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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01
Mr. Rippey's Successor.

Says a Jefferson City special to the
st. Louis Republic: Who will sue
coed John Il. Rippey as secretary Of
the board of agriculture is OCCASION
ing some interest. At the next meet
ing of the board Mr.. Rippey will ten
der his resignation, after several
years of valuable service. The posi-
ton has a salary of $1,000 a year Mt
tached. and will probably be sought
by a number. At present the can1i-
dates are NJ. V. Carroll, chief clerk IN
the labor bureau, and George b. Ellis,
of Bates county. who represented
that county in the last legislature.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01
DISMASTED AND HELPLESS.
She Was Seen Drifting Ashore Near
the Wallace Sands IN. H.
Lffe-Savfng Station.

Portsmouth, n. H., Nov. 27.-The
patrolmen of the Wallis Sands life
saving station sighted a heavily laden
schooner, dismasted and helpless,
drifting ashore in the sands. A high
gale prevailed and a heavy sea was
running. The schooner vas two
masted and apparently a lumber car
rier, but her name could not be made
out. There was no sign of life on
board. The deckload had been car
ried away. The life-savers prepared
to go to the schooner as soon as she
beached.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01
Mrs. Edwards Reelected.

Mrs. Jennie Edwards has been re-
elected state librarian by the judges
of the Missouri supreme court for a
second term of four years. Mrs. Ed
wards is state president of the
Daughters of the Confederacy, having
been recently reelected to that post.
In the last year she has been actively
engaged in solidifying the %organiza-
ton and assisting in the work of rails
ing a fund to erect the monument to
the confederate dead at Springfield.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

Gen. Horace Porter, the United
States ambassador to France, has ar
rived at Tangier. 1t is said that his
visit is in connection with the set
Element of the American claims
against Morocco.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

"a serious divergence has arisen in
Pekin," says the lien Tsin CORE.
spondent Of the London Daily Mail.
Japan, the United States, Russia and
France favor demanding a milder pun
ishment than the execution of Prince
Tuan and the others, while Great
Britain, Germany, Austria-Hnugary
and Italy deem anything less than
she death penalty useless"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

The annual report of Gov. Brady
of Alaska to the secretary of the in
terror urges congressional legislation
Oh the extension of the general land
laws to Alaska, giving the natives the
same legal status as the whites. and
the representation of Alaska by a del
egate in congress.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

Mrs. Thomas Flournoy died at her
home in Philadelphia, on the night of
the ed, in her one hundred and first
year. She was the wife of Gen. Flour
noy, an officer in the war of 1912, and
her father was Maj. Roding Howell,
of Philadelphia, a distinguished sol
der of the revolution.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01
Fifteen Years for Robbery.

In the circuit court at Keytesville
DR.. j. S. Vandiventer. indicted for rob-
bling John Rodgers, living in the
northeast corner of Charlton county.
pleaded guilty before Judge Butler
and was sentenced to the penitentiary
for Is years.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

The gold deposits at the Seattle as,
say office from July 1 to November Is,
this year, amounted to $40, 1000. For
the entire fiscal year ended June 80
last the deposits at that office were
S13,630,326, and for the previous fiscal
year Sc, 5O4, 905.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

The Pan-German association has
taken up the cause of several hundred
Germans who were expelled from the
Transraal by the British. 1t an.
nounces hat it will force the gov.
eminent to make an energetic demand
upon Great Britain for adequate dam
ages"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01
Recent Deaths.

Samuel Swarts, a retired business
man of st. Louis.
Benjamin F. Nelson, supreme repor-
ter of the Knights of Honor. at his
home, 4454 Morgan street, St. Louis.
W. V. Hall, state tobacco inspector
during Gov. Marmaduke's administra-
ton, at his home in Huntsville.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

The semi-official Berliner Post de.
mands that the fifth cable between
England and Germany, the funds for
which were long ago raised, shall be
laid Immediately, asserting that
enormous damage is resulting to
German trade from the want of it."
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

Later reports from the cyclone
which struck northern Mississippi and
middle and western Tennessee, on the
Goth, show a long, and constantly
growing list of dead and injured
one statement being GA dead and 100
fnjured-with great loss in buildings,
timber and other property.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

At the Old Bailey, London, on the
22d, F. F. ~Hodgkinson, a former Brit
ish vice-consul at Bremerhaven, was
sentenced to is months penal servi-
tude for trying to sell a foreign office
code book to an agent of a foreign
power.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01
The Ch.mpion Benedict.

