The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13

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entered, against 1886 for the year
1898.
A TRAIN on the Rock Island road was
held up by bandits neal Dover, O. T.,
and the passengers were robbed of their
valuables.
WILLIAM NOLAN, confidential book
keeper of the Park Avenue hotel in
New York, disappeared with $4,000 of
the hotels cash.
REPORTS from the tier of counties
comprising the Michigan fruit belt in
dictate a phenomenal fruit crop this
year.
1T is expected by government officials
that at least 500, 000, 900 in income tax
will have been collected by June l, the
close of the fiscal year.
The First national bank of Dublin,
Tex, was closed by the bank examiner.
WILLIAM LAKE was executed by cleo
tricity at Auburn, n. Y, for the muir
der of Emma Louisa Hunt. a fellow
servant who had refused his attentions.
AT Coldwater, Miss. Thomas Jones,
a sick man. asked for a cup Of coffee,
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skillet.
THE Southern Pacific Railway COM
pany transferred all its property to the
Central Trust company of New York,
the consideration being $50, 900, 900.
AN explosion in a saloon in New Or
leans killed fifteen persons and others
were injured. 1t was supposed to be a
Malta case.
The annual convention of the Amer
lean College Republican league ON
menced at Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Cleveland World has been sold
to Robert p. Porter, formerly supcrin-
tendent of the census, for $50, 900.
The sugar trust issued orders to job
bers to stop selling foreign sugar.
THE Illinois supreme court says that
the law authorizing the destruction of
gambling implements seized under the
authority of a search warrant is con
stitutional.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 5th aggregated
S1,013. III, ass, against SssS, 359, AGA, the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was SO.
THE sixty-ifth annual conference of
the Mormon churches convened in the
tabernacle at Salt Lake City.
A MAN who registered as Frank
Robin. South Haven, Mich, and a
wonan with him, whose name was not
known, committed suicide in a hotel at
Kalamazoo, Mich.
CARLO EyRICo RITA, of San Francis
co, was married to Miss Wolfe, and
soon after the ceremony Rita shot and
killed his bride and then killed him
self.
TRAIN wreckers placed a tie on the
east-bound Erie track between Niles
and Girard, O., but it was discovered
by the engineer of the west-bound
train in time to prevent an accident.
IT wasreportedt that the supreme court
at Washington had decided that all in
comes derived from rents were exempt
ed from taxation by the federal govern
ment and allincomes derived from state
and municipal bonds were similarly *
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tax law stands as it was passed last
August, but Chief Justice Fuller and
Justices Field, Gray and Brewer were
opposed to the law in toto.
THERE were 200 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 5th, against pa the
week previous and 1o9 in the CORE
spending time in 1894.
RICHARD GATES (colored) was hanged
at La Grange, Ga., for the murder OF
Lee Sledge, another negro, in a jealous
frenzy, and Jerry Jeffreys (colored)
was executed at Quitman, Ga, for
killing officer Tip Moulden.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked near
Alton, H., and Charles Bell, Henry
Blitz, Frank Harrison and David
Hefhey were killed and fourteen other
persons were injured.
The City national bank Of Fort
Worth, Tex, closed its doors.
TIE schooner Mildred V. Lee, one of
the vessels of the Gloucester Mass
fishing fleet, with a crew of sixteen
men, was lost off Sable island.
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Whigville, O., and Eli Lucas, Henry
Brown and Mrs. Nathan Young and
her daughter were killed and several
others were injured.
JACK SINS, an Oklahoma desperate
killed by citizens of Cushing while
terrorizing the town.
PRESIDENT CLAYTON, of the National
farmers congress, says the next ses-
sion will be held in Denver.
INVESTIGATION shows that the United
States are protecting Canadian sealers
at a cost of S1O7 for each skin.
ADvICEs received in Washington say
that if Great Britain resorts to force !
all of the Central American republics
will tender their services to Nicaragua.
DEFINITE information reached New
York of the formation of an extensive
pool in France to control the coffee
market.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
IN the Michigan election the repub-
licans carried the state by Il, 1000 ma
ioritv, electing Joseph B. Moore su- |