The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30

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county, Col, which would eclipse any
thing known in the world.
The catch of the Gloucester (Mass.)
mackerel feet the past season was only
$4,000 barrels, against 10000 last year.
The post Office department has is
sued a fraud order against the United
Indemnity company of Los Angeles,
Cal. a bond investment concern.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds, of the
interior department, has decided that
where a pension has been obtained
fraudulently the attorney procuring
the pension is not entitled to the fee and
must refund it.
indianapolis was flooded with dan
gerous counterfeit t~wo-dollar bills.
They are a trifie larger than the gen.
uine, and in the portrait of Window
the eyes are larger than in the original.
The business portion of Madisonville,
Ky, was burned.
Three fishermen, m unknown,
were drowned near Harbor Springs,
Mich.
AT a meeting in New York of the Silk
Association of America the price of
twisted silk was advanced five per cent.
One hundred and twenty settlers
south of Ashland, Wis, are, by a de-
cision from the general land office, made
homeless.
The schooner Shamrock of Key West,
Fla, fcundered off St. Martins Key and
six of the crew, all colored, were lost.
The monthly output of the gold mines
at Cripple Greek, Col, was said to be
$1,000, 900.
The American cruiser Minneapolis
was ordered to sail for Smyrna, Asia
Minor, to assist in protecting the lives
ofAmerican missionaries and other sub
iects of the United States in the dis
tricts now being rayished by the Mo-
hammedan fanatics.
The annual meeting of the National
Civil Service Reform league will be held
in Washington December II and -.
Thieves broke into the post Office at
Summit, y. j., blew open the safe and
secured over $1,000 worth of stamps
and $500 in cash.
Ex-State Comptroller Edward Wem-
pie, of New York, was taken to the
Utica insane asylum. His insanity has
taken a bent toward arson.
DIR. David j.. Hill, president of the
University of Rochester, n. Y, resigned
to take effect at the close of the pres
ent college year.
The secretary of the interior issued a
requisition on the treasury for $1O,S5O,-
900 for the quarterly pension payment.
The First national bank of La Grange,
Tex, which suspended payment &C.
tober 20 last, was permitted to resume
business.
JohnTod, of Cleveland, was appointed
receiver of the New York, Pennsylva-
MIA d Ohio Railroad company.
Mrs. Theresa Fell, who was injured
by a Chicago Il Alton train, vas
awarded $1,000 damages by a jury at
bloomington, Ill.
The constitutional convention Mt Co
lumbia, S. C., made provision for the
establishment of an industrial, mechan-
ical and normal school for negroes.
After a confinement of six months
Eugene V. Debs, the president of the
American Railway union, was released
from the Jail at Woodstock, Ill.
Charles Hurd, a negro who killed Jo-
seph d. Kelley at Wartburg, Tenn, was
taken from Jail by a mob and hanged.
At the general assembly of the
knights of Labor in Washington a boy
colt was ordered against the establish
ment of Wanamaker & Brown, of Phil
adelphia, and against the beer output of
breweries controlled by the English syn
dicates in st. Louis, Pittsburgh, Omaha
and Philadelphia.
Ten business houses and one dwelling
were burned at Geneva, Ind, and Oliver
Martin was in Jail charged with having
caused the fire.
Fire that started in the Excelsior
building in Chicago, owned by Warren
Springer, destroyed property valued at
100000.
A negro accused of riding a horse
over a little white girl near Bryan, Tex,
inficting serious injuries, was lynched
by a mob, but later developments
showed that the mob got hold of the
wrong negro.
Hawley's block at Danbury, Conn.,,
was burned, the loss being 100000.
The annual report of the commission
er of internal revenue shows the re-
ceipts from different sources during the
last fiscal year were $143,246,077, n de
crease of S3,922,371 over the previous
year.
At Whitinsville, Mass, 100 Armen-
ians employed at the Whiting machine
works refused to work because the firm
would not discharge four Turks.
Atchison, Kan, was being flooded
withS 81 bills raised to $40. The specimens
were almost perfect.
Six boys who had dug a play
house in a steep embankment at Louis
vile were buried by a cave-in and How
ard Ramage and Louis Snow were
killed. The others escaped.
Christ church in Philadelphia cele-
brated its 2O0th anniversary, distin-
Cuished prelates from all over the coun-
try being present.
The schooner Edna NJ. Champion,
which sailed from Philadelphia October
12 for Port Tampa, Fla, was given up as
lost with her crew of nine men.
Mrs. Mary T. Mcmillan was found
guilty at Auburn, n. Y, of making
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