Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1904-01-28
Southeast News.

hS SiA HUE Guy VI thdii&'>
ton has IN its treasury S5,692.3i.
Dexter has just completed it
elegant new public school building
Charleston will erect a $4,000
public school building this year
The night ofJanuary %, burglars
blew open the safe of the Cape
Girardeau brewery and obtained
SO. No clue to the perpetrators
April 2 is the date for demo cratic
primary election in Dunklin county
Hon. J. T. Wells, who is we'll kno own
here, is again candidate for repre-
sentative.
It has been given out that the
bridge which is being built across
the Mississippi at Thebes, will be
ready for traffic about the first of
next year.
Jesse A. West and Ed. Collins
were sentenced to the pcnitentiary
by Judge Fort at Poplar Bluff,
January IA, for forgery. Both en-
tered pleas of their guilt.
At the recent term of Circuit court
at Jackson, Absolom Kinder, who
killed his cousin Arthur Kinder
near Whitewater some three months
ago, was sentenced to ten years in
the penitentiary. His cause was
appealed to the Supreme court
Frank Coca pleaded guilty to crimi
naj assault and was given four years.
Hon. J. J. Sawyer died at his
home at Fruitland January %, aged
about 20 years. Judge Sawyer was
a prominent, highly respectable cit
lzen of Cape Girardeau county, and
was honored by the people of his
county with several responsible po-
sitions, among them that of repre-
sentative. He was good citizen
and will be greatly missed by many
relatives and large circle Of warm
friends.
Cash Book.
E. S. Miller of the Forestry, Fish
and Game Department of the
Worlds Fair, has succeeded in locat-
ing about all the specimens oftimber
he wants, and they are many and
various. He will go to work collect
ing the specimens soon. His next
work will be collecting specimens of
Missouri game and fish. He would
like to hear from any who have in
their possession any specimens Of
wild game, alive or dead, which they
are willing to dispose Of for the
Worlds Fair
Oran Citizen.
| Oran has, in the person Of J. 0.
Hess, quite mechanical genius. He
has invented tool that can be used
as an endless rule, try square, bevel
protractor, registering calipers and
is good centering square, in fact it
is valuable tool for mechanics,
wheelwrights, blacksmiths, carpen-
ters, etc It is very neat and small,
and can be carried in the vest pocket.
Mr.. Hess has fitted himself out very
nicely for making them, making all
machinery necessary for same him
self, and we trust he will find ready |
sales.
Fanin Pair, who, in company with
n negro, escaped from Jail at Perry
vile short time ago has been re-
captured and is once more looking |
thru the bars. Pair is well known
in the north end of this county. He
was sent to the reform school from |
here several years ago and if that
institution is Of no more benefit to |
others than it was to him it might |
as well be abolished. He has two |
felony charges against him now, and
from his conduct, only one conclu-
sion may be drawn and that is that
he is a confirmed criminal.
Fredericktown Tribune.
On last Friday night some Of our
young bloods went on an all night
spree and at about 4 o'clock in the
morning went into the Masonic
building and smashed the door to
the music hall and went in and slept !
there till awakened by Marshall
Casey at o'clock. For the sake of
the families, who so earnestly re-
quest it, we with hold the names.
One of the parties in the affair left
town Sunday out Of shame to face
the mayor and others, the father
agreeing to pay all the damages.
Such scenes as these are enough to
make the good people rise up and
put the whiskey traffic out Of exis-
tence. What pity to have busi-
ness ia our midst to debauch and