The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-20

Paul was successfully launched at
Cramps shipyards in Philadelphia.
CREMATION services have been Off
cially declared by masonic authority
in Philadelphia not to be Christian
burial.
CHARLES HART, aged IS, vas hanged
in the Ohio p~enitentiary at Columbus
for the murder of little Ashley and
Elsie Good in Paulding county, Novem-
Der 1. 1894.
CHIEF HAzFN. of the secret service,
| has issued a circular of warning against
a new counterfeit of a five dollar treas
ury note of the series of 1891. The
counterfeit is a Photographic produc-
ton, touched up with pen and ink, and
bears the treasury number B377672+.
IN the business center of Covington,
KY, John L. SANFORD, cashier of the
Farmers and Traders bank, was shot
and killed by State Senator William
Goebel. An old feud was the cause.
The Savannah Ca rice mills were
burned, the loss being S125,OO o
FOUR inmates of the state asylum
for insane criminals at Mattewan,
n. Y, including Oliver Curtis Perry,
of Syracuse, the train robber, made
their escape.
Snow to the death of 6 inches fell in
portions of Wisconsin.
Two MAIDEN sisters, Miss Mary J. and
Elizabeth A. Bryant, residing alone,
were burned to death at Haverhill,
Mass.
ANEW national organization of street
railway employees was founded at Cleve-
land, 0.
ALBERT II. HORTON, chief justice of
the supreme court of Kansas since 1877,
resigned, and Judge David Martin, of
Atchison, appointed to succeed him.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WILSON thinks
that the increased business of the post
Office department is a barometer of bet
ter times throughout the country.
THE funeral of Gov. Joshua H.. Marvil
took place at Laurel, and it was the
largest and most impressive ever held
in Delaware.
Miss MARY B. CRoUGHAN died at
Lynn, Mass, after suffering from
hiccoughs for five months.
A MAIL and express wagon was
boarded near Cripple Creek, Col, by
two men, who overpOwered the driver,
secured an express package containing
SIG, 900 and escaped.
A FIRE in the Columbia bank BUILD
ing in New York caused a loss of $685.
600.
A potato ALLY" was attended by
1000 farmers at Dawson, Mimi, who
listened to addresses on the need of
diversifying their farming operations
and the advantage of potatoes as a
profitable crop.
WILLIAM JACKSON was sentenced at
Greenup, KY, to ninety-nine years
Imprisonment for poisoning his wife.
PROBATE JUDGE RANDOLPH, of Mont
gomery, Ala, was said to be $4,000
short in his accounts.
FREDERICK WELMER, a well-to-do
farmer, aged 45, blew his brains out
near Versailles, KY. He left four wild
ows, and fear of prosecution for big
amy caused the deed.
THE Aurora NO. State bank closed
its doors with assets of So, 900 and liza
bilities of S11. 900.
HENRY GIBSON, aconvict in the prison
at Michigan City, Ind, stabbed and in
stantly killed Edward King, a fellow
prisoner, without any provocation.
The Atlantic mills at Providence, r.
l., shut down to prevent a strike,
throwing $500 persons out of work.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
1858, TAI, 379, against Sl,O13, III, 35s, the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was II.
j. D. HERS Rochester brewery al
Kansas City made an assignment with
assets of $500, 900 and liabilities of Sl67,-
600.
NELSON CALHOUN (colored) was shot
to death by a mob neal Corsicana,
Tex, for criminally assaulting Mrs
Rosa Hughes.
FOUR men were killed and others
seriously hurt in a riot among railway
laborers at Sloan Springs, Ark.
THERE were 2O7 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
| ended on the 18th, against 900 the
week previous and 21S in the CORE
spending time in 1924.
Mrs. GUY GEER, aged 90, a bride of
eight months, fell from her buggy
near Somerford, O., and was instantly
killed.
a NEW organization among negroes
was being established in North Caro-
lima to secure equal rights for col
| ored people at hotels and all public
places and the right for colored men to
marry white women.
THE Fresno Cal loan and savings
bank suspended business.
RICHARD BURELsoN was hanged at
Houston, Tex, for the murder of J. Il.
McKinnon on May 2, 1894.
FIRE swept away nearly the entire
business portion of Dorchester, Wis.
The Etna Fire association of Cincin-
natl, one of the Oldest of the mutual
assessment concerns in Ohio, went into
the hands OF Il receiver.
The Seaman & Smith company, one
of the oldest boot and shoe firms in
Ohio, made an assignmentat Cleveland.
LOUIS FRANK and Kate Kolb were
found side by side dead on Jacob
Duffy's farm a few miles west of St