The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-01
MANY factories were DESTROYED by

was sent to the secretary of state.
WILLIAM CoNNELL, who killed Sheriff
George Durham. of Montgomery coun-
tv. Ga. was riddled with bullets by a
pursuing party.
AFREIGHT train ran into the ear end
of a passenger train near Cheyenne,
Wyo., and Engineer August Gray and
Fireman Ed Fuller, both of Denver,
were crushed to death.
BURGLARS blew open the vault Of the
State bank at Oneida, Kan, securing
about 81, 500.
WHILE two young men were fishing
in the Neches river near Crockett,
Tex, their canoe vas attacked by ALI
gators and broken up and the young
men were torn to pieces
GOLD was struck in paying quantities
at Renville, Mimi.
Snow to the depth of a foot fell at
Creole, Col.
Miss KATE JOHNSON, Miss Maud Ny
ers and Charles Wiley were drowned
at bingham, Ill, by the upsetting Of
a raft.
SIXTY horses belonging to the Chi
cago Carette company were burned to
death by a fire in the stables and ten
carettes were also destroyed.
q. Ii. TAGGERT, a wealthy farmer
near Warrensburg, Mo-, was induced
by two men to deposit $500 in a tin
box on an agreement to purchase his
farm and then fed with the money.
A HORSE took fright at the snorting
of an elephant in the parade OF a circus
at Fort Wayne, Ind, and dashed into
the midst of a crowd of women aud
children. killing Mrs. Eliza Lemay, IA
tally ~injuring Mrs. F. Wehner and her
boy and bruising sixteen other per-
sons.
The Western Interstate Baseball
league has gone to pieces.
a TORNADO blew down the st. Mary
hotel and Catholic church and I'M
rooted and damaged forty other houses
at Lockport, Tex, causing a loss of
500. 900.
FOREST fires were raging through the
region east of Superior, Wis, and
great damage was being done.
INSURANCE losses this season up to
May Is were unprecedentedly heavy
on the lakes. The aggregate was $780,
600, as compared with losses last season
up to the same date of S136, 600.
REPORTS from the vast wheat farms
of the northwest, in Minnesota and the
Dakotas, show that the wheat crop is
not only uninjured, but actually is in
better than the average condition.
A BILL passed the Michigan legisla-
ture making it unlawful for II per-
son to treat another to liquor in any
public place in the state. 1t also pro-
hibits the selling CT liquor for such
purposes
AT the encampment in Green Bav
ex-Gov. W. d. Hoard a elected de-
partment commander of the Wisconsin
&. \. K.
The Kickapoo Indian lands in Okla
homa were thrown open for settlement
and it was estimated that not less than
20. 900 persons joined in the rush.
The Charles A. Wood company, ex-
tensive dealers in builders supplies at
Cleveland, failed for 100000.
IL a fit of jealousy Mrs. Anna An
nable shot and killed her husband in
Chicago and then put a bullet into her
own heart.
THOMAS IRVING. a wealthy farmer
neal Lebanon, Ind, mistook his eldest
son for a burglar and shot him fatally.
The sound money and better bank
ing facilities" convention met at Mem
phis. Tenn. and was addressed by Sec
rotary Carlisle.
The director of the mint estimates the
production of gold by the mines of the
United States during the calendar year
1894 at $50, SOC, 900, an increase over
1893 of S. 800, 900. The production of
silver was S64. 600, 900, a decrease as
compared with 1893 Of 10, 500, 900
ounces
CLAUDE THOMPSON (colored) was
lynched at Dekoven, Ky, for attempt
ed assault on q 13-year-old white girl.
The secretary of war was officially
informed that the Indians in Arizona
We're restless and that a feeling of in
security prevailed.
A GASOLINE explosion in a house at
Omaha, Neb.. killed William Henry
and his wife and Mrs. Il. 5. Osborn.
AT Jersey City, y. j., Commodore
Ballington Booth, of the Salvation
army. and his wife, Maude Elizabeth
Booth. became citizens of the United
States. They declared their intentions
five years ago.
JERIDE SHIvERs (colored), who as
saulted a young white girl near Mont
gomery, Ala, was taken to the river
by a mob and drowned.
DURING the week ended on the 18th
fires in the United States caused a
total loss of 81. 43s, sos. against S3,O32,-
O55 for the preceding week.
KILLING frosts were reported in fix
teen different states of the west and
northwest.
CHARLES, Andrew and Robert Smith,
brothers. at work in a coal mine in
Winfield, w. Va, were caught under a
fall of slate and killed.
IT was stated at the department of
justice in Washington hat nothing
could be done to keep the United States
courts going as congress failed to make
an adequate appropriation.
FARMERS in Porter county, Ind,
claimed that nearly half the wheat
crop had been killed by the Hessian
fly.
SAMUEL ECHoLs, Sim Crowley and