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DEMOCRAT. BEX II. ADAMS, Publisher. CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1892. VOL. XVI.---NO. 50. J I E CAPE GIRARDEAU 1 XNtiKLM AK5. ATTORNEY AT LAW AJNTl) CITY RECORDER Ofaee at Hon ea Haraoay StrMt, OAPB GIRARDIAkV BO, a & HARRIS, Physician and Surgeon OSIne In wo) Trlckrf"a Om atom, ma -m iiwnof na hpt&m streets. OSM Giranlxsu. Fpeiil UMntlom (tna M nurgarj ana u.mm of ni4lH. TT? H. A. ASTHOLS, eaueiai t Bnualag and Lorn I m stifles. NOTARY PUBLIC. eeretsiy Soutliern Dtntrlot arel Boonttr. Q&ot, Court-boum. Do Your Insurance Business In company wbow mora la the put: uartolM tor la. future, lama talk. HOME. OP KEW TORE. LEO DOTLS, ' ' Agent, North Mala Street, (Jape OlrarOMa, N. WICHTERICH, Oape Girardeau, Ma. A met for tb fellowlng Reliable Companies : Franklin Mutual, of Bt Louie. i ntliens' Insurance ftornpanr, St Louts -w.niieil loniraac Compear, 8prlaa- The are three eftbe bestead I aump.ni'1 In the country. t rellSDle deo.. CONRAD KEMPE, Dnln la DIIY GOODS AND . GROCERIES. Went rode rrcHwl workir, Oroosrtea al- fiA-h. Hon com or of Fountain ana War atony hutttia. now. CHRIST. KRUECER, liUTCHER. Phni oil Main street, one door south of tba rrwon it hi sc. All kiniln or Kfih Meats and Saiisaa-a ai rnyH on baud. Delivery wagon run ever nurniug. juiyja. E. I). ENGELJIANN, Dealer tn neiy, Dry Goods GROCERIES. No. M Banaoay ftrot, CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI. T. W. VOGT, Stoves ill Tinware. IaaepMiaenm 9tre Cape Girardeau, Mo. I Rnttm new nook, the latest tamrorsd ant tpt Conking and Hea'ttiff htoTe. la tbe mar. let. All kind, of Job work dene In tb. bMl Banner ana ai moaorate prtooa. ROOFING AND C UTTERING A peotalt' and work (uaranteed orftlsae. ADOLPH LIST, MeohaakMl and Burtioal tooes all kinds of work la hla Una, and guar ante ail work don. Oflleo at residence, ooraer Harmony aod Lo firmer Strec's. EDW. S.LILLY Daalen la HAEDWAEE, Iron and Steel, IgriciM Impleiiisiils, IK It Acent ot la. . HAZARD POWDER COMPANY. DoaloriupaUeaat WhsMaLa Mom. ST and 39 SUIa Street, CAPS OIRARDHATJ. MO. RIDER C WICHTERICH. DRUGGISTS ! North Main Strret. A foil aaa nahm aaaaf ' Orogat PMDt Medloinea, ' Pertnmery, Toilet AxUelea, StattonwTt Vottatat, ' Eta I. DE1VTIST William lIiNfHni.ii.-r, the thirteenth viitim of the Central theater fire Philadelphia. Hied in the 10th, in the Pennsylvania hospital. ".:. TV. TUnrKB and Mary E. Ire land, of Valparaiso. Ind., who were married t n-cnty-fivc Tears ago, have just announced the fact. A special from Caracas Venezuela, rays two more attempts were made, on the l-Jth. to Mow up government build- injrs with dynamite bombs. Sfxatoii IlARRorR. of Virginia, died Middcnlv and r;uile unexpectedly at his residence in ashington at 8:30 o'clock on the morning? of the 14th. Skntor Sawvir intrndnccd a bill. on the nth. prepared at the. post office department, creating a new grade of letter carriers to receive 1,800 per an num. QntEX Kr.nr.Trr Christiana or SrAt- has conferred npon Mrs. Grnbb, wife of the United State, minister, the insignia of the order of Maria Louise for nohle ladies. Thk net cash in the treasury had de creased to fi9.OOD.ooo. on the 14th, of which 14.0O0.OO0 is in subsidiary coin and ls.250,000 in national bank deposi taries. .TrnoK Xelsox, of the I'nited States district court of Boston, has qnashed the first indictment found against the T husky trust officials, Joseph li. Green- hut and others. Kir.HT hundred members of the Meth odist Episcopal eonferene in session at Omaha, made an excursion to Lin- Icoln. Neh.. on a special train of fifteen coaches on the 14th. Mayor Mvkrs of rpper Sanduskr. O.. dnppcd dead from heart disease on the night of the 10th. He was elected mayor of the city at the recent spring election. He was 10 years of aire. Mr. fSi.AnsToxr. anticipates an early dissolution of parliament, and has writ ten to his constituents in Midlothian: In mv opinion I will ask the electors for their votes, before the end of June.'' Thk Tjrkish minister of public works has reqwsted the prte to address a cir cular to the provincial authority's in viting" them to M'n'l samples if their articles and industrial products for the rhiraffo fair. Mrs. A. B. SpoFFoHn. wife of the li brarian of congress, died in Washington of pneumonia, on the 11th, after a week" illness. She was a native of Massachusetts, but has lived in Wash ington since lW'i. TnE great bridge across the Missis Rippi river at Memnhis. Tenn.. was formally opened, on the I'Jth, in the presence of one of the largest crowds that ever assembled in anv city of the south. Senator Voorhees delivered the oration. Ti Ai.m K. Tahik, late cashier of the Painesville (O.) national hank, sen tnceil for tn yars for foTyinsf a 0(Ki not4 on the Illlprters, and Traders" national hank of New York citv. was rHeived at the state prison at Colum bus n the loth. A ci;k.t linnhfr raft, carryinjr loo persons, men. women and children, who lived on board during the trip down the rn-er I la nn Ik, was wreckid on snap's near ItnMlv. in (ialicia. dnrinir a hiirh wind on the loth, and si.ty f those on lHiard were drowned. .TnmF Ixcraham, in the supreme court of New York, rendered decisions in the suit brought bv Karon 1(1 arte ajrainst his wife and the wife's suit afraint the Litifue Manufacturinp; Co. on the 12th. In lnith raws the judffe decided in favor of the liaroness. The business failures ocenrrinjr throughout the country, durinK the seven davs ended on the i:sth. number. for the I'nited States, 150, and for Can ada or a total of 