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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

IL ~ APP III NSHU SOuiI VI SOll-
mon Pleas. within and for tie
County of Cape Girardeau and
State of Missouri. May Term. 1897.
MARCH 16, 1897.
Iguatz Goetz. Plaintiff.
VERSUS
Mary Goetz. Defendant.
Order of Publication.
AT this day comes the plaintiff BY
his attorney before the Clerk of the
Cape Girardeau Court of Common
Pleas in vacation and files his petition
and affidavit. alleging. among other
things. that defendant Mary Goetz
had a husband living at the date OF
her marriage to defendant. Where
upon it is ordered by the clerk
that said defendant be notified by
publication that plaintiff has com
menced a suit against her in tais court
the object and nature of which is to
obtain a decree of divorce from the
bonds of matrimony contracted be-
tween plaintiff and defendant on the
ground of abandonment, and that I'M
less she be and appear at this court
at the next term thereof. to be begun
and holden at the court house in the
city of Cape Girardeau. in said county
on the 9th day of May next. and on
or before the third day of said term.
if the term shall so long continue-if
not. then on Or before the last day of
said term-answer or plead to the
petition in said cause, the same will
be taken as confessed. and Judgment
will be rendered accordingly.
And it is further ordered. that a
copy hereof be publisd, heaccording
to Law. in the Cape Girardeau DEMO
Graf, a newspaper published in the
county of Cape Girardeau. Missouri,
for four week successfully. the last
insertion to be at least thirty; days
before the commencement of the next
term of this court.
\ true copy from the record.
f. H. ENGELMANN, Clerk
49, Witness my hand, and
SEAL. the seal of said court this
'-~' 18th day of March. 1897.
Z. H. ENGELMANN.
mar2In49 Clerk.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
Notice to Contractors

Notice is hereby given that | will
receive bids for an iron bridge across
Byrd's Creek onthe road leading from
Jackson to Oak Ridge. near the resi-
dence of Jacob DELPHI. until March
Goth. 1897.
y. G. FRISSELL.
marl3n47 Il. IL Is. Commission ;
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

In the Cape GiraIdeau Court of
Common Pleas, within and for the
County of Cape Girardeau and State
of Missouri.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
feb20n4I

The finest OF earth, seed potatoes
and eating potatoes and seed oats at
lowest pricesforall at John st. Avit &
Sons.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

T. II. NM OItTh
t Witness my hand, and
SEAL. the seal of said court this
'-' 10Th day of March. 1897.
Z. H. ENGELMANN.
mar2In49 Clerk.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
overzealaus Postmaster.

O~verzcalaus fostmester.
What would seem to have been a
perfectly proper and legitimate %jsurn-
alistic expedient for attracting public
interest has just excited theapparently
unnecessary condemnation of the post
Office authorities at Little Rock. A
few days ago the Arkansas Gazette"
offered a S5-gold piece to the scholar
in any public school in the state who,
before the end of the month, should
send in the shortest and best answer
to the question. What is news" The
announcement of this offer, the Ca
zette" is now informed. violates the
lottery law. and papers containing 1t
can not pass through the mails. An
appeal to the Postmaster General has
been taken, but meanwhile publication
OF the announcement has been sus-
pended. That the final decision will
uphold the Gazette" in its right ito
buy the definition it seeks in the way
il proposed can hardly be doubted.
The question asked is important as
we'll as interesting, and reflection upon
il would benefit the children of Ar
kansas, just as it would those of any
other state, and the adults of that and
other states as well.-New York Times.
The Presidents simplicity.
In ordering a large portion of the
White House grounds hitherto closed
to all but the presidential family to
be opened to the use of the general
public, President Mckinley has n
more acted in Il manner which will
effectively demonstrate his desire to
be in close touch with his fellow citi-
zens, and two remain, though the eX-
ecutive head of the nation, one of its
humble citizens of the people. and fra
ternizing with them. This is the spirit
that all Americans love: it is the true
American spirit, the true spirit of
Democracy, and the observance of it
by the President OF the United States,
while not decreasing the honor and
respect in which hat official is held,
will strengthen him in the regard of
the people and make 'is task of guild
ing the affairs of the nation in the in
terests of all at once easier and more
effective. If President Mckinley
keeps on as he has begun. he will
leave the White House the most pop
ular President We have ever had.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
How SO Find Out the Age of Any Per-
SON..
One day there came to the court of
a King a gray-hared professor, who
amused the King greatly. He told the
monarch a number of things that he
never knew before, and the King was
delighted. But finally it came to the
point when the ruler wanted to know
the age of the professor, so he thought
of a mathematical problem.
"Ahem!" said the King. Il have
an interesting sum for you: it is a
trial IN mental arithmetic. EThink o
the umbe OF the month OF your
BIRTH
Nov the professor was sixty years
old, and had been born two days be-
fore CHRISTMAS; so he thought of
twelve, December being me twelfth
month.
IVES :: said the nrofosso,.
M"i'lPlS IL u! t"o' c"hIlnueu the
hlng.
Yes"
u,dd fra.,
les san" lit Prole'SoI' uolnS So
~,
..Add vour =.
..yas:
..Subtr,ct 365"
..Yas:,
add 115"
Yes"
..Apd nov =, said the kim. ..miob,
ask What the result isl.
..Tu,,1ro br,d.a md . :.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27
Notice to Contractors.

