The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-08-01
" EST AND SOUTH.

THE doors of the Citizens bank of
jefferson. Tex, were closed with liza
bilitics of 500, 900.
4 HAILsToRT mile wida passed
through the northern part of Cloud
county, Kan. cutting the corn crop all
to pieces.
THE death Cf Alexander Grourlcy,
veteran of the war of 1Sl2. and of the
late war. occurred at the national SOL
dirrS' huma in Irarclwurth. Kan.
aged -. lie enlisted in the late war at
the are of Is
A NOR lynchcd William Johnson (co!-
orcdj at Henderson,. Tex. for criminal
assault.
THE house OF Jeremiah Carson at
Huntington, Ncb.. was struck by light
ming and Mr.. Carson. his wife and child
were fatally in jUred.
THE failure of the kimball tS CLAMP
Investment Company of Council Bluffs,
Ia, for Sl0D.0Op was reported
\ FLOOD in the business portion of
Wcstpoint, Neb.. did great damage.
Is Kansas Il. W. Mckay, the alliance
Judge who ignored Il decision of the
state supreme court, was summoned
before that tribunal and made to prom
Use that he would abide by its decisions
hereafter
AT Salem, Ind, a windstorm I'M
rooted several dwellings and great
damage was done to growing crops in
the vicinity.
Is the burlington & Missouri round
nj lnft tSp,nrth Nah hntInr
exploded. killing two men and fatally
injuring three others.
GEORGE ANDERSON. at East st Louis,
Il saloon kccpcr. shot and killed Dennis
Ryan, another saloon keeper, and then
committed suicide in th1 presence Of
his wife and child, vino begged him not
to kill himself.
LIGHTNING struck the house of John
w IIinklc, during heavy storm near
Goldsmith, Ind, killing his wife and
child.
At Wellsville, o., terrific wind and
rainstorm uprootrd trees, and several
small buildings were blown over and
cellars flooded. Nany barns in the
outlying districts were blown down,
and crops of all kinds suffered severely.
IL Norman county, Mimi, hail
storm ruined 1000 acres of growing
crops.
WoED was received by John thinner
man, an inmate of the soldiers home
at Grand Rapids, Mich, that fortune
of SOS. .O9J awaited him in the old coun-
try by the death of an aunt
Ar the age of 60 years William Cor
bin died in Adrian. Mich. lie served
one term in the house of representa-
tives and was a thirty-third degree
mason.
THE cars killed Mrs. j. II. Johnson.
aged 40 years, and her grandson, aged
4 years. at La Moille. la.
BY the explosion of a boiler near
Litchfield. Ky, three men were in
stantly killed ard five others were
fatally injured.
THE death of Herman Raster, of Chi
cago. editor-in-chief of the Illinois
Staats-Zeitung occurred at Cubowa,
Germany, aged III years.
HENRY BURKHARDT. of Abilene,
Kan. died of hydrophobia after three
weeks of suffering from a dog bite.
Ar Atlanta, Ca. Charles NJ. Ozburn
was hanged for the murder of John NJ.
Bradley on May :, 1890.
Is Chicago the Columbian Oil Compa-
ny failed for S5OO,O90
IT was said that evidence had come
to light showing the innocence of Tom
Williamson Her sentence to be
hanged August 81 Cor wife murder at
Scdalia. Mo.
THE horse Wyandotte, owned by John
f. Madden, of Lexington. Ky. and
valued at $4,000, fell dead at the De-
troit races.
ALBERT HAMPTON and William Ewing
were killed by lightning near Hills
boro, Ill.
By collision on the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad near Carlisle, Col, four
persons were killed and nine badly in
jured.
OFFICIALS at ne5 Moinez, To-, emp
tied 400 kecE Of CAPTURED beer into the
river.