rail-
road valuations due each county. Fol-
lowing is the list:
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24

A band Of counterfeiters is supposed
to be working in Macon and Adair
counties, and a number of bad dollars
and halves are in circulation.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
For the Confederate Home.

The Daughters of the Confederacy at
Platt City camp gave a dinner and sup
per, and cleared $500 for the benefit of
the Confederate home, at Higginsville.
This will be SfS5 sem from Platt coun-
ty to the home this year.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
May BE Happy Yet.

Mrs. Gertie Stewart, of Kansas City,
aged 81, swallowed morphine because
her lover would not marry her. Her
life was saved.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24

Henry Collier, quite wealthy, and a
pioneer of Pettis county, has been adj
judged OF unsound mind, and a
guardian appointed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
Saws He KIIled Pete MorrI,.e,

Airport Andrews has made a confess
sion, in st. Louis, that he, and not
Maud Lewis, shot and killed State
Senator Pete Morrissey. lie says he
shot in self-defense.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
Looked Like a slauchter-Pen.

W. NJ. Thomson was fatally stabbed
and 7. NJ. Cullom and Bob Shannon
badly injured in a saloon fight in Kan
sas City. The place looked like a
slaughter-pen.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
Masonic Temple of ChIllicothe.

The cornerstone of the Masonic tenn
pie, Il structure that will cost $50, 900
when completed and furnished, was
laid at Chillicothe the other day by the
Masonic fraternity of Livingston and
adjoining counties.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24

A small child of W. J. Galbraith,
1916 Locust street, Kansas City. drank
carbolic acid the other day, and died
in great agony.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
The Deadly Folding Bed.

Michael Crispin was paralyzed by
being shut Up in Il folding bed at Rich
mond, the other evening, and died in
A short time.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
Will Swear Allegiance to Mexico.

James C. Thompson, the fugitive
cashier of the First national bank of
Sedalia, who fled to Mexico, says he
will become a citizen of that country.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24

James Pollard, colOred, who killed
Joseph Irwin in st. JOSEPH, was cap
tured in DeKalb county by John Davis,
q farmer.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-05
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

The board of penitentiary commits
sioners NESTS tomorrow.
Reserved seats for the Divide Musin
concert are on sale at Ireland's.
Remember the horticultural fair meet.
ing at $3.50 tomorrow afternoon at the
Board of Trade rooms.
Jack Blanchard is doing we'll with his
new blacksmith and machine shop on the
lower end of Frisco street.
Neither the city council nor the board
of education transacted any business last
evening on account of absence of quo
rum.
If you have any big red apples, or yell
low or streaked ones, which you wish to
have classified and named, take them to
the Board of Trade rooms at $3.50 to-mor-
row.
A film of snow fell in the city last night
but the peoples ont of doors are still in
bloom and so are the "mums.' In the
Santa Fe range snow has fallen for forty
eight hours.
H. B. Cartwright & Bro. have leased the
room formerly occupied by Conway and
is storing there superior lot of apples
and pears. He has about 10000 pounds
of the former and 1000 pounds of the lat
ter now in place.
No word is yet at hand from Supt. Hur-
ley about that improved mail and passen-
ger service in and ont of Santa Fe. Hotel
and other business men say that the A., 7.
4 s. F. will certainly not fail to take note
of the protests that have gone in over the
present arrangement.
"Ycur paper has been recommended to
US as an advertising medium. Please in
sert the enclosed four-inch advertisement
and send US your paper daily"-this is
the order from the Universal Watch d
Jewelry company, Chicago, which came
to-day to the New MEXICAN, the best ad-
vertising medium in the southwest.
Chas. Wagner, the hustler, is at the
front with new advertisement to-day.
he is just in receipt of car load of the
choicest chinaware, and also carload of
ranges, cooking and heating stoves, while
his display of cut-glass ware, lamps, etc,
can not be excelled in the west. He says
these goods will 60 at prices calculated
to make your head swim.
Mr.. VIM. NJ. Berger is in receipt of
telegram from Ration announcing the
sudden death, as a result of an accident,
of Charlie, the eldest son of Rev. G. I.
Mills, formerly pastor of the NJ. E. church
of this city. The many friends of Rev.
and Mrs. Mills will learn of their affection
with sincere regret and join with the
NEW MEx1oAN in extending their heartfelt
sympathy.
Citizens are reminded that the New
MEXICAN has the best of facilities for
turning out quickly and at . small mar
gin of profit all styles of job work, letter
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-05
THOROUGHBRED FOWLS.
Free Exhibition of Beautiful BlOOded
Chickens and Ducks in Santa Fe-
A Bird" of An Affair.

