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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE wool supply in the United States
WAS figured at 92.nl9.ss2 pounds, against
9s.2Si.G59 pounds on January l. 1890.
The deaths were reported during the
year 1899 of 80 members and eX-mcIn-
bcrs Of Congress, az journalists and %
| ccntrnarianS.
u the | nited States the total pro-
duction of pig iron during 1890 was TO-
1906 tons. This is 1.GGi.93 tons
greater than in 1SS9. and breaks all
previous records.
THE business failures in the United
States during The year iS9J numbered
1G.g01. against ?.SS2 in lsS9. The total
liabilities We're Sls9. 600. 900, against
Sl4s. .0oa. 900 in 1859.
THERE were 1O3 legal executions in
The United States during IS9l. against
~ in 1SSo. The number of lynching>
We're l2G. against l79 the previous year.
THE suicides in the nitcd States dur
in@ tn" year 1899 numbered 2.6i1.
against 2..24 in the year 1889. The num-
Der of murders was 1910, against :i.:1f7
during the previous wear
The lire losses in the United States
for the year 1870 Were SloS.lI2.G?4
against Sl 1892. 51a in 1859.
TIE public debt statement issued on
the I'd showed the total debt tu he
Sl.jII. 81. l9s: cash in the Treasury ~;2l.-
Sis. ~: debt less cash in the Treasury.
Ss';aa. ia0.5il. Decrease during Dcrcm-
bcr. Sll.0Oj. SOS. Decrease since June
80. 1880. 81. .G:iI. i0i.
TIE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the I'd numbered :;i| against :s:;.:; the
preceding week AMI 3D. the correspond
ing week last year.
TnE exchanges at the leading clear
ing-hnuSrS in the United States during
the week ended on the :d aggregated
Sg9:;, 12i.:ifi. against S1.S5s. .J90.21; the
previous week. A. compared with the
corresponding week of lsS9 the decrease
amounted To l?.5.
The death of Randolph Coylc. AS
Sistant nitcd States District Attorney.
who framed til" indictment of Guitcau
for the murder of President Garfield.
occurred in Washington on the 18th.
aged Il years.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

THE combination of eighteen harvest
ing machinery manufactures into one
monopoly known a> the American llar-
vestcr Company throws 10000 men out
of employment.
AT the power-house of the Louisi-
ana Electric Light and Power Com
panv at New Orleans an explosion
wrecked the building and killed ten
employees.
COLORADO mines d ring 1890 produced
S29. ssl, ,:i34, divided as follows: Silver,
>2O.259. 1906: gold. SI,sI2, 1876: lead. ST.
40. So: copper. S559.440.
GENERAL FRANCIS +. SPINNER died at
his home in Florida of cancer on the
3lst ult. at tke age of - years. Gen
eral Spinner was a member of Congress
from 1855 to 1861. and was Treasurer of
the United States from 1861 to 1873,
when he resigned and retired to private
life.
NEAR Bayboro. y. C.. the house of
Scott Thompson (colored) was burned
during the absence of himself an. wife,
and their five children and two grand
children perished in the flames.
AT Keachi. La. a cyclone destroyed
the Masonic hall. the post-office and
several stores.
OS the 1st Edwin r. Winans was
sworn in as Governor of Michigan.
G-: X. VI. Patrick's farm near Ma
rengo. Ill. barn was burned. and
ninety whine head of cows perished in
the flames
THE death of Mrs. Elizabeth Mitchell
occurred on the 3lst ult near Month
cello. Wis, at the age of 102 years.
AT Lima, o., John Clark became in
sane and wounded his wife with an axe
and cut his throat. Both would die,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

DURING 1871 there were 2.2l9.3 cat
tie and 5,733. .Os2 hogs slaughtered in
Chicago. against, respectively, 1,163, $40
and 4,2I1,1,71T in the previous year.
FIRE destroyed the manufacturing
establishment of the Ohio Buggy Com
pany at Columbus, o. Loss. $4,000.
/ a NUMBER of houses were unroofed
and others were blown off their founda-
tions at Abilene, Kan. during a wind
storm. ,
IN San Francisco two earthquake
shocks were experienced on the I'd, and
tall buildings rocked and books We're
thrown from shelves. The shock was
general all over the State.
AT Chiffon. Tex. Charles Boale. a
negro. was lynched for numbering a
woman, and negro and a white man
were lynched in Neshoba County. Miss,
for robbery.
BY the bursting of cylinder head on
the towboat Annie Roberts at Ports
mouth, o., five men were killed.
A woMAS, Il boy and two men were
burned to death by fire in the Avenue
Hotel at Corsicana. Tex
FLAMES swept away one-half the town
of Columbus Grove, q.
IN the Chickasaw nation Deputy
Marshal Tom Lily had desperate bat
tie with three whisky peddlers and
killed them all.
Mrs. MILLER and Mrs. Wilson. two
women residing near Wheeling. W. Va.
fought with butcher knives. and Mrs.
Wilson was fatally injured.
Il New Orleans Mrs Adelaide Mai re
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10
lATE2-


