The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-10

i the livery barn of NJ. A. Donbarg at
Wells, Mimi, destroyed property worth
$4,000 and cremated thirty horses.
DEAD fish by the million were float
ing down the Missouri river, some
weighing as much as four pounds.
THOUSANDS of bushels of peaches and
apples will be lost in the vicinity of
West Plains, Mo-, for the want Of
means to take care of them.
A CLoUDBURsT at Adelaide, Col, de-
stroyed property and killed three per-
sons.
CHARLES E. COLE set $1,000 ems in
seven hours and fifty-four minutes on
a Mergenthaler nonpareil machine at
Cincinnati, beating the worlds record
of 60, 400 ems, set by a Denver printer
named Taylor.
HAYWOOD. a pleasure resort in Michi-
gan, was destroyed by a forest fire.
FARMHOUsEs and crops were entirely
swept away near Socorro, n. NJ, by a
cloudburst and seven persons were
killed. The property loss was over
81. OOQ, 900.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed that the debt increased
S3S, ABS, 1898 during the month of July.
The cash balance in the treasury was
S1s7, 149, $50. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to 81, 127, 25S, 435.
The Colorado City State bank at Col
orado Springs, Col, closed its doors.
THE Standard Wagon company in
Cincinnati assigned with assets of
$500, 600 and liabilities of S4OO, OO0. The
Davis Carriage company was carried
down by the failure with assets of
$50. 900, and liabilities of $500. 600.
Four business blocks were destroyed
by fire at Lima, o., the loss being
500, 900.
The monthly statement prepared by
the director Of the mint shows that
during July the total coinage of the
United States minis amounted to
So. 30, 500, as follows: Gold, 100000;
silver. ser, 900; minor coins. SIS, 800.
WILLIAM HoGAN's residence at
Marion, o., was destroyed by fire aud
Mrs. Hogan and her son Frank were
fatally burned.
\ STATEMENT prepared by the comp
troller of the currency shows the
| amount of national bank notes out
standing July 81 to have been S2l1,-
PSI, COS. an increase for the year of
So. $50. 419. The amount of circulation
based on United States bonds was
SlS6. Stab, an increase for the year of
S5.52l, 499.
GEORGE PERKINS aged A., who until
a year ago had been the leading edi-
torial writer on the Cincinnati En-
quirer, was found dead in his room in
hat city.
a wATERsPOUT and hailstorm visited
H~ardscrabble, Col, and completely de-
stroved farms and orchards.
FIRE among shipping in New York
caused a loss of S15O,OO0.
ROBERT j., the king Of the light har-
ness PAGERS, was defeated at Cleveland,
O., by Joe Patchin, the average time
for the four heats being 2:O434, the
fastest race ever paced.
Bishop PHELAN, of the Roman Cath
Ole diocese of Pittsburgh, Pa, issued
peremptory orders to the clergy to pro-
hibit round dances by Catholics in hal
diocese.
The receipts of the government dur
ing the month of July were SEQ, O69 ,697,
against S24, 500, 339 for July, 1894, dis
bursements, s3s, 54S, O63, against $780,
Gas, $50 for July, 1894.
BY the breaking of a cable at the
''chutes' in Chicago twenty persons
| plunged with terrific velocity in a run
away car down a 25O-foot incline and
thirteen were injured, one fatally.
MAYOR STARKwEATHER, of West
Superior, Wis, was ~impeached by the
common council on a charge of extort-
ing money from policemen and fire.
men.
REAME's tobacco warehouse and opera
house, A Max. and Ellis e Stones dry
goods stores and several other business
| houses at Durham, n. c., were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 500, 900.
DURING July the total ore shipments
from Duluth, Mimi, were $50, l4S tons,
the largest on record.
THIRTY ~life-saving stations on Long
| Island we're opened a month earlier
than usual.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the I'd aggregated
S915, s47, 6s9, against S726, Cos, go the
previous week. The increase. COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1S.6.
PAPERS were signed at Pittsburgh
which increase the wages of 100, 900
miners in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois and put a stop to the con-
templated strike.
THE Indian scare in Wyoming was
said to be at an end.
THERE were pol business failures in
| the United States in the seven days
ended on the I'd, against ZOE the week
previous and 23O in the corresponding
time in 1894.
IT was feared that 100 residents Of
Beaver island. located in Green bay, at
the entrance of the straits of Mack
inaw, had been burned to death in the
forest Tres which had desolated the
entire island during the last few days.
LEE THOMAS was hanged at Corsi-
cana, Tex, for the murder of ]. NJ.
Farley. The murder was the result of
a game of cards.
The Coulterville stage was held up 6
miles from Mercer. Col, by a masked
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