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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26
THE FAST

FIRE swept away the Spencer house,
one of the oldest and best known
hotels at Niagara Falls. Loss. 500, 600.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY Fos-
TER arrived in New York from Liver
pool.
In New York Judge Van Brunt de-
cided that Financier Edward NJ. Field
should be sent to an insane asylum.
FIRE destroyed w. e. Pennypacker's
barrel factory at Philadelphia, the loss
being sl5o, 900
THE boiler of a locomotive on the
Philadelphia & Reading road exploded
at McCauley, Pa, killing Engineer
Campbell and Fireman Brockie.
The famous musician, Max Strak-
osclI, died in the home for incurables
at Fordham, n. Y, aged 81 years.
FIRE nearly destroyed the depot of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad in New Haven, Conn. Loss,
SOC, 900.
THE well-known publisher, Daniel
Lothrop, died at his home in Boston at
the age of 60.
AFTER sixteen years of affliction
from his peculiar malady. Edward EN-
mons, of Port jefferson, L. l., known
as the ossified man, died from the grip.
Four hundred hogs and two carloads
of cattle were killed in railway wreck
near Greensburg, Pa
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26
with a reform party which does not an

| with a reform party which does not an
tagonize the liquor traffic.
RICHARD MErRosE-s family at Nash
vile, Tenn, were poisoned by drink
ing coffee containing arsenic Matte
and Katie died end the others were in
a critical condition. Robert, the
younger son, was suspected of the
| crime.
ALoNG the line of the Denver, Texas
& Gulf road between Trinidad. Col,
and Fort Worth. Tex, it was estimated
that 20, 900 cattle perished during the
past week and as many more north
and east of Trinidad
FIRE destroyed Light & Myers to
bacco factory at St Louis Loss,
S345, 600.
FLAMES swept away the power-house
of the Mount Auburn cable road in
Cincinnati, the loss icing 100000.
AT Meridian, Miss. mob punished
a negro woman for misusing child by
administering $50 lashes on her bare
skin
AT Manning, Ia, Rev. Mr.. Boles was
so badly burned by the explosion of a
gasoline stove that both of his arms
had to be amputated.
WHILE in bathroom in the Palmer
house in Chicago ex-senator Bowen, of
Colorado, lost SIS coo in cash and $780,
900 in bonds. The money was found
by colored employe and returned to
its owner.
Mrs. BURKE poisoned her 2-year-old
child and then poisoned herself in st.
Louis Mr. Burke had deserted his
wife, and this was the cause of the
deed.
IL Chicago Frank Ives, of Michigan.
defeated Jake Schaefer, of Chicago, in
the 14-inch balll-line billiard game for
the worlds championship Schaefcr's
score was 499 when Ives had reached
$40.
A FIRE destroyed the business por-
tion of Homer, Ill, and large number
of dwelling houses
AT Wharton, O., son of Austin Bor-
zen died, aged 30 years, and during all
The years OF his life he was nothing
moe than a mere babe. He developed
in no respect and died in his cradle.
THE losses to stock and sheep men
by the recent blizzard in Texas were
placed nj 500, O0G.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26
WEST AND SOUTH.

WILLIAM GRICE'S two children were
scalded to death at Struthers, o., by
the upsetting of washboiler full OF
water.
In Virginia, Alabama and Mississip-
pi the severest snowstorm in many
years prevailed.
FIRE destroyed United States ex-
press car near Honey Bend, ILL.,, with
its contents, including $50, 900 in cur
rency.
IN Indian territory cattle were dying
in large numbers from cold and ex-
posure.
AT Milburg. Mich, b. F. Hill be-
came entangled in the machinery in
his sawmin and his body was sawed in
two lengthwise.
Iowa republicans in convention at
Des Moines elected Harrison delegates
to the Minneapolis convention, but
sent them uninstructed. The dele
gates at large are d. C. Chase. John Ii.
Gear, Z. z. Mack and J. S Clarkson.
The platform indorses President Har-
rison's administration; favors protec-
tion. reciprocity, the elevation and
prosperity of labor, the maintenance
of sound currency, every dollar of
which shall be the equal of every
other dollar, and of securing to all
American citizens, white or black,
their rights. 1t was decided to cut
loose from prohibition as party
measure.
GRACE MCKINNEY, an actress at
Cleveland who married Rev. Wilson r.
Stearley about a week ago while on
her death bed, is dead.
The prohibition national convention
will meet in Cincinnati instead of St
Louis, but the date remains the same,
June 90.
An eruption of Ngauruhoe, an active
volcano at Taupo, caused the death of
500 natives
MICHIGAN prohibitiouists in conven-
tion at Grand Rapids chose delegates
at large to the national convention and
adopted resolutions demanding tina.
the sale and manufacture of liquor be
made a public crime; equal suffrage
regardless of sex; that trusts and com
binations be prohibited by law: that
pauper and criminal immigrants be ex-
cluded and foreigners not be permitted
to vote until one year after taking out
papers, and that the party cannot en-
tsrtain any proposition TO cooperate
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26
a GREAT VARIETY.

