The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-05
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Pan.
DOMESTIC

,erado named Owens, near England,
Ark. Deputy Sheriff Harris and Officer
Slan were both shot and instantly
killed.
AT the close of the Western league
baseball season the percentage of the
clubs wa as follows: Indianapolis,
.e4s; St Paul, .59l; Kansas City, .5s4;
Minneapolis, $40; Detroit, .472; Mil
waukee, 400; Terre Haute, .4l9; Grand
Rapids, 500.
NnErY Russians left Topeka for
their native country. This is -the
fourth Russian colony that has left
Kansas for Europe.
MRS. HENRY L. DUDLEY, Q mulatto,
was murdered at Stamford, Conn.,, by
Mack Simpkins, a colored plumber,
who then committed suicide.
JAMES McGINN1s, a railway brake.
man at St Joseph, Mich, received
word that his only brother had died In
Cincinnati, leaving him $685. oo.
OvEB 800 of the 700 negroes who left
Alabama last February for Mexico
were either dead or missing, and
others on their way home were strand.
ed at Eagle Pass, Tex, in a starving
condition.
THE twenty-one Cubans held at vii.
mington, Del. for violation OF the
neutrality laws were acquitted by q
jury.
HIP SING LEE, a wealthy Chinese
merchant at Los Angeles, Cal, offers q
half interest in his extensive business
and 5000 in cash to any reputabl
young American who will marry his
daughter, Moi Lee.
A SPECIAL train created a new record
between Albany and Syracuse on the
New York Central, making the 149
miles in 134 minutes.
THE report that seven persons lost
their lives by the sinking of the schoon.
er. E. z. Williams off st. Martins
island in Lake Michigan was errone'
o1s.
SAMUEL F. WILSON. a Kansas City
saloonkeeper, shot e woman passing as
his wife and then killed himself at Dial.
las, Tex.
FARMERS in Livingston county, Ill,
have lost 100000 by hog cholera
WALKER & Sons paper mills a,
Montgomery, N. Y, were destroyed by
fire, the loss being s125. 000.
In a snowstorm near Livingston
Mont, William Cheney lost his way
and was frozen to death.
NEAR Arena, Wis, two children and
the farmhouse of Henry Slauson were
burned
IRISH leaders from all parts of the
country met in Chicago to advocate
the establishment of a republic in Ire.
land.
FIRE that started in Philadelphia in
a building occupied by Charles j. Webt
& Co. dealers in yarns and woolens,
caused a loss Of $3.50, 600.
THE first annual meeting of the
international deep waterways conven'
ton met at Cleveland.
IT is expected that the fourth-class
postmasters, $4,000 in number, will be
put under the protection of the civil
service law before the close of the
present administration.
A FAMOUS Chippewa Indian chief
named Wyaquayezich, aged 10s years,
was drowned IN Beaver lake at Cum
berland, Wis, by the upsetting of q
canoe.
THE three receivers of the Northern
Pacific road handed their designations
TO Judge Jenkins, of Milwaukee.
AT Meriden, Conn, three laborers
were killed by the caving in Of the side
of a sewer trench.
Col w. C. JONES, for many years
chairman of the democratic state CEN
trail committee, was thrown from q
cart at lola, Kan, by a runaway horse
and killed.
PATRICK BRENNAN, James Suther.
land, Patrick Maher and James Roerke
were probably fatally injured by the
falling of a derrick at Troy, n. Y.
A VALUABLE mica mine was discov.
cred on Kettle river, 2 miles above
Kettle Falls, MINI.
Four members of the Gilbert gang OF
river pirates were sentenced to two
years in prison each Mt Hannibal, Mo-,
for robbing Burlington railway cars.
THE non-partisan silver convention
at Raleigh, N. c., adopted resolutions
in favor of free and unlimited coinage
of silver and calling on all bimetallists
to oppose gold recommendation.
THE Boone County Milling and Ele.
vator company's elevator, containing
90, 600 bushels of wheat, was burned al
Columbia, Mo. Loss, 500, 900.
MICHAEL BOYLE and Benjamin O'Neil
were burned to death at Hartford,
Conn, while drunk.
THE annual report of Commissioner
of Indian Affairs Browning to the sec.
rotary of the interior shows progress
in nearly all directions.
ROBERT FAIR, an insurance agent, A
years of age, shot and killed his wife,
Maggie, aged IS, at their home in New
York and then killed himself. A guar.
rel was the cause.
The monthly statement prepared by
the commissioner of internal revenue
shows the total receipts of his Office in
Washing ton during July and August
of the present year were s25, 74s. 522,
against ssl, 925, 404 during July and Au
gust. 1894. The net decrease for the
single month of August was s14, 2o5, $50
THE nineteenth annual convention
of the American Humane society mel
at Minneapolis with nearly every state
represented.
PATRICK FARRELL, Michael Craig and
Howard Mccain were killed by the
cars at a crossing in Chicopee, Mass