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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
FELT HIS SUPERIORITY.
Considered Himself Far Ahead OF
the Police in One Respect
at Least.

"This man, your honor, was abusing every
policeman he came across" testified an off
Ger before Justice Martin in prosecuting a
hungry-looking individual who had been
taken into custody the previous evening.
We tried to avoid placing him under arrest,
but he continued his abuse until It could not
be endured any longer"
What was the worst thing he called
you?" inquired the court.
He said, your honor" was the officers
reply, that he was so much superior to any
officer he had ever seen that he would not
notice them"
The justice looked at the hungry-appear-
ing individual before him and asked if he
had uttered this SANDER against the police
officer, says the Chicago Chronicle.
Eyes, your honor" said the prisoner. land
l repeat it. l never knew a police officer
that was not a s%coundrel, ana in this one
respect I I'm superior to all of them. l can
give them all cards and spades when it comes
to separating an individual from his money
The court inflicted a fine of one dollar and
costs against the prisoner.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
RETURNING MISSIONARIES.
Report That the Chinese Are Rapid
IL Aiming Themselves With
Modern Homemade Arms.

San Francisco, Sept. 15.-Rev. J. L.
Peat end wife and four children, with
Miss Z. Hunt, missionaries who es-
capped from the western province of
China, arrived here, yesterday, On the
steamer Nippon Maru. They were
among the last of the missionaries to
leave China. They had a journey of
1000 miles across the country when
they received the American consul's
warnings to leave, but as they were
in a district where the trouble did not
begin early they encountered no vio-
lence.
Rev. Mr.. Peat saws that the Chinese
were rapidly arming themselves with
out the assistance of foreign manu-
facturers Of war materials.
"There are arsenals in the capitals
of nearly all of the provinces said the
missionary. and it is of little use now
for the powers to agree that they will
export no more weapons or ammuni-
| ton t. China. The Chinese have
learned how to make modern weapons
for themselves. At Chentu they are
turning out first class Mauser rifles
, in large quantities"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
IN OFFICIAL Showing.
Conditions at Galveston, Tex, a
Officially Reported by Mayor
Jones to Gov. Sayers.
The DEATH ESTIMATE KEEPS GROWING.
Not a Home Unscathed, and Fully
Ten Thousand People Homeless
snd Destitute-The Entire POpu-
Iation Under a Stress and Strain
Hard to Realize.

Austin, Tex, Sept. 16.-Gov. Say
ers has received the following official
report from Mayor Jones of Calves.
ton, as to conditions there:
Galveston, Tex, Sept. 14.-Hon.
Joseph ID. Savers, Governor: After
the fullest possible investigation here
we feel justified in saying to you, and
through you to the American people,
that no such disaster has ever over
taken any community OF section in
the history of our country. The loss
of life is appalling, and can never be
accurately determined. 1t is esti-
mated at 5000 to 5000 people. There
is not a home in Galveston that has
not been injured, while thousands
have been destroyed.
AccumuIntiona of Sixty Years Gone.
The property loss represents ac-
cumulations of 60 years, and more
millions than can be safely stated.
Under these conditions, with ten thou
sand people homeless and destitute,
with the entire population under a
stress and strain difficult to realize
we appeal directly, in the hour of our
great emergency, to the sympathy
and aid of mankind.
WALTER JONES,
Mayor.
X. =. HAWLEY,
Member Congress, Galveston District.
NJ. c. kIBBEN,
Commander Department of Texas.
The information reaching hero
from an official source states that re.
ports of promiscuous shooting of van.
dals at Galveston have been exagger.
ated.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
The Horseless Nightmare.

"Oh," she said, 81 had such a terrible
dream last night. 1t seemed that l had sud-
denly been deprived somehow of the power
to move. All my limbs were paralyzed, and
I lay right in the path of an automobile that
[ could see coming toward me at a terrible
rate of speed, with the lamps at the sides
O mansfsr i'k Ne s t two snG n eyes OF i so came te and +
in fearful agony, tried to drag myself out
Of the way, but was unable to move. !
tried to cry out, 30 that the man who was
running the automobile might either stop
or turn aside and avoid running over me, but
[ could not make a sound. On, on it came,
as if imbued with life and in a fury of frenzy.
I had just given up myself for lost when"
But that isn't the important part of it. BY
your experience we know that the horseless
nightmare has arrived. "-Chicago Times
Herald.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
FOR MALARIA,
CHIlLS and fever.
The Best Prescription Is Groves
Tasteless Chill Tonic.
Formula Is Plainly Printed on Every Bottle
So That the People May Know just
What They Are Taking.

