The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-08-19

Oh The -sornins 81 thf i9,R, bit posted
n notice ON it, doors stating that he
canse 81 inability to realize on collat-
hrai the directors had concluded to Sus-
pend.
The Ohio Democratic state conven-
ton, in session at Cincinnati, on the
10th. nominated Lawrence 7. Neal, of
Chilli:othe, for governor; William A.
! Taylor, of Columbus, for lieutenant
! governor, and full state ticket. The
resolutions indorse President Cleveland
and reaffirm the silver and tariff planks
of the national platform of 1892.
! The Bank of England advanced its
rate of discount, on the 10th, from to
per cent.
THE steamship Orizaba. which ar
rived at New York from Havana on
the 9th, brought $4,000 in Spanish
gold.
HoS. BENTON II. MCMu.LIN, of Ten.
nessee, was a very much surprised
man, on the 10th, when Speaker Crisp
announced the new committee on rules
of the house of Representatives, The
composition of the committee Il the
same as it was in the last cbhgress;
with one exception. Mr.. MeMillin was
one ef It's members in that congress,
hut he is eliminated from it this time.
His place is taken by Representative
Outhwaite, of Ohio.
DIR. ROBERT BUCHANAN, convicted Sf
murder in having poisoned his wife;
Anna d. Buchanan. on April 2:5. 1892,
will have to expiate his crime by death
in the electrical chair. Recorder
Smythe. of New York city. on the 10th.
denied the murlercr's motion for Il new
trial. Buchanan's lawyers tried to up
set the verdict on the ground that Juror
Paradise was Incompetent to arrive at
a verdict by reason of illness at the
time it was rendered.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. on the 10th,
pardoncd Gen. Peter J. Claassen. for
merly president of the Sixth national
bank of New York. who was sentenced,
March Is, 1891. to six years in the Erie
county penitentiafy for wreclsing that
institution. Gen. Claasscn's partners.
Messrs. Pell and Simmons, were sent
to prison for Il similar term, but they
have both been pardoned by t;ov.
Flower.
THE bad blood whith was stirred up
a couple of years ago by the action of
the baptist council in Ottumwa. Ia.
passing derogatory resolutions against
Rev. Mr.. Crawford. then pastor of the
Finley Baptist church. eliminated, on
the 10th. in big sensation. Rev. Mr..
Crawford asked damages in the dis
trict court to the amount of SIS, 900 for
slander.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JAMES LYNCH cele-
brated their golden wedding anniver-
sary at the Delaware county Qnd-2
poorhousc on the 9th. They are each
over 30 years old. and Supt. Watson had
prepared for them special spread.
They have been inmates of the in
firmary for nearly forty years
UNITED STATES authorities left To-
pel;a. kas.. on the 10th, for Detroit,
Mich. with Edward Pickens, to place
him In the pcnitentiary there, where
he will serve life sentence for muir
der. In 1ssp. Pickens, after having
some words with a man, followed him
several miles and blew the top of his
head off with shotgun.
\ SMALL cyclone occurred at o'clock
on the afternoon of theSl0th at Belpre,
Has. Two houses were blown to pieces.
but So far as learned no persons were
killed.
ALPESA. Mich, had Il narrow escape
from destruction by forest fires on the
10th. The fire department was kept
on continuous duty. and men We're
sent into the woods to fight the fire
back
NJ. J. SoSTAG, stepfather of John
Sontag. the dead outlaw. has declared
his intention to prosecute the slaycrs
of his son.
OK the 11th Commanderin-Ch Chief
Weissert, of the Grand Army of the
Republic. left San Francisco for the
east
FIRE destroyed the Opaline fiber
works and four wooden buildings on
Quay street, Port Huron. Mich, on the
llth. The fiber works manufacture
celluloid collars and cuffs and had just
laid in $1,000 worth of oalluloid. Total
loss, $4,000; no insurance.