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The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

a Georgia woman who killed her hus-
band by beating him with a club is SEN
fenced to b. hanged, and other Georgian
new women are raising heaven and earth to
prevent sucl a disgrace being visited upon
their sex and, incidentally. upon the State
This is very inconsistent conduct. These
champions of the rights of women should
welcome the entrance of one of their num-
Der to the privileges of the gaIlows SO long
monopolized by grasping man.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

The Supreme Court OF the United States
has decided that the charter which the City
Company is void and that the charter of
the Citizens Company Is good until Jan. IS
1901 IL refused 10 consider the claim of
the Citizens Company that its charter is
perpetual. BY the act OF the Legislature
the Citizens charter will terminate in
January 1901. IL the Citizens Company
perpetual charter until 1T shall be revoked
by the Legislature. II must assail the con-
stitutionaiity OF thc act known as Senate
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

1t is not announced by what authority
the school officials in New York have for
hidden the school children from eating
washington pie" but they have done it
with an explanation that they do not mean
to cast any aspersion upon the memory of
''the father of his country" but to seek
to remove therefrom the odium likely to
attach itself because of that odious form
of pastry. In the East Washington pie is
the congloIneration known as layer cake
in this part of the country.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

The people of Chicago are having con-
tention with the street-railway magnates
who have been to the Legislature TO get
charters for forty years, paying the city 3
per cent. OF the net receipts. The opposi-
tion to street-car companies is very general
and the feeling is intense. The people ask
for II YER fares.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

The man who puts his TO the
ground TO listen TO political rumblings is
always liable to mistake the noise of few
takers for the opinion of the silent thou
sands. A year ago those who were doing
the ear-to-the-ground act were sure that
the whole country was for the free and un-
limited coinage of the mine owners and
silver spectators silver bullion. The cleo
tion showed how greatly the men with ears
To the ground were mistaken.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

the Bryan plan will cure hard times as
long as there is silver bullion TO coin doub-
ling its actual value, the Ridgely money.
literally carpeting the whole country. will
bring a prosperity that no one has ever
dreamed Of Instead of limited amount of
half fiat money controlled by bullion own
ers. the Ridgely plan affords billions of
fiat money which all who will work can
have in comparative abundance. Hail.
Ridgely and an unlimited circulating me-
dunn
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

1t is said that Representative Bailey, the
Democratic leader. has parted with much
of his popularity because he was so reck-
less as to declare that he preferred Repub-
lican prosperity TO no prosperity" Many
sof his party in Congress are opposed to
prosperity unless il can be attached to the
coming OF As cents worth of silver bullion
into one dollar
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

General Porter is reported as being
obliged to disappoint 1,2O0 persons who ap-
piled to be on his staff for the dedication
of the Grant monument. General Sherman
declared that forty thousand civilians in
sisted on being given places as assistant
marshals at the Grant funeral. but his dis
gust led him to exaggerate. Nevertheless
we as a people. love titles and display.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20
The Tariff Bill.
Washington Post Qnd)

washington Post Und)
The American people will find out after
awhile. that this Dingley bill is not half
as Objectionable as its opponents would
have US believe: that IL does not tax tho
toiling masses for the benefit of monopo-
lies and soulless corporations: that Il is
liberal enough where the country at large
can profit by liberality. and that IL Is pro-
tective and restrictive only for the benefit
of the general public.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

The men In Kentucky county who de-
enforce the laws. men in the same county
have begun to destroy fields of tobacco and
10 notify owners that they must reduce
their crop to one-tnird of last years prod
uct- There is no noxious weed which
grows faster than lawlessness
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

A Frankfort OKy.) special says that it is
quite probable that the Hunter Republicans
may give their votes to Mr.. Martin, "a
high-tariff gold Democrat" for senator. A
high-tariff gold Democrat comes very near
being a Republican.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20
WOnlau's Way.

Friends among those of my own seX?"
said the dear girl. "Of course. 1 might say,
L have friends To-
ITO burn?' he interrupted.
"Oh, no. Only to roast
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

1t will not anger the Emperor OF Ger
many and the Car of all the Russias for
Mr.. Gladstone to denounce them as young
despots." They believe in that sort of con-
troll for peoples
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

II Mayor Taggart had promptly brought
an action against the Citizens Company
for violation of the 3-cent-fare act. to
revoke its charter. as is provided in that
BILL he would have laid the foundation of
a suit to test the constitutionality of that
law in the State courts.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

A number of misguided gentlemen are
quarreling over the leadership of the Dem
ocratic party of Indiana. Before they go
further perhaps it would be well to decide
which branch of the party they prefer to
Lead
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

The EOrrid Rrute.