Imitators do not advertise their formula
knowing that you would not buy their medi-
cine if you knew what it contained. Groves
contains Iron and Quinine put up in correct
proportions and is in a Tasteless form. The
Iron acts as a tonic while the Quinine drives
the malaria out of the system. Any reliable
druggist will tell you that Groves is the
Original and that all other so-called "Taste-
less" chill tones are limitations. An analysis
of other chill tones shows that Groves is
superior to all others in every respect. You are
not experimenting when you take Grove's-its
superiority and excellence having long been
established. Groves is the only Chill Cure sold
throughout the entire malarial sections of the
United States. No Cure, No Pay. Price, soc.
N0TE.-Ehe -soords Of tho PARIS ANeavoxne Co.,, 81. Louis.
show thaf 0v0r one and 0n0-haf million bottles Of
Groves Iasfslsss Ohm Tonic wore cold last ysar and
the sales are continually Anor0asing. The 00nohusS0n 70
Inevitable that Groves Tasfekess Ohm Tonic 10 q pre-.
sorlphk0n for malaria having genuine merit, and any
drsgpisf or obenssf will toll you 80.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
THE TRIAL OF JAMES HOWARD.
sPirator-Sensitive Col. Camp
bell-The Defense.

Frankfort. KY, Sept. 1.-THE pros
ecution concluded it's direct testimony
in the case of James Howard yester-
day afternoon. Ben. Rake, a stable
boy, corroborated Bowman Gaines as
to seeing Howard run out from the
rear of the statehouse grounds short
ly after the shooting. James F. Daley
and +. o. Armstrong testified to See
ing Howard standing on the steps of
the executive building later that
morning.
W. H. Culton, one of the alleged
c~onspirators, went over his former
testimony, which indirectly affected
Howard. He claimed that Howard ex-
hibited cartridges to him and also
pointed significantly to a broken pal
ing of the fence. Culton says he asked
Howard what he meant by this, and
the latter told him to mot ask SO
many damned fool questions" This
was the afternoon of January 30.
Culton also said that the day after
the shooting Youtsey came into the
secretary of states slice. He had
just received his salary as a clerk in
the auditors Office, and laid it down
on a table, saying:
II am going to take the number of
these bills. 1 am likely to be arrested
and if this money is taken from me L
wan to have some sort of memo
randum of it."
Culton said he asked Youtsey what
he expected to be arrested for,
IOutsey replying:
well, never mind. l am likely to
be arrested"
During the examination of wit
nesses yesterday afternoon Col. T. C..
Campbell called on the court for pro-
lection from 1.-The insulting insinua-
%tions," as he termed a reference made
to him by Maj. Owens, of the defense,
and added:
This is no time nor place for Maj.
Owens to attempt to heap insults on
me. He knows that the proper time,
if he desires to say such things to me,
is outside the court room"
The court imposed a fine of five dol
lars against Maj. Owens, of the de-
tense.
The defendant will take the stand
as the first witness in his own behalf.
He claims an alibi, and the attorneys
for the defense say they will bring
overwhelming proof that Howard was
standing in front of the Board of
Trade hotel, two squares away from
the scene of the tragedy, when the
shooting occurred.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
THE GREAT ST. LOUIS FAIR.
the Annual Season of One Week,
to Begir October I.

