The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-10-27
The News Condensed.


disc Of the United States for the last
nine months amounted 70 eS75.0z7 .o22,
against 500, NJ .S78 Tor the same time
in 1888. The imports amounted to
500. see. Us. and for the same time last
year eoas .s9s.s72
GEORGE PErERsoE started 20 estab-
lish . new walking record from New
York 70 Chicago He expects TO reach
Chicago In thirty-nve daya
Tn Tabor Amusement company ~
Denver assigned with liabilities Of
ss7s. ooa
TIE new issue Of postage stamps was
rapidly being disposed Of, the govern
ment sending out 90 200 co . day.
In the recent storm on the gulf coast
fifteen fishermen lost their lives on
Sand Island. near Apalachlcola, Fla
william PArrTsoE. an escaped mad
man, entered . church at York, Pa.
and stampeded the congregation by
firing right and left
BE q vote Of os to IS the general con-
ference at 0reenville, Ill, Of the Free
Methodist church decided against the
ordination of women
Mia JENNIE HARRrEsToN and her
three children persisted by fire in the
barn upon their farm In the outskirts
of Elizabeth, N. J.
WINS GuFFKY ~icolored), charged
with assault on Miss Leha Berry
fwhitel, was taken from jail 1T Prince
ton, KY, by . mob and hanged
A sTRAxakR distributed about 500
l. .--kL1--~ IL T-1f~.~ akat. hnnL
notes at Anderson. Ind, and disap-
peared
DURING the nine months of 1924 the
excess in gold exports from the United
States over imports was So, eos, 61o and
of silver 81. So. ssa
JACOB SWErNTNeKR's fifth wife died
very suddenly near Luray, Ind She
was the third to die of spoplexy.
ELDERS FREEMAN and Mercer. Nor
mon missionaries who had converted
fifty people near ~Centertown, KY.
mostly women. to their faith. were
tarred and fcsthered by indignant cit
liens and driven away.
GEvENTKKN buildings In the business
district Of Liberty Center. O., were de-
stroyed BY FIRE. the loss being 100000
A. T. SIXTH, . letter carrier, rode
from Chicago TO New York on his
bicycle in Z days - hours and 8 min
utes. lowering his record
An association whose object IL the
suppression Of gambling In the United
states and Canada was formed in Chi
cago By DR.. ". @. Clarke and Others
THE total appropriations made at the
FIRST and second sessions Of the Fifty
third congress amounted to t4e2. $780,
cas-.
Twxrrx-NrzR vessels Of the Glouces.
ter MasA) fishing feet with an ag-
Rregats tonnage Of ASA IONS and lis
men, were Lost during the past year.
against ten vessels and ffty-three men
last year.
Two SISTERS Of st. Joseph were
burned to death and another seriously
injured In q FIRE in Houston, Tex,
which caused . loss Of Szss, 0oo.
In his annual report Maj. Gen Miles
eomplimented the work Of the federal
troops during the recent railroad
strike.
The American ship Ivsnhoe. coal
laden. was reported lost OF the Pacific
coast with its crew Of eighteen 9
TIE post ONCE It New Albany. Ind
was robbed during the noon hour o.
$1,000 IN stamps and severul hundred
dollars In cash.
In the Melrose stake for 2-year-oldI
1t Nashville, Tenn, Impetuous trottet
two heats in a:1s1l. equalling thu
worlds race record
TERxE schooners were wrecked in
gale on the Pacific and fesrs were ex
pressed for the safety of others
TIE MERGED bank 1t MERGED, Cal
closed It's doors with heavy liabilities
BLACK diphtheria whs raging In th,
Indiana gas belt. especially in Ander
son. Elwood and Middletown-
WILLIAM DAVIS and wife, an aged
couple. while driving In . buggy wer'
q over and Instantly killed by trair
1T Mount Sterling. Ill
OrTo ZKIeLEB rode . mile in 1:5o q
sacramento. Cal, reducing Johnson'
worlds bie~tststseord three-hfths Of I
second.
Fnz swept sway the entire centra
portion Of sulphur, KY, the loss being
600, 900
LOUIS Gnm. Of Cleveland, O., rod,
SIS miles ]. 400 yards IN . day on hi
bicycle, surpsssing all records
CHARLEs KAzLKH, Of Davenport 10.
wounded his sweethcaxt and klles
himself because she refused to consen'
20 an immediate marriage.
TEE militia fred on . mob which
tried to lynch William Dolby, tn
negro who assaulted Mn Mary c
Boyd (xhits) It Washington Cour
Houses o, and three persons were kille'
and ten wounded. three fatally.
KEETUcKr distillers formed q per
manent association at Louisville ant
adopted . resolution to cut down pro
duction during the coming eason =
$4,000. 900 GALLONS
THE residence Of Herman Bsrthold
. farmer near Toledo. O., was de
stroyed By Gre and his two daughters
aged - and 7. were burned TO death.
a mAx Of the bridge over the Obi
river at Jezersonvills. Ind, feil, car
rying twenty workmen with it an
three were seriously injured
EUaxkE sc1AWEcKER. 5 wholessl
grocer and liquor merchant OF Cn
cinnsti. eomnitted suicide on Ii
grave Of his frst wife.