The poultry show blossomed out in full
glory promptly at the scheduled hour of
8 O'Clock this morning, in one of the
store rooms on the east side of the plaza.
1t was strictly "a bird" of an affair and
has been the center of attraction during
the day. Hundreds of ladies and gentle
men have visited it "without money and
without price" and all have come away
praising both the beauty of the birds
and the enterprise of the exhibitors.
The show consisted of eighteen varie-
ties of thoroughbred chickens and ducks
in eighteen different wire cages made ex-
pressly for the purpose. Among the ex-
hibitors were DR.. j. H. Sloan, H. B. Her
sey, Mrs. Keller, Capt. j. R. Hudson and
William Schnspple.
Appended is list of the several cages:
Four Barred Plymouth Rocks; three White
Wyandottes; six Notified Houdans in two
cages; six Buff Cochins; ten Black Min
orcas; two Silver Wyandottes; two White
Plymouth Rocks; three Partridge Co.
chins, five months old; three Partridge
Cochins, one year and a half old; two
Black Hamburgs; three White Leghorns;
two Black Javas; three Silver Grey Dork-
ings; five Black Langshans; three Buff
Cochins; three Barred Plymouth Rocks;
three Brown Leghorns; three White
Crested Black Polish; three magnificent
Pekin Ducks.
Although many larger poultry exhibits
have been made, it is doubtful if finer
one was ever seen in the west than that
which will close in Santa Fe at s O'Clock
this afternoon. Where every bird was as
perfect specimen of it's kind as sun
shine, pure air and excellent care will
produce, comparisons would be out of
place, and the NEW MEXICAN feels that it
need add nothing more than an express
sion of hope that this may prove merely
the initial number of series of thorough
bred poultry shows in the capital city.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-05
GETTING RID OF DRONES
True Significance of the Sale Of the
Pecos Irrigation COmpany's
Stock and Bonds.

On sub ject that has attracted much
attention here at the capital and among
the business men throughout the terri
tory the Roswell Record says:
1.-THE International Trust company,
Pledge in trust, has advertised all the
property and securities of the Peoos COM
pany for sale, to take place at Colorado
Springs, Colo, on the Goth of the present
month. This would look at first blush
like the Pecos company was in bad way
financially, but in reality it is the most
hopeful sign that has come under our OBJ
servation. The Pecos company is COM
posed Of too many small stock holders,
and has become unwieldly by reason of
numbers. Internal dissentions have
arisen, and those who took stock with the
expectation of doubling their money in
year, being disappointed, have refused
to pay their assessments, and two or
three men have had to carry the concern
from its incipiency until now it is self
sustaining. These stockholders who
have been putting up are tired, and have
demanded sale of the property. They
will doubtless be the purchasers, and it il
certain that, if they are, they will push
development in all departments. The
sale lie simply the outcome of deter
mination on the part Of the active men,
bers Of the company to get rid of the
drones, and it will be the best thing for
the material interests of the valley that
could OCCUR"
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-11-05
BENEDICT KAHN DEAD.
Santa Fe Suffers the Loss of One of
Its Oldest and Most Respected
Business Men.

Benedict Kahn, whose approaching
death of acute softening of the brain was
recorded in these columns last evening.
passed away at 1920 O'Clock this morn
ing. He had been sufferer from what
was called rheumatism for forty five or
fifty days, but not until within few days
was his case considered to be critical by
his family and friends. He was uncon-
scious during the last twenty-four hours
of his life.
The deceased was born in Goddel-
sheim, Waldeck, Germany, fortyseven
years ago, and came to the United States
at the age of II years. He was cigar
maker by trade and worked for several
years at that occupation in New York
and st. Louis before coming further
west.
He settled in Santa Fe 1876 and en-
gagged in the cigar and tobacco business in
small way, carrying on cigar factory
in connection Herewith for several years.
Since then he has been closely identified
with the business growth of Santa Fe.
His patient industry, untiagging devo-
ton to business and honorable methods
were so we'll rewarded that he was in time
able to abandon the cigar making feature
of his store and to engage in the whole
sale liquor and tobacco business.
In 1880 he replaced the one story
adobe on the south side of the plaza,
where he first did business, with beauti-
full two story brick block, and enlarged
his stock to correspond with his larger
and more suitable quarters. He was
truly one of Santa Fe's best citizens,
whose word was as good as his bond. He
was singularly quiet and unobtrusive,
but those who knew him best eagerly tes.
tify to his good qualities and say that he
did many good deeds in secret.
In 1883 he returned to Germany, and,
on December 8, of that year, married one
who had been his playmate in youth.
Two beautiful children, boy and girl,
are the fruit of that happy union. He
has brother living at Chicago and an
other in New York. The sadly bereaved
widow and orphans and brothers in dis
tant cities have the sympathy of all IN
this trying hour.
In 1879, the deceased was raised a
Master Mason and was subsequently ad-
vanced to the Royal Arch degree and has
since plentifully proved himself to the
craft worthy and we'll qualified" The
Masons will have charge of the funeral,
which will probably occur on Thursday.