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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
CAPTURED.

Desperadoes Known to be Guilty of Two
Murders Rounded Up in q Swamp by q
Posse-One of Their Number Shot
Through the Brain-The Other Two Run
Up a White Flag and Surrender.
North BRANCH, Mimi, June 22.-,
The desperadoes who murdered Jacob
Hay and Andrew Paul and attempted
to kill DIR. Burnside Foster at Wyom-
ing, Mimi, Saturday were rounded up
yesterday morning, Bob Wilson, the
leader of the gang, being killed and
the other two, James Cunningham and
Joseph Kelly, captured after making a
desperate resistance. Cunningham.
was badly wounded. The men have
been committing robberies all along
the St. Paul & Duluth road for the
past month.
After robbing DIR. Foster and shoot
ing Paul and Hay dead, the bandits
moved northward along the railroad.
to this point. Saturday night they
robbed the house of eX-MayOr Frank.
Smith and started for Duluth. Half a
mile from here they were met by sew
eral railroad men who had heard of
the Wyoming killing. The ~railroaders
ordered them to halt, but they only
answered with shots from a revolver.
The railroad men ran into North
Branch and gave the alarm. A posse
of Il men was made up here and at
once went in pursuit.
Early yesterday morning the ban
dts were located in Il Tamerack
swamp. The posse gradually drew in
the men in a circle. After several
volleys mad beer exchanged, the posse
ceased for a few minutes. Finally
one OF the men behind some legs
raised his head. 4 rifle shot rang
out, and the fellow fell back, shot
through the brain. His companions.
soon ran up the white flag.
Cunningham, d mere boy of 10,
was found to be badly wounded
about the head, a load of buckshot.
struck him. The other man
the name of George Kelly, but
declined to talk further as to his iden-
tity. He admitted the killing at Wyo--
ming. but said Bob Wilson, the dead
did the shooting.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

AN unsuccessful attempt was made
train on the Lake Shore railroad near
Norwalk. O.. on the 21st. Three ties
We're placed in such 4 position that
when struck by the engine they would
tear up the track. The obstruction
was discovered. an alarm given, and
three men, found in the vicinity, were
arrested. They refused to give theiI
SPANIARps are mad because the
Cuban flag vas displayed at the Re
publican national convention in st.
Louis. The Madrid press, in the com
ments upon the occurrence, are agreed
that the real Cuban question is not in
Cuba but in the United States, and
the government is urged by the news
papers to prepare at once for all on
tingencies.
The marquis of Salisbury, replying
to a deputatiOn from the I~nterna-
tional Arbitration league, on the Goth.
said there was every hope that En-
gland and the United States would
give the world the first triumph of
the principle of arbitration, which
would do more than anything else to
abolish war.
The weekly statement of the New
York city associated banks issued on
the Goth, showed the following
changes: Reserve, decrease, S75s, 500;
loans, increase, sos, 300; specie, de-
crease, $50, 800; legal tenders. de-
GREASE 1895. 400; deposits, decrease,
81. 499, GOO; circulation, increase, 500
200.
ACCORDING to advices from Damas-
Gus, the Druses have ~revolted and COM
pletely cut to pieces four companies of
Turkish troops and captured a num-
Der of guns. Orders were given, on
the 21st, to send II b~attalions of
troops from Salonica to Syria imme-
diately.
The coasts of Labrador were visited
by a hurricane, on The 2Ist, which did
much damage. Thirty fishing craft
were destroyed at Blanc Sable, and it
was feared hat more vessels were lost
at more northern points.
THE Societa Inmobiliere Of Rome is
said to have failed for millions. Thir-
ty-eight million francs worth of the
shares of the Societa Immobiliere are
held in Germany and Switzerland,
and 90 600, 900 francs worth are held in
Italy.
DEPUTY MARSHAL JESSE BAKER, OF
North Baltimore, O., was fatally shot.
early on the morning of the 21st, by
two burglars whom he surprised at
work on a safe in the post Office. The
murderers escaped.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS,

The countess of Dunraven sings in
the village choir.
"Helle." the latest operate success in
Paris, was heard recently by electro
phone in London the sound being trans
United over the London-Paris telephone
circuit.
Only seven new pieces, one of them
Berlioz' Faust" were performed in
% concerts at the Leipzig Gewandbaus
last season under Mr.. Nikisch's manage
ment. In "a concerts given by NJ. LAM
oureaux in Paris last year there were
but eight novelties.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

LATE news from the Orient say a
terrible famine, which threatens to
plunge the most populous portion of
Tonkin, China, into the direst misery
for many years, is desolating the coun-
try. The harvest has been a failure
and the natives throughout the whole
of the country are in the most mis-
cradle condition. In Hanoi a mother Of
fered her three infants for eight cents,
preferring to hand them yer to a Eu-
ropean rather than see them perish
from hunger in her arms. Inhabi-
tants emigrate from the country en-
masse to the cities to beg for susie
nance, while many others are going
about pillaging and perpetrating acts
of the grossest violence.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
SPANISH F~ALSEHOODS
Concerning Late Battles Exploded by Later
Reports

