The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-17

april %. 1895, was authorized to re-
sumo business.
HELIoGRAPH communications were
exchanged between the summit of
Pixies Peak and army headquarters in
Denver, a distance of 60 miles.
REV. E. c. WHEELER, a Baptist evan
gelist, who had been in California with
his car Emanuel, was killed in a rail-
way wreck near Denver Col. Several
other persons were hurt
The United TypothetB in session at
Rochester, n. Y, president and de-
cided to meet in Rochester in August,
1896.
HEARST, DUNN & Co., a large agri-
cultural implement firm at Peoria, Ill,
failed for Sl23, 435; assets, S1l5,649.
REPORTS to the post office depart
ment for the three months ended Au-
gust l show that the total receipts at
the twenty largest post offices in the
country were So, 79i, 900, an increase of
S499, 900 over the corresponding quar-
ter in 1894.
The {. f. Guyon company, commits
sion dealers in hardware and bicycles
in New York, failed for S15O,OOO.
The Bank of Buckner, at Buckner,
Mo, went into the hands of a receiver.
Mrs. HENRY JOHNSON and her three
children were struck by an engine at a
railway crossing in Decatur, Ind, and
one child vas instantly killed and the
others were fatally injured.
II Il head-on collision at Plymouth,
n. H., between the cannon ball ex-
press and a freight train, Engineer
Frank Stevens and Firemen George 5.
Merrill and W. Ii. Glines were instant
ly killed.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 9th aggregated
1910, O32, 2l5, against S9l5, SAL, $50 the
previous week. The increase. COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 25.9.
THE total equalized assessed valua-
ton of the state of Iowa is sos. 9S5, 2J2.
THE foundry and pattern house of
the Knowles steam pump works at
Warren, Mass, were burned, the loss
being Sl75,OO0.
THERE were 225 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against Pol the week
previous and 264 in the corresponding
time in 1894
MATTsoN & MAGEE, wholesale grocers
in Philadelphia, failed for 500, 600
BUSINESS continued unusually active
throughout the country for midsum-
mer and, though there was perceptible
relaxation, there we're no signs of re-
action.
\ HoRsE became frightened and
plunged off of a 3O-foot embankment
near Decatur, Ind, and three prom
inent society women, Mrs. Mangold,
Mrs. J. c. Paterson and her mother,
Mrs. Erwin, were fatally injured.
FREMONT SMITH was hanged in San
Quentin prison, California, for the
murder of two fishing companions.
c. c. CLARK was appointed receiver
of the Lockwood Manufacturing com
pany at South Norwalk, Conn. The
liabilities were S2SO,OOO
A BIG Newfoundland dog capsized a
BOAT on the lake at Highland Park, Ill,
and NJ. I. Green, president of the Chi
cage Lumber company, and Sorn Sor-
enson were drowned.
The Bank of Palouse, at Palouse
City, Wash, closed its doors with liza
bilities of S65, 900.
Mrs. HELEN c. STEWART, of Spring
field, Mo-, was appointed sheriff of
Green county, TO succeed her deceased
husband. Mrs. Stewart, as far as is
known, is the first woman sheriff in !
the United States.
SEVEN persons were killed in New
York city by the collapse OF a new
building on broadway.
ARTHUR and c. j. johnson (brothers) !
and a. Z. Anderson were killed by
lightning near Odebolt, Ia, They
had taken refuge under a tree during
a storm.
WILLIAM HAssoN, Martin Erwin and
William Stanley were killed in a troll
ley car and railroad accident in Phila-
delphia.
JOHN BUCHANAN, Il mill-worker at
Pittsburgh, Pa, killed himself after
fatally injuring his mother. His wife
was missing and it was thought he had
killed her.
FIRE in the lumber piles of the Skill
ings, Whitney & Barnes Co. at Ogdens-
burg, y. Y, destroyed property valued
at S15O,0O0.
By her will Mrs I. Dewitt Talmage
leaves S1G6, 600. Her husband is the
sole legatee.
THIEVES entered the Connecticut
state prison at Wethersfield and got
away with articles valued at 81, 500.
DR. LAWRENCE ANDERSON. aged 81
years, one of the best-known veterin-
airy surgeons in the west, committed
at Cincinnati because of failing
eyesight
AT the national bicycle meet in Chi
Eddie Bold, of Buffalo, n. Y,
made a mile in 1883, a new worlds
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
In state convention at Marshalltown
the Iowa democrats nominated the fol-
ticket: For governor, Judge w.