Notice is hereby given that l will
receive bids for IN iren bridge with
iron foundation across Cane Creek on
the road leading from the Cape Cir
ardeau and Jackson gravel road to
the Jackson and Snider Mill road un-
til April LIST. 1897.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-27

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with entire cI1ooecc
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The Portland daily press., 1897-11-20
Firurehead of the Constitution.

In 1884 Captain Elliot, who had been
second IN command at Lake Erie under
Oliver Perry, excited a violent political
and partisan demonstration by decorating,
at the Boston navy yard, the bow of the
Constitution with fgurehead of Presi-
dent jackson. One stormy night his ex-
cellency was decapitated as neatly and
deftly as if the best tools had with patient
labor enlisted the brightest sunshine in
the desecration. Marines and bluejackets
were held under dark suspicion, and the
country seethed in ferment of keen con-
tention. Rewards were offered, but in
vain, and for years the secret was we'll
kept. 1t is now said that a seaman named
Dewey was the culprit, not for any politi-
cal motive, but because of a cherished an
tipathy to the full length image of land
lubber at the bow while three fine old sail
ors were compelled, with inadequate busts,
to smile grinly at the stern. However,
another head was secured to the trunk
with copper bolts so tremendous that for
many years age could not wither it nor
custom stale the unshaken fortitude with
which Old Hickory defed the breezes and
the brine. -Harper's Weekly.
The Portland daily press., 1897-11-20
Went on Whistling.

Any one who makes careful study OF
city noises will be astonshed at the yery
large number which are wholly unneces.
sary and the abolition of which would in
no way interfere with the rights or busi-
ness interests of those who make them.
The noise makers may be divided into two
classes. The first and by far the larger
class make unnecessary noise thoughtless-
ly. They have never had their attention
called to the fact that they cause annoy
ance to others by making noises which are
unnecessary, and education and the cre-
stion Of q sentiment is all that is required
to make them as careful to respect the
rights and comfort of others in the matter
Of noise as they are in other respects
A personal experience illustrates what ]
mean. AS L was riding in a street car re-
Gently respectable looking young man
sat beside me- and for 30 blocks he whis-
tied sharp, idle, inane whistle, which
was manifestly annoying to half dozen
Of his fellow passengers. The car suddenly
lurched round curve, and his foot came
lightly in contact with my own. He i'm
mediately turned, lifted his hat, bowed TO
me and said, II beg your pardon, sir, ;"
and went on whistling. This young man
had learned from custom and habit that it
is very bad manners not to apologize for
even unintentionally jostling another per-
son, but he had not learned that 1t is very
unjust and unkind to others, and therefore
bad manners, to torture them with unnec
essary noise.-Dr. J. II. Girdner in North
American Review.
The Portland daily press., 1897-11-20
FIRST POSTAGE STAMP.
Order In Which 1t Was Adopted by Dif-
ferent Countries.