OUR exports of cotton from this coun-
try are the largest Of any staple. In
spite of low prices, cotton leads with
s216,G5s, ,oa9. against so3l. l.4a9, 500 for all
breadstuffs, and slGO. 200 for all ami
NAL products
THE most expensive stained-glass me-
mortal window in the United States Is
supposed to be one recently placed in
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church at
Newark, n. j., which is said to have
cost $4,000.
CAREFUL observation and comparisons
made by scientific Americans prove that
the hottest region on earth is on the
southwestern coast of Persia, where
that country borders the gulf of the
same name. The thermometer never
falls below 100 degrees at night, and
frequently runs up to l2s degrees in the
afternoon.
A QUIET rancher in the foothills of
California has been experimenting with
the olive, and now makes the sensa-
tional announcement that olives can be
grown on the native willows by the
ordinary process of grating. He makes
good the assertion by exhibiting willow
branches with clusters Of fruit growing
On them
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FlFTH.sEcoND CONGRESS.

sS@SSNS SSN9h6~S
WEDNESDAY, March 16.-In the sem
ate Mr. PETER (Kan.) introduced bill
''for the removal of the strongest iu-
centive to crime among the poor and
vice among the rich; for protecting the
American from the influx of undue
alien competition, and for other pur-
poses," the fund to be furnished by q
graduated tax on incomes. A bill was
reported for the construction of three
reported for the admission of New
Mexico and Arizona as states The
tariff bill was further discussed.
THURSDAY, March II. - The bill
making Council Bluffs, Ia, a port of
delivery was passed in the senate. A
bill was introduced to establish an
electric experimental station to deter
mine whether electricity can be profit
ably used to propel farm machinery. A
joint resolution for a national marriage
and divorce law was introduced. In
executive session the nine Few ap-
peIlate court judges were confirmed
The time in the house was mostly oc-
cupied in discussing the tariff bill. A
bill was introduced to provide postal
currency, which it proposes to substi-
tute for postal notes
FRIDAY, March 1S.-In the senate
bills were reported to fix a uniform
standard of classification of wheat,
corn, barley, rye, oats, etc; to provide
for the punishment of offenses on the
high seas; to promote silk culture; ap-
propriating $50, 900 for a statue of Gen.
W. 7. Sherman in Washington. A bill
was passed establishing port of de-
livery at Des Moines, Ia The nomina-
ton of Charles ii. Aldrich, of Illinois,
to be solicitor general of the United
States, vice William II. Taft, was re-
ceived. Adjourned to the 21st In the
house the Utah home rule bill was re-
ported favor ably. The consular and
diplomatic appropriation bill(sl, III, ,OOO)
was reported.
SATURDAY, March 19.-The senate
was not in session. In the house a
bill was passed to amend the act ap-
proving the funding act of Arizona,
passed in 1890. The contested election
case of Noyes (rep.) against Rockwell
(dcm.) from the Twenty-eigth New
York district was decided in favor of
Noyes- Eulogies were delivered on
the late Senator Plumb.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