Tiffn, O., Nov. 27.-Edward Holden
charged with having been married Il
times and who, it is alleged. has nine
wives living, was sentenced to the
penitentiary yesterday for one ye<r
for bigamy on one of the counts.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

The official vote of Ohio for secre.
fary of state is as follows: Laylin,
republican, 543,3s9; McFadden, demo-
crat, 47s,os0; Laylin's plurality, Co.
500. Blackburn, republican, for dairy
and food commissioner, received the
lowest plurality of the candidates on
the state ticket, 63,O77.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

The official vote for governor ofMis-
souri,, as announced on the 21st, gives
Dockery, democrat, a plurality over
F1ory, republican, of 32,147. The total
vote was, Dockery, 35o,O49, Flory 317.-
QO2.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

1t was rumored in st. Petersburg,
on the 23d, that Emperor Nicholas
was threatened with lung complica-
tons which, if they exist, would ma
terially diminish his chances of recov-
cry. Inflammation of the lungs is a
common complication of typhoid in
Russia.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

The London Daily MAIL indorsing an
article in it's columns from the pen
of MI. Frederick Greenwood, founder
and first editor of the Pail Mall Ga
zette, advocates meeting the war
budget by a tax of from five to ten
per cent. on foreign manufactured i'm
ports.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01
LORAIN HARBOR IN DANGER.
A Thousand Feet of the East Pier
GOne-The West Threatened.

Lorain, o., Nov. 27.-Thousands of
dollars of damage has been done by
the storm on Lake Erie, which began
Sunday night, and it still raging. The
schooner st. Lawrence, which wen
ashore a few days ago, has been brok-
en- into pieces. The harbor is in dam
ger of distinctions. Over a thousand
feet of the east pier is gone, and the
west pier is also threatened.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01
limited States Ambassador Oh,

United States Ambassador Choate
made representations to the British
foreign office, on the 21st, on the sub.
ject of the Filipino junta at Hong
Kong. The foreign Office said it would
investigate the matter, and reply soon
as the reports of the authorities at
Hong Kong were received.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

The official count for Nebraska,
made public on the 21st, shows that
McKinley's plurality in the state is
1922. The total vote of the state was
251,99s. Of these Mckinley received
121, S35, BRYAN 114,OI3.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

Glasgow, Nov. 27.-The Cancellation
board of Scotch iron manufacturers,
have announced a five-per-cent. reduc-
ton in wages in consequence of the
reduced average of selling prices. This
is the first reduction since 1895, and in
the interval wages rose 40 per cent.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

Denver, Col, Nov. 27.-The Rocky
Mountain News prints the reply Of
Sheriff Freeman of Lincoln county,
to the letter of District Attorney Nc
Allister of Colorado Springs, Col, con-
corning the prosecution of the per-
IONS who burned the negro murderer,
Preston Porter, at the stake at
Limon, Col, recently.
Victim of Misplaced Confidence.
After telling of how he was influ-
enced into taking Porter from Dem
yer to Limon upon the assurance of
leading citizens of Lincoln county
that he would be allowed to pass
through Limon unmolested to Hugo,
where he would be permitted to place
Porter in the county Jail, Sheriff
Freeman declares that it would be i'm
possible to get a jury in Lincoln or
any adjoining county that would con-
Wet any one charged with participa-
tion in the burning of Preston Porter.
He concludes as follows:
Declines to Take Action.
81 do not justify the cremation, but
I do object to having you and Gov.
Thomas saddle the blame of this
burning on me and l will not involve
Lincoln county in a needless and
fruitless litigation against its own
citizens or give additional advertise
ment to the state of Colorado for the
sole purpose of making, as it seems to
me, political capital for somebody.
No Politics in 1t.
81 want to add that politics cut no
ice in this affair. While Lincoln
county is a republican county, the
men who participated in Ibis lynch
ing were representatives of all polit-
ical parties. When it ONE to admin
istering death to a brute who first
assaults a child and then stabs and
kicks her to death, 1 take it hat true
Americans lose sight of mere politics
and remember only that they are IA
theirs and brothers. 1t seems to me
that we would better let this episode
rest where it now is"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

