The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-05
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

PAA,ooo,oVO, was SOLD at auction Tor
BOO, 900.
ROBERT BIRD and John Spaun were
killed and three men fatally hurt by
b explosion of the boiler of a grist-
mill at Bonayr, Ky.
RINGLEADERs of the gang which
robbed David Slocum and wife of Erie,
Pa, Of $4,000 after t~orturing them,
were captured.
THE funeral Of ex-senator Alcorn at
Eagles Nest, Miss, was attended by
BOO snegroes, the majority of whom
were his former slaves.
f. thieves entered a barber shop
in St Louis and stole a pocketbook be-
longing to Michael Doran containing
e2s, 900.
-FOUR concerns doing business in
Milwaukee failed with liabilities ag-
~gregating s195, 900.
CHRISTMAS editions of the San Fran
cisco Examiner and the Rocky Noun
tain News of Denver were issued by
society women.
AT Vineland. n. j., a fast express
train collided with a carriage and
killed three o. the occupants
WHILE skating in a park at st. Paul
three students of the St Paul college
broke through the ice and were
drowned.
The original manuscript of Amer
lea" was sent to the pope by David
Pells Secor for deposit in the vatican
library.
SAMUEL L. SEELY. who stole 1854, 900
from tho Shoe orl IaoxLa- ho-1r IS
New York, was sentenced to a term of
eight years.
The body of ex-Sheriff James R.
Curry. who had died from some pc
culiar disease, was stolen from it's grave
at Greenwood, Ind.
JOHN E. BITTELL and his wife were
arrested at St. Joe, Mo-, charged with
being the leaders of a band of counter
feiters.
MRS. KELLER, Of English, Ind, in
burning some old letters destroyed
81, 400, the total proceeds of the sale OF
her home.
AT Huntsville, Ala, Mrs Ida Ross
was given a verdict Of SIC, 600 against
the Western Union Telegraph company
for failure to deliver a message to her
husband.
MRS. MYRTLE SIMPSON poisoned her
self at Peoria, Ill, because of her hus-
bands fondness for a 6-year-old daugh-
ter by a former wife.
EUGENE V. DEBs and other members
of the American Railway union were
granted q stay of sentence in Chicago
until January g..
Gov. PENNOYER, of Oregon, sent an
appeal to President Cleveland to with
draw his opposition to the free coinage
of silver.
GEORGE ROBERTS, given a life SEN
tence at Terre Haute, Ind, for train
wrecking, says he was promised i'm
munity for aiding the authorities to
convict his associates.
A NEGRO named Benjamin was
lynched by a mob at Ocala, Fla, for
assaulting a white woman.
On the ground that the act is Illegal,
the income tax law will again be
fought in the United States senate.
WEARIED of waiting for a lover who
had deserted her years ago on Christ
mas day, Miss Miller. of Johnstown,
Pa, ended her life.
JUDGE WALL, of Leadville, says that
there is no law in Colorado prohibit
ing a man from burning his own honse.
WHILE eating Christmas dinner at
the home of a friend in Rockford, Ill,
Henry r. Evans was taken i'll and died
within a few hours.
CHARLES EDWARD DUFFEE, the ball
player, better known as Home Run
Duffee," died at Mobile, Ala, from con-
sumption.
NEARLY 1000, 600 feet of lumber and
twenty loaded railway cars were de-
stroyed by fire at Burlington, VT, the
loss being $3.50, ZOO.
MANY farmers and merchants were
financially ruined by the failure of the
Citizens stock bank and Slater savings
bank at Slater, Mo.
The state normal college for girls at
Livingstone, n of the most prosper
u institutions d Alabama, was
burned.
A HEAVY snowstorm ragged from Ne
braska 70 the Atlantic coast
EDWARD r. CARTER, for Twenty-Five
years a clerk in the National bank of
of New York, confessed to
embezzling $50, 600.
WILLIAM S. WHITMAN, of Winooski,
Vt, shot and killed his wife and two
boys and then committed suicide. Do
mestic trouble was the cause.
A. W. ALTON, of New Jerusalem,
Tex, when arrested in New Orleans
upon the charge of insanity said he
was on the way to Washington to kill
the president.
EIGHTEEN persons were seriously in
jured in a collision between passenger
trains at Waxahachie. Tex.
ALIX failed in an effort to lower her
record at Los Angeles, trotting a mile
in 2:O5k. The 2-year-old Directly
paced a mile in pos.
The largest single mail ever brought
across the Atlantic arrived in New
York on the steamer Majestic. 1t was
in 1.oT2 bags.
ANNIE FREEZE, a 15-year-old girl. was
abducted from the home of her grand
father near Hicksville, O., by unknown
persons
EX-CAPT. STEPHENSON, of New York
the first of the police officials convicted
as a result of the Lexow investigation,
was sentenced to three years and nine
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