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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30
THE EAST,

THE republicans of Massachusetts
met in Boston for the election of four
delegates at large to the national con-
vention. The platform opposes the
free coinage of silver. reatiirms the
principle of protection, favors a ma
tiOnal bankruptcy law and indorscs the
administration of President Harrison.
Is convention at Harrisburg the re-
publicans of Pennsylvania nominated
John Dean for supreme judge and Maj.
Mcdowell and Gen. William Dill for
congressman at large. Delegates at
large to the national convention were
chosen and platform adopted which
opposes free coinage of silver, favors
protection to American industries and
indorses the candidacy of President
Harrison.
EIGHT miners lost their lives by the
flooding of colliery near Minersvillc.
Pa.
IS New York October IL has been
made holiday in honor of the discov-
cry of America by Columbus.
IN Boston counterfeit silver dollars of
the date of 1881 We're numerous
FIRE destroyed the malt house
owned by Henry Altenbrand & Co, at
Brooklyn, y. Y. Loss, 500
IS New York James NJ. Palmer ac-
knowledged that he had been swindling
Tiffany & Co. jewelers.. for years. His
pcculations were placed at SO. 600.
NEW YoEK's new census shows that
the total population of the state is
6,4s6.G52. The alien population of New
York city is 3I5, 900.
EDWARD Press. Edward Turner and
William Grassup tfishermenl were suf-
focated by coal gas in their cabin at
Hope Creek. n. J.
IN Syracuse. n V, Ernest Rapp shot
his wife and child and then shot him
self. Jealousy was the cause.
IN Philadelphia Willie Schmidtetter.
years old. set fire to his sister Bertha,
Il months old, and she was burned to
death.
AT the port of New York six steamers
landed 5.435 immigrants.
The Concmaugh sailed from Phila-
delphia for Russia with a cargo of g.
OOO. 900 pounds of breadstuffs, lSS,0O0
pounds of rice and other provisions for
the famine sufferers.
IN the week ended on the sd 1920
immigrants were landed at the port of
New York.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

INTERNAL revenue collections during
the first nine months of the fiscal yeai
ending June 80, 1892, were Sil3, so. 600
an increase of SI.777,Gs6 over the re
ceipts during the corresponding period
of the previous fiscal year.
The president has nominated Nathan
O. Murphy. of Arizona, to be governor
of Arizona vice John W. Irwin, re,
signed.
THE exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the aad aggregated 81,
043, l93.235, against SI.2l7,S ,637 the
previous week. The increase as com
pared with the corresponding week of
1891 was 80.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 22d numbered 2OI. against 226 the
preceding week and pa for the CORE
spending week last year.
EXPORTS of the United States for the
twelve months ended March 81, 1s92.
have. for the first time in the history of
the country, exceeded 1000. .000. 900, the
exact figures being Sl.OO6, ,2Si, sos. The
total value of the imports was Ss37, 7,O5S.-
5Sj
\ NATIONAL silver convention will be
held in Washington May &c and p.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

THE Rothscmlds banking house at
Frankfort is said to have lost 1000. 900
marks through Herr Jaeger, an ab-
sconding cashier.
IN four counties in Mexico drought
has rendered the production Of the nee
essarics of life impossible and 5000 per-
sons have issued an appeal for help.
IN Ireland Mrs. rarncli, widow of
the great Irish champion, has instituted
suits against tenants for rent.
FLAMES in a tenement house in St
Petersburg burned to death nine per-
sons, and fifteen others We're injured.
THE czarpcrsonally requested Charles
Emory Smith, United States minister to
Russia, who is returning home. to thank
the people of the United States for their
kindness in rendering relief.
ALFRED LUCAs, aged II. Ernest Lucas
and Henry Petit, aged l.. respectively,
were smothcrcd in a sand pit at Toron-
To. Ont.
IL storm the French sloop Mess
gacricS Fluvales, used as a troop trans
port. went down in the Clairhue river
and thirty soldiers and the captain were
drowned.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30