Trinity college, the newly-foundeo
Catholic institution for the higher ed
ucation of women, was dedicated, at
Washington, on the ED, with impos-
ing ceremonies.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

The Shanghai correspondent of the
London Standard says that a terrible
famine is prevailing in the province
of Shensi. The government reserve
granaries are nearly empty. The peo-
pie in the Sinan Flu prefecture are
eating grass, leaves and roots. It il
said that there have been cases of can
nibalism in the mountains.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01
Arrived at Malta.

Washington, Nov. 27.-The United
States transport Buford arrived at
Malta, yesterday, en- route for the
Philippines.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

An engine jumped from a high tres
tie in Kansas City and fell into a 30
foot ditch, where the boiler exploded.
Four trainmen were badly hurt.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01

John Watson, a farmer, was killed
by driving off a bridge on the oun
try road near Boonville. Watson's
buggy slipped off the bridge.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01
THE PORTER CREMATION.
Sheriff Freeman of Lincoln County,
Col, Replies to District At
torney McAllister.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS WOULD Be FUTILE.

While Not Qualifying the Act, He
Says He VIII Not Involve Lincoln
County in Needless and Fruitless
Litigation Against It's Own Citi-
zens-NO Politics Involved.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01
Che @en1nrrat.
r.. II. ADAMS, Publisher.
CAPE GIRARDEAU. MISSOURI

Emperor William, in the name of
the German empire, will present to
Paris Germany's imperial building at
the exposition.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01
Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows.

The grand encampment of the Mis-
souri, Odd Fellows held it's fifty-third
annual session at Clinton. The MEM
bers were rendered a reception by
citizens. and were rendered a BAN
Yuet by the local lodge.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01
Pardoned by the Governor.

Gov. Stephens has pardoned Charles
E. Bates, convicted, in 1895, in Cald-
well county, and sentenced to ten
years for murder in second degree.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-01
Missouri School Statistics.

The Forthcoming report of State
Supt. Carringtonwill show the follow
ing school statistics:
Total enumeration OF school chill
dren .......... .......... .......... 9S6,6ss
Total enrolment in all public
schools $500. ........... .......... 691. 669
Average daily attendance ........ i4G,G9l
Amount spent for all public
school purposes .................. 1916, OI3
Number of teachers employed 80. 15.6222
Average salary paid teachers. 1870
Estimated value of school prop
erty 1880. .......... ........s 16,3 1-6
Average levy on 800 for school
purposes -. ...... ............ -.
Total state school and seminary
funds ...... 800. ................s 4,39:,157
Total county township and spe-
cial fund .......... ................ S.I51. SIS
Total permanent school funds. 81, 5i3. J34
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03
~A1@Il@ LIKE GOOD TEMPER
FRANK WANAMAKER'S CASE.
The Jury Returns Verdict of Not
Chilly.


