The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-06-06

among farm stock and many valuable
animals had died.
AT Omaha, Neb., William Darst .S
Co. wholesale liquor dealers, failed
for SiOO, 900.
SAM PUEffING (col1rcd) and Nelson
Moffat, no years old. were hanged, the
farmer at Guthbcrt, Ga, and the latter
at Lexington, Miss
ALAsKA's population, as per correct
ed returns, is 10000.
Is central Iowa cutworns were doing
much damage to corn and potatoes.
For the week ended on the 30th ult.
the percentages of the baseball clubs in
the National league We're: Chicago,
.645; Pittsburgh, .5S3; Boston. .53l;
| Cleveland SEQ; New York, $40; Phila-
dclphia. sis: Brooklyn. $50; Cincin-
natl, .3G3. The percentages Of clubs in
the American association were: Boston,
COS: Baltimore, .6i1; st Louis, .GiS;
Athletic. .4T5; Cincinnati. .4GG; Colum-
bus, AL: Louisville, .i22; Washing
ton, .210.
4. TRAUSwEIsEG, jewe'er at Cedar
Rapids. Ia. shot and killed his wife
and then fired a bullet through his
own heart Domestic trouble was the
cause.
ALMOST the entire village of Ossco,
Wis, was destroyed by fire.
WHILE driving across a swollen creek
A. Z. Mcinmeycr and two daughters,
Rosa and Ella, of Plattsburg, Mo, were
| drowned.
| An express train on the Illinois Cen.
tral road was thrown from the track
near Ccntralia. Ill. by train wrcckerS,
and Engineer Quirk was killed and
Fireman Todd fatally injured
| GEN &. A. DE RUssEY (rctircdl died
at Detroit. Mich, aged - years. lie
served with distinction in the Mexican
war and the war of the rebellion.
MISSES EMILY and Harriet Bryant
(sisters), residing at North Amherst
O.. were suffocatcd by coal gas.
GEORGE BENNETT, of Lafayette, Ind,
was convicted of numbering W. II. Scott
and John Werllhoff and sentenced to
| Imprisonment for life.
JEFF THOMAS (coloredl who assault
ed Mrs. j. V. Neal at Townlcy, Ala.
was captured by a mob and lynched.
V. JONES, n farmer near llolmeI
Gap, Ala, was visited by white caps
and beaten half to death with hickory
switches He had informed against
illicit distillers.
An explosion of dynamite in a tunnel
near Silver Flumc. Col, killed Henry
TAYLOR, William Coughlin, John Rich
ards and John McIIolland.
THE Presbyterian general assembly
in session at Detroit. Mich. vetoed the
appointmc 1t of DIR. Charles 4. Briggs as
professor o. the theological seminary.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
AT Kowloon City, China, nineteen
Chinese were behcaded for various
crimes.
4 STATEMENT that the governments
of Austria and Hungary will introduce
Il gold standard has created a sensation
in financial circles at Berlin.
REroRTs that the Christian missions
at Nanking. China, have been attacked
and pillagcd by the natives are correct
The inmates managed to escape.
GEORGE and Lloyd Beatty, twin
brothers Il years of age, of Birming
ham. Eng, have been released after
serving thirty-five years in an English
prison for another mans crime.
An order has been issued to cOmpc
Jews to observe Sabbath in the ortho
dox church of Russia.
IN petroleum refinery fire neal
Dunkirl, France, ten men lost theil
lives.
THE Fuerst Bismarck, Hamburg
American steamship, made the triE
from New York to Hamburg in days
IA hours and 80 minutes, the best time
on record.
IN session at Edinburgh, Scotland
the Good Templars' congress selected
Des Moines. Ia, as the place for hold
ing the next congress.
A WIDOW drowned herself and hcl
two children in the Weser at llamelin
Germany, because of poverty.
NINETEEN timber vessels were
wrecked and all of their crews were
drowned during a hurricane on Lake
linen, in Russia.
OVER 900 natives were killed by
rcvolutionists in the New Hebrides is
lands and the bodies of the dead wcr'
eaten by the victors.