1."; ns compared with 207 the previous week, and 2i!7 for the correspondinfr week of last year. A iloAXTir cotton compress deal in New Orleans has been declared ofT by the agent who secured options on eighteen of the twenty presses in that city. London and New York capitalists were supposed to be behind the deal, but failed to respond with the money. Thk speaker laid before the house, on the t:tth, a communication from the secretary of the interior, submitting an estimate of deficiency 5a the appropria tion for army and navy pensions for the current fiscal year of 7,o74.33-i, and recommendinff that this deficiency be supplied from an unexpended balance of ,K34,070. Ifis Mouse, of Ilangor. Mich., 88 Tears old, and Mrs. rha'be Macombimr, of Ovid. Mich., Sfi years old, have just been married. Sisty-flve years ajro they were lovers, but cruel fate interposed. He has four divorced wives living, and is her sixth husband. Since January 1 last two of her ex -husbands have died and two are still living-. Ox the 13th the I'erry Lumber Co., of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., purchased 192 square miles of Canadian Indian reser vation land about forty miles above that city. The bonus paid for the ripht to cut tiinlx-r was f-'ifl.OOO. and in addition this there will be timber roy alties which will make the deal reach into the millions. The timber on the land is pine, spruce and cedar. Thk will of the New York banker AiifrnstuR Konntze was filed for probate on the 12th. After amply providing for the widow, Herman Kountze, brother of the deceased, receives in trust the Konntze addition to the city of Omaha, reserve block, containing thirty lots, and KO.noo in cash which he is to give to the general synod of the Lutheran church of the I'nited States to found a theological seminary on the block men tioned. The deep-water convention at Mem phis, Tenn., made up of delegates from Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas Tennessee and Kentucky, was called to order, on the -lltb, by Judge J. T. Latham, who welcomed the delegates. Got. Buchan an responded. The object of the con vention is to' secure deep water as far as Memphis in order that ocean steam ers may arrive and depart from that wharf at any season of the year. Johx A. Adams, commissioner oi pun lie works of Brooklyn, has brought suit against the New York Times lot (50,000, He alleges that the paper pub liahed a statement on January 5, 1891, reflecting on his actios in awarding thi ?qt ler contract NEWS AND NOTES A Summary of Important Events. FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Ix tb n-tt, on th 10th, the bill to change too leoarKtMi-irf) rf Yfillowxtooe park wai patt-wX The rest of the dsy was taken no in eXfrntlTe sesslnc In thi boano n-rertl rranlatioaa ir pnnttnir vanoas fforprnment reports. ciartiaz toe thirteenth annaal i-(ort of the IP,,olo(-iTU e-arrey. the fish comraiuiioii-rft r Irt for 191, and the laxt report of the hnrean oi aninuu lDrtu.try wern rowed, and the bonvs then pmcerded to roonWer the sundry civil ap propriations bill. Kr. Dinf-Iey. of Maine, closing me aeoaie. I -j the arnate. on the 11th, the passage of bill-, from the calendar occupied the time until 2 oVlortthenniahiderof the day beta spent mezmiire sesima ottt the French eztradi tton treaty In the boose the whole session was devoted to the further considerattos the sundry civil bill The general debate was cjosea. Ire the senate, ea tha ttth. the naval appro priation Ul was tonjfcleied and disposed of un til the clause to tecrease the navy and for the piupuwrd new battle sblpa was reached, when discussion on these disputed matter was post poned, and the senate went into executive ses sion In thelboeseoonnideratiGn of the sun dry civil bill was continued, about twenty-live pages bring covered. Pmviaions tnsertei by the committee oa appropriations that arttrlps imported for use of the lirbthouse establish mentand the National museum should bead mitted free of duty were stricken out on point of order made by Mr. Barrows, repablfmn, of Mrrbi-rna. that tbry were not germane, did not reduce expenses and changed exintiDs? laws. Is the senate, on the 13th, Senators Hherman and "orkrll gave emihatic warnlne against th prevailing extravagan'-e of appropriations. 3Jfrs. (tor-nan and others made notable siK-rb-s on the proposed amendments to the naval appropriation bill, for the continnaoceof th- work of reconstructing the navy In the bouse the entire day was spent in (filibus tering aicainwt a private bill, which came over as UDflniMbed ImKtness from the Atb. and there fore wa entitled to consideration. It was Mil for the relief of the birs of H. H. and ( 'harlottne K. Sibley and has occopif-d the at noon oi ths boose for several surces?ive Fri'iays. The senate was not In session on the 1 Ith. In the bouse, in his opening prayer, the chap laiu referred feelingly to the death of Senator Barbour. After the reading of toe journal, the nnonnrraitut of Senator Barbour's death j followed by th appointmnt of a commit ee of twelve to attend the funeral, and as further mark of respect the bouse adjourned. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The president, Mrs. Harrison. Mrs. Iimmiek and V. Parker left Washing ton, on the 12th, for Virginia lleach, Va. :ex. Okesrkr, the prefect of police of St. IVtersbiirg. who was poisoned in a mysterious manner, as is supposed by nihilists, died on the Uth Engi.axi has accepted the invitation of the I'nited States to a bi-metallic congress. The Oxfonl sugar refinerv at Orecn oek, Scotland, was destroyed by fire on the 10th. I.oss, l"-JI,000. The special committee of the Belgian senate having the matter in charge has passed a resolution f;i-oring certain propiscd constitutional reforms. Many of the senators disagree on the pro posals, and animated tleliates are ex pected. The Chilils-Drexel home for aged and indigent printers was formally dedi catcd, in the presence of an immense throng of visitors, at Colorado Springs, Col., on the 12th. The Wollaston foiindrv at Quinev, Mass. , was burned on the 12th. Loss. $70,000. New Mexico's magnificent capitol building at Santa Ye was totally de stroyed by fire on the 12th. Loss, 2.10.- otm. When the citizens saw there was no hope of saving the building, they stripped the two lower floors of furni ture, carpets, law library, and every movable article. Thk Cheyennes are off their allot ments in Indian territory and are driv ing white settlers off their claims. The Indians claim that they never signed the treaty of sale of their lands, and that if the white settlers do not leave the country inside of ten days they will he driven out. The Indians are all armed. At the town of Cheyenne line of guards surround the town da and night, and the citizens have re quested that troops be sent for protec tion. The president has under considera tion the selection of the two arbitrators to represent the I'nited States in the settlement of the Itehring sea question. The indications are that one of the arbitrators will be from the I'nited States supreme bench, with the chances strongly in favor with the selection of Mr. Justice Harlan. It is said that the president has already requested him to act m behalf of the i nited States, and that he has practically consented to serve. H. L. Si-ott, representing a Philadel phia syndicate, has succeeded in get ting a bond on the Miller, O'llrien & Connors group of tin mines at Hear Gulch, eighteen miles northwest of Pcadwood, S. I). Some of the mines are well developed, one of them, the Cleveland, showing a 60-foot body of ore carrying cassiterite in paying quan tity. Mr. Scott announces his syndicate will put up a plant capable of treating 500 tons of ore a day. Ornixo the pyrotechnic exhibition on the Mississippi at St. Louis, on the night of the Uth, in connection with the A. O. U. W. celebration, Mattie Stoffel and an unknown man were crowded from wharflxats into the river and were drowned. I'OSTV AHTE8-iEXFRAL WsXAMAKER has received an unsigned and undated letter containing tlO.000. In his letter the writer says: "This is the balance of interest I owe of the sum I took from the government in ISA5. I have now paid principal and interest, in all tiT, 700. No man has suffered more for his crime than I have, and I now pray the Lord's forgiveness for my sin." A com i-ast has been organized for the construction of one of the largest arti ficial reservoirs in the world. The site taken is the Kox canyon, 400 yards be low the junction of Tonto creek, and Salt river, in Arizona. The height of the dam is to be 200 feet, and the back water will extend sixteen miles tn the Sierra A nch mountains, making a ca pacity, according to report of the coun ty surveyor, of 103,058,040,800 cubic feet of water. Mrs. Nasct Christt, colored, cele brated the one hundredth anniversary of her birth at llarrisburg. Pa., on the 12th. She was born in Mercersburg, Franklin county. May 11, 1792, and re moved with her husband to Harrisbnrg In 1855. Until she was 18 years old she worked on a farm near Mercersburg, and attended school in the winter. Mrs. Christy has been blind for the past four years. Rt. Hox. J. W. Lowthu, parliamen tary under secretary far the British for eign office, said in the house of com mons, on the 13th, that the report of Carroll D. Wright npon the effects of the McKinley tariff would be placed in the library of the house of commons as soon a received from Amerkja, Joiiji lioKTTCHER. an aged German resident, committed suicide at Wilkes- harre, I'a..- on the 12th, by shooting. Two months ago he sold a small farm for a nominal sum. A week before his suicide coal was disiivcrcd on the land. which increased its value to (15,000. The discovery of this fact so preyed on His mind that he became partially in sane. As English firm has bought an acre of land, two block.-, from the Singer works at Elizalictbmrt, N. J., for the manufacture of axininster and wilton carpets and rugs of the finest quality Os the 12th Frederick Allen, colored. aged 103 years, died at Kichmond, Ind. It is claimed he was the oldest citizen of Indiana. He came west in 1X15 from Virginia, and often related his observa tions of (ieorge Washington, whom he personally knew. The steamer Cohcmangh, bearing flour, grain and provisions from Amer ica destined for the famine sufferers of Russia, arrived in Kiga roadstead at midnight of the 12th. At 5 a in. the work of discharging the vessel began, being pushed as rapidly as possible. Jack Poweks. Jr., and J. C. and L. H. Hall were buried in a cave-in in the Old Tunnell mine at Cherokee. Cal., on the 13th, and instantly killed. The Halls were natives of Montana. Elijah CiiEyKin, the murderer of Deputy Sheriff Culpepper, was hanged at Washington city on the l:;th. The prop"s.