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

THE American Federation of Labor
met in fourteenth annual convention
at Denver.
FRED HANKS, John Morton, George
Roberts, c. Fl. Hanks. George B. Floss,
George Cook and Hannah Cook were
drowned at Littleton, Ia, by breaking
through the ice on a pond.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th a Wheat,
IS. 97S, 900 bushels; corn, 6,600, 600 BUSH
els; oats, 0, lac, 900 bushels; rye, ass, 900
bushels: barley, 1852. 900 bushels.
GEN. JOHN C. BLACK was appointed
United States attorney for the north
ern district of Illinois.
GEORGE BROKER, sheriff of Mason
county, Ill, was fatally wounded by
John Fuller, whom he was endeavor-
ing to arrest.
THE government crop report an
nounced the December condition of
wheat as SO per cent. and the area as
lO3 per cent. of last summers winter
wheat area at harvest This makes
the growing area "A. 1924. 600 .cres.
A TORNADO did great damage at
White Castle and Ascension, La, and
killed three negroes.
THE building occupied by the Con-
solidated Coffee company 1t Omaha
was burned, the loss being 500, 900.
ISAAC STEIN. living lei Bowling
Green, O., was held up while On the
way from town and robbed of 81. 125.
THE Southern Magazine company at
Louisville, KY, made an assignment.
Gen. Basil Duke was editor of the mag
azine.
A Rock ISLAND train was held up
near Wichita, Kan, and the passen-
gers were relieved of their valuables
and the express a looted.
DAVID SPRAGG, a wealthy farmer
near Ridgeway, Mo-, cut the Threats
of his wife and three children, wound
ed two others and killed himself. He
was thought to have been insane.
A "A supposed to be Samuel C.
Seely. the absconding bookkeeper of
the Shoe and Leather bank of New
York, was arrested in Chicago.
JUDGE DALE, chief justice of the SUI
preme court of Oklahoma, decided
that colored children must be allowed
to attend white schools.
GEORGE BRUNsEN, Charles. Smith and
Lee Brown, three of the notorious
Meachamite gang in Clarke county,
Mo-. were hanged by a mob.
RECENT rains have broken the worst
and the longest drought ever expert
enced in the Ohio valley.
BIRGE's wall paper factory in Buff
falo. n. Y, was destroyed by fire, The
loss being estimated at $3.50, 900.
ROBERT WEBSTER, an aged farmer
living neal South Haven, Mich, set
fire to his barn and shot the eyes out
of a neighbor who liberated the
animals in it.
The Commercial bank at ST Joseph,
No., failed for S270,OO0; assets, $685.
600.
DANIEL MOTLEY, n farmer near Co.
lumbus. Ind, married his 1G-year-old
daughter Ethel.
ETTsELL ADAMS, a well-to-do farmer
living near Florence, n. c., in a fit of
insanity shot and killed his wife and
daughter and then killed himself.
The steamer Shenandoah took from
new DOII NCWSs va W pooA
bushels of oysters, the first ever sent
from this country to England.
The common pleas court at Salem,
O., issued an order changing the name
of the village of New Lisbon to Lis
bon.
JESSE FIELDS. on trial for murder at
Hazard, KY, fired at Judge Hall and
during the excitement escaped with
his two fellow prisoners
MASKED men looted the depot and
express office at Woodfeld, o., after
fatally beating John Heck. Jr., the
agent.
THE City national bank at Quanah,
Tex, closed it doors.
LEE county railroad bonds for slo.-
600, forty years old. were found in a
corner stone of a building at Fort
Madison, Ia
TEN persons were bitten by a mad
do. at Mount Vernon. q.