The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-09
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

John Crawford, a farmer, who lived
- miles southeast of Huron, S. D., was
frozen TO death.
II. H. Holmes, or Herman w. Mud
gett, was put on trial in Philadelphia
for the murder of Benjamin +. Pitzel
in that city on September ?, 1894.
Henry billiard, a negro who assaulted
and then murdered Mrs. Caroline Bell
near Tyler. TeN.,w captured by a mob,
taken to Tyler and burned to death in
the public square.
The First national bank of La Grange,
Tex, closed its doors with liabilities of
$66,S55.
The Lagonda hotel and several bust
ness buildings were burned at SPRING
field, o., the total loss being 100000.
EX-City Treasurer Boggs, of Ia
coma, Wash, who held office from 1850
10 1894, was said to be an embezzler TO
the extent of 100000 and was arrested
at Jacksonville, Ore.
Comptroller of the Treasury Bowler
decided that congressmen-elect are not
entitled to government stationery until
they have taken the oath of office.
George Ii. Smith. who murdered Philip
Eichmeyer at Albany, and Charles X.
Davis, who outraged and killed siA-year-
old Maggie Shannon at COhoes, were
killed in the electric chair at Clinton
prison in Dannemora, Ny.
Col. George W. Cole, aged 50, president
of the Bankers and Merchants Protect
i've association and a prominent MEM
Der of the g. A. r., was killed by a street
cable train in Chicago.
At Columbia, S. c., the constitutional
convention voted down the woman's
suffrage amendment by a vote of l21
to &c.
Thousands of acres of valuable tim
Der land in Livingston, Genesee, Wayne
and Seneca counties, y. Y, were ruined
by forest fires.
Isador H. Sultzbach, an extensive
dealer in clothing in Philadelphia,
failed for 100000
Passenger trains on the Union Pacific
road collided in st. Louis and the two
engineers, Eugene Campron and John
Harper, were killed outright, the two
firemen, George True and George Dun
bar, were fatally injured, and six other
persons were badly wounded.
Word was received at Cuban head
quarters in New York of the safe land
ing in Cuba of the expedition under
Carlos II. Cespedes which left Phila-
delphia October 20.
At Chillicothe, o., ". ". Windle cut
the half-mile bicycle record from 81 to
As seconds.
E. L. Craig, an aeronaut, of Sturgis.
Mich, fell 200 feet from his balloon az
Hancock. Md. and was fatally injured
Gov. Clarke, of Arkansas, ordered the
First regiment Of state militia to be
ready to proceed to Hot Springs to pre-
simmons and Corbett. Fitzsimmous
was arrested at Fulton and taken 10
Little Rock, where he would be put
under heavy bonds TO keep the peace.
Commissioner William l.. Lochren,
of the pension office, in his annual re-
port shows that the number of pension
ers, June 80, 1895, was 970,404. The
appropriation for the year vas $780,
100000, and there IA paid during the
year $13S, sO7,3 3
The First National bank of McGregor,
Tex. was robbed by burglars of $4,000.
The business portion of the village
of Henderson, Mich, was wiped out by
fire, the work of a tramp.
In his annual report Capt.W. T. Samp-
son, chief of the naval ordnance bureau,
submits estimates aggregating $6,457,-
5S4 for the next fiscal year.
The largest bell in the world was cast
in Cincinnati for the Catholic church
of St. Francis de Sales in that city. 1t
weighs Is tons.
Returns compiled by the Iowa state
census bureau show that there are So
cities IN the state having a popula-
ton of 1000 or more. Des Moines is
the largest and Dubuque comes next.
Four hundred acres of timber and 300
acres of corn were destroyed by fire
near Monteville, Mo.
At Lead City, S. D., Fred Crocker muir
dered Miss Louise Johnson and blew his
own brains out. They were lovers and
quarreled.
L. A. Shakman & Co, one of the larg-
est firms dealing in clothing in Milwau-
kee in the wholesale trade, failed for
100000.
\ monument to Gen. Grant at Wash
ington, D. c., is al object that the So
ciety of the Army of the Tennessee will
ask the next congress to make an appro-
priatioT for.
In the Holmes trial in Philadelphia
Mrs. Carrie PitzeI told how her hus-
band and two little girls were spirited
away from her and murdered.
The president and secretary of war
have changed the name of Sandy Hook
to Fort Hancock, in honor of the late
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock.
DIR. Wray Grayson, of Washington,
PA, says antitoxin is a cure for lockjaw.
Fire destroyed eight business build
ings at Miller's Falls. Mass, the loss be-
ing over 100000.