The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-02

TAI III dJ Dilull. i
made an assignment because of the
fight of the cashier with SIS, 900 of the
hanks money.
A SUCCESSFUL test of towing canal
boats by electricity was made at Buff
falo. n. Y.
Gov. THORNTON. of New Mexico, in
his annual report says that the popula-
ton during the year has not materially
increased. The total bonded indebted
ness of the territory upt to July %, 1895,
was 1907. 500.
THE business portion of Fairchild,
Wis, was wiped out by what was be-
lieved to have been an ~incendiary fire.
The loss was 5000. 600.
JOHN S. JOHNSON lowered the bicycle
record for a mile with a flying start at
Louisville. KY, to 1:44 Is.
PISTOLS were used to settle a quarrel
at Uniontown. Fla, between City Mar
shall Robert Britton and V. 5. Metz
ger, a merchant and both were fatally
wounded
FRANCIS MARION, for twenty-nine
years editor of the Kentucky Register,
dropped dead at his home in Richmond,
XIV.
CLoUGH Bros. a lumber firm. and
David NJ. Clough. governor of Mime
sofa. failed at Minneapolis for s175, 600.
THE old Seven Stars tavern in East
Vincent township, Pa, was burned. 1t
was built long before the revolution
and was Gen. W~ashington's headquar-
tiers.
THE Swinney bank at Ash Grove,
Mo-. closed its doors because of poor
business.
THE First National bank of Yelling
ton, Kan, closed its doors, with liabili-
ties of $50, 900.
THE Crescent Linseed Oil company's
works in Chicago were burned. the loss
being 100000.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and his party
of cabinet officials arrived at Atlanta,
Ga, and were warmly greeted.
KERR CRAIG. third assistant postmaster
general. in his annual report for the
past fiscal year shows that postal rev.
enueS from all sources were SIC, 9S3, 12S,
the expenditures being $50. 100, LIZ, an
excess over receipts of 50, SO7, O4+.
THE children of William Burmeister,
consisting of Lena, aged 10 years, Will
liam. Otto and Gustav, were killed by
an unknown a al their home near
Tower. n. d., during the absence of
their parents
THE second annual convention of the
National Association OF Agricultural
Implement and Vehicle Manufacturers
began in Chicago.
AT the national meeting in Baltimore
Miss Frances Willard was elected pres
ident of the W. C. I. U. for the fifteenth
time.
REV. A. j. POTTER, known through
out Texas as the lighting preacher"
on account of the fearlessness of his
life on the frontier, dropped dead in his
pulpit at Lockhart.
FOURTEEN business blocks were de-
stroyed by fire at Alta, Ia, causing a
loss of 500. 900.
Four business buildings were burned
at Madison, Mimi, the loss being $780,
600.
NEAR Mount Gilead, o., Christopher
hitler shot his wife fatally and then
committed suicide by hanging. He
ha l pcen adjudgedinsane, but relatives
kept him from going to an ASYLUM.
The gelding Frank Agan defeated
Robert j., John K. Gentry and Joe
Patchen in a pacing race at Louisville,
KY. his best time being 2:052.
TIE twenty-ninth annual meeting of
the American Missionary association,
which is devoted primarily to mission
work among the negroes, Indians and
Chinese in America, commenced in De
troit. Mich.
BosroN has been made the headquar.
tiers of the National Advisory Council OF
the A. p. 4.
AT Phillipsburg, Pa, $4,000 men were
involved in the miners strike.
At the closing session in Baltimore
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
union resolutions were adopted admit
ting Catholic and Hebrew women rs
delegates. Banners were presented to
several state unions which showed
was a feast of music.
The Arkansas supreme court sus-
tanned the prize fight law and Corbett
was remanded back to the custody OF
the sheriff of Garland COUNTY.
The official count of the population of
Minnesota by counties shows 1,574,910,
an increase of 273,OS4 over the oun of
1890.
The total collections OF internal rev.
enIe during the first three months o.
the present fiscal year were , 7,144,47S,
against $5S,045, los for the same period
last ear.
Near Cairo, ILL.,. Mrs. Rousch hanged
hcr :-year-old daughter and herself be-
cause of poverty.
Rev. William Gordon, 81 years old, OF
Michigan City, Ind, who was visiting
his daughter al Worcester, Mass.
dropped dead while attending a prayer
meeting.
Engineer George O'Neill, Fireman c
L. L~uidamood and Brakeman Frank
Houston were killed in a freight wreck
near Max Meadows, Va.
Jack Henderson, a farm laborer who
attempted to assault the wife of his EN-.
ployer, James Allen, at Vinegar Bend. |
Ala. was hanged by a mob.
\ large mound on the farm of Henry
7. Niles near Toledo, o.. was opened and
twenty skeletons, all in a sitting pos