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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03
WEST AND SOUTH,

THE Knights of Labor at their six
tecnth annual session in 81. Louis re-
elected r. V. Powderly grand master
workman and John W. Hayes general
sccrctary-treasurer.
IL Milwaukee William X. Binder,
boolikecpcr for the Licdcrsdorf Tobac-
co Company. shot and killed his wife.
his 5-ycar-old daughter and himself.
Fear OF losing his position had affected
his mind.
by an explosion of giant powder at a
colliery at Golfers Station, W. Va,
three men were killed. two fatally and
seven seriously injured.
FEoM Fcrnandina the steamer Ethel
oranges for England. 1t is the first di-
rect shipment of Florida fruit ever
made across the water
The bank of Skilcs, Rcarick 4 Co,
at Ashland, ILL.,. was entered by bur-
glars. who secured $1,000 in cash and
other valuabies
FLAMES ruined the Lindell Street
Railway Company's car sheds. cars and
electrical machinery in St Louis, the
loss being sla5,O0O.
IN the state of Washington several
lives were lost in the recent great
storm and the damage to the farming
districts alone will reach hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
NEAR Atlanta, Ga train wreckers
placed distractions or the track of the
Western & Atlantic railway and En-
II IL. To-
tally injured.
WHILE talking to his son Philip
Smith. postmaster ut Red Hawk, O.,
dropped dead in his Office.
IL Missouri the official count on gov
ernor gives Stone (dcm.1 a63. IA; War
ner (rep). e35.O3a. Leonard pro-, 81
$40: Zobicski (people's). $685.
THE proposition to hold a constitu-
tional convention won at the recent
election in Kansas by majority of
1.2Si.
ALLEN HARRISON was hanged at
Huntington. ". Va, for the murder of
Bette Adams April last. The scaf
fold was erected in field and more
than 1000 persons witnessed the exc
cutiOn.
AT Aida. Neb.. an express and freight
train collided and six men were killed
ard several other persons were in
jured.
Ii is announced that the wheat crop
of Minnesota and the Dakotas is many
millions of bushels above all estimates.
The yield is now placed at 10000, 900
bushels
THE death of Mrs. Sarah Stoughton,
aged 100 years, occurred at her home 8
miles north of Columbus, Ind, of old
age.
A. z. SOLOMON & Co, dealers in dry
goods at Denver, failed for S.,25, 600.
BRIDGET MuErAUG died at her home
near Mankato, Mimi, at the age of l03
years.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

A steamer recently arrived at Seattle
rom Alaska has brought from that icy
country the skeleton of whale-lizard,
the second of its kind known to be in
existence. The other was found some
years ago near Oxford. England, but is
much smaller than this one. 1t is now
in the British museum. The whale
lizard is described in natural history as
''the king of the land and sea" doubt
less from the fact that it was equally at
home ON land or in the water. In water
its speed was terrific: it swan with its
legs. its enormous wings serving to
keep its body above the surface. so that
i. must have appeared to he walking on
the water. An idea of its great size
can be formed from the fact that one
bone weighed I9i pounds. The weight
of the whole skeleton is ., 100 pounds
Illustrated American.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03


