The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-06

den money, ruellV tortured MIS- Mary
Berger, aged sc years, at Springfield,
Ill.
Four counterfeiters, Jefferson May
and John, James and Chauncey Boyer,
were arrested at Rockford, Ill.
The Clarence bank at Clarence. Mo-,
suspended with liabilities of $4,000.
ATTORNEY GENERAL OLNEY says that
the printing of facsimiles of foreign
postage stamps is a violation of the act
of 1891, which prohibits the counter
feiting of foreign obligations or Sc
curities.
THE Auburn state bank, located at
the village of Auburn. ILL.,, was robbed
of something over 81, o by burglars
OFFICERS of the Queen & Crescent
railroad intercepted train robbers at
Greenwood, KY, and killed two of
them.
Miss AMY THILL, an actress, aged "a,
was murdered in New York by John
Bigelow, an actor, who then ended his
own life.
Mrs. FRANK ANNIs persisted in her
burning home near Fenton, Mich.
The firm of Malcolm & Waterbury,
of Chicago, which did an extensive
bucket-shop business in Illinois, Mis-
souri,. Nebraska and Iowa, failed for
500, 900.
STATISTICS show that 1913 railroad
companies in this country are now
building, or contemplating doing SO
soon, 20, 547 miles of new road.
By the bursting of a reservoir near
Newcastle, Col, several bridges were
swept away and many farms were
ruined.
A FIRE at st. Augustine, Fla. de-
stroyed forty-nine residences and bust
ness houses, besides several smaller
structures, entailing a loss of S1OO,O 600.
AT jackson. Miss, a negro who in
sisted upon riding in a wagon with
three white women was hot to death.
TREASURY officials in Washington
agree in the opinion that the income
tax applies to foreigners owning any
property in this country, whether resi-
dents or n~onresidents.
The entire business portion of Can
aseraga, n. T., and thirty dwellings
were burned, the loss being S100,000
The st. Paul Railway company dis
charged eleven engineers and thirty
five firemen from its division running
into Fort Howard, Wis, because they
~frequented saloons.
Mrs. REACH, an eccentric character,
died at Oshkosh, Wis, aged 100 years.
Twenty years ago she purchased a
coffin, and at her own request she was
buried in it after she had used it a
score of years for a bed.
TERRIBLE prairie fires were raging
in the Otoe and Ponca Indian reserva-
tons several miles north of Perry, o. T.
The district between Pleasantville,
n. j., and Brigantine Junction was
burned over by a forest fire, many
buildings and a large quantity of tim
Der being consumed, the loss ~aggregat-
ing thousand of dollars.
c. L. WILLIAMS, of St. Louis, while
temporarily insane, killed Catherine
Kaeser, his aunt, and then committed
suicide.
WYCKoFF, Mimi, a town of about 600
inhabitants, was almost completely
wiped out by fire.
The New England coast was visited
by a hurricane, the wind attaining a
velocity of seventy-fve miles an hour,
and doing much damage to shipping.
CENTRAL Iowa was swept by dust
storms, which partially obscured the
sun and hindered railroad traffic.
THE boiler of the Langston sawmill
near Apple Valley, Ga. exploded, kill
ing William Goode, John Langston and
a negro
The Nonpartisan Women's Christian
Temperance union at Kansas City de-
cided to remove their hats at church
services and all indoor meetings.
SAMUEL MCWHLIAMs, a notorious
bandit, and a companion were shot
down while robbing a store at Braggs
Station. Ark.
FEDERAL officials at San Francisco
unearthed a gang engaged in circu-
lating forged Chinese residence papers.
The wind reached a velocity of IS
miles an hour in New York, doing
much damage to shipping.
THE theatrical company that left st.
Louis to walk to New York in 1O5 days
on a wager gave up the job at Effrg-
ham, Ill.
4 MYSTERIOUS man, alleged to have
been private secretary to the king of
Sweden, died in poverty at Clinton. la.
Two AMERICAN warships were or
dered to Nicaragua, presumably topro-
tect American interests.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the goth aggregated
Ssss, 359, AGA. against 1852, 491, 1875 the
previous week. The increase, com-
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was 2O.s.
AN anti-cigarette ordinance went into
effect in Lawrence, Kan, and no
cigarettes can be purchased in that
city.
SILVER in very rich quantities was
discovered in the mountains in Wayne
county, W. Va.
THE Bank of Canton. Kan, sus-
pended. It had S. 600 capital and ST.
600 deposits and was a private'concern.
ALL the plate glass factories in the
country, with a few exceptions, have
closed down and will not resume until
May l.
THERE were pa business failures in
the United States in the even days
coded on the Goth, against 27s the
week previous and 23S in the CORE