-il to hold a "World's Fair in lleilin is lieginning to attract considerable attention, and scarcely a week passes without meetings to dis cuss the question. The Iminas sale of pictures in Paris continues to excite great interest Caret's "Paison a Cheval" brought 40,- 000 francs, the buyer being DurandrueL Thk Silver Lake lee Co.'s immense ice house at Perry. N. V., was burned to the ground early on the morning oi the 14th, and OO.Otio tons of iee was de stroyed. The buildingeost about (l.V,- ooo and the total loss amounts to aliout J2.S0.000. Ax agent named Hrondct, Mrs. Niel sen, a milliner, and Mrs. Wahrmann, a widow, have been arrested in Altona, Prussia, charged with carrying on an extensive system of stealing from the luggage of American travelers. I;akon Fava. the Italian minister to the I'nited States, arrived in New York, on the lath, on Ia (tascogne. His ar rival was made the ix-casion of a dem- uistration on the part of the Italian residents of Nev York. The returns issued by the Paris board of trade show that during the month of April the imports decreased 47,s21,000 and the exports 18.:a'l.nuu francs, as compared with the corresponding month f last year. (ex. Thoh. A. IIowi.ev was found lead in his bed at his late resideni-e in Pittsburgh. Pa., on the morning of the 1th. Ills sudden death is attributed to icart failure. The situation along the Mississippi river and its tributaries up to the morn ing of the ltith was of an alarming nature. Hundreds of thousands of acres were inundated and the pnspectji for crops mined on he farms, while in the cities the desolation carried among le inhabitants of the low lands was something terrible to contemplate. The waters were not expected to begin re ceding for several days. One of the robln-rs who held up the Kcdding and tleavervllle (aL) stage, and murdered the messenger, was cap tured, on the Kith, 400 yards from the scene of the robliery. He was founil lying in a ditch almost exhausted. He gave the name of "Arizona Charley Kaiii.v on the morning of the :5th Fred C. Pillslniry, one of the members of the Pillsbury-Washburn milling syn- licate and a well-known horseman died at Minneapolis Minn., of malig nant diphtheria. Mr. 1'illslmry was mint :W years of age, a son of ex-Mayor (corgc a. riiistinry ana a nepnew oi ex-!ov. John S. Pillshurv. Two iirxiiREP steerage passengers on the r n-nt-h steamer l.a taseogne re detained at New York harlior under suspicion of lieing contract laliorers. Anoi ih McIver and William Minkle were killed and James Abbott fatally urt in the Ilnimlummon mine at Hele na. Mont., hy a cage on which ther were riding failing seventy feet. LATE NEWS ITEMS. I x the senate, on mo ltith, no busi ness was transaeb-d except such as was ncidental to the funeral services of the late John Harbour, of Virginia In the house the session was interrupted y the funeral scrvii-esof the late Sena tor Harbour, the representatives pro ceeding in a liody to the senate cham ber hcadiii by Speaker t nsp. 1 ho iousc returned at 1:40 and proceeded ith the consideration of the sundry civil hill, and covered ten jrages in com mittee of the whole and then ad journed. Thk supreme court of the United States has unanimously decided that the issue by the ICaltimore Ohio road of what arc known as "party -rate tick- et, for the transportation of ten or more persons on one ticket, at a re duced rate, arc not in violation of the provisions of the inter-state commerce law, and therefore may be continued. Justice Brown announced the decision. Thk victory of M. Tricoupis in the election for the Greek boule is over whelming. One hundred and seventy of his supporters were elected, whileall other parties have only thirty-seven. The result has caused a tremenaous sensation. The existing ministry has resigned. Joiix D. Rockkfeij-er, of New York, has donated (."lO.ono to the endowment fund of the Tabernacle church m Sec ond avenue. New York, in fulfillment of a .promise made last Thanksgiving day to Rev. Pr. Daniel C Potter, the pastor. A cvri.oxK strucic Lircievine. n. on the 15th, badly damaging several churches while services were in pro gress and frightening the worshipers badly. Much damage was aone 10 pri vate houses, factories and stores. Hkrr GiRi-orr, an employe of the Berlin Rothschilds, was arrested.on the 16th, for alleged complicity in the steal ings of Jaeger, the chief cashier of the house, who recently absconded with 1, 700.000 marks. Wabxkb's institute, in Brooklyn, be longing to the Zoelner Mannerchor, and occupied, also, by several stores and a branch of the post office, was de- troyed by fire yesterday, causing a loss of (150,000. Mrs. Thos. Dowhiho laid her neck across the rail Jn front of an approach ing train at Rochester, N. Y., on the 15th, and was decapitated by the wheels of tbe engine and tender. Thbkb easea of smallpox and one of typhus fever were reported to the health authorities of New York city on th IStb MISSOURI STATE NEWS. Rewards for Taney Conoty llarderera Got. Francis has issued the following proclamation: George T. Williams, deputy sbrriff of Tan? county, was murdered at t orsyth by a body o4 armed men whilst attempting, in the discharge ol b duty, to prouct a prisoner from mob rk lenee. Tbe prisoner, John W. Briirhta was im mediately thereafter forcibly taken from the Taney county Jail at Forsyth and fcanteed. By rirtue of am hortty vested in me, I. Dartd R Francis, porcmar of Missouri, do hereby offer a reward of W0 each for the apprenenidou ot the parties, ettber as pruiripalsor accssonea, in tbe perpetration of these maiden. Baid re wards will be paid upon ron-nrtion. David R FaaMCia, Governor. Found Dead Beside m Hotel Table. W. M. Lemon, proprietor of the Troy I'M nnrsenea, died (suddenly at the hL Charles hotel in St. Joseph. Not ap pearing at the hreakfoKt table in the morninfr, a hoy was sent to his room. Repeated raps brought no response, ami iv Ken hc mesrsenjrer entered the room he found