The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-07-08
WEST AND SOUTH.

AT Lebanon, Ind. William Ransdcll
was bitten by a tarantula while hand
4 ling bananas. In the bunch of bananas
bunch of 200 young tarantulas was
found. Rausdell may recover.
THE state liquor dispensary of South
Carolina has begnn business and all
saloons would soon be closed.
The Savings bank at Fresno, Cal,
and the Bank of Commerce at San
Diego, Cal. which suspended recently,
have resumed business.
OS a bicycle II. II. Wyllie made the
1000 miles from New York to Chicago
in ten days and four hours
BERRY won the cowboy race to Chi
Neb.. June IS, making the 1,O4O miles
in IL days, II hours and 35 minutes-an
average of a. miles daily.
WHILE attempting to escape from the
prison at Folsom. Cal, three convicts
were shot dead by guards.
AT Edinburg, Ill, q. p. Harrington,
a private banker. failed for s2OO, 900.
THE American exchange bank of
Minneapolis, Mimi, and the Second
national bank of Ashland, KY, closed
their doors
The failure was reported of the Bed
ford Und.) Stone Quarries company,
the largest producers of oolitic limo
stone in the world.
IS Chicago the Illinois Fuel COM
pany, with assets of $50, 900 and liabil-
tiles of sI0O, coo, has been driven to the
wall
The monetary stringency caused the
assignment in Cincinnati of Bcnne-
kamp Brothers, furniture manufactur-
ers, and the Louis Snydcr's Sons Paper
company.
A TRAIN struck a buggy in which
were Mrs. Inholsen and three children
in Chicago and two of the children
were killed and the other fatally in
jured.
The lives of Mrs. Catherine Ncumann
and her three children, aged 20, Is and
IL years respectively, were lost in
flames that destroyed their home in
Saginaw. Mich.
JOHN HUDSON died near Battle Creek,
Mich, aged 1ol years
AT Oakley, Kan, tornado destroyed
thousands of dollars worth of proper
ty. A strip of country mile wide and
miles long was swept clean, every
building in its path being torn into
kindling wood.
FIRE wiped out the business portion
of Union City, Ind
BECAUSE she refused to live with him,
Jacob Lyons, farmer at Ottawa. o.,
fatally shot his wife and then killed
himself.
IN state convention at Cleveland the
Ohio prohibitionists nominated the fol-
lowing ticket: For governor, Rev. Gid
con z. Machlin, of Germantown; lieu
tenant governor. s. II. Ellis, of War
rem county: treasurer. Abram Ludlow,
of Springfield; attorney general, 5. E.
Young, Of Portage; supreme court
judge, J. A. Gallagher, of Bellaire-
The platform adopted favors absolute
destruction of the liquor traffic, in
dorses woman suffrage, the granting
of liberal pensions, the revision of the
immigration laws and the election of
president and United States senators |
by direct vote of the people.
OK trial at Atlanta, Ga. for the muir
der of her two sisters Julia Force was |
declared not guilty and will be con-
fined in an insane asylum.
FLAMES swept away the principal |
part of the town of Lexington. o. T.,
and two men perished in the flames.
AT Fairfield. Ia, Charles Wilson shot |
his wife fatally and then fatally shot |
himself Domestic trouble was the
cause
The cabinet of the Epworth league
of the United States adopted resolu- |
ton at q meeting in Cleveland which
instructs the withdrawal OF the leagues
exhibit at the worlds fair because pt |
snndsy opening. !