The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03
The News Condensed.
Important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC

THE residence of Sylvester Yeagle.
near Carlisle, O., was struck by light
ming and consumed and Mrs Yeagle
and two children were killed and their
bodies burned to ashes.
A wINpsToRM at Winfield, Kan, and
the surrounding country wrecked
many buildings and injured several
persons. At Gueda Springs ten houses
and two hotels were blown down.
SrRYcHNINE was placed in the coffee
ut the Colusa Call county hospital by
q discharged Chinaman and twenty
two persons were made i'll, one of
whom died.
HARRISON SMITH, of Atlanta, Ga,
father of eleven children, killed him
self when his wife presented him with
two more.
SOCIETY women of Saginaw, Mich,
organized o union and will require
their servant girls to be in the house
at 10 p. m.
SANFORD BALDWIN, of Hannibal
Mo-, ended an unhappy marital ex-
istence by killing his wife and himself.
A CONFERENCE looking to the uniting
of all the iron works of the country in
one organization was being held III In
d~ianapolis.
AMADdog bit six persons at Wichita,
Kan.
ARMED bandits we're said to be in
practical control of Indian territory
and federal aid in their suppression
was asked.
THREE prisoners under sentence OF
death fought in the Jail at Tahlequah.
/. T., two of them being fatally in
'ured.
JOHN WALTZ, IN aged and well.
known citizen of Cambridge City, Ind.
shot and fatally injured his ~2-year-old
son and then himself. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
JOHN P. WEED, q prominent whole
sale merchant Of Toledo, O., and his
wife were probably fatally injured in
q runaway accident
CHAuNCEY WHEATON, . wealthy
farmer of Athens, Pa, was bunkoed
out of IS. 600 by two sharpers
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 22d a Wheat,
q ,659. 900 bushels; corn, $500, 900 BUSH
els; oats, e,145, 600 bushels; rye. 4OS, 600
bushels: barley 3,O6s. 600 bushels
ANATIoNAL organization to be known
as the Federated Metal Trades of Amer
ica was formed in Indianapolis with
Lee johnson. of Kansas City, as presi-
dent.
SHARP earthquake shocks were felt
at Los Angeles, San Diego and Campo,
Cal.
THE president and his family left
Bay, Mass, for Washington.
THE outlaws in Harlan county, Ky,
have become so lawless and defiant
that the authorities decided to sup
press them at once.
JOHN II. doom. for thirty years bust
ness manager of the Courier, dropped
dead at his home in GAINESVILLE, O., Of
apoplexy.
An explosion from an unknown
cause wrecked q St. Louis grocery
store and injured five persons, one
fatally.
A COLLISION between Southern Pa
cifc trains near Walker Station, Tex,
resulted in the death of two persons
and the injury of four others
In an action for damages Judge
Field, of Louisville. KY, decided the
Pullman company was not a common
carrier.
JAMES K. EDGERLY, returning to
Fort Henry, n. ", from Oklahoma,
paid $1,000 for a worthless bond to
two confidence men in Chicago.
RUNS on the Pittsburgh pa dis
c~retionary pools" continued, and
George M. Irwin & Co., one of the
principal concerns, suspended, with
liabilities of over 81. OoO. 900.
A MYSTERIOUS disease has broken out
among Arizona miners in the Cour
d'Alene district Several hundred per
SONS have been stricken.
HELEN GRIER, of Spokane, Wash,
convicted Of poisoning her sixth hus-
band, was sentenced to ten years in
the penitentiary.
In his annual report Gen. Otis urges
the requirement by the government OF
strategic points on Puget sound.
The national convention of German
Epworth leagues met at St. Paul with
. large attendance.
CAPT. HENRY A. FORD, an educator
and newspaper writer of state reputa-
ton, fell dead on a street car in De-
troit
THE Big Four railway shops at Wa
bash, Ind, were destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of over S100. 00e.
CYCLIsT SEARLEs completed his ride
from Chicago to New York in 6 days,
2 hours and 80 minutes. lowering the
previous record an hour.
EBENEZER s. REEVE, a shoe dealer at
Philadelphia, Pa, failed for 500, 900.
The Central hotel at Ration, n. II.
burned and James La Point, James
McCool and Al Kennedy, railroad men,
persisted in the flames.
ALoNzo P. EDDY and his wife and
two children were killed by the cars
while driving across the Erie tracks at
Watts Flats, N. Y.
ALBERT G. HARDING rode 100 miles on
q bicycle at St Louis in 4:S7 As, a cut
in the record of t~wenty-three minutes.
THE fishing schooner Dora A. Law
son arrived at Gloucester, Mass, from
the banks and reported the loss OF
four of her crew.
On a straight course at Buffalo, n.
Y, John S. johnson rode a mile on 8
bicycle in 1:S5 2-5.
An explosion from an unknown
cause wrecked a Marion lind ! photor