IN the Senate, on the 5th. the creden
tials of Senator-elect Dubois of Idaho
were placed on file and Senator McCon
nell, of Idaho, was sworn in. The con
ference report on the Pennsylvania
Railroad was agreed to. When the
Elections bill came up the Senate. on
motion of Mr.. Stewart, by vote of "a
to 20, laid it aside and took up the fin
ance committees bill, which was de
bated at length by Messrs. Sherman
Reagan and others.....In the House the
conference report on the Urgent Def
| cheney bill was agreed to. The motion
to suspend the rules to pass the bill fol-
retiring mates in the navy was lost-Ss
to lOl. The rules were suspended and
the Senate bill for a building at Dan.
vile. ILL.,. was passed; also bill for a
building at Richmond. Ky. and bill for
! the relief of the owners of the bark
"NenOphoh."
THE assets of the firm of Delamater
& Co.. bankers, of Meadvillc, Pa, as
shown by the statement of the ap,
praisers, are estimated at S3O1, 900. OF
this estimate S153, 900 belongs to the
firm. SG2. 900 to George B. Delamater,
| $50. 900 to George W. Delamater and
$4,000 to A. ID. Delamater. 1t is said
the FIRMS liabilities will amount to
81 .O43. 900, which includes the personal
liabilities of the members of the firm.
The installation of Judge Henry f.
brown, of Michigan, as an Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court OF the
United States, took place shortly after
noon. on the 5th, in the Supreme Court
chamber. The ceremony was brief and
! impressive.
The ice on the river Danube at Buda-
Pesth, Hungary, suddenly broke up, on
the 9th, while crowded with skaters
and merry-makers, many of whom
rushed or were crowded into the fis-
sures and were drowned.
The French Monarchists are endeav-
oring to persuade the Vatican to put a
stop to the growing movement of the
French clergy toward the republic; but
the Pope refuses to take any steps in
the matter.
A GENTLEMAN, recently returned from
Central America, mentions a growing
belief in Guatemala that Barillas will
soon be superseded in the presidency of
Guatemala by General Cayetano San
chez.
WILLIAM HAMILTON, who jumped out
of two-story window in South Bos-
ton, on the Sd, in order to escape arrest
on a miner charge, died from his in.
juries at the City Hospital on the 4th.
FIFTY persons were killed, on the
5th, as the result Of an explosion in tbs
Trinity eesl-pit, In Polish ostrsu
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

against 96.2S0 the previous year.
IS fire at Iokosake. Japan. over
500 houses were destroyed and three
persons were burned to death.
Ar Il school fetc in Wortley. near
Leeds, Eng. four children were burned
to death.
Ina powder house at Durango. Mex.
an explosion killed twelve men and IA
tally injured three others.
Is England family of i've persons
without home. who had been tramp
ing. were found by a roadside near Carr
bridge all frozen to death.
by an explosion in a coal-pit at
Bochum, Germany, nine men were
killed and ten others were not expected
tn survive their injuries
The coffee crop in Java was reported
almost failure.
lS Lima another revolutionary effort
was made on behalf of ex-Dictatnr
Picrola and twcntv-six of the revolu-
tionistS were killed.
The wife. brother-in-law and three
children of a game-kceper who was re.
Gently killed hy accident were asphyX-
lated in their beds in the town of Ciney.
belgium.
Az explosion of fire-damp took place
in the Trinity pit near the Polish town
of Ostran. Fifteen bodies were recov-
cred and tvcnty-four miners were miss
inr.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10
EMMA ABBOTT DEAD.
The Prima Donna Expires ut Salt Lak'
City, Utah.

