The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-05-12
WHILE cleaning out an old well, two


sons and a daughter-in law of Sam
Cannon, who lives near Cockrell, Mo-,
were killed by foul air.
CoXEYTTEs captured Northern Pa
t;fic Freight train AZ orling, Wash;
and started east
GEORGIA populists will hold their
state convention at Atlanta, May Ii.
TIE republicans of the Seventh Kan
sas district nominated Chester ]. Long,
for congress-
CARRIE MCKIBBES, aged 26, Hannah
Peters, aged 20, and Richard Thomp-
son, aged rs, were drowned in the river
at keokuk, Ia, by the upsctting of
skiff.
IN St Joseph, Mich, Henry Edick
died ut the house Of his daughter, Mrs
Frank Headley, at the age of l0i years
WILLIAM PENN nixon bought the
interest CT II. II. Kohlsaat IN the fh'-
| cago Inter Ocean for 100000.
TENNESSEE republicans will hold their
state convention on August 81 at Nash
| vile to nominate a governor.
IN session In Chicago the National
Stove Manufacturers association elcc-
ted George d. Dana, of St Louis, as
president
TEE report o: the secretary at a meet
ing in Des MOines. la, of the supreme
council of the American Protective as
sociation showed growth of member
ship in the United States and Canada
of about 800, 600, making the present
mem bcrship nearly 100000. The fol-
lowing states haze the largest number
of members: Michigan, $1,000: Ohio,
$4,000: Illinois, 5000; Iowa, 5000;
New York. 80, 1000; California, 10000
JACOB BRowS, negro convict, was
murder of Frank Mackin, foreman at
the pcnitentiary, in 1892.
Equal suffragists in Kansas opened
the campaign at Kansas City. Susan Il.
Anthony and Rev. Anna Shaw were
among the speakers
The death of Mrs. Dodson (coloredl,
familiarly known as "Aunty DodsCn,"
occurred in st Paul, aged at least IO7.
There We're records showing that she
was IOT. aud probably older.
A wATERsroUT in portions of Lyon
and Usage counties flooded the country
and ruined crops. In Reading and
Olivet every window pane was shat
tered.
Is pasture near Crown Point, Ind.
a bolt of lightning struck wire fence
and killed eight horses which were
huddled against it.
ILLINOIS prohibitionists in convention
l.. F.slI
nominations: United States senator,
DIR. J.G Evans. of Abingdon; state treas
urer, j. ". Puterbaugh, of Mackinaw;
superintendent of public instruction,
y. T. Edwards, Of kcwanee.
AT Chester, :. C.. Nose Fair, a negro,
was hanged for the murder, five years
ago, of Ike Wilson. colorei man.
TIE doors of the First national bank
of Sedalia, one of the oldest financial
institutions in central Missouri, were
closed. The bank had a capital of
$3.50, 900.
FROM mine at Aspen, Col, nugget
weighing $500 pounds and containing
silver worth s25, 600 was hoisted. 1t is
the largest ever found.
REPORT criticisin2 Judge Jenkins,
of Milwaukee, was submitted by the
congressional committee which invcsti-
gated his Northern Pacific strike order
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
BY landslide and flood at st. AL
bans, Can, twelve lives were lost and
property worth $500, 600 destroyed.
The pier at Brahilov, Roumania,
was crowded with people in hol-
iday attire, bound for Galitz, on the
Danube, when the structure gave way
and 200 persons were drowned.
The loss of life by the earthquakes
in Greece was said by later adviccs to
be 400, and there were 10000 persons
homeless from the same cause.
FLAMES swept away the enormous
sawmills of the arsenal at Mourillon,
France, the loss being $3.50. 600.
IT was said that 500 Mexican troops
were ambrshed by Iaqui Indians in
lie Bacetet mountains and 200 either
killed or wounded.
On the island of Euboea nine villages
were destroyed by the earthquake
shocks in Greece.
IN Greece another earthquake COM
pletcd the destruction of many houses
No lives were reported lost