The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-01
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


of a receiver.
An order was issued for the arrest Of
all persons who ride bicycles on Sun
day at Babylon, L. /.
THE income tax law, after being
twice heard In the United States SUI
preme court, was finally decided by
that court to be invalid and unconsti-
~tutional. The vote in the affirmative
was Harlan, White, Brown and Jack
son in the negative, Fuller, Field,
Shiras, Gray and Brewer.
Mrs. WARWICK, living near Oska-
loosa. Ia, poisoned her three children
and then committed suicide. Two Of
the children would die.
The botanist of the agricultural de-
partment in Washington says that the
decrease in the value of lands in this
country due to weeds amounts to tens
of millions of dollars a yea
HAIRY HAYWARD. convicted of incit-
ing and planning the murder of Cath
crime Cling in Minneapolis, will be exc
cuted on June 81.
CRAWFORD & VALENTINE, a stock
brokerage firm in Chicago, made an
assignment with liabilities of 100000.
CHARLES AIEsTER, a teamster at
Grants Pass, Ore, threw his wife into
a pool of water and held her head
under until she was drowned.
TIE thirtieth anniversary of the
establishment in Lexington, Ky, of
the first colOred school south of the
Mason and Dixon line was celebrated.
JOHN G. CARLISLE, secretary of the
United States treasury, opened the
discussion of the silver question at
C%ovington, KY, speaking against free
coinage.
THE announcement was made by In
ternal Revenue Commissioner Miller
that under section 1920 of the revised
statutes all the moneys paid in on &C
count of the income tax will be re-
funded to the payers by the treasury
department without delay.
STEPHEN J. FIELD, who was appoint
ed by President Lincoln an associate
Justice of the supreme court thirty-two
years ago, celebrated the anniversary
in Washington.
STEVENS & Co, New York commits
sion brokers. failed for $780, DOC.
CIVIL service examinations for clerks,
s~torekeepers and gaugers will be held
In sixty-three of the principal cities
and towns the latter part of June.
The visible supply Of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
Sc, 4s4, 900 bushels; corn, 1866, 600 bush
els; oats, $3.50 OO bushels; rye, 49,
600 bushels; barley, 1873, 200 bushels
THE Commercial bank of Kingfsher,
TT, made an assignment in favor of
Its creditors.
THE supreme court of the United
States will adjourn for the term June 3.
REAR ADMIRAL R. W. MEADE was
placed upon the retired list
The new and magnificent $1,000, 900
temple of the odd fellows in Philadel-
phia was dedicated with appropriate
ceremonies
The Piedmont Marble company, the
largest in the south, was placed in the
hands of a receiver at Atlanta, Ga.
BY an explosion in a coal mine near
Paramount, W. Va, four miners were
killed.
LIE IhtECLdhOS HdIlOLoA bohh o.
Seattle, Wash, suspended.
FRANK P. HASTINGS presented to the
state department at Washington his
credentials from Hawaii as charge
d'affaires.
II was said that frost In Michigan
did over 81. 900, 900 worth of damage in
Allegan, Ottawa, Van Buren,, Barry,
Muskegon and neighboring counties.
HARMON. the professional diver,
leaped from a bridge at Winona. Mimi,
~ feet into the Mississippi river.
AFTER making a fight for two years
John b. KoetIng, the banker who
wrecked the South Side savings bank
IN Milwaukee, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to five years in prison.
A POWDER house exploded at Pinole,
Cal, killing fourteen men.
AoUANTIrY of gold bearing sand was
found in q well in the heart of Fort
Smith, Ark.
THE entire grape and peach crop of
western New York was destroyed by
frost and the fruit was damaged in
Orleans county, the great peach coun-
ty of the state. The damage was placed
at hundreds of thousands of dollars
A JoINr committee of members of the
last congress vas sitting at the capitol
to assess the personal damages sus-
tanned by clerks in the Ford's theater
disaster of June. 1893
The North Carolina democratic ex-
ecutive committee passed a resolution,
90 to l, favoring the free coinage of
silver.
VI. V. LoNGswoBTH, a leading bust
ness man of Delphos, O., eloped with
Mrs. Mona Thorp, wife Of n of his
employees
The Iowa Federation of Labor in
session at Ottumwa defeated an effort
to commit the federation to free silver
or socialism.
PAUL TAUsrIS. aged %, employed in
a local swimming school at st. Louis,
leaped from the center arch of the
Eads bridge into the Mississippi liver,
12O feet below. and was not injured.
IN the absence of their parents two
small children of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Watkins set fire TO the dwelling at
Nanticoke, Pa, and were burned TO
death.
REPORTS from the great wheat belt
of North Dakota, the Red river valley,
say that the frosts have not ruined the
Soung plant