The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-10-13

him to a fair expecting to purchase
some of the exhibition cattle.
CHARLES E. DAY, a lamp trimmer,
was killed by an electric light wire in
Boston and q man who attempted to
rescue Day was also killed
SIX persons were injured, three OF
them fatally, by the collision of a To-
connective and street al in st. Louis.
TIE commissioner of Indian affairs
in his annual report says special adj
vancement has been made in Indian
education. The aggregate enrolment
for the year vas 81, 451, with an aver
age attendance of II. O96. against 21,117
enrolment and 16,3OS attendance for
the previous year.
THE ship City of Athens sailed for
the United Kingdom with the first
cargo of wheat shipped from Tacoma,
Wash. amounting to 1,S00 tons.
THE axle works of j. r. johnson &
Co. were destroyed by fire at Rich
mond, Va, the loss being 500. 900.
THE first of the seven baseball games
of the Temple cup series between the
New York and Baltimore clubs was
won by New York by a score of 4 to L.
FLYING JIB paced a mile at Chilli
cothe, o., with a running mate in
1:5S4. The previous best record at
this style of going was 2:O1al.
ENGINEER MICHAEL KETcHUM. Fire
man Thomas Warren and Brakeman
NJ. E. Hummel were killed in a freight
wreck at Southfeld, Mo.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 5th aggre-
gated S999, 555, 1877, against sS25, 401 ,4S2
the previous week. The decrease, com.
pared with the corresponding week in
1898. was Ill.
WILLIAM NIxoN's chestnut mare
Quirt ran at Vallejo, Cal, the two
fastest half-mile heats on record. She
won the first heat in AK, the second
in Az.
THERE were 219 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on tine 5th, against 2S5 the week
previous and $50 in the correspond
ing time in 1898.
The second of the sever baseball
games of the Temple cup series be-
tween the New York and Baltimore
clubs was won by New York by a score
of 6 to 6.
NEAR Knoxville. Tenn, two farm
ers. Charles Perky and Jones Overton.
fought over the line of a fence aud
killed each other.
The national convention of the non
partisan Woman's christian Temper
ance union will begin at Washington,
Pa, November Is.
The commissioner of the general land
office in his annual report recommends
measures of relief for the forest fire
sufferers in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
During the year the total cash receipts
of the Office were S2,771,S24. a decrease
of 81. III, 900 over the previous year:
total agricultural patents issued, So
255, a decrease of S,429.
FIVE men were indicted for wreck
ing n Big -Four passenger train at
Fontanet, Ind, during the great rail
road strike.
AT Nashville, Tenn. the Young
Mems Christian association building
was totally destroyed by fire.
COFFIN & STANTON, a stock brokerage
firm in New York, failed with liabili-
ties of So. 1000, 600.
Haven. Mo-, destroyed nine buildings.
SEAvETT's stave factory at Vernon,
O., was burned and five horses Per
ished in an adjoining barn.
WILLIAM VANCE. sentenced to a term
of twenty years at st. Joseph, Mo-, for
attempted murder. is now said to be
innocent.
SIX PERSONS were killed and a num-
Der injured by falling walls during a
fire in a furniture store in Detroit,
Mich.
MILL operatives numbering 10000 in
New Bedford, Mass, were advised by
their leaders to accept a reduction and
end the strike.
THE boiler in Schultz's sawmill near
Parkersburg, w. Va, exploded, killing
three men and fatally injuring two
others.
WILLIAM HERRICK. a machinist at In
dianapolis. has fallen heir to a fortune
of $500, 600, left by a relative in Eng
land.
A COMPANY was organized at Indian
apolis which will practically give them
the monopoly of the wheel business in
the country. d. n. Smith, of Jackson,
Mich, was elected president.
GEORGE NEoRR, aged 60, a saloon
keeper at Indianapolis, Ind. fatally
shot his wife and then killed himself.
A quarrel was the cause.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Gov. MCKINLEY opened the repub-