The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
THROUGHOUT MISSOURI

Two colored women held up w. 81.
Tracey at Warrensburg and relieved
him of SI7O cash.
The third annual chrysanthemum
show at Sedalia was a fine exhibition
of autumn queens.
A runaway team ran over J. A.
Mitchell, of the Bank of Carthage,
breaking his arm and injuripg his
head.
Secretary of State Lesueur has is
sued certificates of incorporation to the
Cowgirl bank OF Cowgirl; capital stock
80. 600.
Mr.. I. ]. McElroy, a prominent mer-
chant of Independence. and Miss Belle
Hays, of Lexington, were married re-
Gently.
Gov. Stone has received and accepted
the resignation Of G. NJ. Shelly as q
member If the Kansas City board of
police commissioners.
Wallace G. Miller, clerk in Justice
Krueger's court, Kansas City, accused
of election frauds, was found guilty
and sentenced to two years in the peni-
Tertiary.
Gov. Stone has issued a military or
der assigning Capt. George H. Roach,
Seventh United States infantry, as as
sistant inspector-general of the state
militia.
The attendance during the free poul-
try show at Scdalia, under the aus
pieces of the Sedalia Poultry club, was.
large. More than $50 chickens were on
exhibition.
Mr.. W. L. Boyer, state Baptist home.
missions agent, and Mrs. Laura A. Let
terman were married at Cyrene. and
on arriving at Marshall were rendered
a reception by the Baptist ladies.
At st. Joseph Frank Fox, alias sly
Dick" was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for two years on a charge of high
way robbery. lie was a member of
the Pat Grove gang of train robbers
Unless some other electric light COM
pany other than the one now having
the contract makes bids for lighting
the town, it is thought that the streets
Of Kansas City will again be lighted
by gas.
ron a source close in touch with
the Tinsley Tobacco Co., of Louisiana,
it is earned that the rumors of its alb
sortiOn by the American Tobacco Co.
and the closing of the plant are who'll
ly without foundation.
An old colored woman named Painter.
was seriously injured at De Soto. Her
daughter was sweeping, and in doing
so knocked down an old shotgun, which
was discharged, blowing off both the
old woman's knee-caps.
The jury ~empaneled for an inquest
over the body of Cy Summers at Bour-
bon, Crawford county, returned q YER
dict that the deceased came to his
death by a blow from an iron bar in
the hands of William Turner.
One hundred retail druggists of
Kansas City, following out the plans
recommended by the National Drug
gists' association, nave formed a stock
company to manufacture all proprie--
tary remedies consumed by the local
trade.
Mrs. VIM. McClanahan, wife OF the
mayor of Milan. was probably fatally
shot by her 3-year-old son. To quiet
him she gave him al old revolver to,
play with. In playing with it he dis
charged it, the ball striking his mother
in the side.
Mandamus proceedings were insti-
tuted to compel the county clerk of
Montgomery county to certify to the
last election returns, leaving out Wells
vile precinct on account of alleged
fraud. The proceedings were thrown
out of court, and the county seat re-
mains at Danville.
The cyclone that recently struck the
gambling fraternity in Louisiana, in
shape of the exposure made by Deputy
Sheriff Charles ID. Edwards, who
dropped SAG in the tigers lair. has
caused a general exodus of many of its
members. The grand jury seems to
have accelerated the speed in their
efforts to shake the dust of ''Old Pike"
At an adjourned term Of the Scott
county circuit court David Matnev
pleaded not guilty to murder in the
first degree, as charged in the indict-
ment. He is the man who shot and
killed Mont P. Wade, adeputy internal
revenue collector, on the night of Oc-
tober 90. A continuance wa granted
till the regular April term Of court.
Robert Worley, a farmer about 40.
miles south of Dexter, was called to
his door the other night by a man
whose name is said to be Early and
three companions and taken away.
The next day his disemboweled bodv.
was found hanging to u tree. 1t ap-
pears that Worley and Early had a
personal encounter, and Early was
Train RoEber Pat Grove pleaded
to the charge of jail-breakiue
at st. Joseph the other day, after he
had already entered a plea of not.
Sentence can not be passed
until he has been tried for the crime of.
train robbery, which is set for Deem
Der 4. Ii Grove is convicted of train
robbery his sentence in the jail-break-
ing case will be only six months in
jail, but should he establish his inro-
of that crime he nay consider
lucky if he gets off with less
than three years for Jail breaking. In
an application for a continuance Grove
laid all the blame for the Jail breaking
on dead men.
A marriage that was solemnized at
Versailles recently. has much of the
romantic about it The groom ia