The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-02
CULLINGS.

John Meyers and John Trout broke
jail in Henry county, were caught and
each given two years in the peniten-
tiary for the offense.
Wallace Price, a well-known citizen
OF Henry county, was sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary for OBJ
tanning goods under false pretense.
st. Joseph business men are fighting
insurance combines.
Armour & Co.'S cattle buyer has with
drawn from East st. Louis. and that
firm will purchase more cattle, it is
said, in the Kansas City market.
j. ID. Eubanks has cattle feeding in
Saline county IN cotton-seed meal and
crushed wheat, half and half, and re-
ports them doing well.
y great many cattle are being fed in
Vernon county, and will soon be ready
for market.
c. b. Briggs, a Kansas City grain
SPECTATOR, has been taken to the
asylum for the insane at st. Joseph.
The mayor of Nevada says he will
rid the town of gamblers.
hdrrcnSpuEB DuSlHeSS HcH VIZ VI
ganize a board of trade.
Whooping cough and grip are preva-
lent at Charlestown.
There are 1886 young ladies attending
Bond college, Clinton.
At Kirksville people are fined for dis
turbing the Salvation Army.
There is not a vacant house or store
room in Hamilton.
Maryville churches are being carpet
ed with brussels.
Monroe City claims to have the big
gest mule in the United States
weight, 1,SOO pounds.
The Wright County Fair association
has Incorporated with $4,000.
At Bonnie Terre the Model Roller
mill and the sheds of the Clarkson-
Christopher Lumber Co.. containing
considerable lumber, were destroyed
by fire. The loss, which aggregates
Sa2, 600. falls on Keith & Moran, the
Fite estate and the lumber company.
The Observation-Disclosures elevator at
ROsedale, near Kansas City, was
wrecked by a boiler explosion.
According to n decision in an insur-
ance case in the circuit court at Kan
sas City, an accident policy is c~Ollecta-
bic in ease of suicide by the holder.
At Nevada, in the case of o. X. Cald-
well, indicted cashier of the old Citi-
zen's bank, the lost indictments were
supplied by consent of counsel on both
sides, and no delay was occasioned by
the missing documents.
Sol Smith Russell, Americas great
est comedian, was born and reared in
Brunswick. His father was n preacher
and dentist, and the old Russell home
stead still stands on the bank of the
Missouri river.
A Springfield shoemaker was fined
one cent and costs for receiving a pair
of stolen shoes.
State Mine Inspector Evans thinks
Lexington is one of the best coal min
ing points in Missouri.
Much interest is taken in fruit grow
ing about Fair Play, Polk county.
Corn made from 35 to 80 bushels to
the acre around Merwin, Bates county,
last season.
Boone county is proud of her county
court.
Thomas Vermillion was killed By q
runaway team at Monett.
The business men of Purdy, with two
exceptions, are church members.
Judge Hockaday discharged the jury
in the Harlan murder case at Fayette.
They stood seven for murder in the
degree and five for acquittal. 1t
is said hat they stood the same way
from the time they first took a ballot.
They were out six days. Judge Hook
aday placed the bail at $40, 900.
Schuyler county is talking new court
house.
The new courthouse at Shelbyville is
a model one.
Mrs. Phoebe Matson died at her
home. in Matson, St. Charles county,
aged rs.
A Christian church was dedicated at.
Ashburn, Pike county, recently.
Elder J.. b. Mansfield, of Knoxville.
has accepted the p~astorate of
the Christian church at GAINESVILLE.
Sheriff Troll of St. Louis was &C.
in the court of criminal correc-
tons of the charge of giving a bride
On election day. In closing, the prose-
admitted that its witnesses
we're not worthy of belief.
The rumor that the Missouri Pacific
will be removed from Sedalia is
Miss Chat Cushing. daughter of ex-
Cushing CT Dubuque, Ia. was.
married to j. NJ. Williams, of st. Jo-
,eph.
William O. Wilkerson, who escaped
the Pettis county jail and vas
.ecaptured, planned another escape.
Two steel saws were found in'the soies
If his shoes.
Three burglars entered Bakers gen.
raj store at Cornelia. a small station
of Warrensburg, the other night.
The safe was blown to pieces, but not.
much money secured.
Arthur Forester, a st. Louis clerk,
,ook poison, after a spree, and died.
Two hundred coal miners were let
mt by the Kansas d Texas Coal Co. at.
heir Ardmore mires,i in Macon county.
rhe reason assigned was the general
in the trade.
Mrs. Whitney, who recently secured