The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-20
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

THE Southern Land & Timber com
pany English of Pensacola, Fla, the
largest timber concern in the south,
went into the hands of receivers.
A SAND and snowstorm combined did
great damage in Colorado and Kansas,
and in western Kansas many horses
and cattle were suffocated by clouds Of
sand.
In Pawnee county, o. T., an I'M
known man on horseback set fire to
the dry prairie grass and the country
was devastated for many miles Sew
enteen farmers lost everything they
possessed.
ADvICEs, from Mackinaw City, Mich,
say that the vast field of ice between
Waugoshance and McGulpin's point
had given way and the straits were
open to navigation.
The compilation of farms, homes
and mortgages statistics made by the
last census shows that a majority of
the ~, 500, $50 families in the United
States rent their homes.
ROCKY FORD, the English colony set
Element in New Mexico, was complete
" wiped out Dy nre.
THE Massachusetts legislature passed
a law which says hat whoever on
Sunday keeps open his shop, ware
house or workhouse o. does any man
ual labor, business or work except
works Of necessity or charity, or takes
part in any sport, game or play except
a sacred concert, shall be punished by
a fDa of C5O for zach OffeDSa
The Bank of Bladen, Neb., was
closed by Bank Examiner Cline. The
assets were SIG, 665; liabilities, 5000
BEFORE the New York east confer
ence at Stamford, Conn, DR.. Hunt re-
ported that 100. 900 Bibles had been dis
tributed in China during the past four
months.
SOME 300, 900 pupils of the 312 public
schools in New York city celebrated
the Tooth anniversary of the establish
ment of the public school system of the
state.
ONE of the walls of a four-story brick
building fell at Wheeling, W. Va,
killing five men, one of them being
Very Rev. Father F. II. Parke, vicar
general of the Catholic diocese of
Wheeling.
INVESTIGATION in Chicago showed
that counterfeiting Of United States
postage stamps had been extensive,
and it was likely that the government
would be compelled to recall the issue
that had been counterfeited.
An unprecedented rain and wind
storm blew down many houses at Blue
all III ~ II Ill - a. ---
pended.
ABOUT forty of the most prominent
horsemen in the United States met at
Cleveland and formed a sporting league
with P. P. johnson as president.
The Delaware and Lehigh rivers
o~verflowed their banks neal Easton,
Pa, and the lowlands were submerged
for miles around.
The bank of Axtell, Neb., failed to
open its doors. The failure was caused
by drought and business stagnation.
NEAR Smiths Mills, Vt, a Boston
& Maine passenger train was derailed
and Engineer S. ]. Rooney and Fire
man Lewis Emerson were fatally
scalded.
DURING a dense fog a train on the
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh road
ran into a washout near Sykes, Pa,
and Engineer Taylor, Fireman Shea
and Conductor Bruce lost their lives.
PRESIDENT JOSEPH b. GREESHUT, of
the whisky trust" was charged in
Chicago with diverting S225,OO 0 from
the company's treasury into his own
pockets.
The Kentucky grand lodge Knights
of Honor unveiled a monument at
Louisville to the memory of James A.
Demaree. the founder of the order.
FIVE Seventh-day Adventists, con-
victed in Rhea county, Tenn, of work.
ing on the Sabbath, were pardoned by
Gov. Turney.
OVER 5000 coatmakers in Cincinnati,
Covington and Newport were on strike.
TRAINMES arriving at Cheyenne,
Wyo., reported that there We're hun
dreds of cattle lying dead alongside
the railroad tracks, where they drifted
during the recent storm and died.
JUDGE JOIN II. SAHLER, j. J. Jones,
a lawyer of note, and NJ. c. Bailey, a
union veteran, all committed suicide in
one day at Omaha, Neb.
THE president was being importuned
personally by men of highest influence
to convene congress in special session
for the repeal or correction of the in
come tax law.
JOSEPH BUCK shot and killed Mrs.
Tessie Williams in Newark, n. j., and
then took his own life. No cause was
known for the deed.
AT Washington, n. j., during storm
sixty-fve houses We're damaged by
lightning, and Jacob Harring was
struck and fatally injured.
SADIE STRINGER, IL years old, and
William Bradley, a year older, were
killed by lightning in Philadelphia.
SENATOR HILL, of New York, IN
nounced that as soon as the Fifty
fourth congress convened he intended
to offer a bill in the senate to repeal
the income tax.
GRANT GRIFFIN (colored), who muir
dered Williapn Tibbs, a negro gambler,
at La Crosse, Fla, November 6, was
hanged.
HEAVY importations of japanese rice
to Savannah, Ga, was causing southern
planters much uneasiness.
TWELVE persons found guilty of riot
ing during the recent strike on the