The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-17

HUNDREDS Of people in Deerfeld, O.,
were exposed to small pox through
contact with a faith cure victim.
The opera house, the post Office and
D. M. Miller & Co.'S store were burned
at Addison. W. Va, by in~cendiaries.
REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE, pastor OF
the Brooklyn tabernacle for twenty
five years, has resigned.
ATTORNEY GENERAL OLEEY decided
that railway employees had a legal
right to belong to b~rotherhoods.
AT a meeting Of the National Wait
association in Pitts burgh Gen. Russell
A. Alger, of Detroit, Mich, was elect
ed president.
The San Bernardino (CaL) First ma
ticnal bank closed its doors from lack
of funds.
Four masked bandits rode into Shat
tuck, o. T.. and robbed the post Office,
a store and a saloon.
AT Litchfeld, Ill, John Hottenrout
killed Mrs. Charles Niemeyer and then
committed suicide. Trouble over land
was the cause.
2ulhL LII AoL1ooS oo y
catcher for Chicago and Boston clubs,
died of pneumonia in a Boston hospi-
tai, aged 81 years.
MICHAEL WILSON, aged 65, of Adrian,
Mich, was imprisoned for cruelty beat
ing his mother. who is 90 years old.
kid" THOMPSON, the notorious train
robber, was captured and turned over
to officers by cowboys in Arizona.
THERE were 261 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on tine 9th, against 249 the week
previous and 35S in the correspond
ing time in 1898.
AT Taylor, Tex, Joe Patchen went
a mile over a half-mile track in 2:09,
breaking the pacing record one and
one-quarter seconds.
The Export Coal company at Pensa-
cola, Fla, failed for $3.50. 700.
n. j. VnLARs, in Jail at Fargo, n.
D., confessed to the murder of a farmer
and his wife near jamestown.
THE Citizens national bank at ODER
lin, O., was robbed of $500 by unknown
thieves who could not force the vault
door.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 9th aggre-
gated S94s, 954. 400, against S923, 557 ,S16
the previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1893, was 1.8.
HEAVY snowstorms prevailed on the
coast of New England and several
vessels were wrecked.
CRAZED by a protracted debauch,
Peter Pepper, a Louisville (Ky.) bar
Der, tore out his tongue and died in
terrible agony.
MEMBERS of the Cook gang raided
the town of Lenapah, l. T., robbing a
store, killing one man and wounding
another.
BRIG. GEN. McCooK was appointed
major general in the United States
army to succeed Gen. Howard, retired.
INVESTIGATION shows hat on rail-
roads owned by governments the
charges are very much higher than in
the United States.
The Shulenburg & Boeckeler Lum-
Der company Of st. Louis made an as
signment with liabilities of $215, 600.
MRS. ABBIE A. BROMLEY, widow of
Avery A. Bromley, a prominent and
wealthy citizen, died suddenly at Mid
dletown. N. Y. at the age of 20 years.
For eighteen years she had lived the
life of a recluse, and during that time
never spoke to a human being.
ERNEST HUM, a mining expert, fell
600 feet down a shaft at Nevada City,
Cal, and was terribly mangled.
The ship Ida c. Southland. from Phil
adelphia to New Orleans, was thought
to have been lost with her crew of
seven men.
THE Cherokee legislature passed a
bill making it treason for any citizen
to sell his real estate to a non-citizen,
naming as . penalty for SO doing
death by hanging.
THE dry goods firm of Garrettson.
Woodruff & Pratt at Tacoma, Wash,
failed for s400, 900.
THREE men attempted to thaw some
dynamite at Huntington, Ind, and
were blown to death.
A STORM in Connecticut caused a loss
of over 500, 900 to she telegraph and
telephone companies.
JOHN DONOVAN, of Bay City, will be
the only democrat in the next Michi-
gan legislature.