Lemon sitting at a table upon which lay an unfinished letter to hit wife. An examination revealed that the man had been dead six or eight hours. Paying- I'enslona. Five or six hundred pensioner were In line in St. Iouis the other day. stretching from the door of the sulk treasury to the pavement below and fillinjr all the corridors of the federal building from 9 o'clock in the morning to 3 in tbe afternoon. Something over riW.OOO were paid out to them. The crowd was so great that special police had to lie detailed to keep the Hn straight and orderly. Rock port iencral Merchant Fall. The firm of R. Hunter Jk Bro., genera! merchandise and stock dealers, at Rock port, has failed. The liabilities are esti mated at c7..000, and assets at about $40,000. This is oncof the oldest firm? in northwest Missouri and has been do ing business since !oo. The failure b attributed to losses in stock deals. Sev eral wholesale houses of St, Joseph lose heavily, as well as banks and citizens ol Eockport- Shocked by Lightning-. Tim tlallivan, section foreman; Mar tin ( rain, a switchman, and Pat Shee han, a section man, occupants of a rail road shanty at Sedalia, were severely injured during a recent storm, lightning striking the shanty, (.allivan's injnrie are likely to prove fatal, but the other two men will recover. King's Iran glit rr and Rons. Much interest is bcinc manifested in ; the first state convention of King Daughters and Sons to lie held at I TVrtle Springs in August next, and the bureau of information in St, Isouis i receiving inquiries from all parts of the state m relation to the nirangcruents. fount r Officer" orlty. An effort is Wing made looking to the organization of a soriety composed of the oftlcers of the various counties ol the state, and circulars to that end are being mailed from Sedalia by Circuit rierk Fowler and Count v Recorder Tilkington. A Ooecr Mixture. Susie Clark, a handsome-looking wom an of about-attempted suicide at St, Joseph, a few days since, by swallowing red dye antl a lox of mercurial oint ment. The mixture made her very sick. Her lever had deserted her. Acta as a Htay. George Schaeffer, alias "Crazy George, who was to have been hanged in St. Louis, May 20, will get a new lease of life, having taken an appeal to the supreme court. He killed Henry Ora tton in January, I8tf0. Kxecntlve Appointment. Joseph J. Russell, of Mississippi coun ty, has been appointed by Gov. Francis to nil a vacancy in the board of man atrcrs of the Fulton lunatic asylum. His commission will expire February 1, lsi3. Took M Rough on Kits. 1'eter Gannon, with a wife and two children, made an effort in St. Louis re cently, which has prolKibly proved suc cessful, to shift his responsibilities by the aid of a dose of 'Rough on Rats.' Stat Vnlserslty Innuraarce Paid. The insurance companies have paid the insurance on the burned university buildings at Columbia. The insurance was tl5U..V0. and the companies paid 5146,oi , there being some salvage. Memorial Day Arrangements for the observance of memorial day in St. Louis are practical ly completed. Gen. A. .1. Smith will be grand marshal, assisted by Col. Nelson Cole and Col. John It. Gandolfo. A Fine Church Rnjldlng. At Sedalia the other day the corner stone was laid for the Sacred Heart Catholic church. The building will be erected this year at a cost of 40,000. None Seriously llnrt. A scaffold at the KansasCity auditor ium, on which were several hundred children, fell, but none were seriously Hurt. Ity Hanging. Hamilton Brady committed suicide at Trenton by hanging with a halter- strap. He suffered from temporary fits of insanity for three or four months. Died. E. T. Packer, for ten years deputy in charge of the Independence office of the recorder of deeds of Jackson county, died a few days since. Slightly Poisoned. Quite a number of guests were slight ly poisoned at a hotel in Schell City the other day. Physicians say the poison was in something eaten for supper. Death of a Pioneer. James Simmons, aged 87 years, died at Sedalia of old age. He was one of central Missouri's pioneers, and hat resided in Sedalia twenty-five years. First Guests of the Planters". Of the SOT guests who sat down to the first meal served in the Planters' house, in St Louis, in April, 1841, only eleven are known to be alive. Must TTse Spfretaclea. Archbishop Kenrick of SL Louis has consented to have a coadjutor to his eyes. At the aire of 86 s.s has iust be gun the use of spectacles. Fifty CoBvevuloaM. A four-weeks protracted meeting re cently closed at the Centenary Meth odist church. South, at Sedalia. There were fifty conversions. Death W Mrs. Cosndasv Mrs. Adaline Couxins, widow of the late CoL J. E. D. Couxins, died in St Louis. She waa the naothcr of Mia. Pbttbe CoQzina MISSOURI DEMOCRATS. The Convention at Medulla to Wert Defe cates to the Ns'IttmuU Cm vent ton of Cht ao Name of the Ic!cint-at-j-rrN District Delegate and AlternatesThe Platrorm. Pan a i.i a. Mo.. May 11 Th domorrstic state conrvntmn for the eekrtion of four dfl-f-ts at- large to th? Drmorrsttr National convent toe at Cbiragn, met at Wsrd's opera boose. The opera noose was crowded when tbe proceedings began. No prayer waa offered. Chairman Mafflt of tbe state central committee called tbe con ventioa to order, and mtroduced Judge B. H. Norton, of Plstte county, sa temporary chair man. Jndf-e Norton thanked tbe convention for the honor, bat said be had no speech to mae. H. L. Gray, of Columbia, was made tem porary secretarv. The proper committees were then appointed. The only contest were from St. Louis, and those