The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-24
MESI AND SOuIE.

At Omaha sixteen men nave tnuS lar
been arrested, charged with murder in
the lynching of the negro Coe.
The Tooth anniversary of Gen. st
CIairs battle with the Indians at Port
land. Ind, was celebrated.
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Company was fined at Frankfort, Ky,
for repairing its tracks on Sunday,
THE Pullman's Palace Car Company s
annual report shows that during the
past year 5.3lO.Sl3 passengers We're
carried, against 5.O23,057 for the
preceding year. The total number
of persons in the employ of the COM
pany in its manufacturing and operat-
ing department was l3,sS5 and the
wages paid during the year amounted
to s., ,3O3, los.
THOMAS STEWART and Patrick Ad
ans. two of the oldest miners in Mon
tana, were instantly killed by an i'm
mense fall of rock at Red Lodge.
NANCY HASKs. the mare with n rec
ord of 200, was sold by Hart Boswell.
of Lexington. Ky, to J. NJ. Forbes, of
Boston, for $4,000
On the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
railway fast train ran from an open
switch into a roundhouse at Crete, Ill,
and James Clark, the engineer, and
Leonard Washburne. Frederick w.
Henry and Frank McCafferty. reporters
on the Chicago Inter Ocean, were in
stantly killed.
THE death of Gen. W. II. f. Lee, sec
ID y
his home in Ravensworth, Va, aged 81
wears. lie represented that district for
two terms in congress and was MEM
ber-elect of the next house.
For the murder of Moses Lufkin,
William Rose was hanged at Redwood
Falls. Minn. Rose protested his inno-
cence to the last.
THE late John Twohig, of San An
tonic, Tex. left the bulk of his fortune,
s., O00, 900, to promote the interests of
the Catholic church.
AT Columbia, 5. c.. Fred Kempson
(colored). convicted of assault and bat
terry on the testimony of Rebecca
Thomas, met the woman afterwards
and cut both of her ears off.
The remains of soldiers who fell in
the battle of Fort Recovery, o., 100
years ago. were disinterred and buried
in the new federal cemetery at that
place.
IN Toledo, O.. F. j. Smith set 1890
ems corrected matter in exactly eight
hours on a type-setting machine. This
is the fastest type-setting on record.
TIE raisin crop of California was
said to be the largest ever raised.
ALLERroS won the great race at Lex
ington. KY, beating Delmarch with
ease in three straight heats His time
was 2:13L, 2:15 and 2:152I-
IN eastern Kentucky Belgian syn
dicate has bought $4,000 acres of coal,
iron and timber lands
For the murder of his wife's father
and mother Aleck Morris was hanged
at Madison, Ga He blamed his wife
for having led him into committing
crime.
AT Bay City, Mich, Alexander Ne
veau, who killed his l6-year-old wife,
was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Mrs. PEDDIETY and Mrs. Miller, of
Benton, Wis, were fatally injured at
East Dubuque, Ill, by being thrown
from buggy.
1T was said that from 1000, 900 to
5000. 900 bushels of wheat would be
utterly ruined in northern Minnesota
and North Dakota by heavy rains and
snow.
AT noon three cow boys rode up to the
First national bank at Enterprise,
Neb., and at the point of a revolver
compelled the cashier to hand over
s.. 500 in bills
The oldest man in Minnesota. Sam
uel Reems. died at Dayton, aged lo3
years