The great St. Louis fair will make
its fortieth bow Monday, October l.
and will run through hat week. 1t Is
promised hat it will be the most no
table in the history of the Fair as
ISOLATION.
There will be many features of
more than ordinary interest at the
fair this year, something to please
the varying tastes of all kinds and
conditions of men.
Perhaps the programme of races
for harness horses ver the big mile
track will be most talked about, as
there is a wider interest taken in this
class of sport now than there has
been for several years. A match be-
tween The Abbot-record 2:05-and
Crecius, the trotter, making a new
mile record for stations a short time
ago, is one of the probabilities. A
handsome purse has been offered for
q consent between these two kings of
the trotting world, and it is believed
that they will meet at the fair. Ana
conda, Searchlight, Joe Patchen and
other notable harness horses will be
brought here direct from the Illinois
fair at Springfield, which will be held
the last week IN September.
There will be large exhibits in the
cattle rings, and the show of blooded
horses will be especially fine. Breed
ers all over the country appreciate
the value of a trophy awarded by the
St. Louis Fair association, and they
send stock here from nearly every
state in the Union. The same is true
of agricultural products and mechan-
ical exhibits. The displays in these
lines will be larger and more diversi-
fed than in any year past.
AS for chickens, there will be more
shown at the fair this year than
there were last, and last year broke
all records in that respect. The de-
partment will be under the control of
Mr.. Henry Steinmesch, who is one of
the most ardent and expert poultry
fanciers in the west, if not in the en-
tire country. Of pigeons there will
be about 500 homers exhibited, most
VI tIlSlu DlIuS WILL ICCOIuS lOI lung
distance flying. There is great inter-
est felt in homing pigeons in the ives:
this year, not only by persons who
breed them for sport, but by those
who put them to practical use as ar
riers of messages in localities where
there are no telegraph Offices.
a novelty at the fair will be the ex-
hibits of Belgian hares. There will
be about 300 pairs shown, and the
house heretofore used for the exhibit
ton of pet animals will be devoted
exclusively to the big rabbits"
Quarters for the pets will be estab-
lished near the poultry house.
There will be a large number of
special attractions intended to please
the children and those of the adults
who lack an expert interest in live
stock, poultry and other things X
hibited at fairs. Several high-class
novelties have already been engaged
and others will be booked before
opening day. Opening day, by the
way, is children's day at the fair. All
children under IA years of age are adj
mitted free on that day. and the pub
lie schools are closed in order that
the youngster may avail themselves
of the opportunity to see the sights
gratis.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
The Plague In Scotland.

Washington, Sept. 19.-Surgeon.
General Wylnan of the Marine hos
pital service, has received a letter
from Surgeon A. L. Thomas, in charge
Of the plague inspection work at
Glasgow, Scotland, saying that up to
September Z there had been 10 cases
diagnosised as plague and two more
under suspicion. The most serious
phase of the situation is that another
focus of infection has developed at
Goyan, just outside the city limits OF
Glasgow. Otherwise the outlook ia
favorable.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
NOT GALVESTON ALONE.
The Condition of Affairs at Alvin
Calls for Relief.

Houston, Tex, Sept. 16.-The fol-
. lowing statement and appeal was
sent by L. W. King, of Alvin, Tex;
81 arrived in Alvin from Dallas, and
was %astonished and ~bewildered by the
sight of devastation on every side.
Ninety-five per cent. of the houses in
this vicinity are in ruins, leaving six
Thousand people without adequate
shelter, and destitute. Everything in
the way of crops is destroyed, and un-
less there is speedy relief there will
be exceedingly great suffering.
Must Have Assistance.
1.-THE people need and must have
assistance. Need money to rebuild
their homes and buy stock and imple-
ments. They need food-four, ba-
con, corn. They must have seeds for
their gardens so as to be able to do
something for themselves very soOn.
Clothing is badly needed. Hundreds
Of women and children are without g
change and are already suffering.
Some better idea may be had of the
distress when it is known that box
rars r being ~improvised as houses
and hay as bedding. Only IA houses
in the town of Alvin are standing IN
their foundations and they are badly
damaged.
Suffering and Starvation Imminent.
'The necessities of the people must
be met or great suffering and starSa-
ton will follow.
at is beliered that a generous pub
tic will quickly respond when they
know the dire distress among this
people. While the great sympathetic
heart of this grand nation is respond
ing so generously for the stricken
city of Galveston, it should be re-
membered, also, that the smaller
toyvns-where the same conditions OF
total wreck exists, though miracu-
lously with smaller loss of lEe-need
immediate help from a liberal peo-
pie"
The Country Strewn with Corpses.
A bulletin from Hitchcock says:
Country districts are strewn with
corpses. The prairies around Hitch
cock are dotted with the bodies of
the dead. Scores are unburied, as the
bodies are too badly decomposed to
handle, and the water too deep to
admit of burial. A pestilence is
feared from the decomposing animal
matter lying everywhere. Disinfect-
ing material is badly needed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
RESTORING THEIR LINES.
The Telegraph Companies Getting
Their Lines in Working Order.

