The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-24
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

HERMAN hOHANP, a young German
at Sibley, Ia, blew out the brains OF
Mrs. William Kruger, wife of his EN-,
plover, and then committed suicide by
cutting his throat. No cause for the
tragedy was known.
WHITE caps drove every negro out OF
Delta county, Tex. One, who refused
to 90. was shot dead.
Will llAIRIS, a negro who attempted
: o assault Mrs. J. F. Monroe, a 6O-year-
old white woman in Colquitt county,
Ga. was shot to death by Il mob.
THE noted outlaw. Cherokee Bill, was
sentenced at Fort Smith, Ark, to be
hanged September 10.
TIE First national bank of South
BEND, Wash, suspended.
PATRICK and Dennis Morgan, brothers,
quarreled while intoxicated at Pitts
burgh and killed each other with pen
knives.
\ STAGE A was held up by two
masked men at Wright's Bridge, Ore.
and the passengers were robbed Of
their money and valuables.
j. B. SAGE, director of the weather
crop bulletin of Iowa. that
hot winds for a week did great dam
age to crops.
THE number OF tons of coal mined in
Ohio during the past year was $780,
2l9. a decrease of 3,9Is, SIS tons over
the year previous.
THE picture of X-President Harri-
son painted by Eastman johnson, was
hung in the white house at Washing
ton.
GEORGE T. LoHER and T. F. Cornell
left Oakland. Cal, for a trip around
the world on bicycles.
The residence of Henry Redd, neal
Richmond, Va, was struck by light
ming and Redd, his wife and daughter
were instantly killed. A little son of
Watt Lee, who lived near by was also
killed about the same time.
MAX L. GUTMAN, a retired iewelry
manufacturer at Rochester, y. Y,
tried to kill his four daughters by
shooting them. The women escaped
and then Gutman shot himself fatally.
GEORGE Z. TINKER set s1,O4l Ems of
agate type in eight continuous hours,
correcting all errors. This perform
ance smashes all previous records made
on the typesetting machines and con-
firms him as the most rapid typesetter
in the world.
By the alteration of brands it was
discovered hat thousands of head of
cattle had been stolen in Wyoming and
run north. into Montana, where they
were sold.
JsssE c. JONES, a Minneapolis lum-
herman. failed for $50, 600.
The Bank of Shelby, Tenn, sus-
pended with liabilities of S1O7, 600.
IN a 2O-mile bicycle race at Mime
apolis Burney Bird, of st. Paul, broke
the worlds record, making the dis
tance in 54:17.
4 TORNADO, rain and hailstorm
struck Belle Plaine, Mimi, doing great
damage.
TIE first national convention of COM
mercial lawyers of the United States
met in Detroit with nearly every state
and territory represented.
Hot winds were blowing over Iowa,
doing great damage to corn.
Lon DAVIS, John Bell and William
Thomas tall colOred) and Frank Ben
nett (white) were shot by an unknown
negro at St Louis.
a BIG strike of tin ore near Willetts'
gold camp in Colorado was reported.
Tests showed hat it run % per cent.
tin.
A CLAN she'll containing fourteen
handsome pearls was found in the st.
Joseph river at st. Joseph. Mich.
JAMES AMICK was shot and killed by
Mrs Ella Amick neal Eureka, Kan.
He attempted to ~horscwhip her when
she retaliated.
A NATIONAL conference of silver dem
ocrats met in Washington for the pur-
pose of agreeing upon a line of policy
be pursued in the interest of silver
the democratic party. Nineteen
were represented.
RECEIVER MCNULTA sold IN Chicago
eighteen plants of the old whisky trust
to the reorganization committee for
So, 500, 600.
The new system adopted by the
Western Union Telegraph company of
employing boys on bicycles to deliver
messages proved satisfactory in New
York.
MERCHANTS of Ohio. Indiana and
Michigan met at Columbus and organ
ICED the National Wholesale BUYERS
association, the object being to pur-
chase in large quantities direct from
The producers and thus save for them
selves the profits of the eastern jobber.
FRANK SWEETS efforts having failed
20 separate SIrs. Alice Burr from her
husband, Frank Burr. of Chicago, and {
induce her to live with him. he shot
Ter. probably fatally, and her friend, {
Yrs. Nichols, and then killed himself. /
AN engine struck a cow on the Alton /
Dad near Slater, No., throwing it
Ipon the cowcatcher, and three tramps
Who were riding thereon were killed.
JOHN S~PoTsNAGE, Curtin Ammons I
md John Blair were killed by the ex-
of the boiler OF a thresher near a
W. Va. .