The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-01
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
THE trial in Chicago of Debs and the
other officers of the American Railway
union under indictment in the United
States court was set by Judge Gross
cup for January 8.
DURING the week ended on the 18th
444. 900 head of stock were received at
the Chicago stock yards, the heaviest
receipts on record for six days
ITALIAN laborers on a West Virginia
railroad have received no pay for three
months, and are creating 3 reign of
terror.
THE new treaty between the United
States and Japan was concluded in all
its essential features.
BICYCLE champions Of FIVE foreign
countries arrived in New York, where
they will compete with Americans.
JOHN AsHBY and John Heverin were
m~ortally and Police officer Stuart seri
ously wounded in a saloon fight at
Owensboro. Ky.
SOUTHERN congressman question the
legality of the new bond issue and
threaten to make trouble for the ad-
ministration.
Mrs. JOSEPHINE WEST. aged so years,
was burned to death at Peru, Ind, by
stepping on a match and igniting her
clothes.
SEVEN large and valuable barns in
Springfield, H., were burned by in
cendiarieS
A MIME ball received during the
civil war was successfully removed
from the head of George Sackett at
Creston, Ia.
Two INFANT children of Mrs. Maggie
Walker, of St. Joseph, Mo-. were
burned to death while alone.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States ON the 10Th was: Wheat,
81, 2S2, 600 bushels; corn, s, 765. 900 BUSH
els; oats, 9,l1O, 900 bushels; rye, sos, 600
bushels; barley, 3,515. 900 bushels.
THE weather throughout the north
west was the coolest FOR the season in
eleven years. Thermometers in St.
Paul registered 10 degrees below zero.
By an accident at the new chamber
of commerce building in Toledo, O.,
Fred Cronenberg, aged IS. and John
Hummell, aged 40, were killed.
MARIN and Antonio Adego. brothers,
were burned to death in an incendlary
fire at Scranton, Pa.
THE village of Midtown, Pa, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire.
GEORGE KLEINMAN, champion wing
shot OF America, was defeated by DIR.
Carver in a 100-bird shoot at Watson's
park in Chicago.
A oAL train on the Pennsylvania
road went through a bridge near Lari-
mer, Pa, and eight men were believed
to have been buried in the wreck.
AT Louisville John S. johnson rode
a mile, standing start, in 1856 3-5, low
ering the worlds bicycle record a full
second
NEAR Wellsville, Mo-, Thomas Por-
tercheck killed his mother, sister and
brother, set fire to the house and then
cut his own throat- He was insane.
WHILE miners were removing slate
from a remote portion of a mine at
Haggerty's colliery near Wellston, O.,
they found in an old abandoned room
the skeletons of four men.
Two MEN and twenty-three valuable
horses were cremated in the stables of
A. j.. Flanders in Boston.
THE Cook gang of bandits was prac-
tically cornered near Muskogee, 1. T.,
by a band of Cherokee police.
AT the convention of the Knights of
Labor in New Orleans the miners del
egations from Indiana, Ohio and Penn
sylvania were unseated despite their
claim that they represented many
thousand knights.
INTERESTING changes are taking
place on the planet Mars. according TO
atory.
Two MES were killed and six injured
by the explosion of the boiler in a cot
ton gin at Gale, i. 7.
LACK of public confidence forced the
Portland (Ore.) savings bank to close
its doors with Liabilities of 81. $50, 600.
NEARLY the whole of the business
portion of Savannah, Mo-, was de-
stroyed by fire.
MARION HEDGPErH, who robbed a
Frisco train of $40, 900 in 1892, was
sentenced at jefferson City, Mo-, to
twenty-five years imprisonment.
An attempt was made near Con-
neaut, o., to wreck the fast east-bound
mail on the Lake Shore road. A track
walker discovered the obstruction be-
fore the train came along.
The fire losses in the United States
during the ten months ended October
81 aggregated S10s, SOD. LIS.
WILLIAM I. JONES. a wealthy stock
dealer at Bournsiile, O., was swindled
out IF 1000 by two confidence men.
DR. PARKHURsT and Mayor-elect
Strong were the guests of honor at the
126th annual banqueto of the New York
chamber of commerce.
A CAsE of leprosy was discovered in
Grand Forks county. N. d. The pa
tient was con fined in a lonely cabin.
An annex to E. S. Jaffray &C Co. IS
New York dry goods store was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss being $500, 900.
MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD was unan-
imassly reelected president of the Ma
tioRal Womants Christian Temperance
union at the twcnty-irst annual ses-
sion In Cleveland.
JAMES Z. SoytBEIGN was reelected
general master workman of the
Knights of Labor at their meeting in
New Orleans
THE eighth annual session of the