The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-05-18
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

with a razor and then drowned him
self Jealousy was the cause.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States On the 9th was: Wheat,
b2, 196, 600 bushels; corn, 9,554, 900 bush
els; oats, $4,000 bushels; rye, $4,000
bushels; barley, 4o2 900 bushels
NEARLY 10000 vorkmen were idle in
St. Louis on account of the combined
strike of the hod-carriers and brick
yard employees
The town of Dayton, Tenn, was
ruined by a cloudburst
IL a discussion over textbooks in a
school house near Como, Col, Benja-
min Radcliffe shot and killed Samuel
E. Taylor, L. F. McCurdy and George
D. Wyatt, constituting the school
board.
JOHN SwEDYKE and Abram de Mees-
ter celebrated de Meester's 10th birth
day at Grand Rapids, Mich, by going
IN swimming and both were drowned.
HOUSES were swept away and many
horses, cattle and hogs were drowned
by a cloudburst at Harrington, Kan.
AT Butte, Mont, City Treasurer
Simon Jacobs committed suicide on the
day that his term of Office expired. He
was said to be short $50 200.
ARTHUR LOOMS, aged 30, and Miss
Alzora B~roekway, aged %, took their
own lives with poison in a hotel at
Rome, n. Y.
ARGUMENTS were begun in Washing
ton before the supreme court in the re-
opened income tax case.
THE census of the city Of Buffalo, n.
T., shows the population to be 335, 700.
IN attempting to cross Denton creek,
near New Orleans, La, Peter Haron-
son, his wife and daughter were
drowned.
THE Utah constitutional convention
adopted the constitution as a whole.
FIRE destroyed NJ. Strauss & Sons
tannery and other property in Buffalo,
n. Y, the total loss being s25O,OOO.
HARRY CHESTER, known as the hoy
pedestrian" left Chicago on a tramp
around the world. He will take the
eastward route, and expects to accom-
plish the walk in thi4ty months
A TELEGRAM from Newton, Kan, says
that twenty-five families rendered
homeless by a recent cyclone are badly
In need of help.
Ex-MAYoR POTTER, of Yankton, S. D.,
dropped dead while moving his lawn.
REPUBLICAN members of the Tennes-
see legislature decided to visit Evans
at Chattanooga, instead Of attending
the Inauguration Of Turney as gov
ernor.
PRESIDENT SETH Low, of Columbia
college New York, gave that institu-
ton 81, zoo, 900.
THREE HUNDRED of the leading manu-
facturers of Georgia met at Atlanta
and organized a state manufacturers
association.
WILLIAM 2. FARMHOUSE vas indicted
at New Orleans for importing lottery
tickets. 1t is a test case, the first one
under the Hoar law passed by the last
congress.
EIGHT members Of a green goods
gang were arrested at Hillsdale, Mich.
BOURBON WILKES, the great trotting
sire owned by James Miller, at Sunny
Side, neal Paris. KY, died from abscess
of the lungs.
The forty-sixth annual convention of
the American Medical association
opened at Baltimore with delegates
present from every state in the union.
CHARLES GARRETT was hanged at
Lebanon, Pa. for numbering his wife.
FIVE of the largest coal mining COM
panies in northern Illinois have COM
bined in a fight for business against
their competitors in other sections.
THE little historic church built by
Gen. Andrew jackson and his wife
near the hermitage, Nashville, Tenn,
was badly damaged by a storm.
The annual report of the Ohio food
commission showed that out of 1929
of food analysed $40 were
The census of Des Moines Ia, shows
a population of 10000, an increase of
10000 since 1890.
A TRAIN on the Fort Wayne road
from Crestline, o., to Chicago, a
distance of 149 miles, in 2 hours and 46
minutes.
MARY SMELLING and her sister Edna
were drowned at Dardanelle, Ark, by
the capsizing of a boat.
Four HUNDRED striking employees of
the Illinois Steel company at South
Chicago created a riot in which many
of the rioters were injured by the po-
ice and twenty-six were arrested.
THE international convention. of the
Mems Christian association be-
at Springfield, Mass, 500 delegates,
representing nearly forty states and
territories, being present.
SIX persons were fatally burned by
he explosion of a gasoline stove and
he fire which followed in a sweat-shop
It Baltimore, Nd.
The first national cat show ever held
n this country opened in Madison
garden, New York.
THIRTEEN of the largest manufactur-
RS of shoes in Cincinnati met and de-
.ided to advance the price of shoes from
en- to twenty-five cents a pair.
FIVE of the largest coal mining COM
in northern Illinois have formed
combination.
Two ROAD agents caught a stage load
II San Franciscoans on their way L the
resorts of Lake county, Cal,
md robbed them of 81, 300.
The SEVENTEEN annual meeting of
he American Tract society was held
q New York