The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28

mad fOundered IN n recent terrllc gaze
on the ocean
Nine of the crew of the new Ameri-
can line steamship st. Paul were killed
by the bursting of Il steampipe in the
starboard engine-roopI in New York.
in the schools of Buffalo, y. Y. the
presidents message was read and its
import explained TO the children.
President Mayer, of the baltimore &
Ohio Railroad company, rendered his
resignation and it was accepted.
In the United States circuit court at
New Orleans Judge Pardec declared
that the sugar bounty law was consti-
t%utional.
John Hunter made 90 balls in contin-
uous pool at the Plaza club in Chicago.
This beats the worlds record by eight
points.
John F. KitzmiIler, one OF the best
known horsemen in eastern Ohio,
failed ut Canton for $1,000
y bicycle that goes a mile Il minute
is the :aventioh OF J. A. Ferguson, a
Cincinnati machinist.
All the 1908 coal miners in the InGian
territory went on Il strike.
Experiments at Duluth. Mimi. demon
strated that potatoes could be treated
and preserved i'll much the same name
as apples.
The legislature Of Virginia refused to
give the go"crnor enlarged powers to
order out troops to prevent lynching.
Rensselaer, Trip, aged %, a farmer
living near Cortland, y. y, shot and
killed his neighbor, George Calpin, aged
-. and then shot himself.
High water did great damage in Fo;t
Scott and other portions of Kansas.
where rain had been falling for A.
hours.
Fire in New York caused n loss of
S25O.OOG to clothing, art and plate glass
manufacturers.
y locomotive with a train attached
a away near Mount Carmel, Pa, end
four men were fatally injured and zine
others were badly hurt.
\ cyclone swept over the country
four miles north of Sherman, Tex.
doing immense damage.
\ family named Bergman, residing
in Dubuque, Ia, were notified that they
worth 81 1000. 900.
The National Editorial association is
to meet in St. Augustine, Fla, JAN
uary II.
The heaviest rainstorm in the his !
tory of Chicago flooded streets in the
city, electric car tracks were under
water, people in the suburbs were
driven to the upper floors of their
dwellings, and the furnace fires OF
residences and big manutac-
tories were eXtinguished by the waters.
The ante-mortem statement of Harry
T. Hayward, hanged recently in Mime
apolis for the murder of Catherine
Cling, says that he took the lives of four
other persons before that of Miss Cling,
and that ne never got into trouble until
he began to gamble.
Theodore Lambert (colored) was
hanged in the Jail at Camden, Pa, Tor
the murder of William q. Xavier on De
/. 1893. ,
Erastus Wiman, of New York, serv-
ing a term of five years in prison on the
made by Il. G.. Dun & Co. of
was liberated by the court OF
appeals.
Mrs. Gen. Grant celebrated the open
ing of her new home recently pu--
chased in Washington.
Arrests made by secret service Off
in Kansas City, St. Louis and Paoia,
resulted in the seizure Of $4,000
IN counterfeit SO silver certificates and
he breaking up OF a gang of counter
y tire-damp explosion in a coal mine
pear Raleigh, y. G., killed 43 men.
American III celebrated the
centennial of its liberty in New York
Oy a banquet at DelmOnicO's.
Collections of internal revenue for
the five months OF the current fiscal
aggregate S64,i23,41S, a decrease
If SS,124.2s7 as compared with the cor
period of 1894.
In Washington Mgr. Satolli, apos-
Ole delegate TO the United States. be-
anne Cardinal Satolli, a member of the
;acred college of cardinals and a prince
IF the Roman Catholic church.
William p. Harrison, of Chicago, ar
lived in San Francisco from an extend
d trip of the antipodes. During his
;tay on the Samoan islands he states
hat % individuals were devoured by
he cannibals and hat he narrowly es-
Il like fate.
Secretary Carlisle estimates that it
will cost $4lS, O91, 073.17 to run this gov
during the e fiscal year.
The appropriations for the present
'ear made by the last congress amount
SIP, 53.264.s1.
While playing on the ice at Indianap-
Ills John Horhamer, aged ten, and Otto
aged seven, cousins, were
Irowned.
Al Stinson and William Davis, white
leaders at Anderson, Ind, were sem
enced to six years in the pe~nitentiary.
At Syracuse. n. Y, Clearwater won
he pool championship of the world. de-
Keogh, of Binghamton.
The principal business portion Of
y. C.. was destroyed by fire.
Figures on the racing season of 1895
n the United States show that $685.
40 was earned by horses placed in the
,3G2 events decided during the year.
James b. Pace, president of tie Plant