Galveston, Tex, Sept. 16.-Tele-
graph and railroad lines are being
rapidly restored. The Postal Tele-
graph Cable Co. has four wires work
ing into the city, and within As hours
will have their system almost COM
pletely re-established to the basis Ak
listing before the storm.
The Western Union is in even better
shape, but with both companies the
stringing of wires has been but tenn
porary, time being the all-important
consideration at present.
Railroads Pushing Things
Acting in conjunction with the 9TH
er roads, the Santa Fee is bending
every energy toward the building of a
temporary structure across the bay
for the running of their trains into
Galveston and to the whErves, which
will probably be ready for the load
ing of vessels before the first train
arrives. The wharves themselves
withstood the b%uffeting of the awful
storm to a remarkable degree, and
as soon as the piles of debris are re-
moved. SHIPS will be abe to load
and unload with but little inconver.
iente.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
Tho BosniA's Trip to Frisco.

San Francisco, Sept. 15.-Almost a
record trip from the eastern coast
was made by the large steamer Bos-
mia, which has arrived in Al days and
10 hours from Philadelphia. She be,
lcngs to the Hamburg-American line
and has been chartered by the Ger
man government. The Bosnia is the
largest steamship that ever came to
this port. She will take from here
over 100 animals for the German
cavalry in China, in addition to all
the fodder they will require on tho
voyage.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
WERE MEN OF FEW WORDS.
They Managed Pretty Well, However
to Make Themselves On.
dePst0Od.

There is a little settlement of New Hamp
shire people in Kiowa county, Col. Among
other things they brought with them the
New Hampshire aversion to using any more
words in conversation than are absolutely
necessary, says the Philadelphia Record:
Two of them met on the road recently NJ
INDUCED in the following dialogue:
"Mornin', ST."
"Mornin,, JOSH"
"What'd you give your horse for bots!!'
"Turpentne."
"Mornin..n
"Mornin'."
A few days later tina men met again, and
here's the way a hard luck story was told in
mighty few words:
"Mornin', 81"
"Mornin', JOSH"
"What'd you say you gave your horse fos
bots?"
"Turpentine."
"Killed mine"
mine, too"
"Mornin'."
"Mornin'."
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
THE HOWARD M'GEE FEUD.
A Long-Expected Tragic Climax to Tennes-
SEQ Fsud Enacted In . Madi-
sonville Hotel.

Madisonville, Tenn, Sept. 19.-The
Howard-McGee feud had a dramatic
climax, yesterday, in which one man
was killed, two others fatally and an
other seriously injured.
Monroe county, the home of the
Howards and McGee, has been expect
ing yesterdays events for two years.
Jones and his brother, Joshua, had
entered the Clew hotel dining room,
which was filled with guests, Calvin
and Tom Howard entered also, and
met the Jones brothers face to face.
In an instant revolvers were drawn by
the four men and about thirty shots
were fired, the terrified guests making
their exit from the room by way of
doors and windows.
When the firing ceased, Charles
Jones was found dead on the floor
with two bullets in his heart and
three in his head; Joshua Jones and
Calvin Howard we're mOrtally wound
ed and unconscious, and Tom Howard,
the only n of the %quartette left on
his feet. had a number of bullet
wounds in his body.
Two years ago Tom Howard mar
ried a member of the McGee family
despite the strenuous opposition of
the McGees. 4 few days later two
brothers of Mrs. Tom Howard went to
Toms house. and. calling him to the
door, began firing upon him. Two of
Toms brothers. Ernest and Will How
ard, and George Morrow joined in the
fusilade, and all three were shot and
killed by the McGees. This vas the be-
ginning of the feud. since which time
it has developed and grown with in
tense bitterness. The McGees we're
arrested for the killing of Ernest and
Will Howard and George Morrow. and
their sister, Mrs. Tom Howard, re-
naming rue to her husband, testified
against them. The final trial of the
McGhees was Tor Yesterday, az
Madisonville, the county seal of Mon
roe county. The McGees and How
ards are among the best-known peo-
pie in the county.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
THE OLD BIBLE HOUSE MAY GO.
The Home of the American Bible So.
ciety for Half n Century Sue
cumbs to Competition.

New York, Sept. 15.-The old Bible
house at Fourth avenue and Ninth
street-home of the American Bible
society for nearly fifty years-is to
be sold, and the great printing estab-
lishment of the society will be given
up and the Bibles printed by con.
tract. This step has been made nee
essary by the competition of the Ok
ford and International Bible compa-
MES in England.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
SERIOUS TROUBLE BREWING.
Will Resist by Force an Effort t.
Make Them Quit Work.

