The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-29
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

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POLICE JUSTICE CooNEY, of Dubuque,
Ia, was attacked and terribly beaten
by a prisoner on whom he had just
passed sentence.
THE worlds bicycle record, 1879, in
a smile competition road race was
broken in Chicago by Tracy Holmes,
who ran over the course in 1890.
ONE man was killed and three fatal
ly injured by the premature explosion
of a blast at a c~olliery at Hazleton, Pa.
AT Pittsburgh Harry c. Tyler, of
Springfield. Mass, lowered the mile
bicycle record for a quarter-mile track
to 2:03.
AN order for the transfer of more
than half the regiments of the army
to new posts was issued by Gen. Scho-
field.
UNKNOWN persons entered the cir
cult courtroom at Greensboro, KY, and
every indictment found at the recent
fragments.
SINCE the Inauguration of the pres
ent administration at Washington
1857. 233 silver dollars have been coined.
A HURRICANE swept through the
towns of Mining and Jennings, in
Oklahoma, and nearly every house in
both towns was laid low and a young
and two children were killed
and others wounded.
AT North Enid, o. T., the Arlington
hotel and eight of the most substan-
tial business buildings were destroyed
by an incendiary fire.
THE sixty-fourth annual assembly of
the grand council Royal and Select
Masons opened in Columbus. o.
BANDITS made an unsuccessful at
tempt to wreck the Chicago express of
the Big Four at Hazelridge, Ind.
The SEVENTEEN annual session of the
sovereign grand lodge of the indie
pendent Order of Odd Fellows con-
vened at Chattanooga, Tenn
DURING a fit of insanity Mrs. Absa-
lom Wiser, of Marshall, Ill, threw
hot water on her husband, causing his
death.
JAMES W. PURDUM, who captured the
conspirator who had been detailed to
kill Vice President Johnson in 1865.
died at his home near Jamestown, Md.
THE Logansport Qnd.) presbytery
resolved to establish at Cedar Lake a
resort similar to the Chautauquan as
sembly IL New York.
MARSHALL COREY, a prominent farm
er, and his wife and 1S-year-old daugh-
ter were killed by lightning at Owings-
vile, Ky.
ELLIOTT defeated Carver by one bird
in the concluding shoot of the series at
Kansas City, thus regaining his title of
JOHN W. STEBBINs, of Maryland, was
elected grand sire of the Sovereign
GRAND Lodge of Odd Fellows at their
meeting in Chattanooga, Tenn.
ARMED guards frustrated an at
tempt to hold up a Santa Fe express
train near CORN, Mo. Engineer Pres
colt was wounded and one of the rob-
bers fatally shot.
The National Association of Letter
Carriers of the United States met in
Mrs. HELEN L. GRIER, charged with
poisoning her sixth husband, was
found guilty al Spokane, Wash, of
murder in the second degree.
THE German coke workers of Penn
sylvania nave resolved to remove to
Douglas county, Wis, and take up
farms.
ADA JONES, a young society woman
of Seymour, Ind, after a short inter-
view with her lover, in which their
marriage was declared off, shot her.
self dead.
JACOB LEVY committed suicide in st.
Louis in order that his family might
be provided for by the insurance on
his life
AT the annual meeting in Harris
burg of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen Frank P. Sargent was re-
elected grand master.
LAFAYETTE PRINCE, a wealthy farm
er living near Cleveland, o., killed his
wife with an ak and then cut his own
throat.
DANIEL c. OsMUN, of Chicago. was
united in Jersey City. n. j., to Mrs.
NJ. ID. Powers, whose parents ha6 pre-
vented their marriage thirty-five years
ago.
TWENTY-FIVE children were made ill
at Hazleton, Ia, by eating candy in
which coloring matter had been used
and it was feared foul would die.
REPRESENTATIVES of the boards of
public works of many of the principal
cities met at Buffalo, n. Y, and eff
fected a national organization.
LOUISIANA sugar planters applied for
a mandamus against Secretary Carlisle
to compel the inspection of sugar
plantations.
ACCORDING to data compiled by the
commerce commission
eighteen countries own and operate
railways.
PERRY Cook. suspected of stealing
horses, was lynched by farmers near
Lincoln, o. T.
Robert CLEMENS and James Hullen
a duel with knives at Black
vile, Ga, ard both we're mortally
DAVID COSBY tcolored), who as
saulted and killed a girl at Thomas
vile, Ca. confessed and was lynched.
ALIx dethroned Nancy Hanks as
queen of the trotting turf by Keeling
off a mile in 2:0SA at Galesburg, Ill.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT O'RoURKE
has resigned, in obedience to the re-
quest of Secretary Carlisle.