The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-11-03

George B. Mcclellan was unveiled at
Philadelphia with imposing ceremony.
STERN & Co., New York shirt manu-
tacturers, failed for $3.50. 600 and Louis
5. Stern, one of the partners. drowned
himself.
THOMAS PURDY, Dayton, O., had for
nearly a week been in q cataleptic
trance, his body being as stiff as a
poker.
CAPT. R. b. PRArT's annual report of
the Carlisle (Pa-) Indian school shows
3 successful year There were 602 pu-
pills there.
Two MEN lost their lives in q prairie
fire which swept through portions of
Cherry and Grant counties, Neb., burn
ing yer a strip of country so miles in
width and destroying hay stacks,
homes, and in some instances stock.
The president has recognized the
consuls and vice consuls Of the new
consular service Of the Hawaiian re-
public.
Gov. WILLIAM C. RENFRow, of Okla
homa territory, in his annual report to
the secretary of the interior says the
territory has a population of $50, 900.
The taxable valuation of the territory
is $40. 947, 922- The governor recon-
mends the admission of Oklahoma and
Indian territory as one state.
A NEW counterfeit SIS treasury note
with the Thomas head was in ~circula-
ton in Rochester, N. Y.
The eastern anthracite coal sales
agents decided to advance prices TWEEN
ty-five cents on stove and fifteen cents
on other sizes
FLYING JIB paced an exhibition mile
in 2:OSH at Louisville, Ky.
FRED DOUGLASS addressed the Amer
can Missionary association at Lowell,
Mass. lie said the negro still needed
a helping hand.
A UNION COUNTY On. J.) grand jury
churches and societies which run lot
teries at festivals.
A DAUGHTER of Squire Hause, of JEFF
fersonville, Ind, who has married 5000
clipping couples, eloped with Roy
Howard and was married.
THE statistician of the United States
department of agriculture has made
the following cotton crop estimate:
Acres planted in 1898, 10, 525, 900; num-
Der of bales harvested. 7,49S, 600.
The sudden extinguishment of the
lights caused a panic in Mobiles opera
house at Tifln, O., and a number of
persons were badly injured.
j. ]. REITHMAN and j. ]. Reithman
& Co., wholesale druggists In Denver,
failed for $500, 600.
A TEN-ACRE tract of hone stone, a
valuable mineral, has been discovered
in Hardin county, la.
A DECREASE of s14, PSI, 500, of which
$40, 600, 600 is in the item Of pensions.
is shown by Secretary Smiths esti-
mate of appropriations for the next
fiscal year.
IT was announced that foreign Off
cials would cooperate with the United
States in keeping criminals from emf
to this country.
ELI KRoUsE and Edward Wardneese,
were run over and killed
by a train at Reelsville, Ind.
ONE man was killed and eleven
entombed by a cavern in the
Pewabic mine at Iron Mountain, Mich.
SEVEN officials of Justices courts
were indicted at Denver, Col, for forg-
ing names on witness certificates and
defrauding the county out of thou
sands of dollars
ACCORDING to a decision rendered at
C,4r Nc hr Acscfonf TTnffad
States District Attorney Draffen, all
laws for Furnishing reporters at the
polls have been repealed.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggre-
gated S911, 91s, 325, against $3.50, 045, COG
the previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1898. was s..
Miss AGNES JONES, who took a claim
in Oklahoma, fatally shot Sam Bar
tell. who had jumped the claim during
her absence.
An unknown man started prairie
fires in Nebraska which destroyed sew
eral lives and a vast amou4t of prop
erty.
STIRRED to action by a recent muir
der, people of Milwaukee will close the
saloons in the vicinity of the soldiers
home.
JAMES ]. WooD, a poor carpenter of
O., returned from Ireland
with $500, 600, his share of the estate of
ancestors.
JUDGE WILLIAM BROOKS. 80 years old,
one of the south's most eminent j~urists,
dropped dead at his home in Birming-
ham. Ala
OFFICERS of the Omaha (Neb.) ma
bank were endeavoring to ferret
out a thief who had stolen large
amounts from its safety vaults.
THE post office at Roaring Springs,
Pa, was robbed by unknown men.
who secured IS, 600 stamps and $500
cash.
THE Cunarder Lucania has again
herself, making a trip across
the Atlantic in 5 days, Z hours and %
minutes, the fastest ever made.
You've HAMMETT, IA years of age,
suicide at Columbia, S. C.
by his father for excessive
cigarette smoking was the cause.
LABE LATHAM and Isaac Keebler,
caps. and Elijah Helton. their
intended victim, were killed in a fight
In Sewer county, Tenn.
OWING to the increase of smallpox
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