DURING Il bull fight at Artcga. Mex
leo. at which $500 spectators were
present, four bulls stampeded and
made a united rush against the heavy
barricadc built for the protection of
the spectators, which gave way and the
bulls rushed frantically into the crowd
of people. throwing them right and
left with their horns. In their excite
ment the spectators rushed to one side
of the amphitheater to escape the fury
of the bulls This caused the seats to
give way and fully fifty persons sus-
tanned broken limbs and severe internal
injuries. The bulls killed one person
and wounded ten.
THE republic of Costa Rica continues
to be swept by destructive floods. such
as have never been known within the
memory OF the present inhabitants.
Not only have many lives been lost and
much property destroyed but the face
of the landscape is being changed in
MANY places by the vast volumes of
water precipitated upon hill and valley
and plain.
CARDINAL LAvIGERIE. who was born
at Bayonne, France, October 81, 1925,
died in Algeric on the Goth. His death
will be regarded as a great loss by
friends of civilization, regardless, of
creed.
CoUST DR. SAISTBoNE, Italian naval
minister, died in Rome on the 21th.
The duties of his offise will be dis
charged temporarily by Signor Briene,
minister of foreign affairs.
HENRY CLEws, who represents ma
jority of the stockholders of the Rich
mond Terminal, has written letter to
President Oakman demanding an i'm
mediate and thorough investigation of
what he terms Il ''monstrous steal
that has made Richmond Terminal
stock shrink in value s46, ,OOO, 900.
THE official vote of the last county in
Iowa has reached the secretary of state
and computation of the vote of the
state shows the following result for
president: Harrison, a19,ST3; Cieve-
land. 1916. .40s: Weaver, a0.6l6; Bidwcll,
6S, 300. Harrison's plurality over CIeve-
land, a2,9G5.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has followed a
new method of work in preparing his
annual message this year. 1t has been
the custom of the president in past
years TO write his message, but this year
he has dictated his message to stenog-
rapher.
CAPT. A. W. RossMAS. who has sailed
on lake steamers for over half a CEN
tury, died at his home in Chicago on
the aTth. He was the veteran of all
the vessel capta'ns in point of active
service.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

The English ivy attains so great an
age that in England they say it never
dies. There are ivy stocks ten or twelve
inches in diameter which are known to
have been planted as slips six hundred
or eight hundred years ago. An English
winter is not severe enough to kill it,
while the extreme moisture of the eli
mate induces i luNur:ant growth and Il
rich green. which is unsurpassed by
ANYTHING in the vegetable kingdom. 1t
is planted against the old walls, and
often trained on screens to conceal un-
slightly buildings, and everywhere
forms one of tine most attractive fea-
lures in an English landscape.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.


THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the eist was: Wheat,
SO, $50, 900 bushels; corn. II 235, ,0OJ bush.
els; oats, 1891, 900 bushels; rye, 1.2s5,-
900 1ushels: barley, e,sls. 600 bushels
GREEN T. RAUM. pension commits
sioner, estimates that $3.50, 900, 600 will
be needed for pensioners during the
next fiscal year.
A CENSUS Office bulletin shows that
ont of railway mileage for the world
of $40, PSI miles the United States has
not less than 163, ,597 miles, or IL. IS per
cent. of the whole, and that the rail-
way mileage of the United States ex-
ceeds by =, 493 miles the entire mileage
of the old world.
THE pension bureau annual report
says that there are s65,0S7 names of
pensioners on the rolls. an increase of
1'9.9as over the preceding fiscal year.
DURING the week ended on the 25th
the exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States aggregated
81, To-. 500, 0iS, against 81, 39s, I9S, AS the
previous week. The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was 81.
A. B. HEPBUIS. the comptroller of
the currency. shows in his forthcoming
report that the number of banks in
operation October 81. 1892, was 3.7sS,
having an aggregate capital of $685.
s6S, ,G45 and total resources of s., $40, O94,-
So. The circulation outstanding shows
net increase for the year of so, 49,
326.
ADvICEs from various parts of tine
United States indicate general OBJ
scrvance, in the usual manner. of
Thanksgiving day throughout the coun-
try.
DURING the seven days ended on the
25th the business failures in the Init
ed States numbered 2O5. against 2l0
the preceding week and .95 for the cor
responding time last year.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03
EXPERT cRAcKsMEN