The Prima Donna Expires ut Salt Lake
City. Utah.
MIyNEAPOLIs, Mimi, Jan. 6.-Colonei
John T. West has received q telegram
stating that Emma Abbott died at Salt
Lake City at 7:40 a. m, OF pneumonia.
Miss Abbott's life was, indeed, romance.
At the age OF eighteen she attracted the at
tentfon Of a rich New York merchant named
Lake She was then q pretty, sympathetic
girl, living near Peoria, Ill, the possessor OF
a remarkable soprano voice, but no dowry.
Mr. Lake, knowing Of the ambition OF
the girl to become prima donna sent her to
Paris at his expense. Her voice was highly
cultivated and on her return to America she
Organized an opera company and has since
been one of the most popular OF American
prime donne. The one romance In Miss
Abbott's life was her marriage TO Eu-
gene wetherell, who followed her to
Europe It proved q lucky match and
the wetherells were a devoted couple.
He came of an old assachusetts family and
was a travelling salesman for a wholesale
drug house in New York when he met Miss
Abbott Being a shrewd business man he
invested in real estate In Kansas City,
Denver and the West and accumulated
an immense fortune. Mr.. Wethereli
died in Denver while managing his
wife's company. His body rests in the old
family lot in Gloucester, Mass. and his
wife will probably sleep beside Of him. Miss
Abbott.s fortune is estimated at "a. .0s,0oo. VI
late wears Miss Abbott revived the operas OF
BrllinI Verdi and the other masters on
grand scale
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10


Orr Barncgat the schooner Lucinda
Il. Potter cap>ized and seven men per-
ished
\. +. BATEMAS Il Co.. bankers in
New York failed for Sl.00D.OOO.
AT Richford. Vt, the mercury regis
tered 10 degrees below zero on the 3Oth
ult
OVER 2O.O0O stamped envelopes were
stolen from the Government stamped
envelope agency in Hartford. Conn. and
sold hy one Fay. former employe of
the agency.
Ar Hicks Mills. Pa. Henry Lutz,
aged -. was arrested on the charge of
numbering family in Germany thirty
years ago.
Ar Troy. y. Y. John j. Reed was
sentenced to seven wears imprisonment
fer misplacing switch on the New
York Central during the late strike on
that road.
FIEE destroyed the new portion of the
Clinton IN. " prison. causing a loss of
S2OO. 600.
Ar the port of New York 81. .1g3
steerage passengers were landed dur
ing 1890. AGAINST 3l:A2!2 during the
year 1Ss9. There were ~. lSg cabin pas
>engcrs landed. against 90.6S6 in 1889.
Ar Fairfield. Me. tie thermometer
registered 80 degrees below zero ON the
3lst ult.
OK broadway, New York. a fire de-
strnycd block of buildings. including
the Fifth Avenue and Prof Hermann 5
thcatcrS. Total loss. S500.00o.
y NEW YORK business agency in their
weekly review of trade reported that
business in many lines last year sur
passed that of any previous year.
FIRE destroyed the main buildings of
the Geneva wursted mill at Providence
Il. |. Loss. Sl00.OJ0: insurance. SGG,-
900.
\ FIRE destroyed ID. j. lIamburger's 5
tannery ut Oswcgo Falls. y. Y. caus-
ing loss of SlOO.O0O
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10
MONTH.


At Kansas City Judge Gibson granted
Mrs. Helen Hunt a decree of divorce
from Colonel r. ii. Hunt, an ex-mayor
of Kansas City, and one of its wealthy
citizens. Desertion was the ground on
which the decree was granted. Mrs.
uunt testified that she had been mar
ried to the defendant since 1865, but that
since 1884 she had not lived with him as
his wife. She further stated that for
fifteen years they had not maintained
the relations of husband and wife,
though they had occupied the same
house a part of that time. Though
Colonel Hunt is a well-known man,
many of his friends did not know that
he had wife until the petition of di.
vorce was filed few weeks ago.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

IL the war of the revolution the col
onica had 1Sl.I6l men. In the war of
1872 the nited States had $685. men.
in the war with Mexico the United
States had ll2.2:;0 men. In the war of
the rebellion the United States had
2.2l%,3G5 men. The war of the :, v:,iu-
hon cost the United States SI:;5. 49,. 1U;.
The war of ISl2 cost the United States
SloI.l|9-0ui The war with Mexico cost
the nited States 800. 0OO. 900 The war
of the rebellion cost the United States
81, 5S9. 929 500.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
flFTY-FlRST CONGRESS.
Second sesxiau-

