The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-22

1HE president issued an OrQer eX
tending the civil service law and rules
to the internal revenue service.
A TORNADO struck Forsythe, Ga, de-
molished a church and several stores
and residences and injured a number
of persons.
THE National Civil Service Reform
league met in annual convention in
Chicago, and Carl Schurz, the presi-
dent. delivered his annual address.
IowA's supreme court decided that
the mulct liquor law had not succeeded
the p~rohibitory law as the general law
of the state.
w. H. PRICE. a prominent Cleveland
business man, was killed by burglars
whom he discovered at work in his
home.
MRS. IDA NELSON drowned her two
children and herself at Omaha, Neb.
THE Dale, one of the oldest and mos
historic vessels Of the navy, was
ordered out of commission.
W. NJ. Common, of Indianapolis, and
w. B. Simpson, of Holden, Mo-, died
from grief at the maynard actions of
their m
HERBERT DoeGETT. a prominent law
yer of Kansas City, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the heart
DELEGATES from t~hirty-five Indiana
cities assembled at Indianapolis to
form an organization to develop the
of the state.
A Sioux CITY & PACIFIC railroad
train ran througha herd of cattle near
Sioux City, Ia, and killed twenty-five.
FRANK RowLEY, of Wisconsin, has
been granted a patent upon an express
car calculated to withstand the as
saults of train robbers.
The appellate court of Illinois de-
cided that any mandatory that men
aces the health of the community is a
nuisance.
The Meadowcraft brothers were
found guilty of illegal banking in Chi
a and sentenced each to one year in
the penitentiary.
PHILIP CROW, a Kansas City bar
tender, killed his wife and then COM
mitted suicide.
FRANK A. MCKEAN, cashier of the
Indian Head national bank at Nashua,
n. H., was missing, and was supposed
to be a defaulter to the amount of at
least $50, 600.
THE National Civil Service Reform
league in session in Chicago reelected
Carl Schurz as president.
A FIRE at Evergreen, Ala, destroyed
twelve stores, post Office, hotel and
livery stable, the loss being 500, 600.
A LONE highwayman held no the
stage s miles from Fort Thomas, A. T.,
and secured the mail-pouch, supposed
to contain a large sum.
The kearney (Neb.) national bank
closed its doors with liabilities of
about S125. 600.
EDDY LEoNERr, of Buffalo, n. Y,
reduced Johnson's straightaway mile
road bicycle record to 1885 and the un-
paced mile to 1:52S.
A NEGRO who murdered a boy near
Williamson, s.. c., was taken from the
custody of an officer and lynched by a
mob.
CHICAGO detectives working in Mich
igan claimed to have unearthed a
scheme whereby graves were robbed
and coffins sold again.
The winter race meeting which
opened at birmingham, Ala, ten days
ago has collapsed on account of a lack
of patronage.
The officers of various rival com
panies formed a combination at To-
ledo, O., to fight the Standard Oil
trust.
Mr. AND Mrs. BARRY, living on a
farm near Adelia, n. j., were tarred
and feathered by masked men.
OWING to the mistake of a drug clerk
in Muncie, Ind, two persons were
poisoned and narrowly escaped death.
UNITED STATES troops were patroll-
ing the Fort Meade military reserva-
ton in South Dakota to prevent fur
Their depredations by timber thieves.
GIDEON W. LArIMER, JR., of Lynn,
Mass, vas shot and fatally wounded
by Maud Brewer for transferring his
affections to another woman.
Two-THIRDs of the business portion
of Gallop, n. NJ, was burned.
MARTIN RoBB. of Fayette. Mo-, sus-
pected of illicit relations with his
niece, was whipped and driven from
town by white caps.
Mrs. AMELIE WEsTERGAARD, widow
of Lars Westergaard, committed sui
eide at her home in Philadelphia be
cause of excessive grief over the death
of her husband.
A GRAND jury indicted thirty-six
prominent men of Murray county, Ga,
for white Gaping.
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 14th aggre-
gated S1,019, 0S9, 500, against 81, 1853, 20S,-
S4s. the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1893. was 1875.
ALEC WILLIAMS, a negro, was hanged
at Elberton, Ca, for the murder of
Newt Hampton last July.
JOSEPH TRU sKEY was hanged at Sand
witch, Ont, for the murder of William
Lindsay IN May 8 last.
JUDGE WOODS, in Chicago, sentenced
Eugene V. Debs, the leader of the
American Railway union strike, to six
months, and G. w. Howard, S. Kelli-
her, L. w. Rogers. NJ. j. Elliott, James
Hogan and William Burns to three
moptbc in tho corptv ;oil for vio1otipp