The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-05
CULLlNGS.

John Grouse, aged 81. died at Chilli
Gothic.
One-half of the population OF the
Missouri p~enitentiary IS under 25 years
of age
The ~ater supply is very low at
Moberly.
Joplin pays IS, 900 a month for school
teachers.
Springfield high school pupils are to
be uniformed.
Iiog cholera is raging in Pilot Grove,
Cooper county.
Mr. blanchard, a prominent citizen
OF Deep Water, dropped dead.
R. A. Boyett and Miss Ora Ame-t
were married at Monroe City.
A. L. Dearman and Miss Karleen
Coleman were married at Salisbury.
A. L. Hawkins, Palmyra, has been APP
pointed mail clerk at the penitentiary.
Miss Lyde Myers, of DeSoto. and
John Bergman, of Poplar Bluff, were
married.
Joseph Forschee, one of the pioneer
settlers of Washington county, died re-
Gently, aged 90.
Ire at Weatherby, Dekalb county,
destroyed the buildings on the west
side of the square.
The legislature will be asked to make
an appropriation for a state normal
school at Maryville.
Senator Vest has presented the o n
federate home at Higginsville with a
valuable set OF books.
Henry Hemphill. a native of Mary
land and a member of the G. A. R.,
died at Sedalia, aged so.
A wholesale beer depot at Mexico
caught fire from a spontaneous COM
bustion and was destroyed.
The Marcelline Coal Co. has bought
twenty-eight acres of land near the
city and will build a reservoir.
Insurance rates have suffered another
increase at Nevada, and citizens are
wondering what will come next.
The state normal school at Cape
Girardeau is enjoying one of the most
prosperous years of it's existence.
Thomas Fleming, e resident of Ne
vada, died at San Antonio, Tex. The
remains were shipped to Nevada Cor in
terment.
Hon. Champ Clark addressed the
Philadelphia Single Tax society on
''Sir Robert Peel and the struggle for
Free Trade"
Wiley T%ertament, a farmer of New
tom nnuntr u-aS th-ou-n f-On, hic
wagon, striking On his head and dislo-
eating his neck.
The eX-confederate association of
Springfield is raising funds with
which to erect a monument to the con
federate dead.
The store of Parish & Evans. Neva-
da, was looted by burglars. The work
was smoothly performed, indicating
that experts did it.
More mineral and better paying
leads are being found at Aurora now
than at any previous time in the his
tory of this great mining town.
Prof. l.. E. Petre, principal of the
Norborne Carroll county, high school,
and Miss kittie Mel, Il teacher in the
primary department, were married re-
Gently.
Prof. C.. A. Hawkins was in SPRING
field recently working up sentiment in
favor of two more state normal schools,
one in the southeast and one in the
northeast.
The Springfield nursery and fruit
farm has filed an assignment. G.. T.
Tippin, populist candidate for congress,
was manager of the firm. Liabilities,
SIS, 900: assets, SIS, 000.
At Moberly a young man discovered
burglars in his fathers store, and he
opened fire, but the burglars escaped.
One of the shots struck his fathers
horse, from which it died.
Mrs. Noah Skiles, Of Potosi. was
found dead on the railway track near
Deslage, st. Francois county. She re-
Gently separated from her husband,
and it is a supposed case of suicide.
Henry Bagby, aged 10, while rabbit
hunting with a neighbor's boy, near
Adrian, Bates county, was fatally
shot. His eomrade attempted to hand
him a gun, muzzle foremost, through
a hedge.
During the last eighteen months St
Joseph has paid her policemen STA
723.64 in salaries, AID the expense of
the department was 81, 545. 46. During
that period ABA arrests were made by
the department.
State Treasurer Stephens has for
warded a check for S4O9, 600 to the
American Exchange national bank of
New York, as fiscal agent for the state,
to take up a like amount of Missouri 6
per cent. funding bonds.
The greater proportion of the bust
ness houses of Bloomington, Henry
county. were destroyed by fire. The
total loss is about 5000 OO The insur-
ance is very light. d. C. Blanchard,
the heaviest loser, luckily, recently in
creased his insurance.
A. J. Testament was arrested at West
Plains, being wanted in Benton county
for a murder committed a year ago.
Testament was once arrested for the
crime, and released, but of late new
evidence was discovered. it is said, apd
an indictment returned.
William Trimble. a farmer near Nor
ton, Saline county, attempted suicide
by shooting through the head while
living i'll bed. A warrant was issued