| IN the senate. on the 25th. the entire
| day was taken up with the Chinese bill,
which WAS passed exactly as reported
| by the senate committee on foreign re-
| lations. to continue existing restrictive
| laws for ten years. The bill was then
sent to the house for confcrcnce.....In
| the house the entire day was consumed
in an attempt to prncure a vote on the
resolution cXpunging certain petitions of
Mr.. Nalkcrs remarks. making alluSions
t. Mr.. Williams and Mr.. Hnar, of Mas
SachuScttS, which We're considered OBJ
jectiona BILE. from the record. The re-
publicans declined to vote, thus break
ing quorum.
IS the house ofcommonS, on the 21th,
Mr.. Lowthcr, parliamentary secretary
for the foreign office, said in reply to
Mr.. Brice. of Aberdeen, that there was
complete accord between the United
States and Great Britain on the ques-
| ton of modus vivcndi in Behring sea,
pending consideration of the Behring
sea question by arbitration.
THE German government is making
active preparations to prosecute sew
eral of the anarchists now under arrest
on the charge of treason, this charge
being based on the circulation of an
anarchist organ published in London,
which in almost every number instigates
its readers to revolution.
K. PITCAIRN, of the Pittsburgh di-
vision of the Pennsylvania railroad, in
an address before the Young Mems
Christian association of Pittsburgh, on
the oath, said he favored the abolition
of the Sunday trains wherever practi-
cable, and promised to use his influence
In this direction.
THE editor of the Moniteur de Rome
is authority for the statement that the
mission to Rome of Archbishop Ireland
of St Paul, Mimi, has been a complete
success. All the questions upon which
his mission had bearing have been de-
cided in his favor.
HENRY BEADMAN BRYANT, one of the
proprietors of Bryant & Stratton's bust
ness colleges and widely known as an
educator throughout the United States,
died at his residence in Chicago, on the
a5th. of paralysis, aged 6s years
ApvIcEs from Yemen, Arabia, state
that several of the rebellious chiefs
have fallen into the hands of the Turks
and been beheaded.
THERE have been three deaths from
typhoid fever in the Pennsylvania mill
tary academy at Chester, Pa The cause
can not be traced.
The new Italian rifle is said, on high
authority, to be superior to the Lebel,
Manser or Mannlicher, and the bestye
invented
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

IN the Twentieth Illinois district
George Smith was nominated for con-
gress by the republicans.
IL california another severe earth.
J quake shock did great damage at Sacra-
mento. Winters, Dixon and other towns.
AT Selma. o.. the city council has
| passed an ordinance prohibiting girls
! from being on the streets after = u'rloelt
Mt night:
:IosrrH Mic CATiisTER and John Rooney
werc. shot dead aud Jim knichen, ne
gro. fatally injured in a fight between
/ farmers near Henderson, Ky.
! AT Joncsboro. Tenn, three men
were instantly killed by the collapse of
brick wall in the courthouse and
three others were fatally injured.
JUDGE FOLEY decided IN test easa
at Sioux City, Ia, that street cars were
necessity and could therefore run oii
Sunday:
GEORGE and Henry Kelly, of Salem,
o., have fallen heirs to property valued
at $40. 900, 600 in the Lehigh valley coal
region.
AT New Orleans Philip Baker was
hanged for the murder of Mrs. Nelson,
the wife of his employer, at Carrulton.
THE execution OF Charles Miller. aged
II. took place at Cheyenne, Wyo., for
killing Waldo Emerson ana Ross 7.
Fishbaugh in box car on the Union
Pacific railroad.
THE death of Joseph Bertrand. half
breed Indian, occurred at South Bend,
Ind, aged ITO years.
The damage To property by the Cali
fornia earthquake was placed at $780,
900. One man was killed.
IN the Green river in Indiana high
water flooded and ruined thousands of
acres of wheat and oats, and many
farmers had their fences and small out
buildings carried away.
THE percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 23d were: Louisville.
SIS; Boston. .s57: Pittsburgh, 80;
Brooklyn, IA: New York. .66T: Gin
cinnati. 800: Cleveland. 800; Wash
ington. 400: Philadelphia, Esd; Chica
go. go: ST. Louis, .14i; baltimore. .125.
A SCHOONER was capSized during
tornado near Money Point, Va, and
Mrs. :. W. Rowley, her little daughter
and two of the crew were drowned.
Two LARGE barns were burned at San
Francisco by inccndiaries, and John
Hand. tcamstcr, and sixteen horses
persisted in the flames.
\ WHITE man named Freeman was
lynchcd by mob in the parish of Pointe
Cuupcc. La, for killing q. Cotton. a
merchant.
MORTIMER LEWIS. an old grand army
man at Fern Hill. Wash. quarreled
with his wife and shot her fatally and
then blew his own brains out.
AT Henrietta. Tex, an incendiary
fire destroyed the best portion of the
town. Loss. $500
THE death of Charles II. Reed. the
counsel for Guiteau, the assassin, oc-
Cured in baltimore, aged IS.
The official returns from the recent
election in Louisiana give Foster, the
anti-lottery candidate for governor,
plurality of 30.l1O.
FRANCES 4. ARM, colorcd woman
died at New Orleans, aged 1O4 years
IS drunken row three men wer.
killed ut FairIlont, W. Va.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30
Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
klErx.stccs6 CoNaRsss


