The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-18

HE constitutional convention at Al
bany. n. Y, refused to substitute life
m prisonment for capital punishment.
lNsANELY jealous, W. d. Jenkins, OF
Charlton. Ia, killed Julia Murphy, his
sweetheart, and her sister Josie, fatal
ly wounded Mrs Murphy and then
took his own life.
AT his home in Hope. Ind, James
Hardy (colored) died at the age of 100
years. Hardy was jefferson Davis
valet during the war. He was married
six times and the father of forty-six
children.
WILLIAM n. EVANS, of Philadelphia,
fatally wounded his wife. killed Louis
Hecht, her uncle, with whom she was
living, and sent a bullet through his
own heart. He was jealous.
AT Scranton. Pa, a deserted mine
caved in for a distance of three blocks,
wrecking twenty-three houses and
causing a loss of $3.50, 900.
AN express train on the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific plunged through
a trestle so feet high into a creek near
Lincoln. Neb., killing eight persons
and wounding many othres.
OVER one-third of the village of Daw-
son, Mimi, was destroyed by fire.
THOUSANDS of acres of valuable tim
Der were destroyed by a forest fire 80
miles in length in Wisconsin.
TwENTY-oNE stores, two grain eleva-
tors and lumber sheds were destroyed
by fire at Clifford, Ill, the loss being
500, 900.
DURING a temperance camp meeting
at Purcellville, Va, a ten was blown
down, killing n man and fatally in
juring five women
TWENTY-FIVE persons were injured,
some of them seriously, in an electric
car collision near Oakdale, Pa.
Miss VERNE MAYER and Miss Barn
hart, young ladies about 16 years old,
were drowned in the lake at Benton
Harbor. Micn.
SEVEN members of the family of j.
Walker at Oelwein. Ia. were poisoned
by a summe drink. Three were dead
and the others were dangerously i'll.
REV. CHARLES ENGLAND, u Swedish
minister at Michigan City, Ind, was
drowned in the lake while bathing in
the surf.
CHARLES H~ENDRICKsoN and Charles
young men of Batavia, ILL.,,
drowned in Fox river while
WORK was resumed in all but two of
ha l,D. 90 tha D,1l,,a- aor
works at Pullman, ILL.,, virtually eId-
ing the long strike.
FANTASY trotted a mile at Buffalo,
\. Y, in 2:0S4. beating all 4-year-
old marks save that of Directum.
The Second national bank. of Altoo-
ma, Pa, closed its doors.
A MONUMENT to the memory of Fred
erick j. Frelinghuysen was unveiled
at Newark, \. j.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 10th aggregated
S714, AL, 9S6, against S764, 500, 96S the
previous week. The decrease. COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1898. was "a.
EPHRAIM A.. BROWN, a millionaire of
Bloomfield, O., died of heart disease
while asleep. He was 81 years old.
THERE were 251 business failures in
The United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the 10th. against PIG the week
previous and 394 in the corresponding
time in 1893.
rTr- ,n-,1-,1 ~f {ha hatt1a a,,. -
from the arsenal to the state
in Des Moines vas made the
occasion for a great demonstration.
INVESTIGATION shows that twenty
four persons were killed and eleven
in the Rock Island railway
at Lincoln. Neb.
WILLIAM and Solomon Lower, own
ers of a traction engine. were fatally
hurt by falling through a bridge at
Ind.
SEVEN men and boys seeking shelter
under a tree during a storm at De
Kalb. Tex. We're killed by lightning.
Miss LULU RANDALL, an aeronaut of
Detroit, Mich, was thrown from her
by a tree and killed at Nash
Vile, Tenn.
EIGHT thousand persons witnessed
the hanging of Madkins, n negro exc
cuted for criminal assault at Raleigh,
\. c.
TITUS and Cabanne broke the worlds
mile tandem bicycle record at Mime
covering the distance in 1:524-5.
SIMON II. ENSIGN, who had been con-
fined in Moro prison. Cuba, for twenty
years, escaped and wandered back to
Indiana.
A GOVERNMENT survey made at Mus
Ia, showed the water in the
Mississippi river to be one-halfinch be-
.ow the lowest water mark, that of
1864.
j. w. REINHART, president and one
IF the receivers of the Atchison road,
resigned to promote harmony.
THE town of Yerinton, New, on the
& Colorado railroad, was COM
destroyed by fire.
ALMOST the entire business portion
If Fithian, ILL.,, a town of 600 inhab-
tants. was destroyed by fire.
Four children of William Watts,
rom 8 months to AZ years of age,
we're burned to death near Williston,
). D., on a ranch.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
CANDIDATES for congress we're named
Is follows: Iowa, Sixth district, Rev.