Make q Big Haul at the Liberty fNfo.)
Bank-Forcing the safe with Dypamite.
They Secure About sia,ooo-scsred or
Before Completing Their Job. They
steal Team and Carriage and Mske
Their Escape
LIBERTY, Mo-, Nov. 2S-Four expert
cracksmen, with the use of dynamite
| and the latest: improved tools, sue.
ceeded in cracking the big safe Of the
First national bank Of this city Satur-
day night and securing money haul
which, though it cannot be fixed
officials of the bank. is variouslv esti-
mated at from t11.oOo to $4,000 by
those who are in q position TO know.
The burglars were scared away be-
fore they had completed their work.
and did not get into the reserve vault
in which was $4,000, principally in
gold. They had dynamite and fuse
attached to this, but for some reason
fed without touching it off.
The first intimation of the robbery
came Mt 1880 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. when County Treasurer Riley, who
has an Office in the building adjoining
the bank, went to his Office. When he
entered his room he saw the wall was
caving in, and on investigation he
found that there had been terrible
explosion in the bank, which had al
most wrecked both buildings He at
once gave the alarm, and upon search
being made il was learned that
burglars had been at work sue
cessfully in the bank. They had
entered the bank by means of
skeleton keys which had opened the
back door and another leading to the
room in which was the vault. They then
the vault, and with charge of powder
blew out the time-lock which had been
set to open on Monday morning. In
side this was steel door to the bur-
glar-proof compartment. The only
money known to be outside of this
door was $500 deposited late Saturday
afternoon by the Liberty Building and
Loan assoGRtion.
The burglars used dynamite to effect
an entrance through this second door.
They must have used terrific charge.
for the heavy steel door was SO COM
pletely blown to pieces that not even q
goOd-sized piece has been found
This gave the burglars access to all
the money which the bank had in cir
culation on Saturday, and the deposits
of merchants on that day being un-
usually heavy. $4,000 is considered
low estimate of what they got.
On the floor of the bank was left sew
eral sticks of dynamite and a number
of tools, showing that the men went off
in a hurry. 1t was learned that four
suspicious looking characters had been
seen in town on Saturday afternoon
and evening. Two were old men and
two were apparently about twenty.
One of them bought large quantity
of putty just before dark and this was
used with the dynamite to deaden the
sound.
Leaving the bank the burglars went
to the house of Mr.. James Steal and
stole carriage and team of horses,
with which they made their escape.
The sheriff and posse traced them as
far as the Milwaukee railroad bridge
over the Missouri river at Kansas City,
where the horses were found in an al
most dying condition, having been
driven furiously. Here all trace of the
men was lost. 1t is stated that they
got across the river by means of a boat
which confederates had in waiting.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

Miss Thompson, aged 80. all musicians.
were drowned near Everett, Wash
On the upper Mississippi river navi.
CATION has closed for the season.
IN Dubuque, Ia, the lumber mills
have closed for the season. The cut of
lumber, 66,O00, 900 feet, is the largest
on record In that city.
THE death of William Mckinley. Sr,
father of Gov. Mckinley, occurred at
his home in Canton, o.. aged s5 years
RESOLUTIONS were adopted at the ma
tional assembly in Champaign. ILL.,, of
the Farmers Mutual Benefit associa-
tion favoring the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver, a graduated income
tax and election of United States sena-
| tors by direct vote of the people.
THE independents hold the balance
of power in the California legislature
and can name the next United States
senator.
FLAMES destroyed Fuller's livery
stable at St Joseph, Mo-, and twenty
horses, one a trotter valued at $4,000,
perished in the fire.
ILLINOIS official vote gives Cleveland
plurality of 29,113 and Atgeld, for
governor, 2a.4SO plurality.
STAMBoUL trottcd mile in 2:07Is on
kite-shaped track at Stockton, Cal.
This beats the worlds trotting record
for stations
The knights of Labor at the close of
their annual meeting in st. Louis
adopted resolutions favoring the re-
- nf 90
funds sufficient for years support;
restricting the ballot to those who can
read and write. and that money should
be issued by the national government
only.
NEAR Marshfeld. Wis, Il lumber
camp was destroyed by fire and two
men were cremated and three others
terribly burned.
AT Denver. Col. Robert Gcrading.
an amateur bicyclist, broke the worlds
track and road record for } miles by
A. 40 seconds. His time was la:O7.
A BOY and three men were drowned
at Lewiston, Wash, by the upsetting
of boat.
THE Minnesota official vote gives
President Harrison IA plurality OF al,
go. Nelson trep.l for governor has Il
plurality of 1885,.
FLAMES ruined the works of the
Michigan Forge * iron Company at
Detroit. the loss Icing Sl0O,OJJ
TnE Indian industrial school at Clon
tart, Mimi. was entirely destroyed by
fire
At Green Bay. Wis, James Fox,
aged l., and John and Kennedy Cot
ton. II and respectively, were
drowned while skating on the Fox
river
THE overland express On the North
ern Pacific was held up ut Hot Springs,
Wash. by three masked men who re-
licved the passengers of cash to the
amount of 81 30.
Is portions of Minnesota and South
Dakota the thermometer registered -
degrees below zero.
FoErY-EIGHT miners were supposed
to have pcrished from hunger and cold
in the mountains east of Snohomish,
Wash.
COMMANDER WEIssEEr in speaking of
the southern posts of the Grand Army
of the Republic says colorcd soldiers
must he recognized.
HUGn BOYD and Mrs. Annie Thomp-
son. his housekecper. were fatally
burned at St Johns, Mich. Mr.. Boyd
was the oldest sir knight in the coun-
try.
AT the Planters hotel in Cairo Ill.
Nav Sans chamhermaid, shot and
instantly killed Capt. Ransom Sampson,
then fatally shot SIMPSONS bride, to
whom he had been married but week.
ard then shot herself fatally. Jcal-
ousy was the cause.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

