The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-05-21


barre, Pa on the 18th, by shooting.
Two months ago he sold small farm
for nominal sum. A week before his
suicide coal was discovered on the land,
which increased its value to $4,000.
The discovery of this fact SO proved on
his mind that he became partially in
sane.
An English firm has bought an acre
of land, two block, from the Singer
works at Elizabcthport, y. j.. for the
manufacture of administer and wilton
carpets and rugs of the finest quality
OS the 18th Frederick Allen, colored,
aged 105 years, died at Richmond, Ind.
1t is claimed he was the oldest citizen
of Indiana. He came west in 1915 from
Virginia, and often related his observa-
tions of George Washington, whom he
personally knew.
THE steamer Cohemaugh, bearing
flour, grain and provisions from Amer
lea destined for the famine sufferers of
Russia, arrived in Riga roadstcad at
midnight of the 12th. 1T a. III. the
work of discharging the vessel began,
being pushed as rapidly as possible.
JACK POWERS. .JR, and j. c. and l..
II. Hall were buried in a cave-in in the
Old Tunnel mine at Cherokee. Cal, on
the 18th, and instantly killed The
Halls We're natives of Montana
ELIJAH CHEvEE5, the murderer of
Deputy Sheriff Culpcpper, was hanged
at Washington city on the 18th.
THE proposal to hold a Worlds
Fair" in Berlin is beginning to attract
considerable attention, and scarcely
week passes without meetings to dis
cuss the question.
THE Dumas sale of pictures in Paris,
continues to excite great interest
Carrots ''Paison a Chcval' brought 49,
900 francs, the buyer being Durandruel
THE Silver Lake lee Co.'S immense
ice house at Perry. n. y, was burned
to the ground early ON the morning of
the 18th, and GO.OOO tons of ice was de
stroycd. The building cost about $780,
900 and the total loss amounts to shout
Sa5O. 900.
Az agent named Brcndet, Mrs. Mel
sen, a milliner. and Mrs. Wahrmann, a
widow, have been arrested in Altoona,
Prussia, charged with carrying on an
extensive system of stealing from the
luggage of American travellers.
BARON FAvA. the Italian minister to
the United States. arrived in New York.
on the 18th, on La Gascogne. His ar
rival was made the occasion of dem
onstration on the part of the Italian
residents of New York.
THE returns issued by the Paris board
of trade show that during the month of
April the imports decreased 41,S21 200
and the exports 1s.3Gi 900 francs, as
with the corresponding month
of last year.
GEN. THos A. RowLEY was found
dead in his bed at his late residence in
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the morning of the
18th. His sudden death is attributed to
heart failure.
THE situation along the Mississippi
river and its tributaries up TO the morn
ing of the 10th was of an alarming
nature Hundreds of thousands of
acres were inundated and the prospects |
for crops ruined on the farms. while in |
the cities the dcsolation carried among |
he inhabitants of the low lands was |
terrible to contemplate. The |
waters We're not expected to begin re-
,eding for several days.
ONE of the robbers who held up the |
and Wcavcrville Cali stage,
md murdered the messenger. was cap
.ured, on the 18th, 400 yards from the
'cene of the robbery. lie was found
wing in ditch almost exhausted. He
rave the name of Arizona Charley
EARLY on the morning Of the 18th
Fred c. Pillsbury, one of the members
# the Pillsbury-Washburn milling syn
licate and a well-known horseman.
lied at Minneapolis, Mimi, of malig-
lant diphtheria. Mr.. Pillsbury was
lbout IS years of age, son of ex-MayOr
ieorge A. Pillsbury and nephew of
,x-Gov. John =. Pillsbury.
Two HUNDRED steerage passengers
IN the French steamer La Gascogne
Ire detained at New York harbor under
of being contract laborers.
ANQUIs MCIvER and William Minkle
we're killed and James Abbott fatally
,urt in the Drumlummon mine at Hcle-
"a. Mont. by a cage on which they
we're riding falling seventy feet