The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-29
A statement prepared at the treasury

delphia. Delegates were present from
Massachusetts. Maryland, Ohio and
Connecticut.
Gov. ALTGELD, of Illinois, was hanged
in eflgy by students of the state nor
NAL school at Normal, aided by indig-
nant citizens of Normal and Blooming
ton. The abolishing of the high school
of the normal university was the cause.
HENRY TAYLOR (colored), of Burgette,
Miss, chopped off the heads of his wife
and child with an ak. Jealousy was
the cause.
WILL CHANDLER, a negro, was
lynched at Abbeyville, Miss. for an
attempted assault on Miss Johns, the
daughter of a prominent citizen.
THE third congress of the Universal
Postal union will be held in Washing
ton in May, 1897. The chief object of
the congress is to adjust mail regula-
basis
FOREST fires west of Decatur, Ind,
destroyed thousands of dollars worth
of fences, barns and crops.
THERE are now AT presidential
post offices in the United States. The
salaries of postmasters were increased
in 1867 offices and reduced in 1913 offices
during the past fiscal year.
In a freight train wreck near Bed
ford, Ind, our tramps were killed and
three car loads of cattle were crushed
to death.
The Usage Indians in council at
Guthrie, O.. T, passed a law prohibit
ing negroes living in their country and
making it a crime for any person to
employ them.
FLAMES destroyed a large part of the
business section of the town of Dover,
Me.
The power house and twenty-five
cars belonging to the Seattle (Wash.)
Consolidated Street Railway company
were burned, the loss being 500. 600.
AN appeal was made to the charita-
BILE people of Topeka, Kan. by Judge
c. j. Foster, of the United States dis
trict court, in behalf of the poverty
stricken people in the Cherokee strip
in Oklahoma.
Mrs. W. W. BOND fell down a stair
way in her house at Columbus, o., and
struck her jaw upon the steps in such
a way as to cut her tongue almost in
two.
AUGUST BERGEEMANN was hanged at
Morristown, n. j., for the murder of
his brother Julius, January 10, 1894.
The Consumers Pure Ice company,
one of the largest ice companies in
Chicago, made an assignment with
liabilities of $3.50, 600.
REV. FRANK KING (coloredl killed
Deacon William Toney, also colored,
at Little Rock, Ark. and was lynched
by a crowd of negroes.
AN express train was wrecked near
Houston, Tex, and five persons were
seriously injured.
In a fire at Fail & Co.'S livery stable
in Pittsburgh, Pa, two men lost their
lives and forty-six horses were Gre
mated.
AS A result of his wife's unfaithful-
ly killed Il. b. Kemp, at Toledo, O.,
and then shot himself.
WILLIAM PAYNE, who has been MAX
ing moonshine whisky and shooting at
revenue officers for thirty years. was
arrested for the first time at Green
vile, Tenn.
MEN and women raided the only sa-
loon in Bascom, o., and demolished
everything in sight.
THREE HUNDRED oil wells are to be
drilled at once in West Virginia.
AT a meeting in Omaha of the Junior
Order of Mechanics it was resolved to
establish a national home for widows
and orphans of members, to be located
at Tiffin. o.
In a bottle picked mp at Quintana,
Tex, vas a letter signed ]. Rodgers,
mate of the Aggie e., stating hat the
vessel was wrecked April ?, 1895, off
the coast of Yucatan and its crew of
eight and three passengers lost.
THERE were 22s business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 2lst, against PAL the week
previous and PA in the corresponding
time in 1894.
A GIGANTIC conspiracy was discov-
cred in New York t o burn houses, to
defraud insurance companies and to di-
vide the insurance money.
A H%AILsTORM in Stevens county,
Mimi, did great damage to crops.
JUDGE VI. c. SAUFLEY will try at the
next term of the circuit court in Louis
vile, Ky, an action for breach of prom
ise before a jury of women
The comptroller of the currency au-
thorized the Park national bank of
Cleveland, O., to begin business with a
capital of 100000.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 21st aggregated
Sl,O76. 4l9, 400. against S1,O33, 01O, 496 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was 29.0.
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of Odell, Neb., including the post Of
fee.
HARRY KERvoz, station agent of the
Harlem railway at Philmont, \. Y,
killed his father-in-law, George jacob,
in the station and then blew his own
brains out.
MASKED men held up the cashier of
the bank at Rainy Lake City, Mimi,
and stole $50, 600 and escaped
SEVENTEEN horses, two mules and all