The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

MATTE FREEEAN, the 11-year-old
contract wife of Philander Freeman,
81 years old, shot herself dead at
Springfield, Nc.
WINDOW glass manufacturers of the
United States will meet at Pittsburgh
and form a trust
A SHORTAGE of 100000 was reported
In the United States mint at Carson
New.
Gov. SHELDON announced that for
the period of one year the importation
of Texas cattle into South Dakota
would be forbidden.
BECAUSE of an error of an enrolling
clerk of the Indiana senate Gov Mat
thews signed a bill which had not been
passed.
News reached Key West, Fla, that
the American schooner Irene was fred
into and dismasted by the Spanish
cruiser ~Infanta Isabel.
THE National bank of Kansas City
suspended with liabilities of S1,o50, 600
and assets of 81, $50, 600.
Mrs. NJ. E. HoLroN, living alone on
a ranch near Butte, Neb., was out
ragged and then lynched. Cattle rust
lers were suspected of committing the
crime.
A NEGRO shot two brothers named
P%attingim at New Orleans, killing one
and fatally wounding the other.
MEMBERS of Nat Sebastian's pedes-
trian theatrical company left st. Louis
for their long tramp across the coun-
try to New York city. Sebastian bets
$1,000 that the company can travel to
New York by foot in 1Os days, without
hotel accommodations, and earn 90, 500
en- route.
FINAL papers consolidating the en-
tire coal interests of all Ohio operators
and carriers were signed at Columbus.
II. A MCCoMBER shot and killed
and then killed himself. The trouble
occurred over a debt of 500 Farmer
owed McComber.
THE steamship Horsa with 200 col
ored emigrants for Liberia sailed from
Savannah, Ga.
A COMBINATION of all the window
glass interests of the country under
the name of the National Association
of Window Glass Manufacturers was
formed at Pittsburgh with a capital of
SOS, 600, 600.
RECEIVERS were appointed at st.
Paul for the Walter A. Wood Harvest
ing company.
CONFIRMATION was received of the re-
ported sinking of the American schoon-
er Irene by the Spanish warship Infan-
ia Isabella.
The safe in the postofice at Camden,
Ala, was blown and robbed of between
$500 and $4,000.
BEN and Allen Pringle and James
Britton had a hostile meeting near Ke-
waunee. Miss. The brothers were
killed and Britton fatally wounded.
ONE suicide a day during the present
year, s~eventy-eight in all, is the record
for Chicago.
DANIEL DAWSON, Robert Holman and
James Holman, negroes suspected of
barn-burning, were lynched by a mob
at Tyler, Ala.
CHRISTIAN science healers at Day
ton, O., were arrested charged with
having caused the death of a child by
neglect.
INDICTMENTS were returned against
ten police officials of New York city
and they were under heavy bonds.
A STATEMENT prepared by the COM
missioner of internal revenue shows
government receipts during the eight
months of the present fiscal year of
500. $50, 466.
The Pioneer lumber mills, Baldwin
refrigerator works and Vermont Roller
Shade company shops were burned at
Burlington, VT, the loss being $780, 900.
The explosion of a sawmill boiler
near Eight-Mile Creek, Tex, killed six
persons and MANNED as many more.
ALFRED d. TINsLEY, rejected by the
senate, was again appointed postmas-
ter at Sioux Falls, 5. ID.
CABINET officials believe that the
United States should protect Ven
ezuela from oppression by foreign
countries.
JOHN GARGUs and his wife, OF Buffalo
Island. Ark, were killed while asleep
by robbers, their baby lying between
them being uninjured.
IT was reported that Secretary Gresh-
am had demanded the recall of L. A.
Thurston, the Hawaiian minister at
Washington. Thurston is charged with
undiplonatic conduct.
The Michigan senate passed a bill
prohibiting publishers from mailing
their publications to subscribers after
subscriptions have expired.
SABINs MAIN and Miss SarahJ. Simp-
son were married at Phillippi, ". Va.
after a courtship OF thirty-two years.
THE United States authorities de-
cided to take a firm stand against inter
ference in Venezuela.
Mrs. MARY Z. LEASE declined the
populist nomination for mayor of
Wichita, Kan.
RELIABLE reports are that the peaches
are all killed in Indiana, but hat the
small fruits are not affected to any seri-
Gus extent.
THREE children of a laborer named
Charles Ross. all under 3 a old.
were burned to death at Springfield,
Mo. They were left in the house while
the parents went visiting. and a lamp
exploded.
BETWEEN twenty-five and fifty men
were killed by an explosion in the
Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron COM
pany's mine at Red Canyon. Wyo.
A CYCLONE in Georgia did great DAM