The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-10-13
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

oul 1919 Wesley audi1SOH,
q Brazil Ind farmer, secreted 5000
in a stove. His wife started a fire and
the money "a burned.
The government receipts during the
first three months of the current fiscal
year were $97, s4S, ia, and the expendi-
lures were sos. 62s, 237.
THE house of B. b. Pierce at Wilmot,
Wis, was burned. and his three sons
and a daughter of John Frank per-
ished in the flames.
THE First national bank of Fayette-
vile, n. Y, closed its doors.
AT Dorchester, Neb.. Joseph Krob
shot and killed Lizzie Brabeck and
then killed himself. He asked her to
marry him and she refused.
Two PASSENGER trains collided at a
crossing at Sunbury, Pa, and all the
passengers were shaken up and ten
severely injured.
SOME thirty substantial buildings a.
Wichita, Kan, besides ~innumerable
barns and outhouses, were demolished
or injured in a greater or less degree
by a tornado and two men were killed.
H. o. HAvEMEYER and J. E. Searles,
of the sugar trust, were indicted for
refusing to answer questions put by
the senate investigating committee.
THE total money circulation of the
country was placed at 81. 1855, 03S, 9S2-
a per capita of S24.07, against $780,
049, 9S3 October l, 1898.
Posi- FFICE department officials in
Washington forbid a contemplated
Sunday parade of letter carriers in
Chicago.
SIX PERSONS were badly injured in a
freight train wreck at Mansfield, O.,
and twenty cars were demolished.
MRS. NJ. C. GILES, of Belvidere, H.,
ven to bed with good eyes and woke
up in the morning totally blind. The
physicians were bafled.
A MONUMENT to Maj. B. F. Stephen
son, founder of the Grand Army of
the Republic, was dedicated at Peters
burg, Ill.
PROF. VINCENNEs BoTTA, the cele-
brated linguist. fell three stories from
his residence in New York, sustaining
fatal injuries.
EMMA JACOBS, of Lamont, Ia, aged
7years, saved a Chicago Great West
ern train from being wrecked on a
burned bridge.
WILLIAM PUGH, of Ohio, has been ap-
pointed superintendent of income tax
collections by Secretary Carlisle.
A STAGE running between Yreka and
Fort Jones, Cal, was held up by a
lone highwayman, who stole the treas
ure box.
SoLLY SMITH and Frank Erne fought
a terrific ten-round battle, ending in
a draw, at Buffalo, n. Y.
MARTIN IRONS, once a famous labor
leader, was in Jail at Fort Worth, Tex,
charged with assaulting a little girl.
CHAMPION CORBETT issued a challenge
in which he agreed to meet all corners
in the prize ring next July, one each
niRh hit until all were disposed of.
TRoTTING queen Alix, 2:o3A, and
trotting king Directum, 2:O54, have
been matched to race for 81. 500 a side.
NEAR Pawnee, Neb., acyclone killed
John Nelson's 9-year-old girl and seri-
ously injured five other members of
the family.
In a fight between Denver Ed" and
Larry Farrell for IS, 800 at Denver
the former won on a foul.
GoADED by ~intimations of cowardice
Corbett has decided to accept the chal-
lenge issued by Fitzsimmons.
The twenty-ninth annual reunion of
the Army of the Tennessee convened
at Council Bluffs. la.
NINE persons were killed and prop
erty worth 81, 0OO. 900 destroyed by a
cyclone at Little Rock, Ark. The main
portion of the business center of the
city vas practically in ruins.
THE fire losses for the week ended
on September 80 entailed a loss of
IS, 010, 600. of which fires doing damage
of $40, 600 or more contributed 81, &c.
900.
AT Portland, Me-, Directum trotted
a mile in 2:0s4, defeating Nelson and
lowering the record for New England.
AT the Farmers national congress
at ~Parkersburg, w. Va, resolutions
were adopted favoring protection to
wool and cotton.
PRAIRIE fires devastated a large tract
u III III tuC DldCh DEOOh COuulEf
near Grantsburg, Wis
BEFORE the Lexow committee Mrs.
Urchittei testified that police of New
York put her children in an asylum in
order to extort money from her.
G.. HERMAN G Co., fruit dealers at
Tehichipi, Cal, failed for $3.50, 600.
1T was reported hat the steamship
Chattahoochie, overdue at Savannah
from New York. had been lost with all
on board.
A. j. LIEN, a wealthy resident of
Liemville, Pa, and his wife were
killed by an explosion of nitroglycer-
inc in their home. The perpetrators
of the deed were unknown.
jim and Marion Crutchfcld (broth-
ers) and Will Mitchell, all negroes,
fought near Denton, Tex, and all were
killed.
B BEFORE the Lexow committee a
woman testified that the New York
police had forced her to buy diamonds
for them and furnish their houses to
secure their protection.
A NEW counterfeit f~ive-dollar ma
tional bank note was discovered on
the Citizens national bank of Niles,
Mich, check letter B, series of 1882.
The entire face of the note is brown,
instead of black.
An entire business block was de-