The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-10
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

at Beaufort, 5. C., by which life insur-
ance companies had been defrauded of
thousands of dollars during the last
eight years.
A sATCHEL left in the New York
Central station in Buffalo was found to
contain 5000 counterfeit stamps made
by George Morrison, nov in prison il
Chicago.
For 100 miles southeast of Perry, o.
T., many fine fields of corn were under
water waist deep, and hundreds of
acres had been washed away.
IT was announced that silver leaders
had agreed to Gala convention omeet
in st. Louis in September for the pur-
pose of forming a national silver party.
THE Salisbury bank at Mexico, Mo-,
was closed with liabilities of $40. 900.
ABOUT 20. 900 members of the Brother
hood of Tailors were on a strike in the
cities of New York, Brooklyn and
Newark.
THE Union national bank of Denver,
Col, closed its doors with liabilities of
$500, 900.
CHAUNCEY, aged II years, and Henry
Brais, aged 8 years, sons of Joseph
Bras, were drowned at Providence, r. L.
BURGLARS robbed and probably IA
tally wounded Abraham Lutz and his
wife near Massillon. O..
A C]LoUDBURsT did great damage at
Central City, Col, and at Blackhawk
and for an hour the streets were roar,
ing torrents.
ROBERT X. GILLESPIE, of G~allatin,
Tenn, chief of the public land division
in the general land office, died in Wash
ington of appendicitis.
Mrs. CHARLES CLOSE was instantly
killed and her 2-year-old child and
Lewis Close, aged Il, received fatal in
iuries at a railway crossing in SCOTS
burg, Ind.
THE Arkansas river was out of its
banks and thousands of acres in Sedg-
wick county, Kan, were under water.
The damage would be heavy.
For the murder of benjamin Cen
nette and wife last March at McGreg-
or, Mimi, Judge Holland sentenced
the Christello brothers to life impris-
onment.
MAJ. E. C. LEWIS, of Nashville, was
elected director-general of the Tennes-
see centennial exposition, which will
be held in 1896.
WALTER AUSTIN and Willie Gould
were drowned on one of the principal
streets at Fort Scott, Kan, during a
food.
On the White river, 8 miles from
Camp Apache, in Arizona, was found a
ave containing 400 human skeletons.
THE keystone national bank of West
Superior, Wis, closed it's doors with
liabilities of S25O,OOO
THE courthouse in Fresno, Cal, vas
burned, only tie hall of records being
saved. Loss, 500, 900.
CONFINED il a cell in the state peni-
it~entiary at Little Rock, Ark, is an
old man named A. E. Allen, who was
said to nave been the confidential asso-
ciate of Ii. II. Holmes in his crooked
business transactions and murderous
acts, and who says he can prove alb
solutely that Holmes murdered the two
Williams girls and Mrs Conner ard
her daughter Pearl.
In a race war at Brookside coal
mines, 20 miles from birmingham,
Ala, Deputy Sheriff Joel Baxter,
Sheriff Wood and three negroes were
killed and George Hill and Charles
Jenkins Cboth colored) were lynchcd by
a mob.
SIMON WoRMsER, of the banking firm
of /. & S. Wormser, of New York, we'll
known throughout the United States,
died suddenly of apoplexy.
DEPUTY SHERIFFs stage and Dawes,
of Evanston, Wyo, were killed at
Wahsatch by Fred George and Pat
Coughran, two young cattle thieves.
H. II. EDWARDS, 4 Los Angeles Cal
photographer, who was respondent
and out of employment, fatally poi
soned himself, his wife and two chill
dren.
OTTo MILLER and c. II. E. Grifing
left Chicago for New York to establish
a tandem bicycle record.
A CLoUDBURsT at Wellston, O., flooded
streets and cellars, carried away the
w~aterworks dam and drowned several
Italians working in a street railway cut.
FIRE at Menominee, Mich, swept
over thirty acres of ground occupied
by the A. Spies, the Girard, the Bay
Shore and other lumber companies, de-
stroying two lives and property worth
nearly 81. 0Oo, 600.
THE annual interstate reunion of
Mexican war veterans of Illinois, In
diana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri
will be held August 10 and 90 at Belle
vile, IL.
The Dollar savings bank in Kansas
City, No, wen into voluntary liquida-
ton for the purpose of retiring from
business. 1t would pay dollar for dol
lar.
The village of Harvey City, Ore, was
wiped out by an incendiary fire.
The Oldest person in Iowa thus far
shown by the census returns is Mrs.
Lucy Alexander (colOred), of Keokuk.
She was born in Virginia 1l9 years
ago.