The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-27
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

An in~cendiary fire caused a loss to
business property in T~ahlequah, L. T.,
of $500. OOO.
The fire losses throughout the u
try for the week ended on the 18th
amounted to 50. 627, OILS, against $780,
s61 the preceding week.
THE circuit court at Georgetown, O.,
granted a fifth new trial to Edward FL.
Jones, who murdered his son in Oc-
tober, 1891.
ALL of northern New England was
under water, caused by the rapid rise
of rivers and streams, and great dam
age to property was reported.
ARMY worms were devastating the
farms in several counties in Kentucky.
The dairy barn of David 81. Martin,
near Charlottesville, Ind, was de-
stroyed by fire and 100 head of live
stock persisted in the flames.
SIEGEL, COOPER & Co., of Chicago,
were restrained by the United States
circuit court from making any return
on the income tax law. This action
directly attacks the constitutiouality
of the act.
Mrs. BEES, proprietor of the Ameri-
can house at Youngstown, O., WAS
buried at the hour when she had ex-
pected to become the bride of John
Evans, of Warren.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat,
70, 4s6, 900 bushels; corn, IL, 221 900 bush
els; oats, 5,725. 900 bushels; rye, 213,OoO
Il ha-1o- 400 mn ht1chalS
A FIRE in John Dobson's carpet fac
tory in Philadelphia caused a loss of
500, 600 and threw 1000 persons out of
work.
The National saw works at Cincin-
natl were burned, the loss being
$500, 900.
FIRE destroyed an entire block at
Arkansas City, Ark, including the
Eureka hotel and the post Office.
The National Academy of Sciences,
the most august scientific body in
America, convened in thirty-second an
nual session in Washington.
AT Telluride, Col, Haywood Williams
shot and killed Grace White, a woman
of the town, and then shot himself.
REV. GEORGE CLARK, one of the pio-
neer Methodist preachers in Iowa, aged
6s years, fell dead near Oskaloosa.
FLOODS were still doing great dam
age in New England. At Concord, N.
H., fifty families were homeless, and
at Haverhill, Mass, the shoe shops
were all shut down, the business part
of the city being practically under wa
ter. At Bellows Falls, VT, three per
sons we're drowned. The loss of prop
erty will be enormous.
REV. Mr.. Icing said at the Metho-
dist ministers meeting in st. Louis
that the admission of colored branches
would destroy the Epworth league.
THE balance sheet of the whisky
trust filed in Chicago shows a shortage
of 81, 900, 900.
The Texas law taxing United States
treasury notes is now in force.
SEVERAL farms near Cherokee, Kan.
were swept by a cyclone and a number
of persons were injured.
STATE SENATOR WILLIAM GoEBEL had
a hearing in Covington, KY, for kill.
ing Col. John L. Sanford and vas &C
quilted.
OLIVER c. PERRY, the train robber
who escaped with four others from the
Matawan On. j. asylum, was captured,
and the five are now all in custody
again.
The United States was requested by
the Chinese government to take under
its protection the Chinese residing in
Guatemala.
WILLIAM HENDRICK, wanted in Ohio,
North Carolina, Tennessee and Ken
lucky for bigamy, was arrested at Mid
dlesboro, KY. Seven deserted wives
were one his track.
A CYCLONE passed across Washington
county, Ala, and all the houses and
fences in its path were swept clean.
The war department at Washington
has found in three months that of every
1000 men enlisted from civil life thirty.
one were identified by 4 new system as
convicts, deSerterS or otherwise unde'
sirable characters.
The secret service officials have dis
covered a new counterfeit fye-dollal
national bank note. 1t is or the Black
stone canal national bank of Provi
dence. r. l.. check letter d, series OF
1882; A. w. Wyman, treasurer; b. h
Bruce, register treasury No. E12027O99
portrait of Garfield.
SEVERE shocks of earthquake were
felt at Burlington, VT, and Moodus
Conn.
The vicinity of Meridian, Miss, wa:
visited by a hail and windstorm anC
houses were demolished and the fruit
crop injured.
FROM advices received at the Office o.
the commissioner of internal revenue
in Washington it was believed thai
about no, 900 persons had filed income
tax returns with district collectors.
Col. r. NJ. KELLY, editor of the Louis
Vile Commercial. has been elected state
commander of the G. A.. r. of Kentucky,
ROBERT CENTER, wealthy, and n OF
the best-known sportsmen in America,
was knocked off his bicycle and crushed
to death under the wheels of a Goa
wagon in New York.
PETROLEUM ran up to S2.70 per bar
rel in the Pittsburgh market and then
fell to 81. IT.
AT Morgan City, La, AdolPh Schen,
erick shot and killed Matte Francisco
and then killed himself. He leaves a
wife and four children.
ALEXANDER TURK, % years Of age,
shot and killed his sweetheart, Miss
Julia Fallon, at Cleveland, o., and then