The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-04
DOMESTIC.

GEORGE HUDSON, a striking miner al
Coalburg, Ala, shot and killed Charles
Cole, James Smith and y. b.. Gay, dep.
uty sheriffs, and fatally wounded an.
other.
ACCORDING to government reports
corn in Iowa. Minnesota and the Da,
kotas was perishing owing to the lack
of rain.
ARMED bodies of coke strikers who
have been terroriZing workmen in
Pennsylvania are to be suppressed by
the state militia.
FRANK MATCHICZ, Michael Delenneg
and Charles Drewiacz were drowned
in the Susquehanna river at Plymouth,
Pa, by a boat capsizing.
FIRE started from a locomotive
spark, destroyed the business portion
Of Chenoa, ILL.,, entailing a loss of
$500, 900.
SAMUEL Mills, of Johnstown, n. V,
shot his wife in a fit of jealousy and
then himself. They leave six small
children.
SEVEN of the eight children of Mr..
and Mrs. Kruse, of Humboldt, S. D.,
died of diphtheria.
AFTER hearing all the arguments ad-
vanced by both sides Judges Woods
and Grosscup decided in Chicago that
the contempt proceedings against E.
V. Debs and others of the American
Railway union were in the nature of
proceedings in equity and hal there
fore the defendants could not be dis
charged on their denial of the charges,
but must stand trial.
THE village of Colona, ILL.,. WAS al
most wiped off the map by a fire, the
origin of which was a mystery.
WILLIAM MELVILLE, correspondence
clerk of the Bank of California at San
last thirteen years he had stolen $685.
600 of the banks funds.
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of Great Bend, n. Y, a village of 5000
inhabitants.
THREE FORKS and Watson, prosper
GUS towns in British Columbia, have
been completely destroyed by forest
fires.
CAPT. ERsKINE CARSON died at Hills
boro, O., from a bullet wound received
at the first battle of Bull Run.
SPARKS from a locomotive destroyed
lumber yards, a schoolhouse and other
property at st. Joseph, NO., valued at
S1O0, 600.
In a quarrel over five dollars William
Skinner, of Fountain county, Ind, was
beaten to death by his son-in-law,
George Starkes.
MIsTAKING his father and sister for
thieves, William Collins, os Birming-
ham, Ala, killed both of them by
shooting.
FOREST fires along the line of the
Northern Pacific in Wisconsin were
dying out, there being nothing more
to burn.
THREE firemen were killed, several
persons injured and 2O5 horses burned
to death in a fire at Washington.
JOHN CRAIG, an ex-police officer at
Los Angeles. Cal, shot and killed his
father-in-law and his mother-in-law.
and fatally wounded his brother-in-
law, George Hunter.
WILSON SOULE, a millionaire at Roch-
ester, n. Y. was dragged over stone
pavements by runaway horses until
life was extinct.
THE recent labor troubles cost the
state of Ohio $3.50, OOO.
FURTHER action in the case of Eu-
gene V. Debs and his associates was
discontinued in Chicago until Septem-
Der 5 and the defendants were released
on bail.
Owing to a grudge masked men at
Meeker, Col. stabbed and dubbed to
death $50 sheep belonging to Gen. S.
Allsebrook.
GENERAL managers predict that
within five years railroads will own all
Of their equipment except sleeping
cars.
WHAT was supposed to have been
an ~incendiary fire destroyed the bust
ness portion of Griggsville. III.
HENRY BONANZA, of Chicago, fired
eight shots at Herr Zeitung, inventor
of a bullet-proof vest, in a successful
test in New York.
WHILE inspecting a mine at West
Pittston, Pa, Col. Mason, superintend-
ent, and Foreman William Wilson fell
doYn the shaft and were killed.