PAIyEsvnLE. o., March 22.-The
gainesville Savings & Loan Association
bank has closed its doors The depos-
itors are generally working people, who
are crowding around the building and
threatening violence To- the officials.
Col. r. X. Page, well tnown in rail-
way circles, and one OF ffe most prom
inent capitalists in northern Ohio, is at
the head of the concern. No figures
are obtainable at this time. and the
cause OF the failure can not be learned.
A notice on TIE door of the bank con-
veys the information that a settlement
will be made with depositors soon
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26
FROM WASHINGTON,

THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 2IO, against PSI the
preceding week and 245 for the CORE
spending week last year
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
81, 200, SIS, ,322, against $1,000, SO, 7SS the
previous week The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was l57.
AT present the national bank note
circulation is SOL, 200, 900, an increase
of nearly $40, ZOO, 900 since July last.
The internal revenue receipts during
the first eight mon,.ls of the fiscal year
ending June 80. 1892, were 500, Coz, 2233,
an incre ase of S.. 100,01S over the re-
ceipts during the corresponding period
Of last year.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE steamship Indiana, loaded with
provisions sent from the United States
to the starving Russians, has arrived at
Libau. Russia
The police in Liverpool found the
bodies of n woman and her four chill
dren buried under the hearthstone of
their home The police arrested Ar
thur Williams, and they think he is
Jack the Ripper"
BY an avalanche at Bellueno, city
of north Italy. eight persons were
killed and large amount OF property
was destroyed.
IL the colony of Queensland, Aus
tralia. great suffering exists owing to
the stagnation of industry. Hundreds
of women and children Were applicants
for government relief at Brisbane.
BY the wrccking of the British brig
Gudrion on the shingles on the Isle of
Wight ten of the crew perished
FREDERICK EGGLEToS and Charles
Rayner. poachers who killed two men,
We're hanged at Oxford, Eng.
FoI assaulting and numbering eight
servant girls. Franz Schneider was
s.rangled at Vienna
JOSEPH DYE and Lee 1iefflin. who
murdered the Hines family, We're
lynchcd near Gainesville, ". Va, by a
mob.
OWING to trouble over the educational
bill Chancellor Caprivi has resigned his
seat in the Prussian cabinet
IS Spain the floods continue. and
over 100 houses in Villaverde have been
destroyed.
By the collapse of building in st.
Petersburg thirteen persons were
killed.
An Italian named Gatti, who MUIR
dercd Mile. Dcgen, Il teacher, was
guillotined at Lucerne. This was the
first execution in Switzerland since
1868
FLAMES in a butchers shopa Bromp-
ton, Eng, caused the death of two
women and three children.
Ten lives were lost by an explosion
of nit-o-glyccrine at Susa, Switzerland.
IS France the Banque Anonyme des
Chemins de Fer failed for $4,000, 600
francs. and the director, NJ. Dugoureau,
committed suicide.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

SINCE the double chloride of gold
treatment has been shown to be so eff
ficacious in the cure of alcoholism,
would it not be an admirable thing for
some astute chemist to devote himself
to the search for very effective hypo-
dermic treatn ent of that grievous dis
ease, demigogism? In some respects
demagogism is worse than alcoholism
because it befuddles the average human
understanding more hopelessly and
taxes the people just as much. Let us
experiment with the chlorides and see
if some specific cannot be obtained to
cure this most disgusting and mischiev-
ons maladv
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

OF all the tongues talked or written
on earth no one is now more desirable or
useful than the English. 1t is spread
ing everywhere; it is even probable
that within a few years it will become
the common language of Japan. In
the first eighty years of this century
the speakers of French increased in
civilized countries from $1,000, 900 to
as, 900, 600; of German, from $4,000, 600
to 69, 900, 600, and of English, from 2l,-
600, 600 to 100, 600, OOO
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

AND now it is reported that the
match trust has gone to pieces. The
difficulty with trusts is that they are
formed to fix high prices and big
profits As soon as the big profits be-
gin to accrue an outsider establishes a
factory on account of the inducements
which the business extends Then the
trusts have to buy up the outsider or
reduce prices SO as to crush him out.
So it goes on until buying up outsiders
or reducing prices makes the trust a
too heavy or an Improbable load
Hence it is dropped The supreme law
of human selfishness and greed is fatal
to trusts.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26
Lord SALISBURY. note Discussed.

