The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-24
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DOMESTIC.
DIRECTORS in Chicago of the Colum.
bian exposition resolved to dispose of
the 2o), 600 unsold souvenir halfdollars
at par.
INSPECTOR SCHAACK suspended nine
teen Chicago policemen for failure to
perform their duty and three others
were discharged by Chief Brennan for
misconduct during the election.
HUNDREDS of acres of potatoes that
were not dug, ard corn, apples and
bther farm products that were not
harvested were frozen by a blizzard
In Michigan.
FIFTY THOUSAND persons witnessed
the launching of the St Louis, the
largest vessel ever constructed in
America, at Philadelphia. Mrs. Cleve-
land christened the steamship.
FOREST fires in Arkansas were still
burning iercely, doing great damage.
Near Edmondson two negroes were
burned to death.
A HEAVY fall of NOW was reported
throughout Illinois, Iowa, Indiana,
Michigan and Wisconsin.
DANGEROUS counterfeit half dollars
were in circulation in Indiana. The
date upon them is 1894 and they are q
trihe lighter than the genuine.
A GENERAL order, commencing in.
dividual soldiers for specially meri-
torious acts during 1893, was issued by
Maj. Gen. Schoheld
Ex-BANKER A. A. CADwALLADER, OF
Superior, Wis. pleaded guilty Of EN-.
fbezzlement and was sentenced to five
years imprisonment.
The general assembly Of the Knights
of Labor met in eighteenth annual ses.
sion at New Orleans.
The annual report Of George A.
Howard. the auditor for the post Office
department, shows that the total num-
Der of money order offices in operation
June 80, 1894, was $3.50.
THE twelfth annual meeting of the
National Baptist congress began at
Detroit, Mich.
JACK H STRANGLER" is again at
work in Denver. A Japanese girl of
Ill repute was his third victim.
BILL Cook and his robber band held
up q XuiooOuliy IAohooo Gao tIulu
near Muskogee, 1. T. They were un-
able to enter the express car, but re-
1ieved the passengers of their valu
ables.
SECRETARY CARLISLE issued a call FOR
bids for $50, 600, 900 5 per cent. ten yea
gold bonds.
THE schooner John Shaw with its
crew of sever men was wrecked off
Oscoda. Mich.
AT Renova, Miss, a colored couple,
Harvey Owsley and wife, were burned
to death in their cabin, which caught
from a forest fire.
JOHN KAREL, of Chicago. consul at
Prague, has been made consul general
at st. Petersburg, and Carl Jonas, of
Wisconsin, will succeed him at Prague.
FOREST fires in north Mississippi,
west Tennessee and eastern Arkansas
continued to rage with undated
vigor, doing immense damage.
: The annual report Of the postmaster
general shows that the total number
of pieces of mail handled was 10, 534,.
234, 255, in which but 1881, 094 errors
were made.
EIGHT persons were known to have
persisted in the forest fires in Ten.
nessee.
AN epidemic of typhoid fever was
raging in the Nebraska institute for
the deaf and dumb at Omaha.
The business portion Ithaca, of Neb.,
was destroyed by fire.
The Eagle, the senior republican or
gan of western Michigan, after half a
century of publication ceased to exist
at Grand Rapids.
ALLEN PRIME, of Louisville, Ky,
tried to kill his wife and mother-in.
law. wounded his sister-in-law and
then shot himself.
Gov. ALrGELD appointed Elijah P.
Ramsay state treasurer of Illinois tc
I'LL the vacancy occasioned by his
fathers death.
TWENTY negroes left New York fol-
Liberia, the advance guard of an army
of 1000 awaiting means of deporta-
ton.
MOSES CHRISTOPHER, the negro who
assaulted Mosselle Carter, the 7-year.
old child, two months ago and who wa.
arrested, tried and convicted the same
day of the crime, was hanged at Bow.
ling Green, Va
The cotton growers convention al
Montgomery, Ala. organized q ma
tional association for the protection OF
their interests The cotton crop thit
year was estimated at 9.250, 600 bales.
LAWYER WALTER D. ALLEN. Of Phil.
a~delphia, pleaded guilty of ~embezzling
s24. 900 belonging 20 his clients.
EMANUEL Orro, a wealthy farmer
near Morton. Mimi, was killed
by robbers, who riied his money chest
JOSEPH CONRAD fatally wounded
John Martz at louisville. Ind, and
narrowly escaped lynching at the
hands Of citizens.
ENRAeED by his failure to secure re.
appointment as clerk, G. K. Whit.
of Nashville, Tenn, killed
Judge Allison and shot himself.
THE body Of William Sturges, OF
Chicago, was incinerated at the Pres
byterian cremstory in Newtown, L. 1.
TWELVE men concerned in the lynch
Of John and Monroe Evans in Gull
lum, Ala, in 1891, we're arrested.
. WILLIAM DAWSON, a storekeeper at
Smiths Ferry, O.. vas killed by a shot
gun he had set for burglars and for