The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
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Brookield.
The Brookfeld opera house new
boasts of 200 opera chairs.
j. w. Dodd and Miss Della n. Rush
were married at Hannibal.
There are sixty-four girls in the state
industrial home at Chillicothe.
William L. Hearne, formerly a resi-
dent of Hannibal, died at Wheeling, W.
Va.
The owner of a 355-acre farm near
Clinton recently refused $3.50 cash
per acre.
Young Walter Perkins, of Troy, at
tempted suicide by morphine at the
Lindell hotel, st. Louis.
Daniel Holland Rugged his wife so
af~fectionately upon his arrival at Kan
sas City that he broke three OF her
ribs.
The good people of Lexington are
getting ready to shell out si50.OOO to
bridge the Missouri river in proper
shape.
Fire destroyed Wampler's general,
merchandise store at Valley City, Jack
son county. Loss, $4,000; Insurance..
81, 700.
Missouri has a right to join in the
Trilby case. Nelson Kneass, an actor,
who made the song ben Bolt" famous,
is buried in Chilicothe.
During the past two years Division
No. 2 of the supreme court has dis
posed of 221 cases. OF this number172
were decided in favor of the state and
40 for defendants.
A twin census will be taken at Mar
shall, and if the number is as large as
has been reported n challenge will be
issued to the world to match it in "hu.
man pr~oliicness."
A year has elapsed since Arthur
Duestrow killed his wife and babe in
st. Louis, and thanks to the efforts OF
astute lawyers he is no nearer the gal
lows now than he was then.
Coroner Warth was called to Panama,
in the northern partof Vernon county,
the other day, 10 hold an inquest upon
the body of Philip Hammond, a miner,
who was killed in mine No. Z by fall
ing slate.
At st. Louis, in the suit of Rehr-
mann versus Weyl to ecove damages
for the alienation of Mrs. Rehrmann's
affections, the jury returned a verdict
for the plaintiff, assessing damages at
one cent.
Judge Roy held a special term of cir
cult court in Paris for the purpose of
trying Charles Burnett, who shot and
killed a hotel clerk on the streets of
Paris last June. The dead man was
named John Kirsh, and came from
Ohio.
One of the greatest revivals ever held
in Monet is in progress at the NJ. E.
church. The church is filed to over
flowing every night. and quite a num-
Der have been converted. 1t is a union
revival meeting, conducted by Rev. DIR.
McClung, Presbyterian; Rev. Farley,
Methodist: Rev. Jarvis. South Method
list; Rev. Churchill, Christian, and Rev.
Barkholder, Baptist.
There were seven firemen injured
during the stubborn conflagration at
the creamery package mandatory in
Kansas City, but their associates con-
tinued at their posts through the cold
and in the face Of the danger to the
end. The fire laddies of Kansas City
made a glorious record of the occasion,
and the people are proud of them.
A tramp went to the home of Cyrus
Raney, a farmer neal Idalia, Stoddard
county, and demanded something to
eat, which was given him. He then
applied very abusive language to Mrs.
| Raney, who was alone. When the hus-
band returned home and learned of the
tramp's conduct he followed and
brought him back, and administered
fifty lashes to his back with a horse
whip.
Philip Martin, the negro murderer
of Eli Stillwell, was hanged at Kansas
City. On July 4, 1898, Martin and a
companion named Lyle met Eli Still
well, who was intoxicated. Stillwell
jostled against them, and Martin
whipped out a knife and stabbed him
to the heart. Martin and Lyle were
arrested. Lyle was acquitted, but
Martin maintained his innocence to
the last, saying that Lyle was the muir
derer.
Last December the city council of
Kansas City passed an ordinance levy
ing a tax of So5 a year upon corpora
tions and individuals not residents of
Kansas City selling coal oil, gasoline
and other oils" Z. P. Pratt, a repre-
sentative of the Standard Oil Co., was
arrested for violating the ordinance.
He contested the case on the grounds
that the ordinance was unconstitu-
tional. Police Judge Jones decided
that the ordinance was invalid in Sc
far as it confiicted with a constitu-
tional provision, and Pratt was dis
charged.
Milton and Bazile Sweet, John Cole
and Steward Hampton were given pre-
limiuary hearings at Festrs, for the
murder of Price Ditch, November 25,
1874. The examination of the wit
nesses was before Justice of the Peace
Phil s. Henderlite. Steward Hampton,
under indictment in st. Francois coun-
ty for grand larceny, and who was
taken to Festus by Sheriff Rariden OF
St. Francois, as a witness, was made a
defendant, and is accused Of being an
accomplish. TIE evidence failed to
convict, and the defendants. with the