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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IN Warsaw governess named
Matuscka entered a cafe and fatally
shot two officers who had cast reflec-
tions on her character.
BRIGANDs near Culiacan, Mexico,
captured train of ten burros loaded
with $4,000 worth of silver, killed
three of the guards and escaped with
the money.
MORE than 100 persons were reported
missing from the coaster Ajax, which
was run down outside of Helsingfors,
Russia
THE motion of mo confidence" in the
conservative government of Lord Sails
bury was carried by a vote of $50 to $40
in the house of commons, thus bringing
on the change of administration and
placing Gladstone in power.
IN the Crimea and Caucasus districts
cholera was decreasing, owing to cooler
weather, but in Moscow the plague
was on the increase.
Ii the Lachine canal at Montreal a
tug sank and Alfred Beauchamp, Al
exander Ratelle and Henry Larose
were drowned.
In Africa twenty European agents
have been killed or captured by Arabs,
who have also burned many stations.
FERDINAND AIIARD, n poor black
smith at Quebec, is said to have discov-
cred the long lost art known to the
pyramid builders of Egypt of hardening
copper.
In Vienna Johann Singer, clerk. .suf-
focated his mistress and her three chill
dren and then took his own life. Pow
eity was the cause.
THE latest revolution in Honduras is
reported to have b,en crushed and hun
dreds of rebels killed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20
scooPINo UP TREASURE.

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Lost with Nearly Five Million Dollars In
Treasure On Board q. Long isisss
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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20
DOWN AN EMBANKMENT.
Serious Accident to o knights Templa
Train at Clinton, In.

Serious Accident to . knights TemplsF
Train at Clinton, In.
CLINTON, Ia, Aug. 15.-An east-bound
special over the Northwestern line from
Denver was wrecked four miles west of
here at 11:20 yesterday morning. The
train was q Knights Templar special
bound for Chicago bearing United Com
mandery Northeastern Pennsylvania
Knights Templar. The accident oc-
CURED on the high embankment west
of this city and was caused by de-
fective rail.
All of the baggage cars and Pullman
sleepers, of which the train was COM
posed, passed the break in safety, but
the three last sleepers, which were pre-
cipitated down the ~roll-
ing to the bottom. Quite a number Of
passengers were injured. but none
killed. A lady named Mrs Rhodes and
Knight Dressler were the most seriously
injured. All the injured were taken
to Windsor hotel at Clinton, where they
are being cared for. At the time of the
accident the train was running at an
ordinary rate Of speed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20
THE EAST.

THE New Jersey prohibitionists in
convention at Trenton nominated
Thomas J. Kennedy for governor. The
platform declares against the sale and
manufacture of all liquors; denounces
the license system, and protests against
horse racing and pool selling.
IS Schenectady, n. v, the Knitting
Company, of which W. C. Schermer-
horn is president, failed for S125, 900.
THE prohibitionists of Rhode Island
held their state convention at Silver
Springs and nominated presidential
electors. The national prohibitory
platform was indorsed and a resolu-
ton was adopted sanctioning the cleo
ton of lady delegates to future conven-
tions.
In session at Paterson. n. j., the su-
preme grove of the Order of Druids
elected Lewis c. Schord, of California,
supreme arch.
DURING fire in a New Bedford
Mass tenement two infant children
of Louis Duperis and their, mother
were fatally burned.
JOHN EDWARDS daughter and grand
child and Harvey Edwards, relative,
were killed by lightning during a
storm at Beaver Dam, n. J.
AT Fall River, Mass, Miss Lizzie
Borden was placed under arrest,
charged with the murder of her father
and stepmother.
Ar her home in Lawrence, n. Y,
Mrs. Lavina Fillmore, relict of Rev. &.
Fillmore and a cousin of Millard Fill
more, the former president of the
Unitd States, who died in 1874, cele-
brated her. 1O5th birthday.
IN Boston, James E. Gilman. of the firm
of Gilman, Cheney & Co, commission
merchants, was charged with embez-
zling Sl50,000.
SIX workmen were fatally crushed
beneath a building that fell in Ogden,
n. J.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20

CITIES in Australia, like those in
America, are fast absorbing the great
mass of the population. of the LAO.
600 inhabitants of Victoria $4,000 re-
side in Melbourne and its suburbs,
while more than one-tbird of the re-
mainder live in other large towns.
New South Wales has a population OF
I,1S4, ZOO. of which $50, 900 live in Sydney
and its suburbs. OF the $4,000 people
in South Australia, 10000 reside in
Adelaide. Queenstown. the colony last
organized. has wonderful agricultural
resources, and we should expect most OF
tine people to live on farms. But 9S, oOC
of the 1913, 900 live at Brisbane.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20
WEST AND SOUTH.