Order In Which 1t Was Adopted by Diff
ferent Countries.
The first postage stamp seems to have
been used in Paris in 1868, but the serv-
ice in which the stamp was used was only
local and soon failed. On May 6, 1910,
the first regular postage stamps were is
sued in England. Various local forward
ers of letters and postmasters in this coun.
try issued stamps as early as 1S41 The
first to do 80 was A. M. Grieg's City Dis
patch Post, which was sold to the govern
ment in August, 1S42. Blood & Co. Of
Philadelphia sold stamps in 1S41, and the
postmasters of Baltimore, New Haven and
New York of 1845 also sold stamps
In 1S47 the government took up the
business, but Brazil in 1S43 was ahead OF
the United States in taking up the stamp
end Of the postal business. The other prin-
cipal countries followed in this order:
France, Belgium and Bavaria in 1S49;
Hanover, British Guiana, Prussia, Spain
and Switzerland in 1885, Italy, Denmark,
Baden, Wlrttemberg Saxony and the prov.
inces of Canada in 1851; Chile, the
Princes of Turin and Taxis (who had the
postal monopoly in Germany in 1859;
Portugal in 1868; India and Norway in
1854; Uruguay and Mexico in 1856; Russia
and Newfoundland in 1857; Sweden in
1858; the Australian colonies early in the
flfties; Greece in 1861; Turkey in 1868;
Ecuador in 1865; Egypt in 1856; Bolivia
in 1857; Paraguay in 1870 The interna-
tional postal union was formed in October,
1874, and went into operation on July /,
1875.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Portland daily press., 1897-11-20

Finding Thief by Means of a Bowl of
water-What the Boy Saw In J. Drop
Oh Ank-how Dishonest Woman Was
Neatly Trapped.
The Portland daily press., 1897-11-20

Take the PRESS, it contains all the
latest news. 50 cts. month
The Portland daily press., 1897-11-20

/. The French scholar Maurice Courant
has come to the conclusion that Japan got
her civilization by way of Korea
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-01
POLICE COURT NOTES.

Matte Beck John and Bert Seeger were
each sentenced to the workhouse yesterday
for thirty days on the charge of disorderly
conduct. The trio was arrested at the Beck
home on the West side flats, where the police
were attracted by their boisterous conduct
Wednesday night
Pearl Smith and Myrtle Howard, the color
ed women accused of holding up James Fitz-
gerald in Smith park and relieving him of
$50, were arraigned in the municipal court
yesterday on the charge of highway rob
berry. The prisoners were not ready for trial
and secured continuance until tomorrow.
o. Gadbois and Zis Gadbois. arrested on the
charge of assault and battery, preferred by
George Beck as the result of a saloon row
on the West side last Sunday night, were
discharged in the municipal court yesterday
Beck was arrested at the time and claimed
that Gadbois had attacked him.
John Coyne, accused of stealing $40 and two
gold rings from the saloon of Henry O'Connor
at Third and Commercial streets, last Satur-
day night, waived examination before Judge
Orr yesterday and was held to the grand
jury in 1000 bail. Coyne was unable to
furnish security and was committed to the
county jail.
Henry Hanson, charged with an unnatural
offense, yesterday waived examination in the
police court and was held to the grand Jury
in 81 900 bail.
William Rascher, who was accused of as
sault and battery by Gottlieb Bunde, was dis
charged yesterday by Judge Orr, without a
hearing
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-01
Names Are Drawn for the Duluth
Term.