She-I never expected to work like this
when ] married you.
He-I oIGnt suppose you cared. You
worked hard enough to get me- didn't you?
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

The Cuban war has dropped into the
background since the affairs of Crete be-
gan to attract the attention of the world.
Even the newspapers find it inconvenient
to handle two wars at the same time.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20
Too Much for Him.

Dismal Dawson-Uv course | don't be-
lieve in the Bible 1t don't stand to reason.
Everett Wrest-Why don't it?
''Jist think of the idear that jist because
Adam done wrong, the whole world had to
go to work. Cruelest thing L ever heard
of
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

Can be found at the following piaces:
NEW YORK-Windsor Hotel and Astor House.
CHICAGO-Palmer House and 2. o. News Co..
<>sl7 Dearborn street.
streer.
LOUiSvILLE-C. T. Deeriag. northwest corner
OF Third anc Jefferson streets. and LOUISVILLE
Book Co., 30 Fourth avenue.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Rggs House, Ebbitt
House. WiiIards Hotel aad the Washington
News Exchange. Fourteenth street. between
Penn avenue and street.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

The fighting along the boundary line be-
tween Macedonia and Thessaly is no longer
confined to "irregulars;' there is regu-
larity about it that even the powers cam
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

DIR. Angel. it is said. will take the office
of minister to Turkey for the sake of Sc
curing the rights of American citizens and
missionaries. Well. this is angelic enough.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

AS yet no person has expressed a purpose
to submit the Wilson bill as substitute
for the Dingley bill. And there are some
reckless statesmen in Congress.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20
4 Weakness.
PHILADELPHIA Press

Philadelphia Press.
The oldest man is claimed by New Jer-
sey and his age is i25. That i one of Jer-
sey's weaknesst.f-- always 'ed1y TO lay
claim 10 any old thing.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

Ii Is said that the ways and means COM
mittee intended TO impose a duty equiva-
lent TO so per cent. ad valorem on natural
mineral waters, but the bill as passed inn
poses a much higher duty The real pur-
pose of the provision is to impose duty on
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

you said you would not be gone long"
said she, reproachfully. he came in from
the little game" at 2:30.
We'll" said he, weariedly. II came back
short anNWnN'
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

What has become of that famous con
cert Of the powers" that We We're hearing
SO much about a few weeks ago?
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

1t is about time for another .'ultimatum
from the powers.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20

Washington Pos

Washington Post.
on sober second thought the indianapolis
street railway officials decided ii might
not be good thing TO give Imitation
of Mr.. Eugene Debs.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20
Affords Variety. Anyway.

Detroit Free Press.
DO we understand that the air ship takes
the place of the ruined peach crop rs q
spring sensation?
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-20
4 Boss Needed.
Kansas City Journal

Kansas City Journal.
IL would be easier to condemn the arbi-
trary methods OF the speaker of the House
IL IL were not for the shiftlessness of the
ReedlesS Senate
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

ONE of the worst wrecks in the his
tory of the Santa Fe railroad occurred
three miles east of Emporia, Kas., on
the Sth. A dozen persons were killed
and as many more badly hurt. The
fast mail train going east and the Mex
leo and California express, west-bound.
collided head on. Three locomotives
exploded, digging a hole in the ground
deep enough to bury themselves and
several of the wrecked cars.
In official circles in Simla it is be-
the rising of the tribesmen against the
British. The general officers COM
manding report hat the Afridis have
dispersed, the ne VS. that the Zakkak-
hels are removing their families from
the Khyber district to Tirah is con-
firmed, and there is no longer any
doubt that the enemy is leaving the
Samrana territory.
THE Colorado State Historical society
will soon come into possession of the
effects of Francis Schlatter, the heal
err" supposed to have died in Mexico.
The saddle, bride and other effects of
Schlatter are now in the possession of
the district judge at Casa Grande,
! Mexico.
CoNsUL-GENERAL FITZHUGH LEE. ac-
companied by his son, arrived in New
York from Havana on the Sth. The
general said he had been suffering
from biliousness for some time past,
but he felt very much better after the
trip. He declined to discuss official
matters.
THE customs authorities at Colon
have seized 20cases of tobacco forward
ed there by the steamer Finance, Capt.
Daily, from New York, which were
down on the manifest as lard. The
duty on the tobacco is 81, 900, or twice
the value of the tobacco itself.
CoNsUL-GENERAL MARATTA reported
to the state department, on the Sth,
that for the six months ended June 30,
1897, there were received at the Mel
bourne australia mint GIG, 214 ounces
ofgold. This came from Australia and
the surrounding islands.
GEN. PANDo, who was relieved of his
command in Cuba after threatening to
slap Gen. Weyler's face, says the war,
in Cuba is a mistake. and that Capt.
Gen. Weyler is making both neutrals
and the friends of Spain more hostile
than the rebels themselves.
ACCORDING to information brought
by the steamer National City, from st.
Michaels, arrived at San Francisco on
the 7th, an immense amount of Klon-
dixie gold is on its way from the mouth
of the Yukon to San Francisco and the
sound.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

According to the state weather-crop
bulletin issued for the week ended
September Z, in the southern half of
the state the corn crop is beyond help
by rain and cutting is general. In
many places it is reported too dry to
cut. Early corn badly damaged in
some districts, especially in the south
west section, though in many counties
a fair crop will be secured, but the late
corn, as a rule, will be very light and
much of it will make little or nothing.
In the northern sections early corn has
matured very well in most counties, but
late corn has suffered severely from the
draught, and in many places the yield
will be very light.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11
ACTOR AND MUSICIAN.

