The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-15
DOMESTIC,

MRS. LOUIS ALBERT, of Galveston,
Tex, in a fit of dementia poisoned her
five children, two of whom died and
the others were in a critical condition
WHILE digging a sewer at Hunting
ton, Ind, a workman struck a dyna-
mite cartridge and it exploded. injur-
ing five men, two fatally.
The annual report of the secretary
of the treasury shows that the rev.
enues of the government from all
sources for the fiscal year ended June
30, 1894, were 1912, 500, 49S and the ex-
penditures S44a, Cos, 75s, which shows a
deficit of $685. sos, 300. AS compared
with the fiscal year 1893 the receipts
for 1894 fell off SIS. 914. O63.
EDGAR GEBo and Chris Wicks, Michi-
gan fisherman, were drowned from a
fshboat near Torch Lake in Grand
Traverse bay.
THE big coal-breaker of the Latin
Coal company at Latin, Pa, was
burned, the loss being 500, 900.
The city council of Jacksonville,
Fla, unanimously repealed the ordi-
nance permitting prize fighting.
EXPOSITION HALL and the First Bap-
fist church in Omaha were destroyed
by fire. the total loss being s175. 900.
Mrs. JULIUS GOODRICH was granted
q divorce at Milwaukee and within
two hours was married to s.. Marshall
Conger.
A FIRE in the New York dry goods
district did $3.50, 900 damage and seven
tv-fve girls had a narrow escape.
The interstate commerce commits
sion in it's eighth annual report says
that on June 30, 1894, there were ia
46L.O7 miles of railway line in the
United States, being al increase dur
ing the year of 4, s97. IS miles, the capt.
talization being SO, soc, 235, 400. The
gross earnings were 81, 220, ISL, 1874, the
operating expenses 1927, 912, 299, leav-
ing net earnings of sS92. $50. SIS.
THE national department of agricul.
ture returns this years clip at So
pounds of wool per head, or 240, 00o, 600
pounds.
A cAvE-IN in the Center Creek mine
at Webb City, Mo-, killed John Lar
son, Dan Trexil and Walter Cole.
The schooner Clara E. Simpson was
run into and sunk off the Connecticut
coast and three sailors were drowned.
HARRY GooDLoE, a student in the
Central university at Richmond, KY,
died of injuries sustained while play.
ing football.
JERE MATTHEWS, e~x-county clerk at
Lincoln, Neb., took morphine with
suicidal intent and died, leaving a
shortage of S19, 0O0.
FURTHER evidence of shocking police
brutality and corruption was brought
out by the Lexow committee in New
York.
A BILL to punish usurpers of state
Offices was passed by the Alabama leg
islature by a party vote.
A ST. LOUIS southern trade journal
estimates the years cotton crop at
$500, 900 bales.
SURGEONS in the employ of the Big
Four road met at indianapolis and ar
ranged to establish a chain of hospi-
tails for employees.
KELLY vas said to be organizing an
other Coxey army in Sacramento, Cal,
to move o. Washington and to urge
congress to provide work for unem-
ployed American citizens.
The governor of Utah was alarmed
at the threatened Indian invasion and
had furnished arms to citizens.
OFFICIALS of the post Office depart
partment were negotiating for street
railway mail service in Cleveland, o.
The fremont house, the oldest hotel
in Boston, is to give way to a big Office
building.
MEMBERS of the National Editorial
association met in Chicago and de-
cided to hold their next meeting in
Florida.
The old Jefferson Davis mansion at
Richmond, Va, formerly the white
house of the confederacy. will be con
verted into q museum of confederate