IN Detroit, Mich, Clotilda Robinson
died at the age of log years. Her hus-
band died thirty years ago, aged lis
years.
DEMOCRATS of Tennessee in conven-
Turney for governor. The platform
enbodies the national platform adopt
ed at Chicago.
IS Memphis Henry Clay King, the
murderer of David II. Poston, will not
hang on the 18th, Gov. Buchanan hav-
ing commuted his sentence to life i'm
prisonment in the Tennessee peniten.
tiary.
BERTHA and Lizzie Shultz were
driving in Fairmont, Neb., when their
horse ran away. The girls were not in
jured, but shortly afterward both
dropped dead.
MINNEAPOLIS and st. Paul were del
uged with counterfeit one and two-dol-
lar silver certificates and silver quar-
ters.
GREAT excitement prevailed at Noun
tain Home, Idaho, over the discovery
OF fabulous rich gold-bearing quartz
lodges in the Dixie district.
MEXICAN prospectors about so miles
from the new camp of the Harqua
Hala, A. T., found the famous French
mems mine, which has been lost for
thirty years.
NOMINATIONS for congress were made
as follows: Indiana, Ninth district, l..
n. Mering (rep.), James Brown (dem. J;
Ohio, Twentieth district, w. j. White
(rep.); Minnesota, Sixth district, w.
R Baldwin (dem.); Iowa, Eighth dis
trlct, w. ). scott tpeopies).
NOMINATIONS for congress were made
as follows: Ohio. Fourteenth district,
o. H. Wakeley (rep.); Kentucky, Sec
ond district W. I. Ellis (dem.); West
Virginia, Second district, j. n. Wisner
(rep.): Iowa, Third district, j. I'll.
Shields (dem.); Rhode Island. First
district. Isaac S. Turner (pro.), Second,
E. A. Lewis (pro.).
FLAMES at Lorain, Cal, destroyed slx
buildings, and Mrs L. ID. Howe and
three men were burned 70 deatn.
AT Eagle Lake, Mimi, Mrs Martina
kesier, milwaukee woman, poisoneo
her month-old babe and threw heI
S.year-oid boy IN the well ana drowned
him
In convention at Atlanta the Eeorgia
democrats renomidated W. D. Nor'nen
for governor.
The communication OF the death SEN
tence OF Col Ii. Clay King by uov'
Buchanan SO aroused the lnalgnation
OF the people OF MemPnls tnat 'hey
hanged the cniet magistrate Oh iennes'
sec IN emgy ana tnen burned tne GUM
my. .-,
bob JORDAN negro accused Oh aI
tempting an assault on awhite woman
was seized oy MASKED mop ana snot
to death while oelng taken 10 JAN AZ
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY.
4 Toronto Experts Idea OF What Co
eessions should be Made.

4 Toronto Experts Idea OF What Con.
cessions should be Made.
GRAND FORKS, N. D., Aug. 14.--Secre-
tary McGinnis of the chamber of COM
merce has received q letter from NJ. E.
Reynolds, the expert on international
law, Of Toronto, Ont, inclosing the
points that he proposes the coming
International reciprocity convention
shall take action upon. He suggests:
l. No duty by either country on natural prod
ucts shipped between the two.
z Anything from any other country shall
pass through the customs Of each and be col
lected for at the point to which consigned.
q Each country shall be entitled to full priv
neges Of the canals and waterways Of the other.
I. An railways shall have the right OF way
through any state or province according to the
laws Of such state or province.
8 Both shall cooperate In maintaining
waterways from the lakes to the Atlantic and
the right over the same shall be equal In all re'
spects.
q Coins Of one country shall be accepted at
par value fn the other.
T. All vessels, not including armed vessels
shall have equal rights In the harbors and va.
ters Of both countries.
g. Citisens Of either country shall have the
right to carry on thsir occupation in the other
country on the same terms - the citizens OF
that other country.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20