WEDNESDAY. April Ex-senator Sher.
man announced in the senate that care.
full examination of the amendments
made to the Chinese restriction act OF
May, 1864. showed that thu restriction
laws did not eSpife until July. 1891.
Senator Teller spoke in favor of free
silver. In the house favorable report
was made on bill making eight hours
days tabor in the District of Co
.mmbia. The resolution for joint
Mexican reciprocity commission was
also favorably reported.
THURSDAY, April 81. - Bills were
passed in the senate to create n third
division uf the district OF Kansas for
judicial purposes, and 10 establish a
military post near iieleiia, Mont. The
house hill t6 prohibit absolutely the
coming of Chinese persons into the
[ nited States was considered. In
the house the time was occupied in dis
cussing the Noyes-Rockwell contested
election case from New York.
FRIDAY, April 2a. - In the senate
the urgent deficiency bill and bills pro-
viding for the discharge of the duties
of the president in case Of his death,
and To increase the pension of Mexican
war veterans from SIS to S11 per month
were passed. The army appropriation
bill was reported. In the house the
contested election case of Moves VS..
Rockwell from the Twenty-cighth New
York district came to an end, Rockwell
(dem.) retaining the seat by vote of
l2S TO l0j.
SATURDAY, April %. The Chinese
exclusion bill was discussed in the SEN
ate. In the house Il bill was introduced
to provide for an international ratio be
tween gold and silver and to suspend
the purchase of silver bullion from and
after July I, 1893
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

A PHILADELPHIA lad of Il construct
ed Il flying machine from the odds and
ends of sundry dismantlcd umbrellas
and flew 40 feet perpeudicularly from
the roof of his sirc's mansion. lie Sc
cured in addition to the knowledge that
vet solved fine assortment of broken
legs and arms and solid chunks of adj
vice and admonition enough To last him
well along toward his nineticth birth
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

Willie Harding, IL years old, was run
over and killed by a freight train in st.
Joseph. He and other boys were in the
habit of jumping on trains and riding
some distance and then jumping off.
They got into an open freight car, and
when the train had proceeded about a
mile one of his companions pushed the
Harding boy out of the car door. Fall
ing against an embankment, he rolled
back under the wheels of the train and
was killed
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

The New York Legislature has en-
acted a law which will delight hotel
keepers more than their guests. Here
tofore a man could deposit his valuablcs
in the safe of the hotel and the pro-
prietor was responsible for their re-
turn, regardless of the value. The new
law limits his responsibility to $3.50. If
there is a loss from any cause the
owner must stand all beyond the
amount of $50
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

John Frayn, a laborer, 40 years old.
died at the city hospital in st. Louis of
lock-jaw Almost ten days before he
injured the thumb of his right hand.
To friends he stated that he had been
in a street fight The wound was
trifling, and Frayn wrapped a cloth
around it and resumed his work. Cold
set in and the hand and arm swelled
rapidly, necessitating his removal to
the hospital.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

THE most unhappy period of mar
rage. according to French divorce sta
tistics, is for the period extending from
The fifth to the tenth year. After that
the figures drop rapidly. Only Is per
cent of couples seek divorce between
their tenth and twentieth years of
union. Only one pair in 100 seek to cut
the knot after the period of over thirty
and under forty wears
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

