The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-13
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

crease during the year of S33,517,337.
The excess of government expendi-
lures over receipts during the fiscal
year was shown to have been $40, s25,-
O49. The cash in the treasury was
Sl95, 24O, 1913.
A TORNADO near Waynesburg, Pa,
wrecked a Methodist church and sew
eral houses and greatly damaged crops.
FORTY miles East of Guthrie, o. T.,
farmers caught twO strangers riding
stolen horses, aud, as horses had been
stolen nightly for some time, they
hanged the men.
CLAY PUGH was hanged at Boulder,
Mont, for the murder of Chauncey w.
West.
DIR. ROBERT W. BUCHANAN, of New
York, who poisoned his second wife
that he might be free to remarry his
first, was e~lectrocuted at Sing Sing
prison.
AT Jacksonville, Ind, Mrs. Nancy
Bennett poisoned her two children,
Lottie May, aged IL years, and Omer,
aged 6 years, and then poisoned her
self. Mr.. Bennett ended his life in the
same name on September II, 1893.
THE Maine worlds fair building,
which has been reconstructed at Poland
Springs, Me-, was dedicated on the
Tooth anniversary of the settlement OF
the town.
VALUABLE nickel ore lodges WEI
found at the head of Indian river il
Alaska.
WILLIE MYERS, aged 10, of Atlanta
Ga, was sentenced for the second time
to be hanged for the murder of Forest
Crowley.
JOHN RHODES and Chat Hammond
were shot to death by Abithal Colstor
in Trigg county, KY, and soon after
the bodies of Colston and Mollie Smith
his mistress, We're found in the road
riddled with buckshot.
THE coinage executed at the several
mints of the United States during
June is as follows: Gold, SI,750,0 600
silver, S44O, Oh; minor coins, 81, 200
Total, 81. FOL, pa.
GEORGE SHEPPARD, of McKeesport
Pa, retired in good health, and wher
ne arose III lHS LAOTulLS lac was OCd
and dumb.
The cruiser Olympia on a trial triE
at San Francisco demonstrated tina
she is one of the w%orthiest of her clas
in the feet comprising the United
States navy.
The Nicholson temperance act be
came a law in Indiana. 1t places al
saloons on the ground floor, abolishe
all musical features and separates tn,
saloon from any other business
THE visible supply of grain in thu
United States on the ID was: Wheat
4,561, 900 bushels; corn. 9,O55, 600 bush
els; oats, 7,01s, 900 bushels; rye, LAG,
600 bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels
EDWARD BRYAN, his wife and 3-year
old child were struck by lightning ant
instantly killed while sitting in thei
home at Littleville, Ala.
THE boiler in the roller mills at How
ard, S. D., exploded, killing o. P
Walker, the engineer, and injuring fy'
other people, three probably fatally.
THE safe in the county treasurer
office at Harrisburg, Ark, was robbed
of So, 400.
By the upsetting Of a boat on LAX,
Chautaugua at jamestown, n. Y.
John Swanstrom and two girls named
Hedwlck Lawson and Christine Hege
len were drowned.
EIGHT years with hard labor in tn,
Albany ~penitentiary was the sentenc,
imposed by Judge McComas in Wash
ington upon Capt Henry W. Howgate
charged with forgery and classification
of accounts while disbursing clerk o
the signal service bureau.
THE third annual convention of tn,
Intercollegiate Prohibition association
met at Cleveland, O..
THE seventeenth annual convention
of the Music Teachers National asso
citation met in st. Louis.
Isaac BREWER, an eccentric farme
at Poplar Valley, n. Y, and his wifi
separated for the fo~rty-second time.
G.. c. KING was executed at Rusk
Tex, for murder.
The Exchange bank of Sturgeon
Mo, closed its doors.
THREE children of Archdelus Cooks
Rockhouse. KY, were poisoned by eat
ing mulberries that contained spide
eggs. All died.
OFFICIAL figures compiled at the pos
Office department show the total mum
Der of stamps of all kinds issued t
post offices during the fiscal year jus
closed was 2,s23, 900, 900, valued at S65,
SS5,4ls. The amount is an increase IL
valuation of 81, 900, 900 over last year
The total value of envelopes issued t
post offices was 81, 036,O Dc and @
postal cards 81, 96S. 161.
THE Southern Pacific overland north
bound train was stopped by three high
waymen near Riddles, Ore, and tn
passengers robbed of over $4,000. TIL
mail car was also rihed.
MARSHALL E. PRICE, who assaults
and then murdered Sallie Dean at Der
ton, Md. in March last, "a take
from the Jail in that place by a mo-
and hanged to a tree.
E. o. SANDERS killed his young brid
and himself at Dallas. Tex. Jealous
was the cause.
PROF. MARX w. HARRINGTON, chic
of the weather bureau, was relieves
from duty, owing to a disagreement
with Secretary Morton.
INDEPENDENCE day was celebrated a.
over the United States.
Bob F~IrzsrMMoNs, the pugilist, d
trial at Syracuse, n. Y, on the charg
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