The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-08-11
DOMESTIC.


SEvEYTY-FIvE cans of opium were
!ound by custom house officers on the
coasting steamer City of Pueblo at
Tacoma, Wash.
WHILE conducting experiments with
a new explosive in a quarry at fiaw-
thorne, Ill, c. II. Rudd and two others
Were injured and three of his assistants
killed.
MAJ. HALFoRD. former private secre-
tary of ex-President Harrison, was
thrown from a carriage at Omaha and
badly hurt.
The strike commission decided to
begin its inquiries at Chicago August
10, and issued a statement outlining
its duties and purposes.
THE Ocean hotel at Long Branch
was seized by the sheriff. Guests we're
obliged to vacate their rooms and a
hundred servants were left penniless.
CARL NEEL, of Chicago, won the ten
mis- championship of the northwest by
defeating George Belden at Lake
Minnetonka, Mimi.
CITIZENS of Foster, o., tied John Nc
Gregory, an eX-convict, to a post and
applied a horsewhip until he was in
sensible, then ordered him out of town.
WILLIAM and Frank Scott (colored)
were hanged at Canton. Miss, for
numbering Norman Hopson, a witness
against them on d burglary charge.
JOHN BRADLEY and Fannie Kounce
and Helen Richie were drowned in the
river at Little Rock, Ark, by the cap
sizing of a boat.
The gold purchases at the mint in
Denver during July amounted to S73S,-
5G5.61. against S216,O57.19 for July. 1888.
EDWARD H.. JONES, on trial at George
town, O.. for the fourth time for the
murder of his son, was for the fourth
time convicted of murder in the first
degree.
THE public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed hat the debt increased
Lose, 6O4 during the month of July.
The cash balance in the treasury was
S119.OS5 $50. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury. amounts
to S1.514, 72O, SIS.
FIRE swept through sixty acres of
the lumber district in Chicago. causing
a loss of about 81. 600, 900 to fourteen
business firms and the sacrifice of three
lives.
Miss TILE SABERN, a young aero
nau of Richmond. Ind, was killed by
falling from a faulty parachute at An
derson.
DE-. j. S. Morn, dealer in dry goods
at Independence. Mo-, failed for $780,
600: assets about the same.
The state bars opened for business
at the old stand all over South Caro-
lima.
THE Baker City COre.) national bank
suspended, owing depositors s75, OO0.
ANDERSON HALLIDAY. while drunk.
shot and killed Wesley Cobb at Elk
horn. W. Va. and was soon after
lynched by 4 mob.
In a sermon at St Paul Archbishop
Ireland commended Mgr. Satolli for
debarring saloon-keepers from the
Catholic church.
CHAMPION JAMES CoRBErT arrived in
New York from England and an
nounced his anxiety for Peter Jackson
to fix Il date for their fight.
WILL WAKELY, city clerk of Omaha,
Neb.. climbed on top of a bathing re-
sort pavilion and blew out his brains
before the crowd.
MORE than a thousand men we're
taken back at the old scale upon the
reopening of Chicago & Alton railway
shops at Bloomington. Ill.
ALL the packing houses in South
Omaha. Neb., were forced to close by
the strike of the cattle and hog butch
ers.
THE treasury department monthly
statement shows a decrease of S6.4SS,-
99S in the money circulation through
out the country during July. The total
circulation of the country was placed
at SIG ,5T4.2S9, a per capita of S24. IL.
against 81 80 -o99. or a year ago.