The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-10-06

dered his wife and then killed him
self. He was drunk and jealous, and
their two daughters witnessed the
double tragedy.
Gov. STONE has commenced a cru
sade against gambling in Missouri by
closing all of the houses in st. Joseph.
IN the team race at Columbus, o.,
Rose Leaf and Sally Simmons won, re-
ducing the record for a mile trot to
2:15A.
GERONIMO VAKDEZE. of Conejos, Col,
was shot and killed by Sheriff Garcia
in the county jail.
JASPER LAYMAN. an Alabama negro,
was arranging for the exodus of 500
negroes from the neighborhood of Mo-
bile. Ala, to Liberia.
REPRESENTATIVES of trust companies
of Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg
and organized a state association.
CAPT. HENRY HowGATE, formerly
chief of the weather bureau in Wash
ington. was arrested in New York for
a forgery committed in 1879.
The labor commission investigating
the strike at Chicago have agreed upon
a report to be submitted to the presi-
dent.
SHERIFF BURNS, of San Pete county,
Utah, was shot and killed by two men
he was attempting to arrest.
ANDREW j. JOHNSON, of Chicago, and
c. Dewitt Goodnew, of Brooklyn, STU
dents at Cornell university, were
drowned in Cayuga lake, New York.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has issued
pardons for all Mormon polygamists
who have complied with the laws.
FOREST fires devastated the southern
and eastern portions of Crow Wing
county, Mimi, destroying much farm
property.
SPEAKING at the Unitarian confer
ence at Saratoga, Father Connerty, a
Catholic, urged union of all churches
on temperance.
METHoDIsTs of Indiana. after agitat-
ing the subject for eighteen years,
have decided to abolish the line divid-
ing them.
Louis E. MATHEWS, ex~-deputy county
clerk of Milwaukee, took his life. He
is said to have lost heavily in specula-
ton.
Four sons in the family of Albert
Thomas, of Martinsville, Ind. have
bled to death, being afflicted with
hemophilia.
THE Society of Friends. in annual
session at Richmond. Ind. declared
themselves opposed to secret societies.
BENJAMIN THORNTON (colored) Sc
cured a m%andamus against a school
superintendent who forbade his child
to attend a certain school.
The whaling schooner Nicotine
reached San Francisco from Fox
Island, Alaska, bringing nearly $4,000
pounds of ~whalebone, bear and otter
skins and 500 pounds of ivory.
The exchanges ut the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggre-
gated SS25, 401 ,4S2, against 5000, 2S7, 045
the previous week. The decrease, com
pared with the corresponding week in
1898. was 10.
Ton Moore and Eugene Fulkes
(white) were executed at Paris, Tex,
for murders committed in the Indian
territory.
THERE were 2S5 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on tine 2Sth, against 212 the week
previous and 334 in the correspond
ing time in 1898.
CONDUCTOR JAMES FITZGERALD and
Daniel Thompson, a colored brakeman,
were killed and four other members of
a train crew seriously injured in a
freight wreck on the Mobile & Ohio.
near Columbus, Miss.
Two MINER and two laborers were
killed by a fall of rock in the North
west c%olliery at Scranton, Pa.
The long fight between the miners
and coal operators at Massillon, O.,
was settled by both parties agreeing tic
submit their differences to arbitration
under the state law.
THE jury in the case of the state of
Indiana against John w. Paris, on
trial for alleged completely in the
wrecking of the Greentown bank,
failed to agree.
ACCORDING to the trade reviews, bust
ness is gaining in activity, though
prices of grain, cotton, iron, sugar and
COIee LIT lO"cE-
In a speech at Denver Gen. james
S. Clarkson declared that 20 per cent.
of the people of the United States ia
vored free silver.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvoRITEs will hold
their convention in 1895 at Boston in
stead of San Francisco. because of in
ability to secure special rates.
A MEXICAN named Modericos died at
Ingram, Tex, who, his relatives as
sert most positively, was $50 years old.
He had been married five times, mar
rying his first wife 100 years ago. He
had three grown sons in the war of
1912.
SIX MEN were arrested at Terre
Haute, Ind, for causing the wreck on
the Big Four at Fontanet during the
strike.
The Lucania again broke the west
bound ocean record. making the run
from Queenstown in 5 days 7hours and
4S minutes.
At a mass meeting OF undergrad
yates of Princeton college it was
voted to abolish hazing in all its
forms.
The wagon wheel manufacturers of
the west formed a distributing COM
pany in which euch will hold stock ac-
cording to the value of his plant.