TUESDAY, Dec. 30. In the Senate
the time was occupied in discussing the
elections bill. In the House the journal
of the last days session was read and
approved and then Gn adjournment was
taken until JHniiary2 ..
WEDNESDAY. Dee. 81. A resolution
was adopted in the Senate direct
ing the superintendent of the CEN
sus to report at the earliest possible
moment the population of tine United
States according to the census of 1879
by Congressional districts ard counties
The elections bill was further consid-
cred. Adjourned to the I'd. The House
was not in session.
FRIDAY, Jan. q In the Senate no
business was transacted. and an ad-
journment Was taken To the 18th. In
the House bills were introduced To re-
ducc by onc-half the charge of rcgistra-
tion of domestic mail matter, and direct
ing the Secretary of the Treasury to
print fractional currency of the United
States to the amount Of SO. .OJ0. 09G. Ad-
journed to the 1th.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

II fifty years ago Il man had been told
that destructive she'll. c;.pa bile Of de
str"ying small craft. could he project
Ell fifteen miles at sea he would have
secuted the idea aS an absolute iinpu>si-
hility. Yet this feat was accomplished
not one" but many times recently at
Sandy Hook by Government engineers
expcri'nenting with an new thirty-fuot
ri IL, a ,r,ru
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10
THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI.
Fastening the Completion Of the Levees
Against the spring Floods.

Against the spring Floods.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. IA repeti-
ton Of the evils of last springs over
flow is feared along the Lower Missis-
sippi, owing to the unfinished and un-
safe condition Of the levees and the
heavy SHOWS North with prospects OF
thaw. Many thousands Of dollars have
been expended during the past year on
levee work. and it is being pushed for
ward as rapidly as possible by the con-
tractors who have doubled their forces
along the line, and hope to complete
their work before the spring rise, as
that would prove destructive to the en-
tire system II caught in an incomplete
condition.
RELAYS of hands and teams from this
city and parts further north are being
shipped to the work, save in front OF
Helena. Ark. A long delay has been
occasioned on that part of the work by
the fact that two contracts made for It's
completion and ratified by the board OF
United States engineers were not ap-
proved by the Secretary OF War when
submitted to him. Consequently .
third advertisement and letting Will
have to take place before it can be COM
pleted.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

Now THAT ~ much is being said
about Russia Il few statistic, from the
last official year book of that country
will he of interest. The population Of
the Empire is placed at llu.G2S.G1G. of
which lO0.OOG.O00 are in Europe. The
rate of increase in population is fifteen
per 1.009. a higher rate than that of any
other European nation. In the matter
of education Russia + progressing rap
idly. her public schools now costing the
government. in bnunties. s.OOO. 900 rom
bles, or over >,i.O00.0OO annually. 1t
does not require much reflection to
show the immense possibilities of such
:. ppoplp
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

The chinch hug is the latest pest To
attract the warfare of science Chan
ccliur Snow. of the Kansas State Uni
rcrsity. is declared to have discovered il
way I" rid .he fields of this arrant little
cereal destroyer. lie inoculatcs sam
pie bugs with cholera and turns them
loose. t"ntaSion does the rest. The
chinch hug is as deadly parasite t" the
farmer as the tuberculosis bacillus is To
the c"nsumptive. 1t will afford happi-
ness to mankind Ia see both DESTROYED.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

John Ward. one of the men implicat-
ed in the killing of old man Spence,
near Olden, last fall. and who broke out
of the Lamar Jail. where he was con-
fined for safe-keeping, has at last been
arrested in Gilmer County, Ga, on the
charge of stabbing a man. Ward is a
bad man." being wanted in Alabama
and Colorado, where rewards are Of
fered for him. His prospects for spend
ing the rest of his natural life behind
the bars are considered excellent. As
soon as the Georgia laws have been
thoroughly satisfied Ward will be re-
turned to answer for the killing Of
Spence.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

ACCORDING to the estimates of French
and German statisticians there per-
ishcd in the wars of the last thirty
years 2.5O0.0OU men. while there has
been expended To carry them on the
sum of SIS. 900. 900. 900. of this amount
France paid nearly $500. OOO.o 900 as the
cost of the war with Prussia, while her
loss in men is placed at 100000. of
these $4,000 were killed on the field of
hattie, $4,000 died of sickness. accidents
or suicide. and 10000 in German pris-
ons. while there died from other causes
enough Ia bring the number up to the
given aggregate. The sick and wound
ed numbered 411.421
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

