The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-22
TIE employees Of The American iron

LIE employees Oh tne AlleElSdH hO"
works in Oswego, y. Y, one of the
most extensive boiler and engine
plants in the country, have Received
notice OF q 1O-per-cent. increase in
wages.
THE supreme court of Illinois, on
the 18th. handed down a decision sus-
tanning the dictum of the court below
which holds the Whisky trust to be
illegal.
y DISPATCH from Hong Kong says
the Japanese are administering the
customs on the island of Formosa and
trade is proceeding on normal lines.
No trouble is expected.
CHIEF Posi- OFFICE INSPECTOR WHEEL
Err announces the total number of ar
rests made by post office inspectors
during May to be los. This includes
the capture of 33 post Office burglars.
Within the postal service arrests were
made as follows: Fifteen postmasters,
) assistant ~postmasters, / clerks in
post offices and railway postal clerk.
Outside of the service in addition to
the 80 burglars, 10 violatOrs of the
postal laws have been apprehended.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th
the dead body of Blase Mcdonald. an
insane patient at the asylum. at To-
peka, Kas., was found hanging to a
tree in front of the building where he
had been confined. Mcdonald and
Schaffer and Drusler, two other in.
sane patients, escaped by removing a
window and letting themselves down
to the ground by tying bed clothes to-
gcthcr.
On the 18th, at the conference be-
tween the president and the public
printer and civil-service commission
the president signed the order placing
about >, 500 employees of the government
printing office under the civil-service
regulations.
THE federal jury at Duluth, Mirn.,
on the 18th, in the 81. $50, 900 damage
suit of Alfred Merritt VS.. John ID.
Rockefeller, the Standard Oil king,
after having been out ovcr four hours,
returned a verdict of S94O,0 600 for the
plaintiff.
FIVE miners employed in the Jermyn
No. . colliery, Old Forge township,
near Scranton, Pa, were badly burned,
on the 18th, by the explosion of a keg
of powder around which they were
sitting. A spark from a lamp carried
by a driver boy, who was passing,
caused the explosion. One of the in
jured men died soO after.
THOMAS Don, the crank who was ar
rested on the Balmoral road, in Scot
land, recently, was, on the 14th, COM
mitted to a lunatic asylum on a crown
warrant. When arrested Don was
practicing with a revolver, and in
formed his captOrs that he was on his
way to Balmoral to obtain an inter-
view with the queen.
THE motions for new trials in the
two cases against Lum Smith. pub
Usher of the Philadelphia Herald, con-
victed of improperly using the mails
and sentenced to a fine OF $50 and
costs and five months imprisonment,
were ovcrruled, on the 18th. by Judge
Butler in the United States court.
The Howard Harrison Iron Co., To-
Gated at Bessemer, Ala, and operating
the largest iron-pipe works in the
south, employing 1.5OO men, posted
notices, on the 18th, that the wages of
their employees would be increased 10
per cent, beginning OF the 18th. The
advance is voluntary.
MARTIN GILLETT & Co., of Baltimore,
Md, received a telegram from Annoy,
China, on the 18th, stating that the
latest adviceS from the island of For
mosa were that business was entirely
suspended there, and that there was
much rioting in the reproducing dis
trictS.