The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16
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the death penalty for murder.
Bank clearings of the leading United
States cities show a total increase of
11.9 per cent for last week.
In committee of the whole the House
voted to place individual clerks of
members on the annual salary roll.
Isaac w. Baldwin, of Dubuque, a
member of the Iowa senate and editor
of the Cascade Pioneer, is dead.
Queen Liliuokalani has formerly abb
Dictated the throne of Hawaii in favor
of the republic, and seeks mercy.
By a vote of Sc to % the Senate de-
cided to lay a cable to Hawaii and
appropriated $500, 600 to begin the
work.
The Democratic majority in the
Senate has been eliminated by the
entrance of Clarence D. Clark, of
Wyoming.
Two women were arrested in Chica-
go on a charge of Stimulating injuries
and swindling railroad companies.
Two cigarmakers of Huntington,
Ind. started for a sleighride and we're
found several hours later fatally
frozen.
George w. Van Horne, editor of
the News-Tribune and postmaster of
Muscatine, Iowa, is dead, aged 81
years.
James Robinson Boise, professor
emeritus of Greek al the University of
Chicago, is dead at the age of so.
Oytumway, Iowa, is in darkness,
fish having crippled the waterworks
system by forcing their way into the
pumps.
y measure f%orbidding state, county
or city officials to accept railroad
passes, was killed by the Indiana
legislature.
President Cleveland, as arbitrator
between Brazil and Argentina, award
ed the HISTORIES territory to the
former.
Great damage was done by the storm
on Chesapeake Bay. Many oyster
boats we're wrecked and loss of life is
feared.
China t~elegraphed to her peace en-
voys full powers to act in the negotia-
tons with Japan for a settlement of the
war.
Dun's review of trade says the COM
merc!al world is expecting the sale of
bonds to greatly improve trade condl-
tions.
In the Illinois Legislature a bill has
been introduced to force the Illinois
Central railrald to sell $50, 900 acres of
land.
Psychical society Of st. Joe, Mo-,
hypnotized Mrs. Ella Churchill's son
several times. Result, he is losing
his mind.
Thomas Jeffries, while returning to
his home three miles from Joliet, ILL.,.
was frozen to death sitting in his
sleigh.
Owing to the intense anti-foreign
feeling in the Shan Tung Peninsula,
American missionaries are fleeing for
safety.
A tidal wave swept the North At
lantic coast Thursday carrying away
hundreds of houses and causing great
loss of life.
knights of Pythlas have decided to
to build a sanitorium for members at
Hot Springs, Ark, which will cost
about $500, 900.
United States officers have discovered
that Italians have flooded the coke re-
gions of Pennsylvania with bogus
money.
Employees of the late Pacific bank,
San Francisco, testify to the crooked
ness Of II. H. Mcdonald, jr., and his
brother.
Running short of coal, the steamer
Maverick abandoned her barge with
its crew of ten men and made Bayonne
harbor.
Judge Toney, Louisville Law and
court, decides that directors
are not responsible for losses sustain
ed by a bank.
Republi can leaders in the West talk
OF making Hawaiian annexation the
leading issue in the next Presidential
Millions of dollars worth of orange
and other fruit trees have been de-
in Florida by the intensely
cold weather.
John S. Stevens, of Peoria, attorney
for the whisky trust, says the members,
one exception, are brokers and
gamblers.
By claiming that he is suffering from
insanity the defense in the
Hayward trial hope to discredit Adry's
testimony.
H. B. Rowlson, formerly of the
Michigan legislature, died of heart
disease at Mobile, Ala, where he was
spending the winter.