THE number of national banks in the
United States is 3,7ll. an increase of 6:i4
in two years. The greater proportion
Of increase has been at the south and
west and on the Pacific coast In New
England and the middle states there are
but nincty-five more banks now than
four years ago In the south 22d new
banks, in the west 1870 and in the far
west and on the Pacific coast l23 have
been chartered.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

ArrN manufacturer in Ansonia, Conn,
is about to utilize twenty barrels of i'm
perfect pins in building a sidewalk in
front of his residence. There is in that
town a small piece of sidewalk built of
scraps from the pin factory, which by
corrosion has become so hard in a few
years that it required much hard work
in drilling and blasting with dynamite
to make a hole large enough to set n
telegraph pole, although it was hut
three or four inches thick 1t bids fair
to last as long as sidewalk of solid
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

THERE were Incorporated in the
United States during the past few days
AL corporations, with total capital of
1921, 2222. $50. of the number l73 were
mercantile and manufacturing COM
panies. capitalized at S24. 157.6OO: II
were coal and iron companies, with
$40. 40. 600, and ~ were light, heat,
power and transportation companies.
with capital $40, 327. $50
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

either end will be reception room. for ladies
and gentlemen respectively. They viii iss con-
nected by large folding doors,b by opening which,
the area Of the auditorium mag be increased. A
portable stage will be provided, which will be
used in presenting stsreopticon Views 0f scenes
i'll the state. Opening from the auditorium by
several exits stretsh the promenade, affording
sweeping view OF two arenues. Owing TO the
height Of the auditorium two bslsGnies are
provided, and they open into three suits OF do
nestle apartments. From the balcony an en-
trance is made to the tower which surmounts
the building. and which ends in an observatory.
The building will be constructed of mate
rials native to Missouri. supplemented by a
few other things ordinarily used in buildings Of
a like construction. The four corners of the
end pavilions will be surm0unted by the her
aldic emblem OF the state executed in zinc
taken from the mines Of the state. Assurances
of liberal donations Of every building material
produced in the state have been received.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

NEW YORK, April 2s.-Otto E. Ewald,
the steward of the German ship Comet
was arraigned before Commissioner
Shields yesterday, charged with mur-
derously assaulting Capt. Kuppner,
and Second Mate Seigner, while the
vessel was on a voyage from Hong
Kong to this pert She left Hong Kong
January 2 and arrived here yesterday.
Ewald says that he only defended him
self against the brutality of the cap
tain and mate, who were continually
misusing him. The commissioner COM
mitted him for hearing before the Ger.
man consul. who alone has jurisdiction,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

Charles Sooysmith. of New York,
claiming to own $4,000 worth of Kan
sas City property. has filed another suit
in the United States circuit court to en-
join the city from issuing and disposing
of the $1,000, 600 of bonds with which it
is proposed to construct new water
works.
Last December Sooysmith filed a similar
suit, hut the ordinance authorizing the bond
issue at that time has been repealed and
April 5 last the people at the general city cleo
tion, voted another issue of AZ per cent gold
bearing bonds. SoOysmith claims that the
ordinance extending the city limits. passed in
1s15. is Illegal; that the city. Therefore has less
than lG.O0 inhabitants, and that the charter
under which this issue is proposed is inopera.
tive
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

A MAN was guillotined in Switzerland
The other day for assaulting and muir
iering a school-teacher. 1t was the
irst execution in Switzerland for TWEEN.
,y-five years. capital punishment having
been abolished in 1867. and that method
Of infiicting punishment having been re-
sumed only recently.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

A PHILADELPHIA spinster left S1,OOC
to insure proper care and comfort to a
Maltese cat which had been favored
among her household pets. The cat re-
Gently died. leaving handsome family
of five little kittens. Are the helpless
progeny entitled to the maternal fortune
or does it revert to the two-legged heirs
of the departed spinster? Legislative
wisdom seems utterly incapable of cop
ing with the eccentricities of those who
make wills. and the chances are that
the innocent kittens will be thrown
upon the cold charity of the world.
The best they can hope for is the short
end of compromise.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

The great bridge over the Mississippi
river at Memphis is nearly completed.
The formal opening will occur May l.,
but trains will be able to cross before
that time. The bridge and its ap-
proachcs are three miles in length. and
The bridge itself is thrce-quarters of Il
mile long. One of its spans extends 7oi
feet. making it the third largest in the
world. 1t cost about $4,000. 900. May
l. will he great day in that section.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