Frank F. Wanamaker who was put on
trial Thursday in Criminal Court No. l,
charged with obtaining money under false
pretences, was yesterday acquitted of The
charge
According to the defendants statements,
made in his own defence, he has on other
occasions been charged with similar
offences in other places. The principal wit
ness for the Government was Miss Hattie
Lewis who stated that Wanamaker, by
false representations, induced her TO pawn
two diamond rings in order TO obtain
money which she loaned to him. When
the jury returned the verdict of not guilty,
Miss Lewis was In court, and as Wana-
maker passed her on his way out of the
room, il is stated she remarked TO him,
Now you can go and swindle other wo-
men,
According to the testimony offered by
the Government Miss Lewis met the de-
PENDANT here last December and together
they went to live at an uptown hotel,
where they remained for a month or more.
Miss Lewis alleged that 'yanamaker rep
resented himself to be part owner of
ranch in South Dakota and stock farm
in Kentucky. That he was also interested
in the rubber business and that his BUSH
ness in Washington at that time was TO
secure a patent for a certain kind of rub
ber' horse shoe.
Wapamaker testified in his own defence.
He is a smooth, easy talker, has re-
markable memory for dates and circum-
stances of detail. For more than an hour
he occupied the attention OF the court and
jury with the story of his life. He ad-
mitted getting the amount, $50, claimed
from the prosecuting witness, Miss Lewis,
but stated that it was not obtained through
any false representations, and. further
more, that it had been doubly and trebly
repaid He said he first met the prose-
cutting witness in Connecticut. where he
knew her as Mrs. Hattie Hill
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03
CRUELTY TO A CHILD.
William Wooden Gets the Extreme
Penalty of Law.

In the Police Court yesterday Judge
Kimball imposed a sentence Of eleven
months and twenty-nine days in Jail upon
William Wooden, twenty-four years of
age, who was arraigned on a charge OF as
saulting Alphonse Lewis. aged three years,
Thursday afternoon. The assault took
place at the home OF the child's parents,
116 Pierce Street northwest, and resulted
in the boy being severely burned. 1t is
claimed that he was placed upon a hot
stove by Wooden.
The cries of the child attracted its
mother and she rescued it. After hearing
the case Judge Kimball gave the accused
the extreme penalty of the law.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03
Alleged Result of n Political Row.

George johnson, colored. was hit in the
head with a brick, said to have been
thrown by his brother. Isaiah, during
family quarrel shortly after s o'clock last
night He was hurried to Freedman's Hos
pital by the police and there received
medical attention. His condition is not
serious
The disturbance took place at the John
son home, 1924 Reeves Street northwest.
and resulted from a political dispute
When the police reached the house Isaiah
Johnson was placed under arrest and lock-
ed up at the Second precinct station
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03
William McGuignn Missing.

The police have been requested to LOOK out for
William Michigan, twenty-one years Of age,
who disappeared from the Windsor Hotel at
Piedmont, W. Va, January Is last. No cause
is apparent to friends of the missing for his
action, and Apprehension is felt lest he should
have met with foul play. Information received
in this city describes McGugan as about hNe
feet six inches tall, weighing 40 pounds with
dark hair and blue eyes.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03
Miss Machen,s DOLLHOUSE,

The doll house constructed by Miss Terese
Josephine Machen, S0ls Thirteenth Street, to be
disposed OF for 81 600 for the benefit OF the Sa-
cred Heart Church of this city. is exhibition
at Eleventh and Streets. So much interest
is being taken in the unique little concern, which
contains all the rooms and necessary furniture OF
any house, that the walk is repeatedly blocked
with curious IL en- and women anxious to get I
glimpse at il.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03
A SERIOUS ACCUSATION.
One Brother Charges Another With
Shooting mt Him.

Charles Newtor, colored, twenty-one
years of age, is locked up at No. 2 station,
charged with assault to kill his brother,
Richard Newton. He fired one shot at his
brother about 1880 o'clock yesterday
morning. The shot did not take effect.
Richard Newton lives at ITO Pierce
Street northwest. He conducts an eating
house there. Charles Newton has been in
his brothers employ. Yesterday morning
a difficulty arose and Charles was dis
charged. Later he secured revolver, and.
going to the street, fired at Richard, who
was standing in the house. Charles fed
but was captured after a short chase. He
will be arraigned in court today.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03

Columbia Theatre-Richard Mansfield in The
First Violin" afternoon, DIR. Jekyll and Mr.
HYDE evening.
National Theatre-Henry Miller in The Only
Way" afternoon and evening
Lafayette Square Opera House-Strakosch Com.
pany in Faust afternoon and evening.
Grand Opera House-Behman Vaudeville Com
pany; afternoon and evening.
Academy OF Music-''The Queen Of Chinatown"
afternoon and evening
Kernan's Lyceum Theatre-ReHtz- Santley Com
pany; afternoon and v'ning.
willard Hall-Movng Pictures OF the Passion
Play; evening.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03
Locked Tn on Suspicion.

