The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-09-01

Four persons were injured and much
valuable property destroyed by an ex-
plosion Of dynamite which was being
used in ~excavating in New York.
BY a decision of the attorney gen.
eral women will hereafter be allowed
to vote for superintendent of public
instruction in North Dakota.
OEIo miners who have been on strike
for an advance in wages would resume
work September l at the operators
prices.
j. NJ. WINsTEAD, a bank presi-
dent. committed suicide by jumping
from a balcony on the fourth story of
the city hall at Greensboro, n. C.
HENRY R. PEARSON killed himself in
| Kansas City. He was short in his ac-
counts with the Plano Manufacturing
company.
JAMES HALE was murdered by white
caps near Pennington Gap, Va, His
offense was the whipping of a boy.
GEORGE BALDWIN was foully muir
dered in the presence of his family by
Deputy Sheriff jackson Lily aud a
posse in the Choctaw Nation.
THE national encampment, Sons of
Veterans, in session at Davenport, Ia,
elected Col. William E. Bundy, of
Ohio, commander in chief.
THREE men were killed and three
seriously injured in a wreck on the
Chicago & Northwestern road ear
Fort Atkinson, Wis.
SQUIRE WILLIAM BLAND, n prominent
citizen of the Conemaugh, committed
suicide at Johnstown, Pa, while mel
ancholy from business reverses and
drink.
A. S. TUCKER, a prominent board of
suicide. Unfortunate speculation vas
assigned as the cause.
PROF. CHARLES j. HINKEL, who for
years occupied the chair of Latin and
Greek literature at Vassar college,
died from heart failure at Amagan-
sett. L. |.
SLAv and negro miners INDUCED in u
fight at West Overton, Pa, during
which one man was fatally shot.
The great textile strike has devel-
oped into n lockout, and as a result
% 5000 mill operatives of Fall River,
Mass, are idle.
HENRY HENmCI, jobber in woolens
at New York assigned with heavy
liabilities.
BEFORE the American Bar associa-
ton Moorfield Storey said public
honesty and trust had reached a low
ebb.
ADAM SWEETS, father of John
Stivetts, the Boston baseball player,
was accidentally killed in a coal mine
at Ashlands. Pa.
WILLIAM DAY, former champion
cr~oss-country runner of the country,
hanged himself because he had been
accused of embezzlement.
Miss MADGE HOWE, of Springfield,
H., was elected president of the La
dies Aid society, auxiliary to the Sons
of Veterans, at the national encamp-
ment at Davenport
THERE were 234 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended On the Gath, against 226 the week
previous and 40 in the corresponding
time in 1898.
TWENTY-FIVE of RELATIONSHIPS COM
monwealers We're injured in a fight
with deputies at Buffalo, n. Y, and $50
more were placed under arrest.
ACCORDING to the report of Patent
Commissioner Seymour, 21,4GG patents
were issued during the year, and ID, 1G7
expired.
JOHN VERMILLIoN and William Jack
son were killed and a number of 9TH
ers seriously injured by the bursting
of a sawmill boiler at Frankfort, Ind.
CAPT. Ii. o. KING, a mechanical en-
gineer of Memphis, vas killed by Alex
Carr, an employe to whom he was in
debted.
NOTWITHSTANDING industrial dis
turbances and the continuance of
drought in certain sections, trade con
tinues to show steady improvement,
according to Bradstreet's.
Two MEN were killed and eleven in
jured by an explosion of gas in the
Gilberton colliery, near Ashland, Pa.
AN explosion of gas in a mine at
Franklin, Wash, imprisoned siSty-two
men, thirty-seven of whom were taken
out dead.
RILEY WALKER and Richard Jordan,
two negroes convicted of murder, were
taken from a train at Mitchell's Sta
ton, Ala, and lynched.
The exchanges at The leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended ON the cath aggregated
sS13, 49s, 631, against ST9O, 6S3, 1s5 the
previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1898. was 1915.
ANDERSON BOYD (colored) was COM
to Jail at Knoxville, Tenn, on
the charge of numbering Ed Uhl in
Marion county, O., ten years ago.
CARL LOWER, an ex-employe, fatally
wounded Alois Mehetretter, a tailor, |
at Buffalo.
The president has signed the general
deficiency appropriation bill, the last
of the appropriation bills of this ses-
sion.
PHILIP PETERS (colored). was hanged
at Helena. Ark, for killing his wife.
AT Ashland, Wis, an entire block of
business buildings was destroyed by
fire.
LIGHTNING struck an emigrant's
wagon near Columbus, Tex, killing
husband and wife, but leaving their
babe unhurt.
DAVID FERRAN.. aged 20, a deaf mute