HAVANA, June 2O.-Priyate advices
from Gamagua are to the effect that
the rebel loss in the battle of Najasa
was only IL killed and 40 wounded, in
stead of 500 killed and wounded, as
was stated In the official report of the
fight. The opinion is gaining ground
that the Spanish reports OF a victory
were untrue.
1t is said that Maxine Gomez, the
rebel commandments, is marching
toward the railway between Nuevitas
and Puerto Principe, his intention be-
ing to cut off communication between
the two cities.
Advices from Manzanillo, province
of Santiago de Cuba, show that numer
GUS parties of rebels belonging to the
commands of Rabi and Jose Naceo are
concentrating in the vicinity Of that
city. Every precaution is being taken
by the Spanish commander there TO
prevent or repulse an attack on that
city.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

WILLIAM C. WHITNEY, on the 18th,
declared very positively that he was
not a candidate for the presidential
nomination. and would not attend the
Chicago convention as a delegate, but
simply as a private citizen.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

THE flibuster steamship Laurada
having again escaped the fire of hostile
Spanish gunboats, and once more in
friendly waters, passed in the Della
ware capes, on the 10th, on her way up
the liver t. Philadelphia.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

THE most interesting event of the
session of the republican national on
vention in st. Louis. on the 18th, was
the formal withdrawal of several of
the silver leaders of the western states
under the lead of Senator Teller, of
Colorado.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

THE Philadelphia Record of the 10Th
said that three of the largest and
most formidable filibustering expedi-
tions that have ever left the United
States are now on their way to the
coast of Cuba, and all have thus far
escaped the vigilant government Of
fcials and Spaniards, who have been
watching for them and their many
passengers and large cargoes of am
munition, dynamite, guns and other
war material"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

Two COTTON mills at Griffin, Ga,
shut down, on the 10th, because, the
proprietors said, the market was over-
stocked, and cloth could be bought
cheaper han they could make it. The
shutdown will probably be only tenn
pOrary.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

ACCORDING to advices from Kings
Ton, Jamaica, the territory in dispute
between Great Britain and Venezuela
has been entered by troops of the lat
ter country. The Venezuelan soldiers
are reported to have compelled a party
of British surveyors to suspend opera
lions.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

THE news of the nomination of Maj.
Mckinley was received promptly at
Canton, O., the result being announced
by the sounding of the fire gong. The
large o of people assembled
in the city in anticipation of the event
astic manner.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended on the 10Th
were 276. as against 22s for the CORE
spending week last year. For Canada
the failures numbered 2s, against 81
last year.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

LATEST news concerning the loss of
the steamer Drummond Castle off
Ushant, France, leaves little doubt of
the fate of pa of the people who were
on board. Only three are known to
have been saved.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

WIN. C. WHITNEY did not sail for Eu-
rope on the 18th, as he had expected to
do. In political circles it is reported
that the change of plan by the ex-sec-
rotary of the navy means that he will
attend the Democratic national con-
Vention at Chicago.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

A. P. WEBER, who lives in Camp
Grove, Ill, was, on the 10th, granted a
medal of honor for a gallant deed per-
formed at the battle of Kenesaw
Mountain, June 81, 1864. Mr.. Weber
was principal musician of the Eighty
sixth regiment, Illinois infantry.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

HoN. JOHN BEVERLEY ROBINSON,
ex-lieutenant-governor of Ontario,
dropped dead on the platform at Mas
sey Music hall, at Toronto On the 10Th,
while attendinga big political meet
ing of SirCharles Tupper's support
erS.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

THE Republican national convention
at st. Louis, on the 18th, after a con-
tinuous session of over nine hours.
and having nominated William Mckin-
ley, of Ohio, for president and Garrett
A. Hobart, of New Jersey, for vice
president, adjourned sine die.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
ElUOED THE SPIES.
Three Great Filibustering Expeditions En-
Route to Cuba.

PHILADELPHIA, June 20.-The Rec.
ord says that three of the largest and
most formidable tlibustering expedi.
tiols that have ever left the United
States are now on their way to the
coast of Cuba, and all have thus far
escaped the vigilant government of
fcials ard Spaniards, who have been
watching for them and their many
passengers and large cargoes of am
munition. dynamite, guns and otlrof
war material
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

A COMPANY of Oregon state militia
was ordered to Astoria, on the night
of the 10th, by Gov. Lord to protect
the cannery men. The striking fish
ermen threatened to declare the fish
ing season closed on the 18th and to
demand their nets or payment there
for
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

T. G. Harley & Bros. of Paris, have
made an assignment for the benef; of
creditors. Liabilities supposed to be
about S25, 900; assets, $50, 600. James
Ii. W~hitecotton was made assignee.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
Dexter VIII Have Electric Light.