delegates who had received their cre dentials from the recorder of voters were eated. Mr. Waller Young, of Buchanan county, waa made permanent chairman: Mr. Lee Chiswell. Bartcn county, permanent arcretary. and atr. a. t. cook, ot Mexico, assistant secre tary. Nominations for delegates-at-Lsrre to Chi -ago came next E- C. Crow, of Jopltn, nominated William H. I'neips, or Carthage. Ben Ely Guthrie, of Mscnn county, named jonn n. t arroii. of untonrllle. John II. Taylor, of Independence, pnt er- ;v rno-uas T. Crittenden before tbe body. VT F. Tattle. prakerof the bouse of npre vntatiree, of Pettis county, spoke for Charles rt. Jones, of the St. Louis republic. George F. Longan. of Sedalia. an I prosecut ing attorney of Pettis county, said a good word forex-Oov. Crittenden. John H. Overall, of 8t. Loots, nominated i-nariesc. Msffltt Jasper N. Bnrks named Martin L. Clardv. Tom Jones, of St. Joth, nominated C. F. I or ii ran. editor of the St Joe Gazette. Whole number of votes, SJt Neceuaary to a rno.ee. shl Sfnffitt Phelps -lomw ..... , riardy . !lCsrroll... S7 . .! Crittenden ?W . .-M7 I Cochran W . SWHBland Messr-L Unffitt. Phelps, Jones and Clardy were nec tared tiie delegates. On motion th four next Messrs. Carroll. cnttenien. Cochran and Bland wvre drlarM tbe alternates. Congressman Blind bad not been put in nomination, and the votes for him were a surprise. DIWTBICT nnucoATats. First District Ben E. Gnthrie. Mscon. and W. B. Hayes. Lancaster. Alternates J. a An lersnn. Edina. and Elf Scofleld. Memphis. fecoiKi John Ifc Merrick. Carrollton. and Tyson 8. Dives, Brunswick. Alternates John 8. PearsoU, Monroe, and F. G. Harrington, Mo- oeriy. Third-D. C. Allen, of Liberty, and E. 8. Car ver, Grant City. Alternates H. 8, Berry. Cameron, and Dr. O. Smith. Bethany. r onrth J. W. Walker. St J.-e. and J. A. Pos- tlewaite. Tarkio. A lternats Charles B. ZooR, tregon, and O. J. Hnriey. SaTannan, rutn wm. H. Wallace. Kansas Citv. and John S. Blackwetfl. Lexington. Alternates Kam Woodson. Independence, and J. J. Fulker son. Higgla-iTiIle. Sixth J. D. Allen, Butler, and W. D. Steele. Hold'-n. Alternates F. G. Robinson. Dalton, arvi w. r. carter. Clinton. Seventh Dr. A. R Edmnnds. Miami, and E. C. Moore, Columbia. Alternates R P. Cov ington, Bolivar, and E. C. McAfee, Sfttingfteld. tMk'ntti Ji.hn K. Walker. Cooper conntv, and J. B. Wolf, California. Alternates James B. Harmon, Holla, and John W. Karris. Iji rlede. Ninth M. S. Goodwin. Clarksville. and T. F. McDearmon. St Charles. Alterant' V. E. Peers. Warren ton, and Gus E. F. Miller. Her mann. Tenth Charles Costello, FToriss-mt. and J. 8. Jones. WaHhington. Alternate Ryrtim King, onugenin, and ticnry tvueiiraaiz. nr. ixmiis. Eleventh John J. Bnrke and William Hsr- viy. Alternate Tom Wand and John I. Duf ley. all or St. Lnni. T-rellth Dr. Frank J. Lntzand Edward Rol ler Alternates Clarence Hoblitxelle and John Frui-i, -ill of St. Lionis. Tnirteenth W. S. Anthonv. Potosi. and F. M. MonfiVld. Hartsville. Alternates H. L. Koziet, Ste. Ovoevieve, and John E. Organ, Sa- iem. Foniteenth J. J. Rnsoell. Charleston, and J. D. Tillman. West PUins. A Iteruates A. J. MK'oIluiu, Doniphan, and T. L. BoUertson, 07-nrk. Kifti-enth Thomas Connor. Joplin. and I. G. Jitannon. reiie-a. Altenit'S lnmes W UeorKe, tassvilie.and Hugh Dabba, lTlrevUrC The Platform. We.thedemocratsof Missonri in convention as si'tnlltil on thfveof one of the moxt momentous camitaitrnM in the history of tbenmntry, reaffirm the tira.'-hoiiored principl-s of tbe dVmocratie arty. ax fortnnlab-d by Jefferson, applied and enforced by Andrew Jackson. Samne) J. Tilden ana itrover i leveiana, ana netined tn the na tional democratic platform of 7, "Hi. "M and . Kencnouncetbc riity nrt congress, known tn history a the ''Billkm-IioIlarCoiiKress," for its expenditures of tbe money wrung from the people oy opprensiTo taxation, tor Its enact ment of that eliminating atrocity of cisss igis- laiion. ine jiciviuiey unn mu, ann Tor its ai temtit to place npon the statute twoks tbe in- fsmons force bill, desiimi d to briiiar nonnbur ele'tions throoghont the country under the eoniroi of ine tisiricf or l oinmbia ornee-nofd ers. srb'-8 sole aim would tie to maintain them' selves in power regardless of the ueonie's will; and we arraign Benjamin Harrison, president of the I'nited States, as instigator and defender of all thene crimes airainft the nni he welfare. We demand the reieal of the Sherman bullion storage act. which makes of nilrer a com mM ity and tbe national treasury a partner in Wall street speculation that detrntralizes trade, de rauifes valnes and del-nses the currency. We hold to the use of both gold and diver a the minor of the mnntrv. ani mninfain that the fnnctton of the Federal government is to ascertain tne relative valnes of money met als, and. in case there has been a (1 net nation in the relative value of the two metals, to make the cxi tine roinaj-e ratio eonal. We hold that it i the duty of the government toreadjii-t the coinage ratio, ami keep its mints open for the ire? coinage oi nom meiai incean oi aiscon tinning tlie coinsKeof either, for tbe derange ment of commodity values sid the contraction of ibe currency below the natural basis of snp tlv. kcognfzing In the existing tariff a tax which fall- with crabbing fores on the agncultnral Mates or ine union, a no wntcn TT toe oenetlt or the favored few whom it enriches, exacts from la r kit more l nan hh jot share or the expenses of government, we demand such a reviKioa of the tariff as will remove its inennalities. iiirbten itsoppi-esHivenessand place it on a