The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-15
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC,

toga, n. Y, concluded with the seven
ty-frst annual meeting of the Amer
lean Baptist Publication society.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Sd was: Wheat,
SO ,229, 900 bushels; r 10, 762, 900 bush
els; oats, $685. 900 bushels; rye, 1885,
o bushels: barley, IOO,0 900 bushels.
THE national headquarters of the
Salvation Army were formally dedi-
Gated in New York city.
GEORGE JAMES and Webster Ziegler
were killed by lightning at Plowville,
Pa.
ELEVEN persons died in New York
on the Sd from sunstroke, seven in
Philadelphia, five in Pittsburgh, four
in Baltimore and four in Chicago. All
over the country excessive heat was
reported.
FRANK SHELDON arrived in New York,
having walked from Chicago in TWEEN
ty-five days on a 81, 900 wager. cutting
off five days from the previous record.
PETER RICHARD KENRICK, archbishop
of st. Louis, was deposed by Pope Leo
XIII, the reason being given as men
tai infirmity."
The First national bank of Pella, Ia,
closed its doors.
IT was announced that Richard Oh
ney, of Boston, at present attorney
general, would succeed the late Wal
ter Q. Gresham as secretary of state.
Mrs. A. NJ. CRIssMoRE and her daugh-
ter we're killed in a runaway accident
at Georgetown, Ind.
JOSEPH BENTON, of Metropolis, Ill, a
preacher who had been blind from
birth, suddenly received his sight.
TERRIFIC forest fires were sweeping
through northern Pennsylvania. The
inhabitants of several towns were
forced to flee from their burning
homes, and it was feared that many
had persisted.
THE treasury circulation statement
for May shows that on June 1 the cir
culation of all kinds of money in the
United States aggregated 81 COG, IFS, $50,
an increase since May l last of Sc, 745 :
402. The decrease in circulation since
June l, 1894. is $50, 400, 900
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men in session at Galesburg. Ill, elect
ed P. II. Mooney as grand master.
THE entire family of Henry Buch-
void, seven in number, were taken
into custody at Cleveland, charged
with insanity.
r. V. BAILEY, Frank Jefferies, Sam
uel Mundy and c. NJ. Reveal lost their
lives in a railroad accident neal Ok
ford, Neb.
The United States Cordage company,
one of the largest trusts in the coun-
try, with a capital of SS4, 600, 600, went
into the hands of a receiver in Boston.
BERT ELDER and his wife and two
children and Mrs. Sherwin and child
and Mrs. Powell and child were
drowned near Douglas, Wyo., while
crossing a river.
By a decision in the supreme court
of Indiana prize fighting in the state
will be stopped for all time to come.
A DowNPoUR of rain quenched the
fires in the vicinity of Bradford, Pa.
The total loss was placed at 81, 900. 600.
The United States supreme court adj
journed for the summer.
WILLIAM ZERBY and his wife were
terribly whipped by a mob neal Elk
hart, Ind, for abusing a child, and
driven from the county.
STRIKING miners attacked nonunion
men of the Gaylord Coal company's
works at Wheeling, W. Va, and beat
twenty of them in a terrible ann
JACOB DAHLsTRoM and Frank Alger
were made blind by a premature blast
at Two Harbors, Mimi.
TWELVE illicit distilleries which had
been in operation nea Sergeant, KY,
for several years were destroyed by
revenue officers.
DURING a high wind in Cincinnati
houses were unroofed. trees snapped,
fences were torn down and glass win
dows were blown in all over the city.
Mrs. NELLIE POPE was sentenced in
Detroit to life Imprisonment for muir
dering her husband on February -
last to secure his life insurance.
JOHN MULLoCK, of Fountain Hill,
Pa, was shot and killed by Jacob
Lucky and the murderer then COM
committed suicid. Luck! was jealous
of Mullock.
The Home Protective Building and
Loan association of Pittsburgh, Pa,
was closed by the state bank examiner.
FIRE in the grain elevator attached
to the Ballantine brewery at Newark,
n. j., caused a loss of S25O,OOO.
The $50, 900 in gold bars missing from
the mint at Carson, New, were found
at the residence of William PIckler, an
employee.
AT the first annual Episcopalian con-
yention held in Ann Arbor, Mich,
Bishop Davies, of Detroit, said the S
tom of raising church money by fairs
or frivolous entertainments was often
sive and wicked.
EUGENE BUSH. of Enid, o. T, COM
pleted a fast of forty days as a special
preparation for the ministry in a new
fanatical religion and soon after be-
came q rsving maniac.
A NoNPARTIsAN state silver confer
ence was held in Des Moines, Ia, and
resolutions were adopted favoring the
free coinage of silver at 16 to l without
waiting for international action.
FATHER MCMAHoN, pastor of the
Catholic church at Cherry Mound, Ia,
drowned while bathing in the
OsCARC. FISHER shot and killed Hugh
McAfee, a constable, in Detroit, Mich
Fisher says they quarreled and he shot
in ~self-defense.
A BICYCLE relay race between Chi