THE m"st valuable printed document
in existence in relation to Culumt.r, Is
that in the possession of u. nuaritch. of
innG"n. II is the first printed copy of
the first letter If Columbus written
from l.isi"'n To- Ferdinand and Isabella
when the court was in Barcelona. and
printed there. This is held for Il GOO
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

THE preliminary work upon the Me
aragua canal is now all completed. \
belt ten miles long and five hundred feet
wide has hcrn hcwn through the forests
at a Cos1 IF S:;.OOO.00O. and the actual
work of excavation will at once hr be-
CUR. There is every reason Ia believe
tEat this will he accomplished with pro-
Portionatc speed and satisfaction. The
Nicaragua canal is an American enter
prise. controlled 10y American money
and brains and in its success all amer
leans will have right to feel proud.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

APAERoT in Connecticut is one hun.
drcd and eighteen years old. Il has
been for one hundred years in one fam
lily. having descended from father Ia
son through two ur three generations.
hink of the marvellous tnughncss Of
the bird. Probably it has been asked
thirty-siN million five hundred thousand
times in its life if it didn't want a
,.,.,r1-,r
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

R. NJ. Yost, chief clerk in the Secre.
tary of States office at jefferson City,
has rendered his resignation. He will
return to the journalistic profession.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

An effort is to be made in Germany
to bore for oil and natural gas. The
fact that Russia is one of the greatest
oil-producing countries in the world has
stimulated the hope that similar de-
posits may underlie the fatherland. 1t
is very agreeable 10 Americans to learn
that the tools and supplies necessary in
these tests have been ordered from the
United States. With no desire to boas:
IT can be truthfully said that the con
quests which American brains are max
ing abroad afford every reason for Amer
lean complacency. The acquisition of
territory is idle pastime compared with
this growing intellectual supremacy.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

Henry Bollman, well-known mu
sician and composer, died in st. Louis
aged sixty-eight- He removed from Gin
cinnati to st. Louis in 1s45
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

A band of professional robbers are at
work in st. Louis and have committed
several very bold depredations, and con-
siderable counterfeit money is reported
In circulation in the city.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10
Killed Inv Electricity.

James Hanlon, st. Louis Bell Tele-
phone lineman, thirty five years of age,
was shocked to death by an electric
wire while at work.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

man has been victimizing persons
in johnson, Saline and Pettis counties.
by selling the county right to an alleged
patented horse-collar attachment.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10
Peanuts.

The peanut trade of St Louis con-
tinues to grow rapidly. Last year more
than one-tenth of the entire crop of the
country was handled in that city. The
value of the crop was over $4,000, 900
of which S325, 900 came to the Mound
C;+-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

MRS EicHAED \. PROCTOR proposes
To perpetuatc the memory of her famous
husband by huildin. sal. 600 observa-
tory on Mission heights. san Diego.
TAI She means TO raise the money by
lecturing.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

InE Increase of about one million
people in thirteen years in Spain is at
tributcd in Il great measure to the sue
cess that has attended the changes in
the hygienic condition of the cities and
iarlr,. towns
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

The list Of Harvard clubs which have
been established in different parts of
the country is interesting. Nineteen in
all are given, with total membership
of nearly 1000.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

A movement is now on foot by the
Farmers Alliance of Missouri to estab-
lish cooperative binder factory in com.
petition with the SS5. .OOO, 900 Consoli.
dated American Harvester Company.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

Mrs Susan Fuller, aged eighty two
years, died at her home in Sedalia the
other morning. Mrs. Fuller was the
mother of Lieutenant Ezra Fuller. OF
the Famous Seventh Cavalry, United
States army.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

A COLUMBUS celebration in 1892 will
he held by Spain at Auleva. in Andal.
usia' ''the discoverer having sailed from
the estuary now known as Huelva
harbor''
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

The annual conference of Missouri
Judges was held at jefferson City few
days ago. The conclusions arrived at
by the discussions as to merits and de-
merits and deficiencies in statutes will
be recommended to the Legislature.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

James W. Saighman, a farmer and
dealer in hay, committed suicide the
other evening on his farm near Adrian,
blowing his brains out with shotgun
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

VIENNA is now the third largest city
in Europe, the Austrian Emperor hav-
ing given his sanction to the law adding
forty-five communcs to the city's ter
ritery. The population is 1,215,6ad, a
formidable lead over Berlin, its chief
rival.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-01-10

The distributing car of the Missouri
Fish Commission few days ago depos-
tied 5000 young bass and croppie in
Black river. About $1,000 young crop
pie and bass were turned loose in Cur
rent river