The king of Uganda, which is called
the garden of central Africa, changes
his religious views every few months
and expects all his subjects to change
theirs at the same time. Not long ago
he roasted everyone who embraced
Christianity. But some French mis-
sionaries converted him, and he insists
that his subjects shall become Catho-
lies At last accounts he was Protest
ant, and he has asked the commander
of the British East African Company to
aid him to expel the French soldiers
and priests. The prospect now is that
the English will possess the country un-
less the king turns Mohammedan.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20

FROM nuisance and cumberer o. the
ground cotton seed has become of i'm
mense commercial value. The residu-
AIRY products of the manufacture of gas
used to go to poison the air; now every
particle Is utilized. Before many years
the sewage of cities will be utilized for
the manufacture of fertilizers. And
for farmers who are burning their fax
straw. there are better things in pros
pect. Mans victory over nature is not
yet complete, but no other era of the
world ever saw such rapid strides.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20

Curdy. of Corunna. Mich. was elected
grand master of the k Ugh templar
and Boston was chosen as the place for
the next meeting.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made as follows: Texas, Tenth district,
Walter Gresham tdem. J; Thirteenth, j.
v. Cockcrill (dem.). Nebraska. Fourth
district, W. Al. Doch lind }: Sixth, James
Whitehead (rep.); Wisconsin, Third
district, John w. Babcoc.s (rep.); Wash
ington, John L. Wilson and w. II. Doo-
little, (reps J: Indiana, Twelfth district,
A. J. Yew (rep.).
REPUBIIcANs of Washington in state
convention at Olympia nominated
full state ticket with John ii. McGraw,
of Seattle, for governor. The resolu-
tions oppose the free coinage of silver.
The peoples party of Iowa in con-
vention at Des Moines nominated Z. II.
Gillette for secretary of state, Charles
Mckenzie for attorney general, Justice
Wells for treasurer, j. H. Barnett for
railroad commissioner and j. A.
Blakesly for auditor. Presidential
electors were also chosen.
BIZ the fall of stone wall in Hart
ford City, Ind. five men were killed and
two others injured.
FIRE destroyed the planning mill and
lumber yards of Bender Brothers at
Hamilton, o., causing loss of 500, 900,
and 700 men were thrown out of en-
ployment.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, Flying Jib
paced mile in a0sls, the fastest time
ever made on Michigan track.
HENRY MCtiHEE tcolored) was hanged
at Houston, Tex, for the murder of Of
ficer George Fem. and James Dobson
(colored), who killed his mistress in St.
Francis county, in 1890, was hanged at
Devall's Bluffs, Ark.
ARTHUR KUETZ and Earl Price, each
aged about s years, were smothered to
death in an ice chest while playing at
the formers home in North Lansing,
Mich.
A DAUGHTER of Sitting Bull, the great
Indian war chief, was married at Rom
dout, n. V, to Peter Markle, who
formerly served under Gen. Custer.
The bride once saved Markle's life
when he was attacked by Indians
MISSISSIPPI democrats have renom-
mated for congress j. NJ. Allen in the
First district, J. C. Kyle in the Second
and T. C. Catchings in the Third. In the
Ninth Michigan district the republicans
nom mated John W. Moon, and in the
Second district of Kentucky J. +. Kim
berly is the prohibition nominee.
AT st. Charles, ILL.,, Mrs. Asenath
Miller celebrated her 105th birthday.
THE Sons of Veterans in national en-
rampment at Helena, Mont elected
Marvin E. Hill, of Michigan, COM
mander in chief.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20
Not q CandIdate for Governor.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 1s.-Secre-
tary Rusk was interviewed at his home
in viroqua, Wis, as to the possibility
of his being q candidate for governor.
In reply to the question would he ac-
cept nomination the secretary said:
81 have served my time in that posi-
ton, and I am duly grateful to the peo-
pie of this commonwealth for their
confidence and favor. The mention OF
my name in that connection ut this
time Is without my consent and against
my wishes have repeatedly told my
friends that this thing must stop. that
I will not ACCEPT the nomination"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20
LATER NEWS,

