The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-04

SIX of the men who were implicated
in the tarring of Adjt. Gen. Tarsney,
of Colorado, have been arrested
WILLIAM TYLER %(colored}, charged
with assault, was hanged by a mob at
Carlisle. KY.
CHARLES WILSON (colored) was ex.
ecuted in the jail-yard at st. Louis for
the murder of Moses Hodges IN No
vember S. 1892.
REPORTS from all western states in
dictate the hottest weather ever known.
Great damage to crops would result.
WALLACE BURT, a half-breed Indian
who murdered Samuel L. Rightly and
his wife, an aged couple for whom he
worked. was hanged at Dayton, Pa.
STATISTICS of the recent strike show
that the railroads in Chicago lost
$3.50, 600 in cars burned by the rioters.
Mrs. JACOB TRADER, an clipping
woman of Calhoun county, W. Va.
hampered by her 4-year-old daughter
tied the child t o a stake and burned
her to death.
The recent census in Michigan gives
the state a population of 2,239,3I4, a
gain of 145, 4s5 since 1890.
REVENUE officers unearthed an Illicit
distillery in New York having a capac-
ity of 1000 gallons daily.
AT Cleveland Alix trotted a mile in
pos and Ryland I. in BOTS. Twelve
heats were trotted in an average OF
2:1O.
IN the free-for-all pace at Cleveland,
O., Robert J. made a new record. an
average of five heats being made in
2:07S.
NORTHERN Wisconsin was being
swept by the worst forest fires in the
history of the state. The losses al
ready amounted to millions of dollars.
The towns of Phillips. Fifield and Ma
son had been wiped ont, and 1T was
feared that several lives had been lost.
THERE were 249 business failures in
the United states in the sever days
ended on the 9th. against 236 the week
previous and 3s6 in the corresponding
time in 1898.
4 DISEASE which baff1ed the physi-
clans had killed three persons at Min
erva. O.. and many others We're af-
flicted.
The business portion of Lucksville,
O., was destroyed by fire, and William
Wilson, owner of a big factory, fell
down an elevator shaft and was killed.
DUN's review of trade says business
is rendered uncertain by tariff delay
and the blockade of traffic by strikers.
FIRE of an i~ncendiary origin swept
away many business houses in Celina,
O., the loss being $50, 00O.
The supreme court of New York re-
fused q new trial to John y. Mckane,
the convicted boss of Gravesend. now
in Sing Sing.
THE United States revenue cutter
McLane seized six Spanish vessels off
Anclote. Fla, that were engaged in
smuggling.
A FIRE that broke out in j. II Dor
sey's woodworking establishment at
Tampa. Fla, caused a loss of 500, 900.
AT Briceton, O., David Kline and his
wife and child were killed, poison hav-
ing been placed in the well from which
they drank.
THE northern districts of Mississippi
were swept by a fierce hailstorm, caus-
ing great destruction of crops.
HARRISON DUNCAN (~coloredl, who
murdered a policeman in st. Louis Dc
tober 6, was hanged for the crime at
Clayton, Mo.
WABASH freight engines collided
neal Lafayette, Ind, and Engineer
Clark and brakeman Donohue were
killed.
DICK GREEN was hanged at Mount
Pleasant, S, c., for the murder of Nan
CIV Drayton in April last. Both were
negroes.
BRYANT DAWSON and Joseph Vowel,
young business men of Mount Vernon,
Ind, were drowned while bathing in
the Ohio river.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 27th aggregated
s77O, 41s, 1888. against 1851, 811 ,4S7 the
previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1893. was 1870.