NATHANIEL \. BARRY. of Bristol. y.
H.. is the oldest living ex-governor Of
a state in the United States. If he
survives until September /. 1896. he
will bc 4 centenarian. He was Il boy
ot very humblc parcntage. became a
tanner, as Gen. Grant did. and in 1861
was elected governor OF New Hamp-
shire. He is still man of consider
able physical and of unusual mental
riror
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

MRs. RALPH WALDO EMEESoS'S death
draws attention to two facts: Her nm
married daughters beautiful devotion
TO her blind parent these many years.
and the undisturbcd condition of Mir.
Emerson's study since his death. In
fact the whole house and its furnish
ings have undergone little change in a
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

THE emperor OF AMMAN, who has
been mentioned so often in the foreign
papers recently, has now 200 wives.
each of whom, " ith her servants, lives
in a house in the palace garden. which
is surrounded by a great wall. The
empress-mothcr alone has Il palace at
her disposal. The wives arc divided
into nine classes, one class outranFing
another When one of these women
dies her body is lowered over the pal
ace walls by ropes and is buried out
side, as no corpse may he carried through
the palace gate, not even that of dead
emperor After the death of his maj
esty the widows may marry again.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

\ WOMAN in Missouri has sued the
Splitlog railroad on the following
claim: SHE was a passenger on the
road and was accidentally carried be-
yOnd her destination some distance,
when the train stopped and she alight-
ed. While returning she was chased
by a bnll. and in outrunning him i'm
paired her health
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

Mrs. Lizzie Young. a colored wom-
an of Jacksonville, Fla. has established
quite draying business in that city.
She owns three draws and cmpio',S from
twenty to thirty more when occasion
requires. She pays each drayman si.5O
a day, calling fourteen loads a days
work. At present she is employed in
hauling away the sand from the ex-
cavation on the government lot, and SO
far has sold every particle of the sand
dug out. Mrs. Young knows by face
and name every drayman in her en-
ploy. But draying is not her only bus
iness. For six months every year this
enterprising young woman rams an ex-
tensive wood yard at North Springfield.
and four or five teams are kept busy
delivering wood. She sells, besides.
many hundreds OF dollars worth of
pork every year, ard does good trade
in poultry and eggs.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

Miss KATE MARsDEN, before setting
out on her second journey via the
nited States to the hauntS OF the 81
lcrian lcpcrs. was presented by Queen
Victoria with a large autograph photo
graph and 4 very beautiful brooch,
representing a golden angel OF victory
standing on a large pearl. will the in
scription Victoria Regina on Il scroll
across its breast
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

HORROR. Kas., Nov. as.-The acquit-
tai of Mrs. J.A. Bradley of the charge
of murder in the district court has so
enraged the citizens of Everest, where
she lives, that they threaten to take
the law in their own hands. Informa-
tion was brought to the city last even
ing that the woman had been served
with a white-cap notice to leave the
country Immediately or she would be
tarred and feathered. The local paper
denounces the woman as a convicted
murdress in the eyes of the people,
even though she was acquitted in
court through a miscarriage of Justice.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

MARK TwAIN's humor-creatci cor
oner, who held an inquest on an Egyp-
tan mummy and charged the county
with compound interest on the regular
fee from the time of Moses. has some
thing nearly akin to a parallel in the
Buffalo coroner who held an inquest
on the recently uncarthed bones of Il
few indians whose tribe became ex-
tinct prior to the year 1859.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

