The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-31

II prlnclpal business portion OF
State Center, Ia, was burned, pre-
sumably by parties who were robbing
a clothing store.
A MOB took Noah Anderson (colored)
from the Jail at NewRichmond. O., and
hanged him for the murder of Frank
lin Friedman, nearly so years old and
president of the First national bank of
that place.
THE sealing schooner George R.
White, which sailed from Seattle,
Wash. with fourteen men on July II,
1894, was given up for lost
JUSTICE Brown has been assigned to
the Sixth circuit to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of the late Justice
jackson.
JOHN STRAUSS shot and killed VIII
Gilbert and James Owens, brothers-in-
law, Keystone, W. Va. A family
feud was the cause.
THE six directors of the American
Railway union, except EugeneV. Debs,
were released from the Jail at Wood
stock, ILL.,, having served 4 three
months sentence for contempt of
court. Debs has three months more to
serve.
JESSIE IsBoRG, crazed by religion,
fatally wounded his landlady at Pine
Bluff, Ark, and killed himself.
Mrs. WILLIAM MCGUIRE and James
Brown, brother and sister, were re-
united at Nevada, Mo-, after a twenty
years search for each other.
AT the Washington park track in
Chicago Joe Patchen and John R. Gen
try raced for the worlds pacing cham
pionship, the former winning in three
straight heats, the mile heats being
paced in 2:O54, 2:O7L and 2:O74 re-
spectively.
THE corn, hay and fruit crops of Vir-
ginia are the largest for ten years.
CHARLES r. BISHOP, of San Fran
cisco, first vice president of the Bank
of California, has contributed $780, 600
to schools and societies in the Ha-
waiian islands.
THE expenditures of the government
for the first t~wo-thirds of the present
month exceeded the receipts by 81, OO9,-
293.
THE Society of American Florists, in
session at Pittsburgh, Pa, elected Will
liam Scott, of Buffalo, president.
DE-. l.. +. CARTER, of Boston, and
Miss Foster and Miss Flora, of New
York, were drowned near Ellsworth,
Me-, by the overturning of a boat
RAILWAY men announced that it
would require two years to move the
Iowa and Kansas cor crops.
EIGHT THOUSAND cloak makers were
on a strike in New York city for higher
wages.
A HEAVY frost, destructive to crops
and fruit, visited Susquehanna, Pa. At
Gulf Summit ice formed to a consider
able thickness.
FIRE that started in the warehouse
of the Union Steamboat company
burned over a dozen blocks in Mllwau-
kee and destroyed property worth
$3.50, 600.
The Grand Union hotel at Congers,
n. Y, burned with its contents. The
guests lost all their baggage.
SEVERE frosts occurred in the vicinity
of Warren, o.
THERE were 222 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 23d, against 1876 the week
previous and 234 in the corresponding
time in 1894.
A MASKED mob went to the jail at
Monticello, Ark, broke down the door,
secured Jim Jones, a negro charged
with murder, and hanged him.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 23d aggregated
5000, SIS, 416, against ss73, 743, 725 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 10.7.
FIRE at Shelbyville, Ind, destroyed
Conroy, Bierlv & Co.'S table factory,
the largest of its kind in the world.
Gov. CULBERTsoN announced for the
second time that no prize fighting
would be allowed in Texas while he
was governor.
A CIRCULAR signed by every presid-
ing elder of the Methodist church of
Ohio has been sent to the members of
that denomination throughout the
state calling for united political action
on the part of all Methodists in an eff
fort to elect to the next legislature as
many members as possible who will
fight the saloons.
THE returns of internal revenue re-
ceipts for July, the first month of the
current fiscal year, show that the total
receipts were SI3, $40, 663, a decrease as
compared with July, 1894, of Sl1, 979. 231.
The first national bank of Franklin,
O., closed its doors with liabilities of
S17O, 600.
FIRE destroyed the tannery COM
pany's extensive buildings at ~Irvona,
Pa, the loss being 500, 600.
JOHN T. JONES, James Heney and
Henry Piper were indicted at Carson,
New. for the mint shortage discovered
last April.
OWING to the low price of horses in
cident to the general use of bicycles
and electric power, large shipments of
horses were being made from Balti-
more t o European markets
The hotel at Air Line Junction, O., was
burned, and Timothy McCarty, of Hills
dale. Mich, and W. other men per-
ished in the flames.
By a fall of slate in the Algoma CIV.
Val coal mine three men were killed
and three others were fatally injured.
THE whole south side of the square
at 0sceola, Neb., was burned, with the