WASHINGTON, March s2.-Presidens
Harrison discussed Lord Salisbury's
reply with Attorney-General Miller
and Gen. Foster. The reply Is said TO
be quite lengthy and covers the Behr-
ing sea situation with elaboration
Later Gen. Foster called at the navy
denartmeut and had q conference with
Secretary Tracy. No unusuul activity
peryades the latter's department, all
the necessary orders for the fitting ont
of ships having been issued last week
This is taken as an indication that
Lord salisbury's reply is more pacific
than his former note.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

Rev. JOHN JASPER, of Richmond, the
most noted colored preacher in the
world and exponent of the sun Do
Move" theory, announces that in few
days he will take his third wife. The
old man has been in bad health for
some time and made his will few days
ago In it he did not leave all his es-
tate to his married daughter, who kept
house for him. For this reason DIR.
Jasper says she and her husband plotted
TO take his life, SO he sent them away,
and now he must have a wife for house
keeper. The prospective bride is nearly
as old as he is, and both are about
eighty years Of age.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

The ticket auditing department of the
Missouri. Kansas & Texas Railway Co.
has been removed from Sedalia to Par
sons. kas.
The order for removal was kept secret until
the books, records. etc, were packed and
placed aboard the cars for fear steps would be
taken to retain the force at Seialia, in accord
ance with the terms of compromise effected
when the general ne moval took place last fall.
The force is a small one however, and will never
he missed
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

OTTAWA, Ont, March 22.-The min
lister of marine has issued a notice to
the effect that persons having claims
for compensation by reason Of expul-
sion from Behring sea under the pro-
visions of the modus vivendi during
1891, must lodge them at the Office of
the collector of customs at Victoria, B.
c., before April 4, otherwise they will
not be considered. 1t is believed that
this is the result of an arrangement
made by Canada with the imperial gov
erument
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

Mr. W. b. SoMERvILLE, superinten-
dent of the press service of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, says that
ten years ago there were only about
fifty papers that had special CORE
spondents and received special dis
patches in the United States. The
total numb of words of service for
year at that time was about 2s, O0O 600.
For the last yea- of record special dis
patches were sent to over 800 papers IN
the United States and the aggregate
number of words so delivered was 260,-
OOO 600
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

A STRANGE, weird story comes from
London to the effect that in a conver-
sation about his Bradenburg speech,
when asked as to Russia, Emperor
William said: Il will pulverize Rus
sia" BY diplomatic methods the re-
mark was carried to the czar, who sent
back word: Tell your emperor that
when he wants to begin pulverizing
will throw half a million men across
the frontier with the greatest pleas
ure." Both these monarchs appear
willing to engage in the ''pulverizing"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

are turning their attention to hemp
culture" remarked J. 4. Sallomay, of
Marysville, TO n Globe Democrat report
er while in st. Louis the other day.
'"rhcy have learned that there is more
money in hemp than in any other
product of the western farmer, and will
raise big crops of it this year. Experi-
ments of the past two or three years
show that there is clear profit of SIS
an acre on hemp, and this is more than
is made out of corn or wheat at the
present market values"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

Miss KATE FIELD is at loss to un-
derstand why men that sell ribbons
and tapes should be held in higher es-
TEEN than those who serve in public
restaurants One reason, Miss Field,
is that the latter take tips, while the
former do not
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

THIEVES break in where ordinary
visitors are barely tolerated. The new
villa of the empress of Austria in Corfu
has been ransacked by brigands. who
made sad havoc in the place and
walked off with a lot of bric-a-b brac and
art treasures which money cannot re-
Dlace
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

The fact that longevity is hereditary
is well illustrated in the family of Mrs.
Sarah Van Nostrand, of East Milestone,
n. J. She cele brated her one hundred
and third birthday last September, and
of her eight children six are living.
There has been no death among her
children for seventy-five years
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

The Democratic state central COM
mittee met at St Louis and decided
upon May II as the time for the meet
ing of the delegates convention at Sc
dalia; July 6, the judicial convention at
St Louis, and July 10 for the state
nominating convention at jefferson
City
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