Rejane will next year play Lady
Teazel in a French version of 1.-THE
School for Scandal"
1.-THE Two Migrants" has reached
Cape Town, Africa, and has beer
played there to large audiences.
Another opera has been inspired by
"Trip Van Wrinkle" The latest opened
her majesty's theater in London Sep
TENDER 4.
The theatrical business is said to be
booming in South Africa. They ere
building a new theater at Buluwayo to
cost 100000.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

Tramp Ito Salem girD-Can't you give
me 4 cup of Coffee?
Salem Girl-No; L have only cups of
china. l a give you some coffee in a
cup, however.
Tramp-Thanks, miss. And please
be kind enough to drop a cube of sugar
into the recepticle, with a spoonful of
bovine juice. Harlem Life.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11
IN DEFENSE OF HIS HOME.

H. d. Perry Dies Upon the GaIIows, His
Only Regret for His wronged Family.
ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. 9.-H. S. Perry
was hanged yesterday for the murder Of
Belly Lanier at Decatur. The execution
took place on a gallows in the yard of
the Decatur county Jail. The doomed
man was cool to the last. On the scat
fold he declared his innocence of the
crime of murder, and reiterated his
statement that he killed Lanier to pro-
tect the sanctity of his home.
If Perry felt any regrets at having
killed Lanier. he refused 10 say so
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

A SPECIAL dispatch from Paris, on
the Sd, said: 1.-The body of a beautiful
woman, naked and frightfully mutt
lated, with the skull smashed in, has
been found in the River Seine, on h
middle of whose back was tattoced the
words: Long Live Poland, and Death
to Traitors.'n
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11
FOllI'S FATAL FRUIT.
Six Lives Sacrificed to the wanton Folly Of
Three Young Companions.

oLA awe SdCEllCcu 10 the hAnLOn fOuy Of
Three Young Companions.
DETROIT, Sept. Six young men
were drowned in a yacht near Wind
mill point, l Lake st. Clair late yes
terday afternoon.
A party of ten chartered the yacht
Blanche b., and ven up the lake on a
sail. When near the mouth of Fox
creek and nearly off Windmill point,
three of the party climbed out on the
boom and commenced to rock the craft,
which. being heavily ballasted. lurched
over and cspsized, going to the bottom.
Six men who were in the cockpit
were drowned. The three youngsters
who caused the disaster and one other
were saved by a boat which pulled out
from shore. The survivors tell an in
coherent story. All agree that the dis
aster was caused by their foolish &C.
ton in rocking the craft
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11
Captured a weli-Known Teacher.

Miss Pet Vaughan, of Roanoke, one
OF the best-known school teachers in
central Missouri, was married recently
to W. IL. Morgan, a prominent farmer
of Howard county.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

In the course of an interview, ON the
Sd, on the subject of President Faure's
recent visit to st. Petersburg, Prince
Bismarck said: But for all that, the
French people are moved nearer to the
fire and might more easily than ever
boil over. This ought to deliver u
rulers from any illusion they may still
cherish, and should serve to them
against altering the basis Of our ma
tiopal defense"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

The London Daily Chronicles Ber-
lin correspondent said, on the 9th:
Fearful storms have occurred in west
ern Silesia, and the rivers are rapidly
rising and threatening fresh inunda-
tons. Several persons have been killed
by lightning, and a number of farm
houses have been burned.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

An unknown cripple threw his
crutches away in the Burlington yards
at st. Joseph. and threw himself under
the wheels of a moving passenger train.
He was killed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

UNITED STATES SENATOR w. A. HAIR
BIS, of Kansas, departed, OF the 5th.
for Washington to attend a meeting of
the subcommittee on Pacific railroads,
called by Senator Foraker for the It'll.
Senator Harris stated that a deter
mined effort would be made to prevent
the sale of the Union Pacific before
congress c~onvenes, in order hat the
government might not lose by the
transaction.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

THE republican organization OF the
city of New York, better known as the
Brookfield faction, of which Gen. Wa
gner Swayne is president, at a meeting
held on the 18th, adopted a resolution
indorsing Seth Low, the citizens union
candidate for mavor.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

Miss MILE ~CoMsToCK, a music teach
er of 0wosso, Mich, died, on the 5th,
from the effects of burns. She placed
a blanket saturated with oil around
herself and set fire to it. She had been
in poor health for some time and prep
arations were being made to remove
her to the Pontiac asylum.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

A FORMAL declaration was made by
the vatican, on the 5th, that the state
statement that Cardinal Satolli had
been designated by the pope to succeed
Cardinal Ledochowski as project of the
propaganda was pure fiction. 1t was
also declared that Cardinal Ledochow-
ski had no idea of leaving his post.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11
MISSOURI a NEWS.
st. Louis Wheat Market.

