The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-06

OS July l next IWeutE-SA poSC
fees, because of increased receipts,
will be made presidential Offices.
A CYCLONE at Baird, Tex. destroyed
several buildings and killed three per-
sons.
TON ALLEN. Bob Smith and Bob
Jesse. train hands, were killed in 3
freight wreck on the Central railroad
near Milledgeville, Ga.
WILLIAM KOUTH fatally wounded his
wife at Richmond, Ind, set fire to the
house, and then cut his OWL throat and
died.
CITY MARSHAL WILLIAMS and K. w.
Patterson. register ofthe United States
land office, were both killed in a shoot
ing affair at South Enid, o. 7.
BY the explosion of a miniature can
non at Omaha E. n. Dedreich was
killed and George Watt was fatally in
jured. Both were railroad employees.
WILLIAMS college held its one hun
dred and first commencement at Will
Jamestown, Mass. An unusual num-
Der of alumni were in attendance.
LOUIS BLANCHARD. 16 years old; Al
bert Birkel, u, and William Birkel, IL
years, were drowned al Seattle, Wash.
The fifth meeting of the %interna-
tional railway congress was opened IN
London by the prince of Wales.
The biennial session of the interna-
tional supreme lodge of the Independ-
ent Order of Good Templars opened in
Boston. The total membership of the
order in this country is now 56O,G05.
The first cargo of Egyptian sugar
ever brought to this country arrived at
Laurel, Del, on the British steamer
Daylight.
SIX firemen were killed and ten hurt
in a fire at Minneapolis that caused a
loss of 500, 900 to Mcdonald Bros ::
dealers in crockery, chinaware, glass
ware and silverware.
TIE B. & NJ. Packing company went
into the hands of a receiver at Denver
with liabilities of 500, 000.
MICHAEL MCDoNoUGH, aged GO, was
hanged in the penitentiary at Column
bus, O., for the murder of his wife at
Kenton on September 8, 1894.
The international conference of the
Epworth league met at Chattanooga,
Tenn, with $4,000 delegates present.
VOLCANIC disturbances were reported
in the Cocopah country of Lower Cali
fornia.
THE supreme court of Ohio declared
the law taxing inheritances byrdirect
heirs unconstitutional.
TWENTY-THREE officers of the Cotton
Screwmen's association of New Orleans
were indicted for the recent riots.
A TORNADO at Put-in-Bay island tore
down walls and uprooted trees and
summer campers on the island were
terror-Stricken.
A CYCLONE struck Keysville, Ga, and
all the houses were either demolished
or badly wrecked.
AT bethlehem, Pa, John S. johnson
made the fastest time on record in a
competitive professional bicycle race.
1t wa a half-mile handicap, and John
son rode the distance in 1:031a.
In an old skirt belonging to the late
Mrs. Augusta Keller, of Lexington,
Mo, members Of the family found So
600 in g~reenbacks. .
AN appeal was issued by the Irisf
National Federation of America fol
money to carry on the home rule cam
paign in Ireland.
ANTHONY PAoLI and John Tursick
rivals for the affections of Rosina Du
bach, fought a duel in the woods neal
Shamokin, Pa, using clubs for wea
pons, and both were fatally hurt.
The Fargo q. D. divorce colony wa
augmented by the arrival of Mrs. j. j
Corbett, wife of the champion heavy
weight pugilist.
SENATORS VOORHEES, and Turpie pre-
pared papers to file in court to test the
last Indiana Legislative apportionment
The expenditures for the four year
of civilian administration of the wealth
err bureau are estimated at S3,39S, O90.
THE boiler in the sawmill OF a. II
Croker, near Byron Center, Mich.
exploded, killing Arthur Barney ant
Martin Skinner and fatally %inJurin!
Avery Crocker.
IN an experiment with electricity a
a motive power on the Nantasket Beacl
Mass road a speed of so miles an hou
was attained.
Al FIRE that started in II. I. Clarke
wholesale drug house at Lincoln, Neb.
caused a loss OF S150,O O0.
JOHN W. FOSTER, ~ex-secretary @
state, who went to China last Decem
Der as legal adviser to China in tn
peace negotiations with Japan, re
ceived from China u fee of S25O,OOO.
In a quarrel over a division of PROF
= erty at Webster Grove, Mo-, DIR. Fran
: Settle shot and killed Mrs. Jane Peter
= son, his s~ister-in-law, Mrs. Peterson
sister. Mrs. Horish, and then kille
himself.
/ ALL the saloons in New York cit
: were closed on Sunday by order c
President Roosevelt, of the polio
t board.
. JOSEPH COLLINS and three brother
: named Brent were killed by an eXplC
s sion of a boiler in Moses sawmill a
Y Spring Hill, Ark.
Two THOUSAND kegs of giant powde
I stored in Fishers mills at Krebb's st;
S ton. Pa, exploded, destroying sever;
buildings, some a mile distant.
By the explosion of a steam-valve i
S the ~whaleback steamer Christopher c.
r Iumbus off Waukegan, ILL.,, two me
were killed and twelve others were il
iured.
BY the breaking Of a wheel on
< Dartmouth and Westport Mass stree
: railwav oar thirty persons were badl