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


ADDITIONAL claims for damages ag-
gregating S55, goo against the city of
Chicago on account of labor riots were
filed.
WITHOUT any rioting work was re-
sumed in the repair department at
Pullman. American Railway union
men were not employed.
BRUCE MILLER and the two sons of
John Underwood were killed and two
men injured by the explosion of a
thrasher engine at Dahlgren. III.
{. A. kELLAR, an organizer of the
American Railway union. was arrested
for conspiracy on complaint of Dan
vile I'LL. merchants.
a FIR that started in the lumber
yard of Hunton. Myles e Weeks, in
Detroit, caused a loss of 500. 900. and
Eugene Mccarthy, a fireman. vas
killed.
AFTER three months of idleness the
miners at Streater and Braceville, Ill,
decided to return to work.
LAMoURE, a town in North Dakota,
was practically wiped out by fire, the
loss being $780, OO.
SENATOR'S in Washington suspected
| of having dabbled in sugar stock were
exonerated by the Investigating COM
mittee's report.
AT Waltham. Mass, Henry c. Tyler
rode a mile. standing start, on a BIZ
cycle, in 1:57 3-5, making a new worlds
record.
FIRE detroyed the lumber yards of
the John Spry company in Chicago.
the loss being 500, 900. and also a
building occupied by manufacturers,
who lost Sl25, 600.
THERE were 219 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Sd, against 249 the week
previous and 4S6 in the corresponding
time in 1898.
FARMER CITY. Ill. was swept by
flames. many business houses being
burned.
FIRE started in 4 gas plant at Marion,
Ia, destroyed a business block, entail
ing a loss of Sl2O, 900.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Sd aggregated
S7G4. $50. sos, against S770, 41s,3SS the
previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1898. was 21.S.
AT Spencerport, n. Y, fire broke out
in the residence of Cornelius Place and
three of his sleeping boys were burned
to death.
WARD EBERLY, of Dayton, o., died
suddenly from drinking lemonade.
He was II years old and weighed 500
pounds.
PART of a freight train on the Penn
sylvania road was burned near Bucy-
u O., and four tramps who were
stealing a ride We're burned to death.
GOVERNMENT officials were after New
York counterfeiters who had issued
81, 900, 900 in bogus notes.
ORANGE PAGE, the murderer of a ne
gro woman more than 100 years old,
was hanged for the crime at Raleigh,
y. c.
REV. j. VI. CLEARY, of Minneapolis,
was elected president of the Catholic
Total Abstinence union al the annual
meeting in st. Paul.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND set aside the
court-martial sentence of Lieut. Nancy
for the shooting of Capt. Hedberg and
restored him to command at Fort Sher-
idan. III.
NEAR Berwind, Col. a stage coach
was swept into a stream by a flood and
the driver and four messengers were
drowned.
EUGENE MCENRoE, accused of as
saulting Miss Ella Lunney, was killed
by the woman in the courtroom at Nor
ton, Kan.
AT the convention in Chicago of the
American Railway union officials it
was decided that they could not de-
clare the strike off. and that such ac-
ton must be taken by the local unions
themselves on each line of road affected
by the strike.
THIRTY-FIvE buildings. comprising
the business portion of Lake View,
Mich, were destroyed by fire. Loss,
$3.50. 900.
HENRY DAHME shot and killed his
sleeping wife in Chicago and inflicted
wounds upon himself which resulted
in death.
THE Pullman Palace Car company
announced that no labor agitators
would be given employment in the
shops
THE Chicago & Eastern Illinois rail-
way shops were being removed from
Brazil, Ind. because no protection was
given non-uniOn employees.
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