THE oldest woman in the country who
is a preacher, it is thought, is Rev.
Lydia Sexton. of Seattle, now 93 years
of age. She has been in service about
half century. For eight or ten years
She was an exhorter before receiving a
regular license to preach, in 1851. Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois were her field
prior to 1870, when with her husband
she removed to Kansas. Seattle was
adopted as her home three years ago.
She has since then conducted many re-
vival and other meetings, but failing
eycsight threatens to terminate her
activity ere long. She hopes to live tc
be full hundred years,old
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

THE modus vivendi with Great Britain
which has been renewed is substan-
stanially that agreed upon for last year.
Under its provisions both governments
will prohibit the killing of seals within
the limits laid down in the treaty of
1867 with Russia, except 1900 for the
subsistence of the natives on the islands
Of st. Paul and St. George. The clause
which has been added to the agreement
provides for a settlement of damages
sustained by Canadian poachers in case
the arbitration goes against this coun-
try. The naval vessels selected by this
country for patrol duty are the Ranger,
Yorktown. Mohican and Adams.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

The Missouri Worlds fair commissioners
adopted the plans submitted by Gum & Curtis'
Kansas City architects for the Missouri
Worlds fair building at Chicago. The build
ing will be in full view of and directly opposite
the main art gallery. The first floor Will CON
tain the rooms devoted to the advertisement of
the resources of the state supplemental to ex-
terrier materials; and will also contain the ad
ministration parlors and some storerooms for
supplies for the state exhibit. The main en-
trance Is triple one, and will be finished in
sandstone. terra Gotta and marble. 1t will open
direct into grand vestiblue 81 feet wide. laid in
Mosaic style and fianked either side with
inches for telegraph, telephone, local
post Office. ami terminating in the main
rotutda. which is 3lxi0 feet in size.
From this rotunda direct access Is had to all the
departments on the first floor, and two grand
stairways will lead to the second floor The
main area Of the second floor is to be occupied
by the auditorium, which will he i0xs0 feet. AT
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30
Death of Gen. A. G. Edwards.

Death of Gen. A. G. Edwards.
Gen. Albert G. Edwards died at his
home in kirkwood.
Gen. Edwards was the son Of the first gov
ernor of Kentucky. and was born in Elkton.
Ky. He graduated from West Point at the age
of 81, and served with distinction in the Black
Hawk war shortly afterward. He settled in st.
Louis in 1874. and was engaged with Mr. W. L.
Ewing in the wholesale commission business for
a number OF years. He leaves a widow and
three sons The latter are Benjamin Edwards,
assistant cashier Of the Bank of Commerce; Al
bert Edwards, attorney. and George Edwards
Of the firm Of A. g. Edwards d Sons. In 1851
Gen. Edwards was appointed commander OF
the st. Louis division Of the Missouri state
militia under Gov. Gamble with the rank of
brigadier general. At the close Of the war he
was appointed United States sub-treasurer Of
St Louis, position which he held for twenty
one years. The signing Of his commission was
one of the last public acts performed by Presi
dent Lincoln. He also served several terms as
bank commissioner Of st. Louis. Since his re-
tirement from the sub-treasury Office he has
been engaged in the brokerage business with
his sons
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

BosToS, April 23.-The petition of
Thomas B. Beal, receiver of the Maver-
lex national bank, that the bank be in
cluded among the creditors against Asa
p. Potter and Jonas II. French, has been
granted by Judge Nelson of the United
States district court
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30
E.-Treasurcr NoIand's Case Argued.

Ex-State Treasurer Ed T. hollands
case was argued and submitted in
Division No. of the state supreme
court on the I'D.
Attorney General John NJ Wood made the
argument for the state and Hon W S. Pope of
jefferson City. and Chas. T. holland, Of st.
Louis. for the appellant. The lawyers were
restricted to an hour each. and were granite
ten days time to file additional argum mt in
writing il desired. 1t is not at all likely that
decision will be reached in the under four
weeks in the ordinary course of business.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-04-30

WINTERS, Cal, April 23.-Gov. Mark
ham sent a special train from Sacra-
mento Thursday night with tents.
There were many who were too weary
to set up tents and scores of people
were stretched on the ground, too tired
70 heed the danger of another shock.