The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-01-11
CULLINGS.

Louis over its own tracks.
S. A. Gleason. aged %, pioneer set
tier of st. Clair county, died at Rosco
Fully $4,000 pounds of poultry, most
ly dressed, vas shipped from Lathrop
recently.
Post office receipts at st. Louis dur
ing 1885 averaged a gain of ten pei
cent. over 1894.
Mrs. Maria Crecelius, an old resident
of st. Louis county, died recently, leav'
ing - descendants.
The Shelby County state bank OF
Clarence has increased its capital stock
from $4,000 to $50, 600.
L.. c. Shanholtz was jailed in Nevada
on the charge of having stolen a horse
from a Vernon county farmer.
Fred Meyer fell from 4 window in
the fifth story of the Third national
bank building, st. Louis, and was
killed.
Miss Nellie Wilson, daughter of B. E.
Wilson, president of the New Florence
bank, was married to Amos j. Palmer,
OF st. Louis.
The old citizens of Moberly, those
who have made the town their home
before and since 1873, held an expert
ence meeting at the city hall.
The courthouse of Lafayette county
is to be ~remodcled and improved, an
order appropriating sl2, 600 therefor be-
ing made by the county court.
The farmers special course at the
state university, Columbia, will be at
tended by the largest number of stu
dents ever known at Columbia.
In default of $500 bail Robert Tharp.
from Pierce City, and quite aged, was
committed to Jail, charged with max.
ing and issuing counterfeit money.
Otis Jackson, who was held for the
murder, by poison, of Station Agent
Stevens, several weeks since, at La
throp, has been discharged by Justice
Riley.
Miss Harden, daughter of Louis Har.
den, Musick's ferry, st. Louis county,
was accidentally shot by a young nan
named John Warren. She will re.
cover.
The residence of DR.. J. d. Forest, Sc.
dalia, was burned at one o'clock the
other morning. The family had a mar
row escape from cremation, fleeing in
their night clothes.
A camp of United Confederate veter-
ans has been organized in st. Louis,
and an effort will be made to secure for
that city the national reunion of the
organization in 1897.
Rev. Allen j. Van Wagner, for eight
years pastor of the Congregational
church at Creston, Ia, has been called
to take charge of the Congregational
church al Carthage.
In the amount of second-class mail
handled the st. Louis office stands
third. or after New York and Chicago.
This is an index of the enormous pub
fishing business carried on in the city.
Six men were injured in Il wreck on
the Missouri. Kansas & Texas neal
Clayville. The wounded were taken
to Sedalia for treatment. Conductor
llac'lett has taken all the blame upon
himself.
Thomas Wilson was married to Miss
Annie Peeler, the pretty daughter of a
wealthy farmer near Fayette. The
brides parents objected to the match,
SO d friend stole her out and escorted
her to town.
Rev. G. l.. Leyburn, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Boon
vile, and Mrs. Belle L. Voolfolk were
~ % ,-rioJ ~ .1,a rn.;J,-no - II:ll..-- NJ I
in Boonville, Rev. w. r.
Dobyns, of Marshall, officiating.
c. NJ. Robinson. lumber de aler. died
at Lamar of pneumonia. He leaves a
widow and three children. Judge Rob-
of the Missouri supreme court;
William Robinson. of Nevada, Mo-. and
l.. Il. Robinson. of Paris, Mo-, were
brothers of the deceased.
The Alfrey Heading Co.'S works. To-
in the southern part of Poplar
Bluff. were destroyed by fire the other
morning. The fire originated in one
Of the dry kilns. The company en-
a large number of men, and
manufactured barrel headings. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, with 5000
Insurance.
George W. Johnson, of Texas, and
Miss Luda Lamb, of Hannibal, were
married recently. The bride is a
granddaughter of Claybourne F. Jack
ION, governor of Missouri at the put
break of the rebellion. and the groom
. grandson of George W. Johnson,
of Kentucky dur
ng the war.
Jake Brown and Bert Flo. aged 13
10 respectively, were arrested at
St. Joseph and confessed to more than
robberies. The other night
hey robbed a hardware store, and
With stolen weapons attempted to hold
Up and rob Al Gulf, a Unknown res
dent. He put them to fight by the
Use of a heavy zane. His description
# the young desperadoes led to their
Col. Nat c. Dryden, the criminallaw-
-er of st. Louis, delivered a lecture on
Total Abstinence" at Ferguson's opera
louse, Montgomery City, recently. Col.
said he had spent $50, 600 trying
o learn how to take three drinks of
a day and then quit, but he
allied, and at last came to the conclu-
ion hat if he ever quit the use of it he
you'd have to quit compromising with
!. Col. Dryden says he firmly believes
hat the drink habit is a disease after
eing kept up for any length of time, (