| The Central Elevator Co.'S system OF
elevators, consisting of about fifty ele-
vators along the Minneapolis d ST.
Louis railroad, has been purchased by
Peavy, the well-known, Minneapolis,
Mimi, elevator man. The deal is the
largest sale of elevators that has oc-
Cured in that section for years, the
cash consideration being 100000.
THE entire town of Red Mountain, a
lively mining camp a short distance
from Silverton, Col. was destroyed by
fire OH the Sth. Sixty buildings were
destroyed, including stamp mills, ore
and shaft houses of number of mines,
all the business houses and many resi-
dences. Loss, estimated at $4,000,
with but little insurance.
| CONGRESSMAN WARWICK, of Ohio, sue
cessor in the house of representatives
of Gov. Mckinley, died on the evening
of the i4th. He was born in Ireland
sixty-two years ago;came to the United
States in 1850 and has been interested
in milling, mining and farming. lie
was chairmen of the committe on en-
rolled bills in the house
THE Somerby estate in Lincolnshire,
England, the birthplace OF Tennyson, is
about to be offered for sale. A move
ment is on foot to purchase the place
for the nation. 1t stands very little
chance for government aid, as the lib
erals look on Tennyson as both a bigo'
and a toady.
THE Canadian steamship Empress OF
Japan, Capt. Lee, which sailed from
Yokohama, on the sth, for Vancouver,
had to put back to discharge her cargo
before a fire. which was discovered
in her cargo could be extinguished.
The damage was not extensive.
THE elegant residence of John Els
menger at the Indian mounds near St
Paul. Mimi, valued, with its furniture
at s4a. 900, was burned early on the
morning of the .4th: Insurance. $4,000.
THE latest report of Senator Hoar's
resignation on account of ill-heaith Is
discreditsd by intimate friends in re
ceipt of letters from Europe announc
ing improvement in his condition.
TEE Canadian government has issued
an order prohibiting the importation
into Canada of rags from France, where
cholera is said to prevail to an alarm.
ing extent
NEARLY all the Havana business es
tablishments have closed their doors In
| consequence of the refusal of the min
ister Of the colonies to suspend the new
tariffs.
Mrs MARaAREr VAN FRADENBURa
of Red Hook. Duchess county, N. Y,
celebrated her 104th birthday on tn
14th-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20

AT the general conference of Amer
lean rabbis in New York it was de-
clared as the voice of the conference
that the women shall have an equal
share with the men in all the affairs of
the synagogue, and at the next meeting
of the rabbis, in the fall of 1885, plans
will be presented for an organization
of the congregations which will give
woman her full rights in that church.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON,


THE death Of Gen. James w. Denver,
Of Wilmington. O., for whom the city
OF Denver. Col, was named. occurred
in Washington, aged IS years.
The treasury department has decided
that foreigner who makes contract
in this country to work here and then
returns to his own country cannot come
back to the United States for the pur.
pose of fulfilling the contract without
violating the provisions of the alien
contract labor law.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 10th aggregated
81. 900, oea, 5s4, against 81, ,o76, az, $50 the
previous week The increase as COM
pared with the corresponding week OF
1891 was7.7.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 1s9, against 1s4 the
preceding week and 2e7 for the CORE
spending week last year.
The value of the half-dollar worlds
fair souvenir coins has been fixed at
one dollar each.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20

THE Salvation Army is to have a
cavalry troop for each state to ride
over the country districts and small
towns which cannot support regular
force of soldiers or barracks This
idea of cavalry in the Salvation A my
originated in California, where it is
said to be very successful in the coun.
try districts. Commander Ballington
Booth has decided to adopt it in other
states and make it a permanent feature
of the Salvation work
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20

Judge David Humphrey Hammos, a
leading lawyer and citizen of Oklahoma
City, Okla, died the other evening of
consumption.
He was born in Cooper county, Mo-. and at
the breaking out of the war entered the con-
federate army rs a private. When the war
closed he had risen to the rank o: captain. He
returned to Missouri. and in 1879 was elected to
the legislature from Charlton county. Shortly
after he removed to Bentonvilie Ark, and was
twice elect ID to the state senate In 1890 Presi-
dent Harrison appointed him as the democratic
member of the Oklahoma City townsite board.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20
NOT WORTH RoseINe.
Burglars on the Hunt for Jewefry woui
Find Poor Picking In Illinois.

