The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.


by an explosion at Odin, Ill, over 200
men in the shaft escaping.
In the Illinois legislature a bill has
been introduced to punish train wreck
ing and robbing by death.
In the crush to get out of a burning
school house at Lemont, Iowa, two
children were seriously injured.
Rioting miners of Rathbun, Iowa,
we're quelled by the sheriff without the
aid of the state militia.
1t is reported in Rome that Mgr.
Satolli, the American ablegate, will be
appointed nuncio at Lisbon.
Crank clearings of principal cities in
the United States show a total increase
for last week of 81 per cent.
Dun's Review of Trade says bust
ness is holding off in all lines to see
the effects of the new sale of bonds.
Oklahoma Legislature has ordered
an investigation of the asylum for the
territory's insane AT Jacksonville.
For the benefit of the Nebraska suf-
f~erers, the long and short haul clause
of the interstate act has been sus-
pended.
\ large number of students have
been arrested at Moscow, Russia for
participating in a movement against
the police.
Minnesota house has adopted a reso-
luton looking to the removal of the
state capital from st. Paul to Min
neapolis.
Independence Iowa. Driving Park
association has announced stakes and
purses of $40, 900 for its summer meet
ing.
Wisconsin legislature has appro-
priateI $50, 900 to erect monuments t
Wisconsintroops who foughtatC hicka-
manga.
Strikers destroyed the office of the
Buckeye Glass factory, at Wheeling.
w. Va, with dynamite, endangering
many lives.
Measure providing for the construc-
ton of a new federal building at Chi
iclgo, has been signed by President
Cleveland.
Tonnage men having consented to
accept a cut, the Joliet mills of the
Illinois Steel company will be at once
reOpened.
Lieutenant Marcel Canrobert severe
1y wounded NJ. Hubbard, a socialist
member of the French Parliament, in
a duel.
Captain Richard Trevellick, one of
the founders of the greenback party.
and later Il labor organizer, is dead
in Detroit.
Turkish commission. investigating
the American Outrages, has decided TO
visit the Sassioun district in search
OF evidence.
a report is current in Berlin that
Prince Ferdinand has been expelled
from Bulgaria. He is said t be in
Reumania.
Bill has been introduced in the Hi
nois legislature providing pensions
for school teachers in cities of 100, 600
population
Black Diamond coalmine at Bevier,
No., flooded with water, and the $50
miners narrowly escaped with their
lives.
House committee on commerce SUBJ
mitted a report favoring a deep water
way to connect the ocean and great
lakes.
G0thenburg saloon at Ida Grove,
Ia, modelled on a Swedish system, has
been enjoined from operating by
Judge Church.
German firm at Apia, Samoa, has
been convicted of selling arms and
munitions to rebels in violation of the
Berlin treaty.
Plot has been discovered on the Is
and of Java, whereby the natives we're
to massacre all the Europeans and
Chinese there.
England has asked the powers at
Hawaii to forward the evidence against
Englishmen sentenced to be executed
for treason.
Masked men o~verpowered employers
of an American Protective association
paper at st. Louis and stole the sub
scription lists.
Bradstreet's reports that milder
weather has failed to bring about the
expected improvement in orders for
seasonable goods
Milwaukee officers. while enGeavor-
ing to enforce the garbagelaws regard
ing the disposition of garbage, were
mobbed by Poles.
Members of the left in the Norwegian
Storting have formulated a reply to
the letter of the king regarding the for
nation of a cabinet. Il
Women at Siox City, Iowa, contin-
lie their crusade against the saloons.