basis of a tax levieii for revenue only, on articles or luxury instead of on articles of neces sity. While we are alrvolutely and nn- cbanireallv orTxHed to the foflv of tax ing any form oi weaitn on trio country, we denounce the policy that would arive favored corporation) free-trade with agricultural states of Sonth and Ontral America, while increasing Tow oorneu on ine iraneor ine 9nHimppi vai lev tstes with the onlv msrkets tn which there is snffiient demand for their i orpins to justify ita production. We reiterate the demand of tbe democratic nartv that alt taxation hall be for revenue only, and we demand for tbe agricnltnral ex porting states or tne Mtsstssipin vgiiey tneir ngnt or way. nnoostructea, to ana irom tnen European markets. Believina that U rover Cleveland la everv- where associated with the pormbir mind with this great reform, and this paramount issue, we invor hi nomination at Chca-ro. and the dels- gates to be selected hy thia convent ion arehere- ny reqnested to ne all nonorahfe means to se cure bis nomination. Tbe delegation to the Chicaaro convention shall vote as a unit on all questions, the vote of a majority of Ibe dele gates determining what tbe Tote of the delega- Mn anau oe Want Light. Ilurlington. Ia,, has been without light for two months by the failure of the old company. She has voted to grant a franchise to another company. tttven Eight Years. Ex-Auditor Lavelle of Daviess coun ty, Ind., was denied a new trial and sentenced to eight years imprisonment for conspiracy to burn county records. Knew Washington. Aunt Celia Stephens, a colored wom an, aged 110, died at Kpnham, Tex., a few days ago. She claimed to have known George Washington. Drowned. George Dnmbleton was drowned near Marsh all town, la., while attempting. on horseback, to rescue a number of exws surrounded by water. Want Their Buaen. The anarchists of Chicago have de cided to bring suit against the city for the recovery of the banners taken from the pared ers on May Day. Arm star y Ex-Treasorrr Wilkinson of Dakota county, Kas., is alleged to be 19,000 short. He retired trout poire eterea -ear ego. . -.- - THE GREAT FLOOD. The Waters Higher Than They Wore in 188a An lminn Amount of tMm and SaHrrlne; lt-fIU Thai I'urarln nate Kannch to LI., on th. Low Tbe gltnation at St. Vomlm and Abors. St. Loria.. May IT. The Missoori river has reached it height at Kansas City and Herman, Mo., and is slowly falling. Tbe crest of the floiid is about 20 miles from the mouth of the Missouri river, and is slotrly makinr its wpy to ward this city. It will reach St. Lonis to-nijrht, and by to-morrow morninfr the Mississippi is expected to befrin fallmfr at this point. In the meantime the rise here will not exceed two inches. The river here now registers S3 feet, which is Sit of a foot higher than the crest of the flood in IxxS. All the levees and embankments between this city and the mouth of the Missouri are in tact, and unless an unexpected strain occurs will be able toJfcHthstand the rush of the flood. On the Lrrre at St. LonU. Relief boats arc busily cijraged in rescuing people from islam a that are covered with water and carrying them to places of safety. No far but two fa talities are reported and these were the results of foolhardy attempts to swim across the river. Scenes at St. .oal. St. Lor is. May lrt. "Tis an ill wind that blows no one good" has been fnlly iemonstrated during the progress of the great flood here. The various street car lines were taxed to their utmost all of Sunday and very largely to-day in carrying the sight-seers to the Eads bridge from which a view of the mighty torrent, that is sweeping down at the rate of nine miles an hour, can be had with safety. The crush on the bridge Sundav was something enormous, and a conserva tive estimate places the number of people who passed the ticket takers dur ing the day at fully 100,000. 0& JPriren to the Rnvf. The scene from the bridge is at once awe-inspiring and impressive, a very good idea of the extent of the flood being obtainable both on this and the Illinois side. On this side the water is from one to three feet deep in the stores along the levee, and communication with the wharf-boats is cut off except by means of skiffs, consequently no freight is being received or discharged. Every thing portable along the levee was re moved to higher ground, and the occu pants of the stores and saloons have gone out of business temporarily, and have been forced to seek dry quarters in the second stories. Ity far the most interesting to the on looker and discomforting to the victims are the scenes at either extremity of the city, where large sections of low (-round arc inundated, and where the homes of the poor and lowly are almost under water and many of them ruined. Hundreds of families are rendered homeless, and in many cases, where they had remained hoping against hope that the waters would recede, they have been rescued from impending death only by heroic effort on the part of those who have given this matter their attention. VA.ii About Timt to Lear. Ma ny of the houses that were stand- ing in from A to 13 feet of water on Sat unlay were raised from their founda tions by the rise Sunday and tumbled over on their sides and ends. The back water for several blocks is strewn with furniture of all descriptions, which floats about from place to place, wher ever the wind blows it. In one case where a family were competed to eat their supper on top of their house on Saturday evening for want of boats tn carry them to a place of safety, they were only rescued from their