The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-26
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


THE national purity congress, COM
prising representatives of all churches
and other religious bodies and philan-
thropic associations i'll sympathy with
the objects of the congress, met in Bal
timore.
FLoRENTINA SUARTO, a Mexican, was
lynched at Colusa, Tex, for the muir
der OF H. 7. Saul, a stockman.
THE State bank at Fort Scott, Kan,
closed its doors because of the defalca-
ton of the cashier, j. R Coleman.
A PASSENGER train on the Norfolk &
Western road was wrecked by a broken
frog between Bluefield and Kenova,
W. Va, and seventy-six persons were
injured.
NEWS was received at Fort Smith,
Ark, of the assassination of Cade Mil
Ter and his wife in bed at their home
on the Oklahoma border.
Mrs. JOSEPH LANGDON. the wife of a
farmer living near Delta, O.. gave
birth to five children, all of them males.
THE total immigration in September
was Sc, 500; for September, 1894, 24,9O4;
for nine months, 1895, 249, 332: for cor
responding period of 1894. 191,4S5.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, is 100 years old,
and a four days celebration was
opened with the booming of annon
THE little village of Lorraine, Ill.
was almost wiped out by fire.
A PREHISTORIC cemetery, covering
many acres and containing thousands
uoe ,ror 1iSoovarad on unDar
Stone Lick creek near Milford, o.
For the first nine months of 1895
the excess of gold exports was S44,-
$50, 343; for the corresponding period
last year, S73, SIS, 163.
MILLIONS of bushels of fruit were
going to waste along the Ohio river
because of the close of navigation.
PRAIRIE fires were consuming large
quantities of hay and grain in North
Dakota.
THE total exports for September
were $50, 543, 443, against SIS, 79S, 675 for
last year: for the first nine months OF
1895 S557, $50. $40, against S576, 61s, 27S for
the corresponding period last year.
JEFF ELLIS, a negro charged witt
criminal assault on a white girl, was
lvnched on the spot where he com
mitted the crime, nea Braden, Tenn.
The mob, before hanging him, cut of
his fingers, toes and nose.
The tenth national encampment OF
the Union Veteran Legion Of the
United States opened in Buffalo, y. \,
JAMES SHEAKLEY, governor o.
Alaska, in his annual report to the
secretary of the interior says that the
seals are rapidly vanishing. The mum
Der of skins taken during the pas
year was 5000.
AN epidemic of what r~esembled chol
era caused sixty-three deaths in the
vicinity of Hamburg, Ark, during the
past fifteen days.
By recent frosts it was said h a l,
600, 600 bushels of potatoes had beef
ruined in northern Minnesota.
The American Bankers association
met in annual session in Atlanta, Ga.
with a large attendance.
The president and his family re
turned to Washington.
NEAR Manchester, Tenn, Eugene
Vanoy a negro, vas called out OF hi
house by a crowd of white men ant
shot to death. He was charged witt
mistreating a young white girl
THE excess of silver expectation TO
the first nine months of this year wa
$50, 6S2. 1876, against S27,9 $50, G72 for tn
corresponding period last year.
TEN THOUSAND miners in session a
Clearfield, Pa, decided on a genera
strike throughout the central ant
northern Pennsylvania ccal fields.
The Massachusetts Man Suffrage as
ISOLATION opened headquarters il Bos
ton and was preparing to make an &C
tive campaign against woman suffrag,
in municipal politics.
The Young Mems Christian associa
tions of Illinois met in t~wenty-thir'
annual state convention in Evanston.
ELvIRk BooTHMAN was granted
divorce at Evansville, Ind, from I'd
ward Boothman. She has had hus
bands, has five ex-husbands living an
has been divorced six times.
The Commercial national bank a
Tacoma, Wash, closed its doors.
THE celebration of the fiftieth ann
versary of the incorporation of Mi
waukee as a city drew an immens
crowd.
THE postal receipts OF the thIrt
leading cities of the United States &c
the third quarter o. the year 1895 wer
7,4O0, 4+9, against So, 7S3, 719 for tn
same time in 1S94, an increase Of 9.
per cent.
AT the final session of the Purit
congress in Baltimore resolutions wer
adopted that all possible efforts shoul
be made to educate public opinion an
to maintain a high moral standard 70
both men and women.
A SPECIAL bulletin issued by the d.
partment Of agriculture shows that tn
value of agricultural exports for til
fiscal year ended July 1 was $685. 15
ST, against sG2s. SOS, GSs for 1894.
PENNSYLVANIA millers will try to il
duce congress to retaliate upon foreig
nations who have Disseminated again:
American -four.