The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-31
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC

18th caused a total loss of So go, 900
throughout the country, as compared
with So, 102, 900 for the previous week.
FURTHER advices place the number
of dead and missing by the fire in the
Gumry hotel at Denver at twenty-five.
ARTHUR BUTLER and his brother
Walter and Florence Willard and
Thomas Walsh were drowned in the
lake in Chicago while bathing.
EXPERTS reported that the accounts
of ex-County Treasurer VI. W. Stewart,
short S33. SS5.
HEAVY marsh fires were reported in
Palmyra, Hebron and Cold Spring
townships, Mich. Fires were running
under the sod, destroying thousands of
acres of meadows.
THE main part of Bingham, Z. T.,
was burned, the loss being estimated
at $500, 900. Thousands of people were
homeless.
The business district of Camden,
Mich, was almost wholly destroyed by
fire.
WILLIAM BLANCHARD, a prominent
farmer of Prairie City, Ill, having sep
arated from his wife, went to where
she was living and shot her dead and
then killed himself.
Mrs. J.. LONG, living near Madison,
Mo-, hanged her +-year-old child and
herself. Separation from her husband
was the cause.
AN explosion at furnace II of the
Carnegie Steel company at Braddock,
Pa, killed six men, fatally injured five
more, seriously burned fifteen others
and destroyed $50, OOO worth of prop
erty.
The tw~enty-eighth annual Peace
union opened at Mystic, Conn, and
would continue tour days.
FIELD and forest fires were doing
great damage in many parts of south
eastern Michigan, and farmers were
engaged night and day in efforts to
save their buildings from destruction.
A STEAM yacht foundered in Lake
Erie at Buffalo and seven men were
drowned.
The Pullman company has discon-
tinued the sale of wines and liquors in
its cars in Wyoming rather than take
a state license.
A RAT war prevailed among retail
druggists of Kansas City which was
demoralizing the trade.
JOHN WEsTER HARDIN, the terror of
the Mexican border. was shot and
killed in a saloon at Ell Paso, Tex, by
Constable Sellman.
A. j. LUsK, who while cas- hier of the
First national bank of Wichita, Kan,
two years age was accused of stealing
$50, 600, was captured near Portland,
Ore.
Four men held up a Chicago & West
Michigan express passenger train near
Fennville, Mich, but got only seven
dollars and two silver watches.
The Buffalo IN. " driving park, the
mother track of the grand circuit,
which recently closed its thirtieth an
nual meeting, is to be closed up and
pass out of existence as a race track.
FOUR carpenters endeavored to ex-
tinguish a fire on a burning bridge near
Ceur d'Alene, Wash, but the flames
cut off their retreat and all four had to
jump into a chasm 136 feet deep and
were dashed to pieces.
The entire Salvation Army corps at
Madison, Wis, were arrested for hold
ing meetings in the street.
DIRECTORS of the Atlanta exposition
have decided to prevent the Mexican
village commissioners from holding a
bull fight during the exposition.
THE wife of Joseph Layden, of Nal.
den, ". Va, presented him with her
twenty-eighth child. Mr.. Layden is "a
years old and his wife 50 years of age.
An earthquake shock was felt at
Maysville, Ky, and vicinity which
scared people out of their houses.
Clocks were stopped, dishes were rat.
tied and tableware toppled w
THE Peoples Savings and Loan asso-
citation of Minneapolis made an assign
ment with liabilities of SITS, 900.
JOHN DARLING, of Bound Brook. n.
j., murdered his friend, Henry Dun.
ham, of HornelIsville, n. Y, in New.
market, n. j., and escaped on a BIZ
cycle.
IT was said hat Ainsworth B. Spot.
ford, librarian of congress, was short
S35. 600 in his accounts.
IT was stated at the treasury depart.
ment in Washington that the long-de-
laved worlds fair medals would be
ready for delivery early in September.
The Coliseum, the gigantic amuse-
meut building in Chicago, fell with a
crash. 1t was within a week of its
final completion. The loss was S125,-
600.
JOSEPH KNEELAND, an inventor OF
valuable paper machines, was run
over by a train and killed at North
ampton. Mass.
r. j. HINCHCLIFF, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
coughed up a silver dime which had
been imbedded in his windpipe for two
years.
The New York produce exchange
estimated the corr crop this year at
2,425, 900, coo bushels.
THE sealing schooner Walter Earle
was reported to have sunk off Kodak
island, Wash, and her crew of eighteen
persons we're drowned.
GEORGE S. MONTGOMERY, of Oakland,
Cal, a millionaire member of the Sal
walton Army, was organizing an expe-
dition to invade Japan and Christian
ize the inhabitants.
The National Christian union con-
vened at CoiumbuS q in animal Ses-