The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-09

AMONG the numerous bills introduced
in the Illinois house was n directed
against the wearing of high hats at
theaters.
CRAWFORD CROSBY. alias Cherokee
Bill, a noted outlaw, was captured at
Mowata, l. T, by two men who had
secured his confidence.
A sLED load of young people went
over an embankment near Salem, o.,
tour being seriously hurt.
WESLEY TABOR was arrested at Belle
vile, Ill, charged with the murder of
the McClellands, father and son, ct
Centralia, fourteen years ago.
GEORGE BEAN, near Richmond, Va,
while protecting his ~stepmother from
assault was shot and killed by his
father.
C. W.. STANFORD, tax collector and
probate officer of Concord, Mass, was
said to be SIS, 900 short in his accounts.
He had disappeared.
THE financial statement of the mid
winter fair at San Francisco shows that
the total receipts were 81, 200, 112 and
the expenditures We're l,193, go, leav-
lng a urpIu OF S32-4O4-
THE Kansas legislature passed a law
making every kind and form of betting
and gambling a felony punishable by
from one to Eve years in the peniten-
tiary-
PETER OLSON. wife and three chill
dren. who lived neal Sterling, y. D.,
and a hired man named Bathga, lost
their ives in a fire.
CHARLES DONOVAN died in an epllep-
tic fit while being arraigned in court
at La Junta, Col, for attempted crimi-
nal assault upon a 3-year-old girl.
ALL but a few companies of the
troops on duty at Brooklyn, n. Y,
were withdrawn, the strike being prac-
tically over.
SIXTY THOUSAND DoLLARS in gold was
found by Jesse j. Drew at his sawmill
near Hollandale, Miss. The treasure
was supposed to have been buried dur
ing the civil a
WILEY CLEMENTS and Joshua Hughes,
mine bosses at the Champion mines
near Birmingham, Ala, were fatally
shot by Bud Jones, a negro miner.
SOLICITOR GENERAL MAXWELL has re-
signed owing to differences with At
torney General Olney regarding the in
come tax.
HARRISON STEVENS (colored) was
hanged at Dawson, Ga, for the murder
of J. e. Wells a year ago.
Mrs. ZINDLINGER and her twin
daughters were burned to death by a
lamp explosion at Philadelphia, Pa.
ARIZONA bandits held up a Southern
Pacific train near Wilcox and blew the
express safe with dynamite, securing
$50. 900.
THE bank of Trenton. Neb., was
ordered closed by the state banking
board.
The twenty-seventh annual conven-
ton of the National American Woman
Suffrage association met at Atlanta.
Ga, with Miss Susan B. Anthony, its
president, in the chair.
AN investigation showed that TWEEN
ty-one of the chain gang of convicts at
Savannah. Ga, were permanently dis
abled by exposure to freezing weather.
The Leonard Smokeless Powder
company, with a capital of SO, DOC, 900,
made an assignment in New York.
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the LIST aggre-
gated Sg42. 531, O65, against S917, OO3, SAT
the previous week. The increase, com
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was PAP.
THE Michigan senate passed a joint
resolution submitting to the people an
amendment to the constitution pro-
videing an educational qualification for
electors.
THE steamship Kingdom, forty-two
S. c., was thought to be lost with her
crew of thirty-fve.
INTENSELY cold weather prevailed in
the northwest. At Grantsburg, Wis,
the thermometer registered ~ degrees
below zero and at Negaunee. Mich. 10
below.
THERE were 354 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 1st, against 1863 the
week previous and $40 in the CORE
spending time in 1894.
BECAUSE his 2-year-old son would
not stop crying Alexander Vonkariage.
of W~ilkesbarre, Pa, dashed It's trains
out on a hot stove.
CHAMPION C0GsE1T discussed spar
ring matches before a committee of the
Minnesota legislature, defending his
profession.
The Iron Mountain mine in Shasta
county, Cal, was sold for $500, 600 cash
to an English syndicate.
A TREASURY statement shows that
the receipts from all sources during
the month of January were ST, SO4, 399
and the expenditures 1874, s23, Az, q
deficit for the month of Sc, 49, 4s and
for the fiscal year of S34.2S2, 010.
JOHN Reno died at Columbus, Ind.
He was one of the first train robbers in
the United States and was a daring in
dividual.
CATHERINE MORRISON. of New York,
a wealthy young woman, committed
suicide by cutting her throat in ID
church confessional.
BUD ELLIS, a Methodist preacher at
Aurora, Mo-, while insane killed his
wife, shot his daughter and took his
own life.
The coinage at the several minis dur
ing January was: Gold, S3,09S, 300; sill
yer, S574. 900; minor coins, sos 200. OF
the silver coined S2O5,OO0 was in silver