The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-17
VEST AND SOUTH,

| Is chicago the Grant locomotive
works. one of the largest manufactur-
ing enterprises in the west. made an
assignment. with liabilities of s41O. $50.
FLAMES destroyed the Schclp wagon
and carriage factory in st. Louis, the
I loss being 100000
IN session in Chicago the antitrust
convention adopted n platform calling
for the enactment of more rigorous
laws against combinations in restraint
of trade.
Is Detroit the worlds 25-mile record
for bicycles was broken by Fred c.
Graves. the professional wheelman. who
made the run in hour, Is minutes, 20
seconds.
THE death of Julius Bake. one of the
founders of the RrunSwick Balke-COl-
lender company. billiard table makers
occurred at his home in Cincinnati,
aged G3 years.
Ir was said that J. A. Jenkins. who
resigned the treasurership of jefferson
Vile. Ind, was short 10000 in his ac-
counts.
THE Observation-Disclosures company's
furniture STORE Ill "dS
burned. the loss being slGO,OOO.
The whisky trust directors at Peoria,
ILL.,, have concluded to shut down all
the distilleries in operation.
ErLoGIEs were pronounced at the
annual meeting in Chicago of the Ma
tional Prison association in memory of
Rutherford b. Hayes, late president,
and Gen. Binkerhoff, of st. Paul, was
elected to fill the vacancy caused by
Gen. Hayes death.
THE fifty elevators belonging to the
Northern Pacific Elevator company in
North Dakota were attached on claims
aggregating s4OO,0
IN Chicago the antitrust convention
finished its labors after adopting reso-
lutions providing for the formation of
an antitrust association, with two ma
tional committees to prepare remedial
legislation.
THE heaviest retail dry goods dealer
m Chattanooga, Tenn, ID. B. Loveman,
failed for sl5O, 200.
AT Hinton, W. Va. and vicinity
cloud burst did damage to the extent of
5000, 900.
Dora A. NEIZY shot and killed W. G.
Gray at Grand Rapids. Mich, and then
took her own life in the same manner.
jealousy was the cause.
FLAMES swept away nearly the en-
tire business portion of Fargo, n. D..
the loss being over s.. 900, 900. and six
persons perished in the flames. The fire
made clean sweep twelve blocks long
by five blocks wide. Over 1000 persons
were made homeless.
THE firm of Joseph Rathbone & Co.,
wholesale lumber merchants in Chicago,
failed for s250,OOO.
GASOLINE gas exploded in the base
ment of Samuel Rezepper's grocery
store in st. Louis, injuring sixteen per
sons, four fatally.
WILLIAM A. MILES, of New York, was
elected president at the thirtythird an
nual convention in Chicago of the
United States Brewers association.
The association represents capital to
the amount of about s4OO, ,OOO, 900.
THIRTEEN residences were burned in
San Francisco, causing a loss of $780,
900. Richard Windrow. Edward Davis
and Charles Madison. firemen, were
killed and another fatally injured while
fighting the flames
AFTER the discussion of constitutional
prohibition and the religious aspects of
the temperance cause the worlds tenn
perance congress in Chicago came to an
end.
A DOZEN buildings at Oshkosh, Wis,
were burned, causing a loss of 5000. 900.
The failure of the private bank of A.
c. Robert at Washburn, Wis, caused
the Shell Lake savings bank. of which
he isprincipal owner, to suspend.