The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-07

IL the Montana Methodist conference
at Helena the question of admitting
| women to the general conference on
the same footing as men was decided
in favor of the women by a vote of "a
| to 4.
A TORNADO at Syracuse n. Y, de-
stroyed a large amount of property
and caused the loss of several lives
THE barn of Foxhall Keene at Lex
ipgton, Ky, was burned and his i'm
ported stallion Kallacrates, valued at
s35, 900 and the American stallion Hy-
derbad persisted in the flames.
a BOAT upset in a squall on the st.
Clair river near Marysville, Mich, and
Mrs. Michael Derufg, Frank Derufg,
her brother-in-law. and Miss Celia
Choniski and Miss Edith Connors were
drowned.
THE resurvey of the boundary line
between California and Nevada result
ed in giving California a strip of coun-
try aggregating several hundred
square miles.
TOMMY" CONSEFF, an amateur run
ner, broke the worlds record for a
mile at New York, going the distance
in 4:I5 3-5.
AT Itasca, Tex, John Brown, %
years old, cut the throat of Miss Boone,
aged 13, and then killed himself. Re-
fusal of the girls father to a marriage
was the cause.
AT the twenty-sixth triennial con-
clave in Boston of Knights Templar
w. La Rue Thomas. of Maysville, KY,
vas elected grand master, and Pitts
burgh was chosen as the meeting place
in lS9S.
FROsTs were reported atmany points
in northern Minnesota.
JAMES STEWART, the famous swim
mer, better known by the name of
Paul Webb, died in Spokane, Wash,
from injuries sustained July 4 last in
sliding down a 1900 log chute in a
barrel.
AT Central City, Col, the Americas
and Sleepy Hollow mines were acct
IDENTIFY flooded and thirteen miners
Were probably drowned.
THE Waif Savers association in ses-
sion in Detroit elected ex-Gov. R. J.
Oglesby, of Illinois, as president.
The third annual convention of the
National Spiritualists' association of
the United States and Canada will be
held at Washington October Is, 10
and Il.
AUGUST SELNOU and two sisters
named Holtzhuler were killed by the
cars at Deerfield, Wis.
JOHN SKINNER, a prominent business
man at Bloomington, Ill, died while
the funeral of his father was taking
place.
A COMPANY "A organized at Denver
to operate the first steamboat line on
the Colorado river.
For criticising the United States
courts in the mint cases IL. A. Lemon,
editor of the Carson New Tribune,
was fined $50 and sent 10 jail for ten
days.
On the Fleetwood track near New
York city Robert ]. defeated Joe
Patchen and John r. Gentry in three
straight heats, the best time being
2:O4%.
UEzEKIAH ROBERTS, a young farmer
at Butler, KY, cut his wife's throat
and then cut his own. He was sup
posed to nave been insane.
A CALL was issued for a convention
of free silver editors at Little Rock,
Ark. September :.
AT the session in Detroit of the Amer
lean Bar association Justice Brewer, of
the United States supreme court, urged
N hn++o,- aI,,ootian fAr 1au-ya-c
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 3Oth aggregated
SSs5. 551, S54, against 5000, SIS, 416 the
previous week. The increase. COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1879.
FIRE destroyed fourteen buildings,
comprising the business section of Lib
ertyville, H., the loss being 500, 900.
FOURTEEN men persisted in the mine
disaster near Central City, Col.
ALoNZoJ. WHITMAN, formerly mayor
of Duluth, Mimi, eX-member of the
Minnesota legislature, ex-banker and
millionaire, who dissipated a fortune
in a few years, was sentenced at San
Francisco to nine years Imprisonment
for forgery.
The gold mining company at Helm,
Ala, was incorporated at Chattanooga,
Tenn. with 4 capital stock of $500, 0O0.
The circuit court at Parkersburg,
". Va, in a decision held 4 doctor was
entitled to his fee whether he cured or
not.
THERE were 1S6 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 30th, against 222 the week
previous and 1856 in the corresponding
time in 1894.
AN excursion train was wrecked be-
tween Holman and Pope's, Ga, and
fifty people, among them many Pyth-
ians, were hurt. and Mrs. c. W. Han
cock and J. A. Kennedy were killed.
AT the closing meeting in Detroit of
the American Bar association More
field Story, of Massachusetts, was
elected president.
TWENTY men from PENIS Grove. y.
j., were lodged in jail at Wilmington,
Del, charged with violating the neu-
trality laws in having organized a hos
tile expedition to Gu ba.
A WOMAN named Dora Heilwagon
fatally shot her faithless lover, Henry
Boding, and her rival, Rosa Swearin-
gen, near Quincy, Ill, and made her
escape.
The firm Of Penfield Brothers