The next term of the United States
district court at Duluth will open
Oct. u, and the following jurors have
been empaneled to serve:
Charles 1. Mccarthy, ST. Paul; Herman Tres
ter, Hart; M. c. Griffin, Brainerd; A. j.
Holmberg, St. Peter; E. K Tarbei, Winona;
Albert T. Brownell, Luverne; Anthony Healy,
Fergus Fails w. r. Jaffray, st. Paul. Frank
Van Norman, Mantorville; Edward Earring
ton, Plymouth; E. W. Eddy, Anoka; Peter P.
Swanson Minneapolis; R. n. Neal, Lake CITY
S. Lee Davis st. Paul; James Grattan, Min
NJ. Foote, MINNEAPOLIS; James Nugent, St.
Paul; John B. Gay, Winona; William B.
Pineo Clearwater; Allen De Witt, German;
Frederick Swift Western.
McNeal Dayton; George D. Goodrich, Anoka;
o. ]. Gray, Taylor's Falls; William H.
Stricken. Lake Benton; John W, Bodiway
gust Miller, Berlin; G. w. Hammer, Newport;
Murdoch McDonals, Soudan; M. J.. McGrath
St; Charles; James Duncan, Sank Rapids;
John G. O. Lenry, Buffalo; William Dux-
bury, Harmony; H R. Briggs, Houston
Ralph Dresser, Saltwater; C. B. Green, Ores
ham; E. M. Gilbert, Byron William Walker
Forest Lake; L. E. Conger, Mora; Henry L.
Meadow; julius C. Holman, Kasson; Walter
A. Munger, Mazeppa; P. Rice, Clearwater;
Mcclure. Litchfeld; Thomas Downs Mime
apolis; S. M. Southwick, Heron Lake; Will
liam NJ Orion, Princeton; A. V. Nelson, Cos
mos Alfred Terry Slayton; Thomas W.
Bowe Pamela; John Bell Glencoe: Thomas
j. Jones' South Bend; ]. G.. Mertz, Hastings;
A. s. knight, Taylors Falls; w. H. Noyes,
Barnum;; O. T. Caswel Winona; F; 6.
Edward Wakefield, Libbey; Philip Gilbert
Lake City, Charles c. Thurston, Montgomery;
Oscar Daggett Sank Rapids; George Shelton,
Iamberton; Henry Martin, Woodbury.; James
Mcdonald Waverly; o. L. Cutler Anoka
T. B. Emerson, AnOka.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-01
MICHAEL BARRY SAYS COUNCIL
MAN GAHAN TRADUCED HIM
ABOUT $4,000 WORTH.
SAID He WAS A PERJURER,
AND THEREBY PREVENTED HIS
ELECTION TO A STREET COM
MISSIONERSHIP.
MANY PERSONAL TAX CASES.
Sheriff Wagener's Staff Concludes
the Service of a Host of Cita-
tiOns to- Appear.

Michael Gahan, a member Of the
common council of South st. Paul, is
defendant in a suit brought against
him yesterday in the district court by
Michael Barry for libel. Plaintiff
asks for $4,000 damages, alleging in
his complaint that his reputation and
good name had been injured to that
extent by false, malicious and SANDER
Gus statements which defendant is
charged with having made against
him at a meeting of the South st. Paul
council
About May 10, 1897, plaintiff was a
candidate for the office of street COM
missioner of South st. Paul and the
appointment lay with the mayor, sub
iect to the confirmation of the coun-
Gil. Barry received the appointment,
but at a, meeting on the evening of
the date mentioned above the council
refused to confirm the appointment,
and Barry did not get the job.
The complaint alleges that at this
meeting defendant made speech
against Barrys confirmation, in which
he is alleged in the complaint to have
said of plaintiff: "He is a perjurer,
and if you give him anything you
Cmembers of the counciD are no better
than he." Petitioner further claims
"that said office Of street commission
err aforesaid is lucrative and honor
able public office, and that by reason
of the speaking, publishing and utter
Ing of said wards plaintiff was deprived
of all prospects of success in his candi-
dacy for said office, and was, more
over, injured in his good name and
reputation"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-01
MAY BE ONE OF THE
ROBBERS
IN THE HoLD-UP AT GLYNDoN.
AT ANY RATE HE ANSWERS THE
DESCRIPTION SOUGHT FOR
BY OFFICERS.
FOREST PosToFFICE ROBBERY.
He Was Arrested for That When
He Broke Jail at Peoria Two
Years Ago.

