The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-05-04

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If stocks, bonds and cash amounting
20 about $4,000.
THE failure of Louis Schintz, real
estate dealer at Appleton, Wis, made
many old and helpless persons paupers.
BILL Cook, the notorious outlaw, and
twelve companions were lodged in the
Albany IN. " penitentiary.
ROBERT OWEN shot and killed his wife
and DIR. ]. F. Simmons at Houston,
TEX, and then blew out his own
brains
Houston CTex.) negroes have taken
up the cause of their race who have
been deceived into going into Mexico,
where they are treated like Siberian
exiles.
ABOUT 10000 0 feet of pine lumber in
the yard of F. B. Newton & Co. at
Cleveland was destroyed by fire.
The governors of all the states and
territories will be asked to aid in Sc
curing money TO erect a suitable mi
ment over the grave of Francis Scott
Key, the author of the ''Star Spangled
Banner whose remains are buried in
Frederick. Nd.
ROBERT FORD (colored). who shot and
killed Jerry Brown ;colored). was
hanged in the jailyard at Nashville,
Tenn.
AT Charlotte, n. c., the immense
brick warehouse of Sanders s. Black
wood was burned, the loss being $780,
600.
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of Minnewaukan, n. D., the residence
portion having 4 narrow escape.
GEORGE GEsCHwILM, aged 80, was
hanged at Columbus, O., for numbering
his wife on March 8, 1894.
The attorney general, III answer to
the secretary of the navy, has decided
that nominations to the naval academy
made by the members of the last con-
gress after noon of March last are of
no effect.
JAMES YEAGEb, an old man, and his
two children. aged ) and 0, were buried
to death in their home at Frankfort,
Ky.
THE towns of Lyle, Benton City and
C~astroville, Tex, were devastated by n
hailstorm, houses being riddled like q
sieve, and the cotton and corn crops
completely ruined. The loss was es-
tlmated at $500, 600.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
1895, $40, 1877, against S91s, 274,551 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was 1877.
DURING a storm On the Rappahan-
mock ten men two white and eight
coloredl were drowned By the capsiz-
ing of a canoe at Burnham,s wharf in
Virginia.
The Nebraska relief commission an
nounced that calls for aid had closed,
and that further contributions were
not needed.
REPORTS received at the immigration
bureau in Washington show that dur
ing the last ten months the number of
Italian immigrants arriving in this
country was 10, s25 less than during the
same period last year.
THERE were 230 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
CiiNSu Oh La SUM- uSdLuoG III llLf
week previous and 1T9 IN the CORE
spending time in 1894.
COUNTY TREASURER C.. W. Rowe dis
appeared from Montezuma, Ia, taking
with him. it is alleged, about S45, 900 of
the funds OF Powesheik county.
GEORGE RAY, 4 disreputable negro,
was hanged by a mob near Jenson-
ton. Ky.
CHARLES STANLEY shot and fatally
Cal, and then killed himself. The
couple had been married only three
months. Jealousy was the cause.
GOLD was discovered neal Raleigh, a
suburb of Memphis, Tenn. 1t was
plentifully mixed with platinum.
JOHN RIGoULoT started to walk from
San Francisco to New Orleans, his
home. The midwinter fair broke him.
CURRYvILLE, a small town in Pike
county, Mo, was almost destroyed by
fire.
CONSUL GENERAL c. D. WILDER. of
Hawaii, and United States Secret Serv-
ice Agent Harris were warned of a con-
spiracy on foot in San Francisco to
overthrow the Hawaiian government
by means of another revolution.
+. q. ANDERSON was struck by light
ming and killed instantly at Valley
Springs, S. D.. and Jacob Howard met
Il like fate at Luverne, MINI.
THE worlds fair diplomas awarded
to exhibitors whose exhibits were fav-
orably mentioned by the judges are
being prepared at the bureau of en-
craving and printing in Washington
and will be sem out in about sixty !
days.
MANY bucket shops throughout the
United States and Canada were heavy
sufferers by the failure of John c.
Allen. who ran the Standard grain and
stock exchange at Buffalo, y. Y. His
liabilities were $3.50, 900.
SLOAN HURST (colored), who shot and
killed Lemly Raply December 3, 1894,
was hanged at Abbeville, S. C.
The bodies of James Yeager and his |
two children were taken from the ruins
of the Fincel block fire at Louisville,
Ky.
JOHN Rich, Sidney Burns, Annie
Mitchell and Lora Long we're stand
ing on a ledge of rock 800 feet high at
Coshocton, n. Y, when it fell and all
were killed.
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