The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-08
The News Condensed
important intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 2sth was: Wheat,
81, 244.O 600 bushels; corn, S.97S.OO0 bush
els; oats, 100000 bushels; rye. 49,
900 bushels; barley, l45, 900 bushels.
ALADY minister baptized t~hirty-nine
converts in the Okaw river, 3 miles
west of Arcola, Ill.
The supreme court of the United
States affirmed the cOnstitutionality of
the Geary Chinese exclusion act.
ABOUT . inches of snow fell through
out northern Wisconsin.
The chamber Of commerce of New
York city decided to enter upon a cru
sade against the free coinage of silver.
WILLIAM SMITH and Charles Earlman
were killed by the cars at Bellaire, o.,
both their heads being cut off.
FUNERAL services over the remains
of ex-Secretary of the Treasury Hugh
McCulloch were held at Rock Creek
church in Washington.
JACOB HENSON. who murdered Daniel
T. Shea, an aged grocer, about three
months ago, was hanged by a mob at
Ellicott City, Md. He was under SEN
tence to be hanged June :.
The forest fires near Saranac Lake,
n. Y, were extinguished after doing
damage to the extent of 100000
The Michigan senate killed the anti
treating bill passed by the house.
HoT winds swept Nebraska and ad-
joining states, doing great damage to
the crops. Frost was also reported at
many points in Iowa and Illinois.
THOMAS BYRNEs, chief of police, was
retired by the police board of New
York city.
THE United States supreme court de-
MED the application of Eugene V.
Debs, the strike leader, for a writ of
habeas corpus, and he and his seven
associates must serve their sentences
of six months in Jail.
IT was reported hat the president
intended to call an extra session of the
F~ifty-fourth congress early in October.
AT Hankinson, n. D., Peter Elmer,
aged Is, killed Edward Pose, aged so,
as the result of a quarrel over a heifer.
THE Douglas county bank at West
Superior, Wis, went into voluntary
liquidation.
The Foss-Schneider Brewing COM
pany in Cincinnati failed for S212, 600.
w. c. STIvERs. n Lancaster Ky to-
.bacco raiser, sued Miss Catherine West.
a pretty 23-year-old school teacher, for
breach of promise, demanding S15, 600
damages.
The Providence Or. L. Shade Roller
company failed for 500, coo.
A DISTINCT earthquake shock was
felt at Brattleboro, VT.
THE eighty-first anniversary of the
American Baptist union was held in
Saratoga Springs, y. Y.
SETTLERS on Indian lands near Pen
der. Neb., threatened stubborn resis-
lance to any attempts of federal sol
diers to dispOssess them.
HoT winds blowing 40 miles an hour
did great damage to growing crops in
Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska.
LAFAYETTE PRINCE, who murdered
his wife October 10, 1894. in Cleveland.
was hanged in the pe~nltentiary at Co.
lumbus. o.
OVER twenty persons lost their lives
by floods in the Devils river country
in Texas.
A. WAYNE MILLER, a wealthy and
prominent livery man at South Bend,
Ind. died suddenly in bis buggy.
RoTH & FRIEDMAN's knitting factory
a Toledo, O., was destroyed by fire,
the loss being Sl65,OOO
NAPOLEON WHATCoM, chief of the
White River Indians, fell lead at Ia
coma, Wash, after a drunken spree.
THE thirty-eighth session of the Mich
igan legislature adjourned sine die.
having been in session since January :.
T. P. MCFADDEN and his son Howard,
aged 12, were drowned in the st. Train
river neal Lyons, Col.
Mrs. MARION CURTAIN, aged As. muir
Serea her l4-year-old daughter Mamie
at her home in Baltimore and after
ward committed suicide.
THE safe of w. W. Brown, Indian
trader and postmaster at White Eagle,
o. T, was robbed of SO, 900.
THOMAS MCGUIRE and his brother,
Erie county Pa farmers, We're held
up and robbed OF $1,000 by masked
men.
ROVER L ALIENS -four mill at Gin
cinnati was burned, the loss being
500. 600.
Mrs. JAMES l. STRAUGHN and her
daughter were fatally injured in a run
away near Kokomo, Ind.
TRAMPs and police fought at Fort
Wayne. Ind, and Deputy Sheriff Har-
rod and William Walrath, u of tie
tramps, were fatally shot.
ELISHA T.. MoRRELL, at one time
prominent in politics and the richest
grocer in Brooklyn, y. Y, was buried
in a pauper's grave.
MEMORIAL DAY was generally OBJ
served with appropriate ceremonies in
all parts of the United States. In Chi.
cago, aside from the usual exercises, a
monument to the confederate dead was
dedicated in Oakwoods cemetery. !