A telegram received yesterday at the
office of United States Marshal O'Con-
nor from the authorities of Crookston,
Mimi, announced the arrest at that
place of fugitive postoffice robber,
Thomas Noonan, alias Peggy Nolan.
Special Agent J. D. Farrell, of the post
office department, left last night for
Crookston. He will return the prisoner
to Peoria, ILL.,, where he will be tried
for implication in the robbery of the
pcstoffice in Forest, ILL.,, where his gang
secured about $500 in money and
stamps.
Noonan is said to be one of the most
dangerous crooks in this section of the
country. In 1895, it is said, he was the
leader Of the worst gang Of postoffice
robbers that ever infested the middle
states. With two of his pals he burg
larized the Forest Office, but the trio
were apprehended several weeks later
in the southern part of the state and
taken to Peoria, where they were
lodged in the county Jail to await the
action of the federal grand jury. Moo
nan broke Jail on the night of April Is,
1895, and nothing more was seen of him
until he turned up at Crookston, al
though he was frequently heard from
His other pals did not get away when
he made his break for liberty, and in
due time they were sent to the peni-
tertiary at Joliet.
The authorities are more than usual
ly interested in the arrest of Noonan,
as it is believed, from the coincidence
OF descriptions, that he is one of the
men who held up the Northern Pacific
passenger train at Glyndon Mimi, last
Saturday night. Crookston would have
been directly on the route of such a
fugitive to the Canadian line, and it
is probable that before he is returned
to Illinois for trial, Noonan, or Nolan,
will be confronted by some of the
townspeople at Glyndon, who had OBJ
served the suspicious looking indivi-
duals lettering about the depot during
the day or two previous to the hold
I'D.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-01
Personal TAX CITATIONS.
Sheriff Wagener's Deputies Have
Been Busy Serving Them.


Sheriff Wageners force of deputies
completed yesterday the serving of CT
tations on persons who are delinquent
in the payment of their personal tax
assessment. These citations require
them to appear at the next regular
term of the district court and show
cause why judgment for the taxes
should not be entered against them.
There were originally 2,744 of these
citations, including those against the
stockholders of defunct banks and of
this latter class there were about 400.
Service has been made on about 20 per
cent of all the delinquents either by
personal service or through other legal
methods, and the other 80 per cent of
the number could not be located. 1t
was difficult to make the service in
many cases from the fact that the re-
vised list of delinquents which the as
SCISSOR had made up contained the
names of many deceased persons, some
of whom had been dead as long ago as
five years, and the names of non-reSi-
depts-people who had moved away
from the county after their personal
taxes became delinquent. In some in
stances where deaths had interviewed
the estates had for several years been
distributed among heirs.
In the spring of 1897, when the sheriff
received the tax warrants from the
county auditor. there had been paid
into his Office for delinquent taxes of
1896 something like $2,725, but from
January 1, of this year to the present
time less than 5000 have been received
for the satisfaction of citations. Fol-
lowing is the delinquent personal tax
of the city as made up by the county
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-01
MARY DUPU1s DISCHARGED.
State Didn't Make Case in Judge
Orr's Opinion.


Mary Dupuis, charged with killing
her little babe, was discharged yester-
day by Judge Orr, who held that the
state had failed to make out a suffi-
GENTLY strong case to warrant holding
the woman to the grand jury. In fact,
the court saw that from the evidence,
he had formed the belief that the child
was dead when placed in the river, and
OF Kidding herself of the body AS to
the infant having been purposely
strangled to death before being thrown
in the water, the court held that there
was little material evidence to lead to
this conclusion.
The effect of the decision produced
little change in the detected demeanor
which had characterized the accused
throughout her successive hearings and
imprisonment. She came into court
with a downcast look and never once
raised her eyes during the courts re-
marks When she was declared to be
at liberty the woman remained impas-
sive in her seat until her attorney,
NJ. J. Costello lead her from the court
room.
Under the ministrations of Attorney
Costello, however. the girl cheered up
perceptibly outside the court room,
though she had very little to say She
declared, though her intention of i'm
mediately going to Montreal, Canada,
where she said she would enter a con-
vent, having decided to thus spend the
remainder of her life in atonement,
which she felt she should undergo, de-
spite the decision of the court freeing
her of the charge of murder.