The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-01

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pleted for beginning construction of
the American Methodist university in
Washington.
WHEELMAN JOHNSON lowered four
records at Louisville, Ky. His time
for the mile, flying start, was 1:47 S-5.
SECRETARY GRESHAM authorized Min
listers DENLY and Dun to conduct
negotiations for peace between China
and Japan.
A. HALLoRAN and ". Downing,
prisoners in the Jail at Tahlequah,
!. T., fred the building and were cre-
mated.
Rev. c. l.. PADDOCK, of Macedon, N.
Y, was given judgment for $40 against
Mrs William Bennett for a funeral
sermon.
REV. II. s. HARRISON, editor of the
Advance, a Congregational weekly.
was struck by a train at La Grange,
ILL.,, and instantly killed.
A SPECIAL train over the Pennsyl-
vania road covered the 1875 miles be-
tween Morrisville and Harrisburg in
t04 minutes.
SEVERAL slight shocks of earthquake
were felt at Tacoma, Wash.
The general assembly Knights of
Labor in session at New Orleans de-
cided that lawyers and barkeepers
were not eligible to membership.
THE most terrific and destructive
windstorm known in twenty years did
great damage at Dunkirk, n. Y, and
vicinity.
WILLIAM WICKwIER and his sister,
who lived 5 miles south of Galesburg,
Mich, were murdered by tramps.
CAPT. PHILIP II. COOPER. the new
superintendent of the United States
naval academy at Annapolis, Md, is
sued an order prohibiting hazing.
EXTREME simplicity marked the
funeral of Robert c. Winthrop at Bos-
ton. There were no pallbearers or
words of eulogy.
j. L. NJ. PIERCE, of Yankton, S. D.,
vas said to have disappeared with ST.
600, 600 secured from English capital
lists on spurious paper.
THE national fraternal congress in
session at Buffalo. N. Y, barred news
paper artists from its sessions owing
to the printing of a caricature of its
president
j. D.. BROWN, a farmer living near
Aurora, Ill, was robbed of 81, 800 in
Chicago by two colored women by the
panel game.
THE dean and six students of Cott-
ner university at Lincoln, Neb., were
arrested for grave robbing.
The report of Paymaster General
Edwin Stewart of the navy for the
fiscal year ended June 80 last shows
that the total mount expended dur
ing the year was S31, $40, IA.
THE Indian boys at the Seminole
high school at Eufaula, I. T., set the
within two years.
WOMEN of the Christian Temperance
league of Keokuk, Ia, criticised Mrs.
Cleveland for christening the steamer
ST. Louis with wine.
WILLIAM p. HAZEN, the chief of the
secret service of the treasury depart
ment, in his annual report shows that
during the year the total number of
arrests made was 6S7, nearly all of
which were for violations of the stat
utes relating to counterfeiting United
States money. The amount of altered
or counterfeit notes captured during
the year was s21. 800.
The Knights of Labor in national
convention at New Orleans decided
that none but the American flag
should be carried in their parades.
ROBERT F~ITzsIMMoNs was exonerated
by the coroner's jury at Syracuse, N.
Y, from any criminal intent in the
death of Con. Riordan.
II. d. MORGAN, treasurer of the
United States, in his annual report
says the net ordinary for the
fiscal year ended June 80 were S297,-
732, 019, a decrease of SSS, 097, 500 as
compared with the year before. The
net ordinary expenditures were SS67,-
525,674. Including the public debt the
total receipts were S724, COG, 53S and the
expenditures S69S, SOS, $50.
HUKER BECH, a Hungarian emigrant
bound from Buda Pesth to North Da-
kota, landed in New York with his
family of three and a fortune of $780,
900.
The Citizens national bank of Spo-
kane, Wash. which filled in 1898 and
hen resumed, has gone into liquida-
ton. Assets. 1925, 600; liabilities, S24O,-
QUO.
In attempting to separate Thomas
and Michael Neill, fighting in the
street at Cheyenne, Wyo., Charles
Brultar killed them both.
The remains of Gen. John c. FIRE.
mont were placed in the Rockland
cemetery at Sparkill. N. Y.
The National Fraternal congress in
session at Buffalo, N. Y, elected S. A. |
Well, of Pittsburgh. as president.
FIRE at Eldon, Ia, destroyed the
Rock Island chutes, 1000 ions of coal, |
several cars and two residences. Total
loss, s12O, 600.
THE chairman of the Oklahoma ter
ritory executive committee called a
statehood convention to be held at Ell
Reno November %.
REV. FRANK L. GOo.SPEED was in !
stalled as pastor of the First Congrega-
tional church at Springfield, Mass. He
is the eleventh pastor in 257 years to
occupy the First church pulpit. /
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
THE woman suffrage amendment to