The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-09-05
WEST AND SOUTE,

AT the national encampment at
| Cleveland. O.. S. :. Ioder was elected
president of the nion Veterans union.
J. Il. MoRRIsoN's two daughters,
aged Il and Is respectively, were
drowned near birmingham, Ala, while
bathing.
NEAR Pomona, Cal, eastern capital
| lists have bought $40 acres of land and
will set out 5000 fig trees.
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of Fonda, Ia
AT Independence, Ia, Faustino won
the 81, 900 stake for 3-year-olds, making
the last three heats in 2:lSL4, Eli and
2:1SI%, the best three heats ever trotted
by 3-year-old
SOME 800 San Francisco employers
have formed an association to fight
trades unions.
IN the northwest frosts greatly dam
aged wheat and other crops In por-
tions of Minnesota and the Dakotas ice
formed, the thermometer marking four
degrees below the freezing point.
IN a joking way Mrs. Tillie Reck-
man, of Ironton. o., pointed a revolver
supposed to be unloaded in the face Of
Mrs. Dora May, who was visiting her
from Ashland. Ky. The weapon went
off, killing Mrs. May instantly.
A CALL has been issued for state
hood convention to be held at Okla
homa City September "a next
On the Western North Carolina rail
road passenger train jumped a trestle
and went to the bottom of deep
ravine near Statesville, killing forty
passengers and injuring thirty others,
nine seriously.
THE death of Newton Bacon, the
oldest member of the masonic order in
Wisconsin, occurred at Oshkosh, aged
80 years. The deceased had been a
mason sixty-seven years.
BARLOW 5. WEEKS, of New York,
was elected commander in chief at the
national encampment in Minneapolis
of the Sons of Veterans
NEAR Red Oak, Mich, James Burns
and his daughter Alice were found dead
in their house. 1t was thought they
took their own lives
IN street fight A. J. Montgomery
and two brothers named Jarvis were
killed by Milton Kendall and his four
sons at Georgetown. Ky.
MARYLAND republicans in state con-
yention at Ocean City nominated W. G.
Van Mort of Kent county, for gov
ernor.
The failure of the Bremaker-M Moore
Paper Company of Louisville, Ky,
81. 81
ported.
NANCY HANKS, a Kentucky mare,
trotted three straight heats at indie
pendence. Ia, in 2:l2, a:12s4 and 2:1a,
breaking all trotting race records.
The legislature of Georgia, by a vote
of "a to 81 declined to accept the con-
federate veterans home, an institution
built with private funds
AT Conway, Ark, Charles Mulligan,
a negro who assassinated Ike Frauen-
thai, leading Jewish merchant was
shot to death by a mob.
IN an interview Gen R. S. Dyren-
forth, who conducted the recent gov
ernment rain experiments in Texas,
said the experiments were correct be-
yond question. In three weeks six
rains were produced, three of which
were downpours, and the last one was
the heaviest rain in three years.
AT Bourbon, Ind. the United Breth-
rem church was totally destroyed by
dynamite. There was no clew to the
cause or perpetrators
A MOB lynched Frank Dudley, .
negro, at Georgetown, KY, for murder.
AT Independence. Ia, Monbars, .
year-old colt. trotted a mile in 2:20.
breaking the worlds record Of a:2lx,
made by Legal Wilkes Direct paced
q mile in a:0S4.