The city of Dexter. by a vote of 1s5
to 4, authorized the city council to
issue SI0,G GOO city bonds for an electric
light plant and other improvements.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

RUMoRs were being persistently cir
culated in Tunis, on the 18th. hat the
marquis de Mores, who, it was recent
" stated, had started for the Soudan
for the purpose of renewing friendly
relations with certain Arab chiefs with
the idea of obstructing the British AZ
pedition, had been assassinated by
Snoussis tribesmen. and hat 80 of his
followers had also been killed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

On the 18th the navy department ac-
cepted the torpedo boat Ericsson from
the builders, the Dubuque iron works,
of Dubuque, Ia, and the last payment
Of SIS, 200 was made.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
Pike County Rebuilding B.fdses.

The county our of Pike county has
contracted with Il st. Louis firm for
two iron bridges. one over Indian
creek and the other over Grassy creek.
to cost 81. 300. Pike county has suffered
greatly in the loss of bridges by the
recent floods.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
Teachers Academy.

The eleventh annual session of the
Missouri teachers academy opened at
Pertle Springs the other day. The or
ganization of the academy took place
at Sweet Springs during the session of
the State Teachers association, June
is, 1856.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
BANK PRESIDENT WILLIAMS
Found Guilty OF t~alsifying the Books OF
the Bank Remsnded to the
County Jail.

County Jail.
BEATRICE, Neb., June SCI. c. Will
liams, president of the failed bank at
Blue Springs, who has been on trial
here for the past week. charged with.
falsifying the books of the bank. was.
found guilty, the jury bringing in a
verdict early yesterday morning. VIII
Iams. who was out on bail, was re-
manded 10 the county jail by District
Judge Letton. The bank had a large
number of depositors, and they lost
nearly everything. The penalty in
Nebraska for classifying books is from
II 10 ten years i'll the p~enitentiary.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

John McClenny, aged 10. son OF ]. r.
McClenny, who resides just west OF
Nevada, was drowned in Little Dry
wood river. He had gone bathing
with several companions. He made 4
dive and did not rise to the surface.
and it is supposed he vas taken with
ora INNS
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
Two Small Boys Drowned.

Two small boys, one the step-son OF
G. W. Sampson and the other the SOD
CT Mrs. Allen, were drownrd in Grand
river, at Albany, while bathing.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

4 friend of the Young Mems Chris
tian association, who does not want
his name to be known. has just given
S.. 900 to the South Side branch. st.
Louis, for the purpose of extinguish,
ing its ebtedness.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27

THE four district democratic conven-
lions in West Virginia elected free sill
yer men to Chicago. The delegations
will stand solid for free silver.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
A. Gratifying Increase.

The receipts of the st. Louis post
Office from June l to Is inclusive. for
1896, were s91, 15s. O6, against s74, n2n Of
for the same period last year.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
Maid of Honor Appointed.

DR.. S. S. Haine, of Cape Girardeau,
has appointed Miss Christine Wheeler
as maid of honor for the Fourteenth
congressional district to the ~confeier-
ate reunion at Richmond, Va. on June
80. Miss Wheeler is a daughter of the
late Gen. T. F. Wheeler. and is Il highly
accomplished and handsome young
lady, who will do honor to the district
She expects to represent.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
The State Debt.

ers met the other day and announced
that the entire Indebtedness of the
state of Missouri will be wiped out by
the end of another administration
without any increase of taxation.
The board at the meeting ordered
warrants drawn for 500. AS to pay the
interest due July l on the outstanding
bonded debt of the state, and S26. 923. 95
to pay the interest due on the school
and seminary certificates of the state.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
Anti Female Suffrage.

Mrs. W.. Winslow Crannell, chair
woman of the executive committee of
the Woman's Anti-Suffrage association
of New York. made a strong protest to
the committee on resolutions of the
National republican convention IL st.
Louis against the insertion of a female
suffrage plank in the republican plat
form. When questioned in regard to
her mission in st. Louis she said:
You are not aware. perhaps. that in our
state the woman SunraGiSts are remarkably
active. though numerically weak. When the
New York constitutional convention met in
1894 they had a powerful lobby urring that the
word male be omitted from the provision de-
timing legal voters. AT that time their claims
OF success were so loud that thev attracted
much attention. and a fear that suffrage might
be forced upon the women OF New York caused
the organization of an anti-sufrage movement,
which afterward amalgamated into our assoc
citation. We opposed the SurragiStS before the
convention and assisted in defeating them.
This done, we thought the matter disposed OF
for another 20 years-the interval between
constitutional conventionS-and rested on our
oars, still maintaining, however, our orCaniza-
ton"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
Will Use No More Convict-Cut Stone.