Harrisburg, Pa. Sept. 1s.-Troubls
is brewing tonight in the Lykens Val.
ley region between the union and non.
union anthracite miners over the re-
tusal of the men at Williamstown to
Join the strike. The strikers in the
neighboring towns of Lykens and Wi
conisco threaten to compel the Will
JAMESTOWN men to quit work. The
men will meet force with force.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
Clara barton Mt Galveston.

New Orleans, Sept. 19.-Gen. j. B.
Vinet, president of the Red Cross So
ciety for the State of Louisiana, re-
ceived, yesterday, a telegram from
Miss Clara Barton, now at Galveston,
as follows:
Find greatest immediate needs
here are surgical dressings, usual
medicines and d~elicacies for the sick.
No epidemic, but many people are
worn out with suffering and exertion
who need tender care improper food.
CLARA BARTON"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
THE OPERATORS SIDE.

Statement by vice-President Gar
rett of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co.
New York, Sept. 19.-John B. Gar.
rett, v~ice-president of the Lehigh Val.
ley Coal Co., in an interview made the
following statement in review of the
various grievances alleged by the
United Mine Workers to exist in the
anthracite coal fields:
This company conducts no stores.
nor does it exert any influence upon
employees to prefer one merchant
above another.
No Stores, No Doctors.
at employs no doctors. and makes
no charges against its employees for
medical service to them or their fam.
tiles. Inquiry has satisfied me that
the above is also the case with the
companies generally. Semi-monthly
pay is observed by is in a few cases,
being all in which the men have de.
manded it. 1t would be observed any.
where were the demand made as
called for by the law.
The Miners ''TOn."
THE use of the word ton as ap-
piled to 1850 pounds is n misnomer;
it is simply a unit of measure, which
might be called a car or a CARLOAD.
or by any other name, and is the
quantity of actual coal, plus bone,
slate and other foreign material, for
the removal of which a certain pay.
ment is made under the agreed scale
of wages.
The Powder Question.
"The price charged for powder is an
apparent but not a real grievance.
In some regions S2.75 per keg is
charged. in others $1.5O per keg. This
of itself should be sufficient evidence
that the compensation of the miner
is set independently of the price OF
powder, as Il net return for a days
labor must be essentially the same
iii neighboring fields, whether one or
the other price is charged for the
powder.
One Company Offer.
Another evidence hat the price of
Po'N'h NoSS hot SiSdtS an i ~
the miner is shown by the fact that
when the subject was agitated, some
time ago, one of the larger companies
offered to reduce the charge for pow
der to it's then current value, provid-
ed the men consent to such a revision
of their wages as would continue the
same compensation for their labor as
they had previously received under
the agreement which was then opera.
tive.
Was Promptly Rejected.
This was promptly rejected, show.
ing that their purpose was to effect
al increase of wages, and that if
those could not be obtained, they pre-
ferred to maintain the apparent griev-
ance, which could be and has been,
from that time to this, used as q
ground of complaint of unfair treat
ment.
"Nothing Whatever Remains"
eliminating the foregoing alleged
grievances from the list formulated
by the United Mine Workers, nothing
whatever remains but a general de-
mand for increased pay and recog-
milton of the order as the agency
through which differences should be
adjusted"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
WANTED TO TELL HER.
Loves Current Wa Soon
Flowing Smoothly.

"Millie!"
The young lineman twirled his hat in his
hands in an agitated manner and spoke in .
voice that seemed to have a tendency to get
away from him, says the Philadelphia In
Quirer.
"Millie, the fact is, II-there's some
thing I've been wanting to tell you for a long
time, but l can't seem to fetch it.. When
you look at me like that, you know, it breaks
me all up. I've been coming here 50 long
that l oughtn't to be afraid, / reckon, but
you know how it is-or maybe you don't,
either. 1 thought you're a little the Invest
wire 1 ever-I didn't think it would be 70
hard when l."
Here he came to a dead stop.
"Millie!" he exclaimed, in desperation,
".I'm short circuited! I've burned out .
fuse!"
Jerry, are you trying to ask me to marry
you%
"Y-es,"
why, of course I will, you foolish boy!"
And loves current flowed unobstructedly
again, lighting up with its pure radiance the
rose-embowered pathway that, ETC., etc.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22

It is a good thing to be a man of one idea,
providing the idea is big enough.-Ram's
Horn.