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

THE Indiana State Federation OF
Trade and Labor unions met in South
Bend, on the Sth. Thos. NJ. Gruelle, of
indianapolis. presiding. Seventyfive
delegates were present.
COMMISSIONER JOHN TwoMBIY and
Hon. Isaac y. Stevens. of Denver. Col.
consulted, on the Sth. with the Provi-
dence (R. l. witnesses in the case of
7. Thatcher Graves for the murder of
Mrs. Barnaby. The witnesses have
agreed to attend the second trial which
will be held about the middle of Octo-
ber.
THE 800 employees of the Lalance-
Grosjean works, at Harrisburg, Pa.
who were locked out because of the cf-
fort to form branch of the amalga-
mated association, decided to abandon
the attempt. The result was com
municated to the management, nn the
Sth, and operations were resumed.
TIE British wheat crop. says the
Mark Lane Express of the Sth, is now
estimated at 1000. 600 quarters. This
leaves 21.OOO,OlO to he imported. De
ducting the stock left over from 1892,
there will he needed 100000 quar-
ters. 1t is not easy to see where this
supply is to come from. 1t Will absorb
all the good crops of Russia. India and
southern Europe to fill the require
mentS.-
THE directors of the Lehigh Valley
railroad. in view of the default of the
Reading railroad on bills due. have dis
solved the lease of the road to that
corporation
THE Hungarian minister of agricul-
turc has issued statement showing
that there will be decrease of about
4,500, 900 meter centerS in the wheat
yield, 10000 in rye and 100000 in
barley, as compared with the crop of
those cereals las< year The quality of
the grain crops thisyear is much ABOVE
the average.
John PLOTNER, of Cherry Run, W.
Va. met with a horrible death on the
Sth. lie drove two oxen to Il pasture
and was attacked by one of the ami
mails. lie was gorcd and his bGdy
mutilated almost beyond recognition.
The ground for 100 yards around was
torn up il, the struggle with the mad
beast.
On the Sth Howard w. Grear. ex-tel-
egraph operator from FL Dorado: Ar
thur lIanseher, express messenger, and
Jack Beck. clerk at the Occidental hotel,
were arrested at Wichita, Kas., for the
robbery of the United States express
wagon on the streets of that city on the
night of July %. and s., 900 of the stolen
money was recovered.
THE Cadwallader Milling Co.'S boiler
at Fostoria, o., exploded. on the sth,
instantly killing &. C. Davis, secretary.
of the company. and fatally injuring
Fred C. Meredith, book-keeper. Calvin
Robbins, James Long and James 4.
Minnick. the engineer: loss, 100000.
On the sth Fred A. Hoffman jumped
from the roof of his uncles house in
Pittsburgh, Pa, and died almost in
stantly. He was a native of Butler. and
had just left Dixmont insane asylum,
after eight months treatment. He
leaves a widow and two children.
THE gold in the national treasury,
on the 9th, was So, ,157,S54 above the
500, ,OOO. 900 gold reserve.
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