The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03
WEST AND SOUTH,

The worlds fair national commits
sioners. by vote of 81 to -. decided to
sustain the local directory in its decision
to open the exposition on Sunday, and
unless legal process restraining the di-
rectors from acting otherwise is rcsorted
to the gates of the fair will be thrown
open Sundays to visitors.
FIRE destroyed the eastern portion of
the town of Carbondale, Col, the loss
being over 100000.
A FIRE in the new city of Beldcn,
Mich. wiped out full third of the
business houses cf the town. Loss,
sl75, 900. William Young. John Porter
and three other ren who worked at the
fire drank some liquor and died soon
after. Some kind OF poison was thought
to have been in the whisky.
SToCkMEN in South Dakota have suf-
fered great losses by recent storms in
that state.
EX-TEEASTRER VINCENT, of Ala bama,
who was sentenced six years ago to
twenty years for cmbczzling $50, 600 has
been parauncd.
EPHRAIM MUCHLER. who murdered j.
j. Brown. prominent business man at
Nichols, ia. and another negro who
was quarreling with Brown when he
was killed We're lynched by mob.
A wIxDsroRM in Michigan did greal
damage in Detroit and at many points in
WAYNE, Monroe and Lenawce counties.
WILLIAM SULLIVAN, the farmland
who brutally murdered his employer,
Z I
saulted the lattcr's wife near Durand.
Mich, last January, was taken from
Jail by an immense mob and lynched.
Sullivan was captured in Detroit re-
Gently.
Two MAD dogs bit twenty persons in
Chicago in the neighborhood of Forty
eighth and West Lake streets.
MAYOR & ULMAN. wholesale groccrs
at Brunswick, Ga. failed for s2s0.000.
HEAVY frosts We're reported along
the line of the Central Branch railway
in Kansas. and it was thought the
growing crops were greatly damaged.
BY the breaking of levce in Louisi-
ana the greater part of Fast Carroll,
Madison and Concordia parishes were
overflowcd, causing the destruction of
growing crops.
THE newly appointed consul to Vera
Cruz. Charles Schaetfer, of Sedgwick.
Kan, was made consul before he was 4
citizen of the United States.
A HEAVY windstorm blew down or
unroofed twenty-five houses in the
eastern part of Louisville, Ky.
FIRE destroyed the Latterer pump
and box factory at Middletown, o., the
loss being 100000.
The management of the PennSyl-
7snia railroad system and the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railroad
have informed their employees that be-
tween now and October SO every en-
ploye, irrespective of his or her depart
ment. will be given a two weeks vaca-
zion to see the fair.
FLAMES among tobacco factories at
Winston, n. c., caused a loss of $780,
600.
STUDENTS at Grant university, Chat
tanooga, Tenn, hauled down the stars
and stripes and substituted flag of the
confederacy.
BY decision of the courts at Omaha
the Union Pacific company will be COM
PEELED to build fine railway station at
Omaha. as it agreed to do more than
ten years ago.
A TRAIN on the Wabash road made
the run from Kansas City to Centralia,
Mo-, 153 miles, in 16S minutes, breaking
the record west of the Mississippi for
long-distance running.
A TORNADO in Indiana wrecked houses
and did other damage at Jeffersonville,
Elwood. Marion and Columbus.
An extensive gang of counterfeiters
has been unearthed in southwest Mis-
souri, by government secret service
officers.
AT their home near Plymouth, Ia,
Charles Towne, farmer, and his
young wife were probably fatally shot
while eating supper by some person
unknown who fired through a window.
No motive was known for the crime.
IN Denver the American Baptist Pub
lication society held its sixty-ninth an
nual session. The reports showed that
more than $4,000 copies of books,
tracts, pamphlets and periodicals had
been printed during the year.