The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-12

OTluRt, w., was ueStrOyeu ny ure VIII
a loss of over 500, 600.
j. A. BLowICH & Co., cloak manuiac-
turers in New York, failed for 800, 600.
MANY orchard trees in North Co
Iona, Mich, have been forced into
blossom by the heat from the forest
fires that have been burning in that
vicinity during the past few weeks.
STRATHBERRY broke the worlds rec
ord for a mile on a half-mile track,
making it in 2:O7% at Oskaloosa, Ia
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
was launched at Cramps shipyard in
Philadelphia.
The inaugural baseball game for the
Temple cup was played at Cleveland
between the Cleveland and Baltimore
clubs, and was won by the former by a
score of 5 to 4.
The wife of Patrick Carroll, a Chi
cago laborer, gave birth to foul chill
dren-two boys and two girls.
Gov. CALEB WEST, of Utah, submit
ted his last annual report to the secre-
tary of the interior. Before another
report Ear be made the territory will
become a state. The population, ac-
cording to the censu of 1895, is 247.-
1924; property valuation, s97, 942, ISL.
JOHN CZECH was executed at Jersey
City, n. j., for the murder of his wife.
STANLEY BRAINE and Mabel Olds,
prominent young people, were drowned
in Mad river at Springfield, O., while
boating.
FLAMES at Warren, R. L, destroyed
three large cotton mills, two ware
houses, small sheds, freight cars and
other property, causing a loss of over
81, 600, 900.
THE second baseball game for the
Temple cup was played at Cleveland
between the Cleveland and Baltimore
clubs, and was won by the former by a
score of : to ..
AT the Kendallville Qnd.) fair five
incendiary fires were started simulta-
neOusly among the fancy stock pad
docks and James Jackson and an I'M
known woman were burned to death.
THE constitutional convention at
Columbia, :. c., adopted a clause for
bidding the intermarriage of a white
person with any person who contains
any negro blood in his or her veins.
THE Farmers and Merchants bank
at Creighton, Mo-, made an assign
ment with liabilities of $780, 900.
Col r. f. A.. CRoFToN, commander
of the Fifteenth infantry at Fort Sher-
idan, H., was shot at by Lieut.. Pague,
who was temporarily insane, and mar
rowly escaped death.
IT was said that Secretary Oiney had
sent a dispatch to Minister Bayard in
London declaring in the most positive
language that the United States would
never consent to British occupation of
the disputed territory in Venezuela I'M
less that nations right thereto was
first determined by arbitration.
JOSEPH TIERNAN, of St. Louis, who
died September ], has been discovered
to have been short S33, 900 in his &C
counts with the Security Building and
Loan association.
DURING the past year there were
6,546 applications for divorce in Ohio
and 2,597 were granted.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during |
the week ended on the 4th aggregated
81. 1877, 0S9, TT, against 1897, 924,4 22 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was 1876.
THE sash and door factory of Rufus
r. Thomas & Co. in Philadelphia was
destroyed by fire, causing a loss of
$780, 600.
S. W. LAMOREUX, commissioner of
the general land office, in his annual
report says the total area of vacant
public land in the United States in
acres is as follows: Surveyed, 313, $751;
SSS; u~nsurveyed, 2S5, 245, 7O7.
THERE were 2O7 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 4th, against PIG the week
previous and PIG in the corresponding
time in 1894
ANOTHER big haul of Italian counter
feiters was made by the agents of the
governments secret service in New
York.
GEORGE WHITECoTToS, of Anderson,
Ind, found his daughter who was kid
mapped twelve years ago.
AT a meeting in New York of promi-
paper manufacturers d rust was i
formed with a capital of S35, 900, 900.
Mr.. PRESTON, the director of the
mint. is of the opinion that the gold
product during 1895 will show an in
crease over last year of from So ZOO, 600
to 81. 200, 900.
CHARLES BLoMBERG. eldest son of
August BlOmberg, Il prominent banker
in Rockford, ILL.,, left New York on a
wager of 5000 that he can walk
the world in 2O1 days. |;
MAJ. GEN. RUGER assumed command
the military department of the east.
headquarters at Governors is
L
MINISTER CASTLE, the new diplomatic
representative of Hawaii to the United
arrived in Washington.
THREE men were arrested at Hills {
boro, Tex. for participating in a glove
fight after the passage of the new law.
AT the Episcopal triennial v {
ton in Minneapolis a resolution was t
complimenting the governor {
and legislature of Texas on the prize 5
fighting question. I
W. +. HEARST, publisher of the San +
Francisco Examiner, purchased the
York Morning Journal. !
The school board at Lima, O., issued e
IN order prohibiting the use of tobacco
cigarettes among pupils, many c