The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-02

were given up as lost on Lake Michi-
gan.
Two MEN and a boy were burned to
death by a fire which destroyed a
morocco factory in Brooklyn. n. y.
KID WRIGHT, known all over the
country as an expert counterfeiter, vas
arrested in Duluth, MINI.
GOLD was found in q creek at Marys-
vile, Ia, and the inhabitants were
much excited over the discovery.
A PETITION for a mandamus to pre-
vent collection of the income tax was
overruled in the district equity court
at Washington.
THE Peoples savings institution at
Erie, Pa, made an assignment with
liabilities of S35s, 600 and assets of $780,
O0O
MAJ. JOHN WRIGHT, of Philadelphia,
died at a Chicago hotel while on the
way to California for his health.
Ten feet of snow fell within ninety
hours in Northern California. Trains
had been held eighty hours and the
blockade would last four days longer.
THE building trades council of st
Louis adopted a new constitution
which abolishes the walking delegate,
declares hat strikes are failures, that
boycotts are un-.American, and that
arbitration is the only method in set
Ting difficulties.
a NEW bank with $50, 900 capital was
organized at Gr~eentown, Ind.
THE militia succeeded in restoring
| naono in Rrnnly1rn n onI - rraG
thought that the railway strike was
about over. Judge Gaynor granted a
mandamus compelling the Brooklyn
Heights road to run its cars.
Mrs. MARGARET MCVERNEY. of Bos-
ton. believed to be insane. drowned her
two children and after laying them out
for burial told the police.
Two HUNDRED citizens of Lorain. o.,
were rendered seriously i'll by drinking
impure water.
Z. V. DEBs and other American Rail-
way union men, released from the
Woodstock Jail, appeared in the federal
court in Chicago to answe conspiracy
charges.
NEBRASKA legislators were petitioned
to urge congress to have Papal Dele
gate Satolli deported from America.
Mrs. MARY HOOP, a widow, and her
2-year-old child were found frozen to
death in a tenement house in Indian
apolis, Ind.
Two MASKED men held up the Cotton
Belt train near Mcneil, Ark, and
robbed the express car of $3.50
ALL the single men mining coal for
the Kansas & Texas Coal company at
Ardmore, Mo-, were discharged.
THE Keats q Stanley company of
Providence, r. l., known throughout
the country as the largest manufac-
turers of jewelry and small silver nov
elites in the United States, failed for
$500. 900.
The property of the Georgia Mining
and Manufacturing company at AT
lanta, valued at $4,000, 900, was placed
in the hands of a receiver.
A SENSATION among Knights of Pyth-
las at Elwood, Ind, was caused by the
lodge there taking steps to expel all
saloonkeepers from membership at
once
THIRTY-sIX dairy cows were roasted
to death in a stable fire which occurred
just outside the city limits of Washing
ton, ID. c.
Mrs. ELIZABETH RICHARDS, aged so
years, was killed at Columbus, o., by
falling from a window.
THERE were 1863 business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the 25th, against 373 the
week previous and 400 in the CORE
spending time in 1894.
AT iddleburg, Pa, a sleighing party
collided with a train and four persons
were killed and several others injured.
MICHAEL RUDAK the 3-year-old son of
a cocker at Connellsville, Pa, died from
nicotine poisoning. His father taught
him to smoke as a family amusement.
A JURY was secured in the trial at
Chicago of Eugene V. Debs, president
of the American Railway union, on the
charge OF conspiracy.
THE governor of Nebraska has signed
the bill appropriating $4,000 for
drought sufferers. Plenty of supplies
were in sight.
PETER KUHN, a lumber dealer at De-
fance, o., failed for 500, 900.
TIE Crescent oil mill near Little
Rock, Ark. was burned, the loss being
$4,000.
SIX men were killed, six others bad
ly injured and property worth 500. 900
destroyed by a boiler explosion in a
brewery at Mendoza, Ill.
AT Bouger's Landing, near Natchez,
Miss, a tlatboat containing I'VE men, a
woman and a child capsized in a whirl-
POOL and all were drowned.
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 25th aggre-
gated S917. OO3. SIT. against S977, 500, GIG
the previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was 1913.
TIE total gold shipments for the
seven days ended on the 18th were
over S14. 900. 900, leaving tue treasury
reserve at So. GOO. 900.
DUN's review of trade says business is
depressed. owing to distrust arising
from the continued exports of gold.
WILLIAM ROBERTS. was hanged IN TIE
Jail at Rocky Mount, Va, for the muir
low of Ja,-r- Jpo rhDnr n prop,iDapt To-