No more convict-cut stone will be
used on public work in st. Louis if
Street Commissioner Miner and the
board of public improvements can pre-
vent it. A number of contractors have
been in the habit of bringing the gray
granite they use for curbing from
Georgia and Alabama, where it is
quarried and cut by negro ~convicts.
For some time Mr.. Miner has been
making inquiries concerning this mat
ter, and upon learning hat such was a
fact, he began to explore the quarries
of Missouri to learn if there was any
gray granite suitable for curbing. He
has found plenty of it, and it is just as
good as the southern stone, and can be
dressed in Missouri by free labor and
rsed on the streets.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-27
To Collect Bad Debts.

The Retail Merchants of this city have made a radical change in their method of collecting bad debts. The association is designed to prevent as many debtors from escaping, If possi- ble, and it has heretofore been the plan to send a person owing a bill to a member of the association notice that his bill must be paid, and If he contin- ued to neglect the notice, after ten days had passed, to blacklist him, and to no tify all other merchants in the city be- longing to the organization.
 James E. O'Connor, the newly elected counsel for the association for the com ing year, has decided to treat each case individually and to prosecute each debt or who fails to regard the notice. In stead of the blacklist, except in cases ot last resort, suit will be brought The membership of the association has beer increased from 65 to 90 the past month including many of the retail merchants of the city,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-27

the vrouws did an immense deal lh screwing up their husbands to the
 fighting point. The Dutch wife has
 great influence over her man; she IS
 usually possessed of indomitable spirit
 and determination; and in moments or
 danger and difficulty she counts for a
 good deal in South African movements.
 When the Boers finally took the field
 in 1881, they fought well, as even we
 ourselves must admit. It is no light
 matter to take up arms successfully
 against the strength of Britain as these
 farmers did. By a series of lucky acci-
 dent, the Boers found arrayed against them troops weak in numbers, mostly consisting of young and unseasoned soldiers, led by a general who, after a
 series of extraordinary blunders, paid with his own life the penalty of rash
 ness and lack of judgment.
 At Laing's Nek and Ingogo river the
 Boers undoubtedly had our men at inn
 mense disadvantage and by the help oi their very excellent shooting scored their victories. But at Majuba Hill where less than one hundred and fifty Dutchmen stormed a mountain held by four hundred British troops and defeat
 ed them with the loss of their general,
 six officers, and ninety men killed and
 large number wounded, want of cour-
 age can scarcely be charged against these ignorant, undrilled farmers They themselves still look upon that event in their simple way as more ar
 act of God than of their own courage i,, fo .1 Ho against the Zulus and Matabele during
 the Great Trek, can want of courage bt
 urged against the frontier Boens.
 The Boers are race of hunters as
 well as pastorallsts, and the Transvaa Boers especially have been engaged 1T
 war of extermination Qamentable to
 the lover of animal life) against every species of wild beast. Numbers o1 | them have been occupied ever since boyhood in the hunting of elephants buffaloes, lions, rhinoceroses and other heavy game. They have practically exterminated the elephant south of the Zambesi, and the buffalo Is becoming very scarce. No man who understands South African hunting can pretend tt | say that the chase of these animals i. not a. dangerous one, requiring ths 1 highest qualities of nerve and courag | I will not say that the average Boe, hunter will, by way of recreation, fact | the lion single handed in the way tha | the great English hunters-Selous, Os | well, Vardon, Gordon-Cumming, Bald win and others-have accustomed r'
 to. Few hunters, indeed, are so Quix otic. The Boer treats the lon as dan gerous vermin, if possible obtains hell from his fellows, and as a matter o | business stays him by a volley. Bu hundreds of Boers have slain lions sin l gle handed, and hundreds have beel fnauled and even killed by lions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-27
9sranellers' Guide.
STARlN'S NEW HAVEN TRANS
 FORMATION LINE.

Daily ExCent SaturdhYs
 Str. JOHN Il. SrAltIN, Captain .EissrzsaSzssas MoAlister, leaves New Haven from Starins Pier, foot of Brown street, at days. Str. WI. 6. EGERioS, Capta n Spoor, Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays. The Starin leaves New York from Pier IS, North River, at Q p. m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The Egerton Sundays, Tues . days and Thursdays.
 Fare, .75c: excursion tickets, $l.25. State rooms, SLIGO.
 Tickets and staterooms for sale at J; M. Lines, jr.s, S5l Chapel street; Peck & Bishop, 7g Chapel street; Tontine Hotel, and John Morse. 60 Center street. Free stage leaves the depot on arrival or Hartford train, and from corner Of Church and Chapel streets every half hour, comm nc- ing at S:30 pm. Through freight rates given anc bills of lading issued 10 points west, south and southwest. c. H. FISHER, Agent. Order your freight via Starin Line.