The theft Of about s. in money from the
residence OF Mrs. Alice Carroll, 703 C
Street northeast, was reported TO the police
last night. In making complaint of the
robbery Mrs. Carroll told the police of a
person suspected of the theft. and late last
night John Sharp, colored, was taken into
custody and locked up at the Ninth pre-
cinct station on suspicion.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03

In the case of Minnie Washington against the
c. ]. McCubbin Company for $500 damages.
tried before Justice Bradley yesterday the jury
rendered a verdict for the defendant. The plain
tiff alleged that on December o. 1897 she fell
into an opening in the pavement in front of the
defendants place Of business. 423 Tenth Street
northwest. and seriously injured. The plain
tiff was represented by Messrs. Drew and Miller
and the defendant by Hamilton and Colbert.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03

horse attached to a grocery wagon owned
by F. \. shelve, and driven by William Hard
esty, OF 1878 Twenty seventh Street northwest, ran
away about yesterday and eollided at the
corner OF Eleventh Street and Pennsylvania Ave
nue. northwest with 4 cart driven by James Lacey,
who lives at 1011 Street southeast. Lacey
hurt, but able TO go home without
medical aid.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03
George Horne surr.nders.

George Horne, colored, about twenty-five years
of age, who made his escape from pcstofhee IN
spccto-s while under arrest at Linden, Nd,
Thursday afternoon. surrendered himself to In
ennctor Owens. of the Postofice Department at
linden last night A reward OF $50 had been
offered for his capture. and the local police had
taken steps to arrest him should he come to this
CITY The prisoner is charged with robbins a
nostoftce in Montgomery county, Md. it is
said. and he will probably be taken to Balti-
more today and placed in Jail.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03

Eli Thomas Cullison, who IS being sued for
divorce by his wife, Emma Cullison, COM
mitted to jail yesterday for contempt of court Icy
Justice Hagner who has the case under con
sideration. Tie particular charge against Guilt
son is that he refused 10 obey order OF the
court requiring him 10 pay alimony to his wife
during the pending o; her suit for divorce. Be
sidoas this he failed TO pay her counsel lees
both items amounting to SleI50. According to
the order OF commitment Cullison will be COM
PEELED to remain in Jail until be pursses himself
OF the Contempt by complying with the order.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03

The following deaths for twenty-four hours
were reported at the Health Department up to
noon yesterday: Sister Anna Maria snowden, &c
years; George H. Gates g. years; Ferdinand
Schwiehtenberg IS years; Sarah Brown. % years.
Charles W. Washington, As years; JaHes Holmes,
46 years; Hogard Perry, - years Eilzaneth
PepnifIl. ~ wears; Mary Mercer. SO years; How
ard N. Shuster, 20 years; Louisa Gaaher, 20
years: Joseph P. Howes. years; Beatrice Stuart,
5 years, and Addie Brown, days.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03
The VIII of the Late Jane Lowry.

The will of Jane Lowry, dated January 81,
1900 was filed yesterday Tor probate. The test
trix left all her estate to her husband. Alfred
Lowry, during his life time Upon his death
the estate is to be divided between the deceased's
sister brother, and nephew.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-03
BaId,s Application Refused.

At the recommendation OF 7. P. Bradshaw, In
spector of Buildings the District Commissioners
have refused permission to Frank Bald to occupy
space on the sidewalk adjoining the Traders Ma
tonal Bank, for business purposes. Mr.. Bald 5
application states that he proposed TO use a
small portion of the space for place IN which
10 take orders for printing.