The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-17
The News Condensed.
Important intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
A sNowsToRM, accompanied by high
wind, visited Hartford, Conn, pros
trating telegraph and telephone wires.
SnoN LEWIS, the condemned Choc-
taw murderer, was shot at Wilburton.
!. T. He had to be strangled to end
his sufferings-
A DECISION which practically abol-
ishes habeas corpus proceedings in de-
barred immigrant cases was rendered
by Judge Lacombe, of New York.
The production of anthracite coal in
Pennsylvania for the year 1898 was
a, 179, 563 tons, an increase of 1,444.1 $50
tons over that of 1892. The bitumin-
ous coal produced vas AS, 421, sos tons,
against 40, SIS, $40 IONS in 1892.
The anti-toxin remedy for diphtheria
was being tested in foul cases in the
municipal hospital, Philadelphia.
SUCCESSFUL exhibitions of the value
of hypnotic influences in performing
surgical operations were given in Chi
cago and Minneapolis.
DURING a livery stable fire in Pitts
burgh twelve workmen were injured,
one probably fatally.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 5th a Wheat,
80, 027, 900 bushels; corn, 2,65s, 900 bush
els; oats, 9,373, 900 bushels; rye, 444 600
bushels; barley, $50. 900 bushels.
Mrs. JAMES DoNNAILY, of Evergreen
O., is dead, and her three sisters and
father, Joseph Doolittle, were not ex-
pected to live from the effects of drink
ing poisoned rain water.
ACTUATED by jealousy, Humphrey
johnson, of Collinwood, O., shot his
wife through the head and then killed
himself.
TRAMPs murdered a boy and a girl,
children of Samuel Good, near Paul
ding, O., and threw the bodies into a
brush heap, which vas then set on fire.
L%ynching was threatened.
CLAUDE NJ. JOHNSON, chief of the bu-
reau Of engraving and printing, in his
annual report states that during the
year the aggregate number of sheets
delivered of United States notes,
treasury notes, gold and silver certiH-
Gates, internal revenue and customs
stamps. ETC., was IS, Sic. 961, the cost Of
which was 81. 817, ss9, the cost per 200
sheets being s2s.
F. Il. MATTHEWS. a Boston wool
dealer. failed for $500. 600.
SEVEN British steamers were set on
fire at Savannah, Ga. and partially
burned.
In a fight at a Mexican dance near
Alpine, Tex Jules Estrada. violinist,
was killed and two cowboys mortally
wounded.
The tug Crusader was burned at
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. and Henry
Billings and Charles Whiffen fremen,
were burned to death.
SECRETARY HERBERT issued an order
retiring Admiral G%herardi, the senior
admiral Of the navy, and commandant
Of the New York navy yard.
MRS. W.. K. VANDERBILT, Of New
York, consented TO the securing Of q
divorce by her husband and will re-
ceive s., 000. 900 in lieu Of dover.
AT CHILLIcoTHE. o., Cyclist johnson
rode a third Of q mile with q standing
start in O:s9, and a half in O:55 1-6, new
records.
The Rex flour mills at Kansas City,
Mo-, were totally destroyed by fire, the
loss being $500. 900.
IT was found that the president had
authority under existing law to ex-
clude German products in retaliation
for discrimination against American
. cattle.
OWING to an attempt to compel ele-
walton OF tracks at Joliet, ILL.,, five
railroads decided to move out Of the
city.
In an election riot at Harpersville,
Ala, two men were fatally shot and
three others wounded.
A TERRIFIC storm had ragged for thir-
ty-six hours all over New England.
Its violence was only equaled by the
great blizzard of 1883. Reports from
various points indicated disasters to
shipping and great destruction of prop
erty, a~ggregating in value several hun
dred thousand dollars.
AT the Belmont track in Philadel-
phia Alix trotted a mile in 2:0sH,
lowering the state record.
WILL JONES and Tom Buchanan
were killed by the Somers brothers in
an election riot in Wise county, Va.
SIX men were killed and three in
jured in a collision between Baltimore
& Ohio trains near lockwood. Pa.
A LEI of oil-soaked cloth which
Willie Grinnage, of Flint, Mich, was
binding about his leg, took fire and he
vyas hurpad IN death
JOHN ENGLISH, of Portland, Ind,
elected sheriff on the republican ticket,
was taken ill after the close of the
polls and died from heart disease.
DANIEL W. POWERS and Bradford
Bryant persisted while hunting in a
swamp near Halifax, Mass.
A PASSENGER train was held up 1
mile east of Hyannis. Neb., by two
men, but they lost their nerve and fed.
CHARLES F. PITT & SONS, importers
of chemicals at Baltimore, failed for
BOO. 600.
Two CHILDREN of Alfred Hihdstrom.
of Chassell, Mich, were left alone in
the house, which caught fire, cremat.
ing them.
AT Gallipolis, O., three men were
buried in a caving well and one was
killed and another fatally injured.
ALEXANDER G. PECK and his wife
were found dead at their home in FL
Gin III They had heen a~snhyxiafe