The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Gov. TURNEY of Tennessee, on the
18th, committed to life imprison ment
the sentence of John Davis. who was
convicted of murder in the first degree
in Hamblen county and sentenced to
be hanged. The supreme court affirmed
the verdict and Davis was to be hanged
at Morristown Christmas eve.
AN incendiary fire, at an early hour
on the morning of the 18th, completely
destroyed the stock of dry goods of j.
F. Mcbride, and the notion goods store
of Felt Bros, at Elkhart, Ind. causing
a total loss estimated at 100000. The
insurance will reach SIS, 600.
SPEAKER CRISP and house leaders
reached a tacit agreement, on the 18th,
by which the adjournment for the holi-
day recess would be taken at the close
of the session, on the god, and the re-
assembling at nooI, January 3.
D. d. GUEST. of Princeton, KY, has
sold to President Cleveland a pair of
fine young horses of a deep bay color,
15L hands high. They are perfect spe-
cimens of Kentucky horsefesh.
MRS. FANNIE R. VIcKEY was granted
a divorce from Horace N. Mickey at
Emporia, Kas. Mrs. Mickey is a we'll
known populist orator, and at present
is matron at the asylum for the insane
at Ossawatomie. She is a niece of
Judge w. A. Randolph, who granted
her divorce. The plea was abandon
ment and failure to support her.
SERVICES in memory of the late Sir
John Thompson, premier, were held in
the basilica at Ottawa, Ont, on the
the Goth. All the government offices
were closed in order to give employees
an opportunity to attend the services.
JOHN Cox attempted to kill his wife
at Gray's, KY, on the 18th. Cox was
drunk. and fred two shots at his wife,
but missed her. Selling an AK, he
threw it at her head, but missed her.
The woman picked up the az and at
tackled her husband. almost chopping
lis head from his body.
In the United States district court at
Denver, Col, on the 18th, Judge Hallet
imposed a fine of 500 and one-twen-
tieth of the costs on each of the four
men convicted of retarding the United
States mail at Trinidad during the
strike last July.
THE committee of the Indiana State
League of Tin and Iron Workers
adopted a resolution, on the 18th, con-
demning Judge Woods for sentencing
Debs and denying bcn a trial by jury.
HALF a million dollars in gold was
withdrawn from the ~subtreasury at
New York, on the 10Th, leaving the
gold reserve at $50, 910. O00.
MANAGER POWERS of the Star thea
ter in Buffalo, n. Y, formerly of De-
troit, Mich, dropped dead in the lobby
of the theater on the 10Th.
E. F. BEADLE, publisher of Beadle's
dime novels, died in New York city, on
the 10Th, aged "a years.
JOHN ScHUsTER, a farmer, living in
Macomb county, Mich, was burned to
death, on the night of the 10th, while
trying to rescue cattle from a burning
barn. 1t is supposed he was overcome
by the smoke.
DR.. WEKERLE, premier of Hungary,
arrived in Vienna on the Goth. 1t was
understood that Emperor Francis Jo-
seph would choose a liberal cabinet
for Hungary, in which DR.. Wekerle
and NM. Sczilagyi and Hieronimy
would have no place.
The friends o; Judge Kicks, of Ohio.
who had been a little nervous over the
attempt to impeach him, have con-
cluded hat there is little probability
of definite action being taken against
him.
THERE is little chance in the senate
for the defeat of the ratification of the
new Japanese treaty on account of any
of the recent war happenings. There
has been an undoubted exercise of Chi
nest influence in this country &c defeat
the treaty, which ever before the pres
ent hostilities was 4 bitter pill for Chi
nese mouths