A wedding in eastern city was re-
Gently delayed for reason which con-
cerned clothes and two men rather than
the women, who are usually in diem,
mas of dress. When the officiating
bishop opened his travelling case in the
vestry, instead of the rich and volumi-
nous silken robes he expected to see,
the worldly dress. suit of man of
f..shion met his gaze. 1t took drive
to the village hotel, mile away, to
find the swearing man who was trying
to kick open a locked dress-suit case IN
which, had he been successful, his ef
forts would only have been rewarded
with uuwearal le clerical regali'
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IL their house at San Pancrazio,
Italy, Rev. Father Bloudel and his sis
ter were found dead. Both had been
shot.
THE champion oarsman of America,
William O'Connor. died i'll Toronto.
Can. of typhoid fever, aged - years.
BY the falling of temple at Chang
chow, China. eighty soldiers were
crushed TO death.
a NUMBER of boats were wrecked in
gale off the Japanese coast and nine
teen fishermen drowned.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

Nirhiran's "copper" country" is
practically contained within the bounds
of HouChton county. OF the wonderful
mines in the district the first is the
great Calumet and liecla, the largest
and most successful copper-producing
mine in the world. which has capital
stock of $500, 900. and has paid its
shareholders in dividcnds in the past
twenty years s37, 900. This mine
alone gives employment to 1000 men.
It's pay roll for the mine proper is 5000.
900 per month. which is aside from the
large sums of money paid out annually
for wood. timber and other supplies.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

MAX MULLER strikes n compromise
between those who are contending for
the abolition of the poet laureateship
and those who desire the post filed.
His advice is don't abolish it. but Just
hang it up till another poet like Tenny-
son appears
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

There are three important times |,
a mans life-wben he is born, when he
marries and when he dies. And even
then his importance is overshndoued
by the curiosity 20 know If he is a boy
OF n girl. what the brid. wore aud what
he left i'm hi wall. Vain man l. u
don't cut much figure in this wori So
Bradford Era.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

THINK of this. We men who consider
women incapable of making Il living.
There are to-day more than 200, 900
women in the United States earning IA
living in the practice of law and mcdi-
cine, the teaching of music and art.
literature and science. and in clerical
work of different kinds in government
and other official places, to say nothing
of those employed at mechanical labor
in sLonS
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

a wEJrER in the st. Louis Republic
says: For years have collected and
indexed every newspaper item bearing
upon the subject OF the tallcst and
largest American family. From a
analysis of this arraS of giant litera-
ture have come to the conclusion that
the Pettijohn family of Walla Walla
county. Wash. deserves the palm. The
family consists of ten children, seven
boys and three girls, the average height
of the ten being ca feet and the aver
age weight being 244 pounds, including
two children not yet grown. The
baby is boy of =, who is feet and
l inch high and weighs a65 pounds
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

A barristcr tornented n poor Ger
man witness so much with questions
that the old man declared lie was cx-
hausted, and must have drink of WA
ter before he could say anoth,r worl.
Upon this the judge remarked: 81
think. sir. yon must have finished with
the witness now: you have pumped hin,
drv. v."-Tid-B Bits.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

WILLIAM +. ADAMS, better known as
oliver Optic" has written altogether
more than hundred books for boys,
and he is now busy at work with
another. Mr.. Adams is 20, but well
enough preserved TO last for some years
70 CANA
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

GerER WENDELL HOLMES not only
ha,h't copy of his first poem, but he
doesn't know what the title of it was.
This he confessed the other day 70 a
lady who sought him for information
on this point.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

THE United States contains 10000
lawyers. ll.00O of whom are in New
York city. making the proportion there
about to every 100 of the population.
France. with a population of 30, OOo 900,
has but 5000 lawyers. and Germany has
only 1000 out of Il population of 80, OOO,-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

Rev. William y. Johnson, pastor OF
the Presbyterian church. CchoeS. Y.
Y. passed his twenty-fifth anniversary
October !. In these years lie has
preached 1850 times, besides thousands
of lectures and addresses.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-12-03

A LoSDoS oman has patented a
machine for liking watch screws that
is provided,r ith a thread-cutter SO del
icate as to;se almost invisible. 1t will
cut perfIp. threads on the finest human