The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-15
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dren in the Aver home for young Won
en- and children at Lowell, Mass, have
scarlet fever.
THOMAS JAMES. of Kentucky. be-
trayed a young woman named Fultz
and killed three of her relatives who
attempted to force a settlement.
ROBBERS held up a Texas & Pacific
train near Fort Worth, Tex, and
stole S140, 900 from the express car
safes
The navy department has accepted
the cruiser Minneapolis and ordered
the payment of S416, 600, the premium
she earned.
Miss JOSEPHINE BRAND, of Lawrence
burg, Ind, was robbed of $40, 500 on
the streets of Cincinnati, o.
PAUL FIERBACHER, a German boy of
Guthrie, o. T., has invented a railroad
tie for which he has been offered $780,
600.
Ross KENYON, his wife and their j.
year-oId daughter were fatally burned
by gasoline at their home near Lowell,
Mich.
THE Exchange bank at Goodland.
Kan, closed its doors with liabilities
of over SSO.O 600.
FIRES in the Texas panhandle swept
northwesterly and ~southeasterly until
about 25. 900 square miles of land were
burned over.
SMALLPOX has appeared in the lum-
Der camps in northern Wisconsin and
Michigan, having been spread by
transient laborers.
FIVE men were fatally and one seri-
ously injured at Boston, Mass, by the
explosion of a dynamite cartridge.
THERE were 3s5 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the nth, against 2S9 the
week previous and 3S5 in the CORE
spending time in 1898.
WHITE CAPS broke into the house of
Thomas Edgington at Springfield, KY,
and killed him in che presence of his
wife and five children. He was charged
with beating his wife.
THE annual report of the national
home for disabled soldiers states that
more veterans applied for admission
during the year than could be accom-
modated. The aggregate average num-
Der kept was 90, 1852, and the whole
number cared for during the year was
80, 1914. The annual cost of the main
tenance of each man was Si27.4 IS. a
decrease from the previous year of
S13. so; the deaths were 1850, an in
crease of 90.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggre-
gated 81, 1853, 2Os, s4s, against 81, $50, OOO,-
sos the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1898, was SO.
CHARLES F. HOWARD was hanged at
Rawlins, Wyo., for numbering Charles
Horn last New Years eve &C Dixon
during a quarrel about a dissolute
woman.
SHELBY & SoAPER, proprietors of the
Henderson (Ky.) hominy mill. failed
for 800, 600.
JOHN BURNS, member Of parliament
and labor leader of England, says the
slums of Chicago are more filthy than
those Of London.
JAMES COOLEY was sentenced to five
years Imprisonment at Columbus, O.,
for practicing a pension fraud.
THE Roman Catholics n Archbishop
Ireland's diocese were being permitted
to Join any secret society excepting
the free masons
CLAUS SPRECKELs has purchased 49,
600 acres of sugar land and a town and
railroad in southern California.
DDrcrnrNT CrEuET nohlad tho
American delegate at Co~nstantinoEle
directing him to investigate the Ar
menian outrages.
THE president issued a proclamation
announcing the taking effect of the
new Chinese treaty.
DANIEL PFEFFER, of Chicago, and
Edward O'Meara broke through the ice
while skating at West Bend, Wis, and
were drowned.
The pension bureau in Washington
will hereafter refuse pensions to
widows whose income from other
sources, added to the proceeds of rea-
sonable effort on their part, affords
them comfortable support.
ARTHUR c. BROWN and Henry Reesh,
both of Auburn, Ind, were killed and
Henry Harris, of the same place, was
fatally wounded by robbers at Desh-
Ter, o.
THE Shenango glass works at New
castle, Pa, owned by Knox, Foltz &
Co., sustained a loss of 500, 600 by tre.
The net earnings of the railroads of
the country during the year fell off
S2O6 a mile, according to figures com-
piled by the interstate commerce com
mission.
NAMES of society women of New
York and Chicago who were detected
in smuggling were to be published by
the customs authorities
FIFTY-Two indictments were found
against ex-oficials of Woodbury. coun-
ty, Ia, on charges of malfeasance.
A FIRE in New York's dry goods dis
trict did 500, 900 damage, NJ. Cham
bers & Co. being the chief losers.
THE national conference for good
city government met at Minneapolis.
A CONVICT in the northern Indiana
prison drank alcohol which was being
used in painting and is now blind.
A RECEIVER was appointed for the
Farmers Insurance company of Seat
tie, Wash. The liabilities were near
~ s14o, 900.