Find Poor Picking In Illinois.
CHICAGO, Aug. IA peculiar state
of affairs is revealed by the reports OF
the various assessors to the state board
of equalization. These reports present
q satisfactory picture Of material
wealth. showing that Illinois is rich in
farming and mineral lands, in wheat,
corn, rye and barley, horses, cattle,
sheep and hogs, the total running into
the hundreds of millions But when
the item of diamonds and jewelry"
is reached the simplicity of the people
at once asserts itself In all the broad
state, from Cairo to Dunlieth and Lake
Michigan to the Mississippi, in the en-
tire city Of Chicago, with its 1,25o,O00
inhabitants, and in its companion cities
of Peoria, Joliet, Quincy, Bloomington,
Springfield and East st. Louis, the total
value of all such gew-gaws and useless
luxuries is s5s,76a And this must be
correct, because had there been more
the assessors would surely have found it
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20

During the past few weeks scarcely a
day has passed at st. Joseph without
an arrest for wife-beating.
The other night an organization was formed
numbering thirty six good, substantial citizens.
who have resolved to correct this abuse. They
style themselves Avengers and have obli
gated themselves to severely punish all those
who are guilty OF abusing women in any man
ner and declare that the organization will not
be disbanded until the practice is effcctually
broken up in that city The association secured
a number Of names OF persons who are known
to be habitual wife -beaters and notices will be
sent them at once.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20

A WOMAN has made an invention at
last that will be appreciated by the
lords of creation" 1t is an instrument
attached 10 platter which holds a
fowl in place while it is being carved
and dished out. With the aid of this
device the most awkward carver can
dissect an old goose as easily as he can
cut piece of pumpkin pie. and never
have occasion to remark that the knife
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20
Monsters Adrifs In the Atlantic.

LONDON, Aug. 14.-The bark Clan
Grant, at Falmouth from Portland
Ore, reports an unusal experience with
icebergs from midnight of June is 70
the following evening in latitude 44:so
south. longitude 2s west, extending
as far as the eye could reach
both east and west On June 10 the
bark passed an immense iceberg proba-
bly, $50 feet high. Some Of the icebergs
passed were earth-colored. and might
have been mistaken for islands and are
in the track of homeward-bounds ships
hdiuR Cane Horn.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20

AT the rural points in Maine. where
they know how, flying kites to which
lighted Chinese lanterns are attached
is very popular amusement A good
sized kite will carry number of lam
terms, and the effect when it is some
distance in the air is very striking.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20

The custodian of the Washington
monument at Washington says that the
foundation of the shaft has risen in
stead of lowered, and consequently the
shaft is growing higher lie should re-
fleet that Washington carefully alb
stained from telling any himself.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20
For century ending with the break

For a century ending with the break
ing out of the civil war about half the
vessels constructed in the United States
were built in Maine. During the past
few years there has been a rivalry Of
ship building in Maine, and the ship
yards at Bath present the lively appear
ance they did years ago. The vessels
built there have been constructed OF
wood, of which Maine furnishes the
best varieties. Last year two iron ves-
sells for our navy were built there that
gave admirable satisfaction. This year
the builders of these cruisers are con-
structing several iron steamers and sail
ing vessels for commercial purposes.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20

The American school-teacher is draw
ing $50, 600, 900 annually. The fact that
many of them go off and get married
in the very teeth of the boards of edu-
cation shows how high a value is placed
on the genus Homo Americanus by
bright women who are right up to snuff
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20

NOTHING ever has more clearly demon
strated the superstitious ignorance of
the lower classes in India and Russia
than the mobs which have killed the
doctors and nurses and destroyed hos
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-20

John Penkan. farm hand, was found
at night under the bed of the young
sister-in-law of Philip Kneib, who re-
sides near st. Joseph.
Penkan had previously made proposals of
marriage to the girl, which were rejected. Be-
fore retiring, usual do the sex. she looked
un;ler the bed, and for once she found live
man. She ran screaming down stairs, and
everybody turned out in the hunt for the sup
posed burglar, who was seen to jump from
second-story window and was recognized He
m1de his escape, fiourishing gun. Penkan is
said to have threatened the young woman's life
II she did not consent to marry him. Mr.. Kneib
said that he had no idea of what Pcnkan in
tended doing. unless it was to wait until he
had gone to leep AMI then to force his wife's
sister to leave the hous, with him. Penkan
does not BEAR n very good reputation in ths
neiehborhood He served term in the county
Jail last October for disturbing the peace OF Mr..
Kneib