A MAN in Chicago who possessed a
solitary five-dollar bill and wanted to
blow it in badly, hit upon novel plan
the other day by which to save and
spend it both The bill was given him
by friend, and he was determined
not to part with it. After lengthy
debate with himself he evolved the
brilliant scheme of pawning the note.
He paid visit to his uncle, raised
S4.G2 on the bill, and spent it according
to his tastes. When further funds came
in he redeemed the original note
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

News of the recent blizzard in the
northwest, or possibly the blizzard it.
self, must have reached Delaware ere
this, and yet the total annihilation of
the peach crop has not been an
nounced- Have the fruit growers of
that commonwealth lost their cunning?
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

KING CHRISTIAN, of Denmark, who
is about to go on an extended tour
from home, is one of the most demo-
cratic of rulers He goes about the
streets of Copenhagen in a plug hat
and isn't even saluted by the people
he meets
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

August Morgucs. in business at st.
Joseph in the early days in the time of
Joseph Robidoux and n pioneer in Kan
sas, having a general store at Wathena
for thirtyfive years, dropped dead in
st. Joseph the other day. He went to
st Joseph from st. Louis. belonging to
Louis lie was perhaps IS or 90 years
old
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

Mrs. Martha Goodwin, of St. Joseph,

Mrs. Martha Goodwin, Of st. Joseph,
was fatally burned the other day.
She was kndling a fire in stove when her
dress ignited. She became terror-stricken and
ran out of doors. and was soon enveloped in
flames Neiehbors ran 20 ner rescue. but had
hard work to catch the frantic woman until she
sank to the ground exhausted and unconscious
The fire was extinguished and physician sum
moned. 1t was found that she had been burned
NIL over the body
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

MRS MARY STATTLEY, of Ports
mouth, o., is seventy-seven years old,
and just now she is being terribly
bothered with a brand new set of
natural teeth, which are coming up like
spring flowers in her nervous and rest
less lower Jaw
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

MIDpLEsBoRo, KY, March 1.-THE
worst blizzard ever known here is rag
ing to-day. In the valley there is six
inches of snow, and a foot in this city.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

Tom and Jesse Grady and Haywood
IIeathman were drowned three miles
above Lexington. in the Missouri
river. They had been shooting geese
on n sandbar in the middle of the river.
and while rowing ashore their boat
struck snag and went to pieces.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

A QUIET rancher in the foothills of
California has been experimenting
with the olive and now makes the SEN
sational announcement that olives can
be grown on the native willows by the
ordinary process of grating. 1t will
be pleasant and profitable to have a
weeping willow that will shed tears of
olive oil
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

FRED DOUGLASS has been commits
stoned by the president of the Hayti
republic to act as first commissioner Of
the worlds fair exhibit He will have
charge of the expenditure of the sla5.-
900 contributed by that government for
the fair
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

BIDpEFoRD tMe.) papers give inter.
esting accounts of a cat that drinks cof-
fee at breakfast, and of a child six
years old who writes poetry. The cat is
worth bringing up.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

DANvERs, Mass. March 1s.-About
ESQ lasters Of Farwell & Co., have
struck owing to a reduction of their
wapes
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

During the absence of its mother the
1S-months-old child of Mrs Fink. of st.
Louis, was burned to death, its cloth
ing catching fire from the stove.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

Frank Clark was instantly killed in
shaft of the Illinois Mining Co. at Jop-
lin. Clark was at work when a heavy
piece of iron fell, striking his head.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

WASHINGTON, March IS. - Senator
Morrilrs condition continues to be en-
couraging. and there is now every rea-
son to believe he will soon recovered.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

PHILADELPHIA. March IA fire in
the large market house at Thirtieth
and Market streets this morning de-
stroyed uronerty valued ct $4,000,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

NEW YORK, March Is-Two female
attendants on North Brothers island
were taken i'll with typus fever yester-
day. Both of them have been en-
ploysd on the island since the out
break of the disease.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-03-26

ALBANY, N. Y, March 1s.-The as
sembly has defeated the amendment
raising the appropriation for the
Worlds fair from $500, 900 to $500. 900
by a vote of 81 yeas, 50 noes The bill
vos fhen poscad