81. LOUIS, Sept. 2-Yesterday the
local market for wheat closed higher
at $3.50 to 9614c September. $3.50 to
9614c December, 9S1sc May, 94c No. .
red.
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 4.-Yesterday the
local market for wheat closed at 95ssc
September, 954c December, $3.50 May.
96$sc to 9515c No. 9 red. Following is
a comparative statement of prices yes
terday and September 5, 1894.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

The hearing of the application OF
John G. Woods at Washington for an
injunction to prevent his reduction
from superintendent of mails at Louis
Vile, KY, to a clerkship in the railway
mail service, has been postponed until
the 18th.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

THE biennial convention of the sub
Sidiary high court of the Ancient Or
der of Foresters convened in Cleveland,
o., on the 9th. The most important
business before the convention was a
proposal to add an insurance feature
to the order, which it was believed
would be done.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

JACOB WILSON, aged So, who arrived
in California as a tramp, last March,
and applied for work in Tulare county
for his board, has just received word
that the United States supreme court
has decided in his favor a suit that will
give him a good portion of a SIS, 600, 600
estate, left by his father, who disinher-
tied him,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

Newton Gingrich, of Halls Prairie,
Fulton county. while fighting fire in
his clover field, tainted and fell into
the flames, burning to death.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

In addition to DIR. Guiteras, Doctors
Murray and Carter, all yellow fever
experts, have been ordered by the Ma
rine Hospital authorities to the scene
of the alleged yellow fever epidemic
1T Ocean Springs, Miss.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

The Turkish gendarmery in Crete
has been placed under the command OF
officers of the European gendarmery,
the powers paying the expenses and
receiving therefor half of the customs
revenue
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11
VIII PrOsecute.

Labor Commissioner Rozelle is pre-.
pairing to have suits instituted against
about a half dozen manufacturing COM
panies of the state, which have abso.
lutely refused to report to him.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

A LONDON dispatch, on the 9Th, said:
1.-THE sultan has been in direct COM
m~unication with the car, and the cor
respondence has resulted in the max
ing of mutual arrangements by which
the sultan agrees never to use his in
6uence against Russia in central Asia,
and the czar pledges himself to uphold
Turkish rights in Europe"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

The election for president of the re-
public of Venezuela was held on the
I'd. Owing to the great popularity of
Gen. Ignacio Andrade, the liberal can
didate, DIR. Rojas Paul and Gen. Her
nandez, who were running in the in
terests of the conservative and pro-
gressive conservative parties, respect
lively, retired from the contest.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11
Rain Needed.

Many portions of the state report the
worst dry spell in years. Stock water
is becoming scarce, fall gardens are
dried up, late orn greatly damaged
and pasturage very short.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

The London Times correspondent
in Buenos Ayres, on the Sth, said:
THE Uruguayan rebels are within a
two days march of Montevideo. If
they make a determined attack, the
capture of the capital will be posi-
BILE, as the garrison comprises only
1000 men, and there is NJ system of de-
fenSe.n
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

Horace Wise, aged so, a farmer and
stock raiser Of Galloway county, killed
himself by shooting. Dependency,
iue to debt, the cause.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11
Aurora's Public Schools.

The public schools of Aurora opened
with an attendance of 1000 pupils and
Ii teachers, under the SUPPLEMENTARY
If Prof. Van Amburp.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

Mrs. RICHARD MnLIKEN, widow of a
wealthy sugar planter, has presented
the Charity hospital at New Orleans
with SIS, 900 to found a children's build
ing, which will include a kindergarten
and other Improvements.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11
Strong EIow of Natural Gas.

A strong flow of natural gas has been
struck - miles southwest of Waverlv,
on the farm of ex-Sheriff Durham, at
. depth of 1S5 feet.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

A dispatch from Columbia says: The
secretary of agriculture estimates the
Missouri cops for 1897 as follows: Corn,
1S3, 900. 900 bushels; wheat, 9,4OO,O 90
bushels; oats, 90, 900, 900 bushels.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

S. D. NORTH, of Boston, has been
selected by President Mckinley as the
director of the next census His ap-
pointment will be made just as soon as
the necessary legislation is passed 10y
OnDreS