The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-02
DOMESTIC,

IHE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
sO,374,O 900 bushels; corn, L, 651, 900 bush
els; oats, 6,353,OO0 bushels; rye, 353, 900
bushels; barley, 1865, 600 bushels.
The third Wyoming legislature fin
ished its work and adjourned.
FIRE consumed the large breaker of
William Cornell & Co. at Connellton,
Pa, the loss being 100000. Six hun
bred persons were thrown out of EN-
ployment-
THE Asbury hospital at Minneapolis
was damaged by fire. The thirty pa
tients were safely carried out.
A 13-YEAR-oLD boy created a sensa-
ton during revival services in an In
dianapolis church by claiming to have
seen Heaven in a vision.
The centennial anniversary of the
birth of George Peabody, the banker
and philanthropist, was celebrated at
Peabody, Mass, and at other places.
ALL the cigarmakers at Marti City,
Fla, went out on strike because a
teacher refused to admit colored chill
dren to the free school,.
Ten negroes overcome with cold fell
from a raft into the river at Sherry,
Ga, and were drowned.
CONGRESS will be asked to establish a
uniform electrical unit to agree with
that adopted by Great Britain, Ger
many and France.
JOHN BRABITs and his son James
were killed by the fall of a tree near
Montgomery, MINI.
Mrs. NEHRING and two of her chill
bren were frozen to death near Aber-
deem, 5. ID.
THE second t%riennial session of the
National Council of Women of the
United States began in Washington,
Mrs. May Wright Sewall, its president,
calling the meeting to order.
THE North Carolina legislature passed
a 6 per cent. interest bill.
TIE tenth annual convention of the
National Electric Light association be-
gan in Cleveland.
The fourteenth annual convention
of the League of American Wheelmen
met in New York.
FooD and clothing were distributed
by the state to $50 destitute families
in Burnett county WIS.
THOMAS DURANT, the lone highway
man who held up a stage near Oroville,
Cal, was captured and sentenced to
life Imprisonment.
HIS bride assaulted and his own life
threatened, John Patrowski, of West
Hammond, Ind, shot John Kovoiak
and Kyme Kovloski, killing the former.
UrD n nrNnruSn% - NF,-z-
Mich, who suffered Imprisonment for
burglary in preference to bringing dis
honor on a woman. has been pardoned
by the governor.
The fourth congress of the national
society of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution began in Washington.
GEORGE w. BURTON, who, helpless
from paralysis, was frozen to death in
a cabin near Dubuque, Ia, left a pa
thetic record of his sufferings.
WILLIAM MILLER, a ~13-year-old In
dianapolis schoolboy, took arsenic be-
cause he had been whipped for DISC
bedience.
A RESOLUTION advising the abolition
of football was adopted at a meeting of
the faculty of Harvard university.
A PLOT to kidnap the eldest son of
George Gould from his home at Lake
wood, n. j., was discovered and frus-
trated.
THE attorney general of Illinois has
rendered an opinion that women are
eligible to appointment as members of
boards of directors in town or city
libraries.
JOHN c. WARNER, a wood chopper,
and his wife and three children were
found frozen to death in their cabin
near Irondale. Mo.