The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24

Ia 1hC OulliiuS COSI SO.OOO.OOO.
A BOAT capsized in Highland lake
near Eldred, y. Y, and three men
were drowned.
AT E~llensburg, Wash. Samuel Dim
som and his son Charles were hanged
by a mob for numbering Michael
kohloph and Joseph n. Bergman in a
saloon row.
IN New York Fred Titus made 10
miles OF a bicycle in 20:5S As, breaking
all previous records for the distance.
W. W. TAYLOR, ex-state treasurer of
South Dakota, pleaded guilty at Pierre
of emhezzling S367, 900 of the state
funds and was sentenced to five years
Imprisonment.
THE official returns for August show
that the prospective fruit crop of the
country, taken as a whole. was much
larger than for several years.
THE business part of Pikeville,
Tenn, was destroyed by fire, only n
store being left standing.
The mill and concentration of the
Katie mine at Basin, Mont, was
burned, the loss being 500, 900.
MARY c. KoRsANGE, aged 81 years,
was killed and her betrothed, Jacob
Westover, was probably fatally hurt
in n runaway at Kalamazoo, Mich.
ACCORDING to the census just COM
pleted the population of Duluth, Mimi,
is 50. 39G. a gain of %, PSI since 1890.
DURING a storm near Marshall, o.
T, Mr.. and Mrs. William House. but
lately married, were killed by light
ming.
The shops of the Colorado Midland
railroad at Colorado City, Col, were
burned. the loss being 500, 900.
T. ID. MARSHALL. member of the state
Legislature: IL. II. Coleman and Il. L.
Fox, prominent residents of Nicks-
burg. Miss, were sentenced to life i'm
prisonment for the murder Of K. L.
Dinkins in a quarrel.
As THE result of family quarrels Mrs.
William Browning, of Evansville. Ind,
shot and killed her husband and then
blew out her own brains.
Mrs. d. Ii. REYNOLDS was killed and
Mrs. :. L. Cook probably fatally hurt
by being thrown from Il buggy in Il
runaway at Albion, Ind.
Louis GIMM, Of Cleveland, O., rode
455 miles on a bicycle in "a hours, beat
ing the worlds record.
Ton Robson, of Fairbury. Ill, at the
fair grounds in bloomington ran 100
yards in 9 3-5 seconds, breaking the
worlds record.
IT was discovered hat Cinnamon
were being smuggled into New York
fr,r, II,,-a,, h. l,,,l-,l- ,--o-, |
month.
E. SHERMAN's distillery at Leaven-
worth, Kan, recently built at a cost
of S11O,OOn, was burned. No insur-
ance.
GREAT damage was done by a storm
at Chlckamauga park, near Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. Some of the finest trees
in the park were ruined.
THE town of Hindostan, Ind, was
incendiary fire.
The conference of free silver demo-
concluded its session in Washing
tom. The address to the party urges
united action to nave a white metal
declaration at the national convention
and a candidate for president nom
mated who is a free coinage man. A
plan of organization was also outlined
for states to carry u
Mrs. ELEANOR biting, who lives
near Washington, attempted to take
the lives of her seven children by |
them, but was prevented by
Mrs. Biting was partially
because of the death of her hus-
band.
EMMETT DIVERS, a negro who killed
Mrs. Cain near Fulton, Mo, a couple
Of weeks ago, was taken from Jail by a
mob and hanged to a railroad bridge.
A BICYCL railroad has been incor-
to run from San Francisco to
Cruz, 90 miles.
Mrs. NJ. II. CASE, &c years old, and
to her bed by i%nfirnities of
lge, was burned to death at her home
lear Delaware, o.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ng houses in the United States during
he week ended on the 10th aggregated
T43, 725, against S976, O32. 215 the
week. The increase. COM
Jared with the corresponding week in
.S9i, was 1870.
TwENTY-THREE men, charged with
anticipating in the recent assault upon
he cOlored people of Spring Valley,
H., and with driving them from their a,
ZONES, were arrested and held for
rial.
Tom WILBUR, aged 81 years, commit
ed suicide with a razor at Norwich,
!. y. ,
A o house near Arlington, Tenn, {
vas burned, Mrs. Callie Harrill and {
grown daughters pcrishing in the
lanes. Foul play was suspected. {
Mrs. WILLIAM HOwARTH, of Newark, {
!. j., and her brother, Joseph Shaw,
f New York, met after an enforced
]eparation Of thirty years. +
FIRE destroyed nearly the entire vii I
age of Ludlow Falls, o. :
THE notorious Bedderly brothers, 9
had long been a terror to cattle :
len on account of their bold thefts of !
attic, were lynched by a vigilance
in Buffalo County, S. D. y
THERE were 1876 business failures in y
he United States in the seven DAYS n
nded on the 10th, against 225 the week y
and 229 in the corresponding u
in 1894 !
TIE tnirtieth annual reunion of the
-otherhoOd of Locomotive engineers n
pened at Pittsburgh, Pa, with 1000 =