The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-09-12
WEsr AND SouTA,

THE death of Mrs. Mary Salisbury
occurred near Bellingham, Mimi. aged
102. Her husband, 103 years, could not
long survive. The couple had been
married eighty years.
By a collision of two stcamblrges
on the Detroit river three persons were
drowned and one of the vessels sunk.
DEsPERADoEs held up n train near
Canon City, Col, and robbed the ex'
press car of $500.
]. Y. BROWN was inauguratcd gov
ernor of Kentucky.
IT was decided that a tower would
be erected at the Worlds Columbian
Exposition to exceed l, 100 feet in height
and to cost 81. .OOO,O
AT Chadron, O., Alonzo Knox and
daughter were killed by train dash
ing into the carriage in which they
were riding.
THE state board of equalization of
Indiana gives the grand total valuation
of all property in the state at S9il,-
72l,2ll, as against s7se. So. 100 in 1890.
The death of Rev. J. b. L. Soule, d.
D., Ph. D., of Highland Park, Ill, oc-
Cured at the residence of his son in
Chicago, aged 20 years.
ROBERT WIELAND, a wealthy brewer
of San Francisco who was at Dayton,
O., on a visit. was found dead in his
room with two bullet holes in his head.
THOMAS KENNEALY, of Dubuque, Ia,
was made heir to an estate valued at
81, ZOO, 600 by the death of an uncle at
Newark, n. J. Kcnncaly was miner.
FLAMES in the business portion of
Willows, Cal, di0 damage to the extent
of s15O, 600; partly insured.
BANDITS robbed railroad train at
Del Rio, Tex, of several thousand dol
lars.
THE Worlds Columbian directory's
executive committee unanimously com.
municated to the commission an ex-
preston that the government be asked
to loan 1000, 900 to the fair on the Sc
curity of the first gate receipts.
Mrs. S. G. Cook, who has been act
ing as secretary of the lady managers
of the worlds fair since the removal of
Miss Couzins, was formally elected to
fill that position.
PETER RENFRow was sentenced at
Springfield, Mo-. to hang Friday. Octo-
Der 3. He murdered Deputy Sheriff
Doris in Texas county July Is. 1888.
AT The Dalles, Ore, fire destroyed
property worth $500. 900.
THE remains of Alexander Breller-
work, who was buried at Dubuque, Ia J.,
nineteen years ago, was exhumed for
removal and found to be perfectly pre-
served, although not petrified. Even
the grave clothes showed no signs of
decay.
ARGUMENTS by the American Sunday
school union in favor of closing the
worlds fair on Sundays were made
before the national commission and
the board of lady managers. No
action was taken.
WILLIAM ALLEN, the negro who shot
and fatally wounded Marshal Myers,
before being lynched by a Georgia moo
prayed that God would destroy the
world and blot out humanity.
The dynamite factory of F. H. Rey-
nolds & Co., at White Pigeon, Mich,
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exploded, and sixteen workmen were
killed.
TEN THOUSAND people from all prom
inent points celebrated watermelon
day." the festival of the Arkansas val
ley, at Rocky Ford, Col
MONUMENTS erected by the state of
Illinois on the battlefield of Gettysburg
to the Eighth and Twelfth Illinois
cavalry were formally dedicated with
solemn services.
IT was said that heavy frosts killed
corn and all other vegetation in some
sections of Iowa on the night of the Sd.
THE stables of DIR. N. P. Valerius &
Co., at Watertown, Wis, were burned,
together with thirty-two head of regis
tered stations
THE Georgia legislature passed a
bill disqualifying physicians addicted
to drink from the practice of their pro-
fessiop.