The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-05-11

what was needed TO start crops grow
ing.
THE treasury statement of receipts
and expenditures during April shows
receipts of SPA. 247, s36 and disburse-
ments of $50. 800. 676.
ROBERT KLoTs. who represented the
Mauch Chunk pa district in the
Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh con-
crosses, died at the age of rs years
The will of Aquilla J.. Cheney, a
wealthy planter who lived neal At
lanta. leaves 5000, 900 to Mercer uni
versity of Georgia for the education of
poor young boys
The sixth annual national congress
of Sons of American Revolution opened
at Boston.
THE first use of nickel steel boiler
plates will be made in the cruiser Chi
cago, which is getting new machinery.
THE Utah constitutional convention
adopted an amendment declaring the
act to punish polygamy in force.
Work was suspended by the 30. 300
Ohio miners in the Massillon district
and would not be resumed until a scale
for one year was made and signed.
A CYCLONE struck near the little
town of Patterson, Kan. and as a re-
suit ten persons were dead, twenty-five
injured, twenty house RACED and
many barns and buildings destroyed
and cattle. horses and hogs killed.
THE ~3-year-old twins of Mr.. and Mrs
George Lowskowski were burned to
death heal South Bend, Ind.
FURTHER particulars of the cyclone
at Newton, Kan, indicated that the
death list would probably reach fifteen
or twenty. There were about as many
badly injured.
SLAUGHTER KID-an 'Bitter Creek"
two notorious outlaws who partici-
pated in the recent train robbery neal
Dover. Kan, were killed by officers.
OVER 5000 cotton mill employees were
on a strike at Providence, K. L.
IN Judge Maye's court at Tazewell.
Tenn, Grant Poore, a notorious out
law, while on trial for larceny, shot
and killed benjamin Carroll, a witness
against him.
The report that the authorities a
Washington were about to remove the
embargo on Canadian cattle which has
been in operation for several years past
was denied.
w. e. MEGQUIER, aged So years, as
sistant cashier of the First national
bank in Omaha, committed suicide
through fear of becoming blind.
SIXTY buildings at La Porte, Mich,
were destroyed by fire.
The prospect for the peach crop in
Delaware was exceedingly good.
Mrs. Zoe LARH, wife of a prominent
and wealthy farmer at saltwater, o.
T., shot and killed her step-daughter,
Mrs. McHenry.
DR.. JEREMIAH 5. B. ALLEYNE, one of
the oldest practitioners in st. Louis,
was found dead of apoplexy in bed at
his home.
MRS. DEAN MIX and her son Harry
were instantly killed by lightning
while standing in the doorway of their
barn at Nashville, Mich.
The dead body of Tom Brownlee, a
negro. was found staked down in the
bed of a creek in Butts county, Ga.
He was a revenue informer and had
been murdered.
FOURTEEN hat manufacturers of Es-
sex county, n. j., representing an ag-
gregate capital of 81, SOC, 900, organized
a trust.
A WIN and hailstorm at GAINESVILLE
Wis, did great damage.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
tho T-anE nnAn6 ON tho al arnrnrataI
Sl,094, 322, S25, against 1895, $40, 1877 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 15.2.
AT least fifty two persons were be-
lieved to have been killed in a terrific
cyclone that passed through Sioux
county, Ia, from southwest to north
east an hour before sunset on the Sd.
Half a score of prosperous little ham
lets were touched by the flying storm
and hundreds Of farms were laid
waste. The storm first struck the !
ground some miles southwest of Sioux
Center, in the Coombs district. and
from there to Perkins, a distance Of II
to Is miles. not a building was left
standing in the path.
MCCALL BROTHERS, hat manufacture
ers at West Orange, y. J.. failed for |
$685. 600.
THERE were 231 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Sd, against $50 the
week previous and 233 in the corre- !
spending time in 1924.
DURING April the circulation of all
kinds of money in the United States III
creased S15, 249, $50, making the total in
circulation on May l 81. 500, 434. 154, or
S22.97 per capita. AS compared with
May l, 1894, the total circulation has
decreased S92,O 900, 900.
SETH S~TALLCUP, a United States dep
uty marshal, and l. n. Taylor, old-time
enemies, metin a duel at Sherer School
house in Cherokee county, n. C., and
both were killed.
DURING a tornado at st. Joseph. Mo-,
many small buildings were blown to
pieces.
THE tearcer George R. White, of
Seattle. vas wrecked in a gale in
Alaska and seventeen of the crew were
either drowned or frozen to death.
THE resignation of Charles Lyman,
of Connecticut, as a member of the
States civil service commission
was in the hands of the president.
THE barn of Mrs. Johanna Ryan. near
Delmar, Ia, was struck by lightning