perilous position an hour before the house top pled over on its side in 10 feet of water. The occupants of the flooded house nave bn lit shanties on the higher ground to the west. Three steamboats were overturned in the river by driftwood and the force of the current between Kranch and Dock streets. One of them, the Dolphin, will in all probability be totally wrecked. At the foot of Salisbury street is the salt elevator. It has been half fuU of water for several days, but tbe rise since threatened to carry the entire east end of it down the river. At the foot of Mallinckrodt strret a roadway which runs under the railroad tracks has.been dammed np in order to keep the river from getting into the Knapp-Stoat lumber yards. The water has begun to aeep np through the ground, however, the river being fully fO W.. H f ' V 1 J 0- and preat damage te threatened by the wreckage of the handreda off lumber piles within its eoafinea. - - At the foot of Bremen arcane there) is unnsnal activity. The immense cat tle pens of the Union Stock Yards Co. are located there, and the river ia higher by from 10 to IS fret than the stock yards. The water baa already rotten The water from the river ia backing np into the sewers, causing the sewage and river water to flow oat and flood the whole of the low country ia the neighborhood of the lumber yard. Con siderable damage baa- already resulted from this overflow. The low lands around the burst sewer oa Mallinckrodt street have been rapidly filled an, and the water is fast approaching Broad way. North from tbe water-works the country is one vast inland lake bor dered on the east by tbe river. The crops in the overflowed farm-lands will be a total loss, and the destruction of through the railroad embankment aad threatens to delnge the stock yards, bat up to thia morning had been prevent ed from doing so by a dirt dike that was being built. A large force of men and teams has been kept busy oa the new dike. The loss to the stock yarda company would be very heavy should their pens be inundated. Hrtnurtmt Work. property is increasing hourly. Along the Chicago, Bnrlingtoa A Qniney rail road northward to Chain of Bocks it would be hard to imagine a more dis tressing scene. The farm land being badly washed out by the current, and will suffer great damage besides the loss of the cropa. The water is reported to have gone over the tracks near the Chain of Rocks, aad to be washing away the embankment. The overflowed district between the month of the Missonri river and the Chain of Rocks is hourly increasing. Every inch of rise adds additional acres to the deluged country, and the swift current of the Missouri is doing great damage. Across the nver little is to be seen ex cept a dreary waste of water with hers and there and island, and a closer in spection reveals a state of affairs at once distressing and alarming, in view of the fact that the highest has not yet been reached, and that with the break in the Madison levee, above, tbe volume of water will continue to spread over every inch of territory not sufficiently elevated to escape. A lift tn ih (tana Ware. A Break In th. ponn.t Cam I...... New Orleans. May IT. At 1 a. m. Bonnet Carre levee, thirty-three miles from the city, gave away and indica tions are that a most disastrous i rt i aaue will be the result, from the best in formation received so far, the break hi in the lower end of Bonnet Carre levee, and in the extreme end of St. Charles parish, about thirty mile above the city. Snpt. Dunn, of . the Illinois Central road. received a telegram to the ef fect that the crevasse waa 100' feet wide, and was washing at a rate that would mean a width of 400 feet by night. The depth of the levee is T feet. Mai Richardson, chief state engineer. states that the water will flood a great portion of St. Charles parish ia ita course to Lake Pontchartraia. Just above the break, MaJ. Richatosoa save, there is quite a high ridge, which will, in - a measure, prevent the spread of the water, and had the). break occurred further up on the Bon net Carre, the disaster would have been much greater, owing to the greater depth of the levee. This city will beaffected, as the water will fill Lake Pontchartrain. and will back ap into the basins, which means an overflow of tbe rear portion of the city. At noon the crevasse waa over 900 feet wide and five feet deep, and waa wash ing badly. A Bad Dffik la tb Oraar Una New Oklxass, May 10. A break oc curred in the Vypsy levee early thia morning, and this evening waa IM feet wide and 13 feet deep. The water ia pouring through at a fearful rate. The tracks of the L. N. O. A T. road are submerged for miles, bat so far as known are not badly washed. A train will endeanor to come through to-night. ' The break ia thirty miles above Mew Orleans on the left bank and is about thirty miles from tbe famous Bonos Carre tmsast of a few years ago. A large force of men ia working to stop the gap. bat engineers say it will be wellnigh impossible to do an. ine water is plowing through the channel made by the old crevasse back to the l.ln. Severs! lanre olantations will be ; badly damaged. - -. The levee at the point where S broke was eight feet high. Thia break will lessen the strain on tlat lower . levees to a great extent The Valley railroad and track farmers will suffer most from the crevasse, tbe latter los ing everything. The niWa Central officials do aot think their track Si danger. -' ' 2 The tag Whisper left here this even- : ing with a large quantity of aappUea fortbetiypsy levee. n iMtmhy-i---nartof ah) .rVtliaIeaarrlflS;l