The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-20

q socis1 session Of the National Lodge
Of E1ks, resulted in the death of one
mar and injuries more or less severe to
200 other persons.
TIE wife and child OF Dr.. 7. J. Henry.
OF Apollo, Pa, were run over by a
freight train and instantly killed
As a result of the foods in Kansas
500 people were driven from their
homes in Sslina alone The valley of
the Smoky river was desolated beyond
description Hundreds of farmers and
their families had to fee for their
lives and crops were destroyed and
buildings were washed away.
MARY and Della Arlington. of Ire
dell, Tex. attemptedto ford the Bosque
river, but their cart was overturned
and both were drowned.
FIRE destroyed the entire business
portion Of the village of Bankers, NY.
Ex-PREsIpENT LUIS BoGRAN, of Hon
duras, died at Guatemala, aged 40
years
SEVERE earthquake shocks occurred
in the Caspian and Ural districts of
Russia and many houses were de-
stroyed at Usunada, Astrachan and
Krasnovodsk.
GEORGE MONTAGUE & Co and 7. A
Hibbard & Co., Chicago grain dealers,
failed
ALEXANDER SIMNs tcolored) was
hanged at Jacksonville, Fla, for the
murder of Policeman Ed Minor on
April 2 last
Gov. UPHAM appointed Judge Charles
Webb, of the Eighth judicial district,
to I'LL the vacancy on the supreme
bench of Wisconsin caused by the
death of Chief Justice orion.
GEORGE E RIPPEr. aged z years, John
Keegan, aged 6, and John McGuil,
aged S, were drowned at Slatersville,
3 l., while fishing.
FIFTEEN of the finest buildings ct
Clayton, n. Y, were burned, the loss
being 100000.
The insurance men of Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho completed an organi-
zation at Portland to be called the
Northwest Insurance association
DANIEL AcKERNAN, a resident of
Smith Mills, n. j., stabbed his wife
and himself fatally with his pocket
knife.
n. C. DoUeHERrY, of Peoria. Ill, was
elected president of the National Edu-
cstional association at the annual
meeting in Denver.
THE Canton stoneware plant at Cam
ton, O., was destroyed by fire. Loss,
500, coo.
ALFRED B. CLINE completed his walk
from Denver. Col, to Detroit, Mich.
Cline left Denver May l, having
wagered 81, 500 that he would walk 10
Detroit in seventy-two days without a
cent of money.
The exports of provisions during
| June amounted to S11, 1884, 67, a loss
for the month of about Sc. $50, 600. For
the entire year the exports Of pro-
| visions amounted to s159. l69, AS, q loss
of about SIS, OO0, 900.
THE business portion of Williams,
| A. T., was burned by i~ncendiaries-
JOHN HocH, an ex-convict, killed
Minnie I~ngersol, aged 16, fatally shot
| n. P. Strife and shot himself at Chapel
Hill, n. Y. Minnie refused to receive
his attentions
ELIZABETH MOBILES and Gus FAMILIES
were convicted of the murder of the
woman's husband at Jacksonville, Ga.
The woman paid $40 to Families for the
job.
FOREST fires in Michigan wiped out
| the villages of Wsllin and Clary. and
many country houses north of Petos-
key were burned and the crops ruined.
LENA GRoH and Stella Schlaudecker
were run down and killed at Cleveland
by an electric motor.
THE. receipts at the United States
treasury thus far this month aggregate
| $40, $40, 900 and the expenditures sea-
31s, 900, making the deficit sl2, 33s, 600.
OwISe to improved business and big
! crops all the western railroads were
putting On more men.
Ar the annual meeting in Saratoga
| of the New York State Bankers asso-
| citation resolutions were adopted OPP
posing the free coinage of silver.
The new city directory of New York
contains 800. 12s names. an increase
from last year of 11,717.
The exchanges 1T the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 12th aggregated
81, I46, 243, COG. against s975, 994, sA the
! previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 29.5.
A I r among business houses at 0s-
ceola, Ia, caused q loss of s135, 900.
THE formation of the Worlds Chris
tan Endeayor union. to meet trien-
nially, was the chief business event of
importance at the Christian Endeavor
meeting in Boston on the 18th
THERE were ESQ business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 12th, against 25s the week
previous and e47 in the corresponding
time in 1894.
w. d. BENDER, of Cincinnati, while
insane burned up $4,000 in cash and
S13,2 in United States bonds
A. NJ. KENNEDY. IL years old, died in
Morris county, Kan, after a fast of
sixty-eight days His tongue, lips and
hroat were paralyzed.
APEAR tree loaded with apples is a
| freak Of nature that a be witnessed
on a farm neal Sailor Springs, Ill
Mrs. j. DEBAY, of Annawan. Ill. in
a GRAVY At killed her two children.