The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-26

Is 10 command q more general
recognition Of the farmers in state and
nation. as well as 20 promote the intel
lectual and moral welfare of those en-
gagged in agriculture.
Ex-Gov. ROBERT E. PATTTsoS was
nominated for mayor of Philadelphia
by the democrats.
THE Nebraska Historical society de-
cided that natives of the state should
be called tree-planters instead of bug
eaters.
COAL miners of the Massillon (O.)
district voted to declare off the strike
on condition that they be reinstated.
The surviving members of Mosby's
Virginia cavalry. held a reunion at Al
exandria. Va.
THE Nebraska state board of agri-
culture voted to remove the state fair
from Lincoln and locate it at Omaha
for the next five years.
DOMINIC PAFLINsK. who wrecked a
train near Heafford Junction, Wis,
killing the engineer, was sentenced to
twenty-five years.
6. ". WALLACE, charged with alien
ating the affections of Mrs. W. II.
Classen, was fatally shot by her hus-
band on a train at Edmond. o. T.
NJ. MORRISON. city marshal of Craw-
ford, Neb.. killed three men and was
being pursued by a mob which might
lynch him.
GRAIN thieves set fire to the barn of
John Indoe, at Granger, O., destroying
it. twenty-five head of horses and cat
tie and a large quantity of grain.
GALEN II. Cook, secretary of the
Bankers Loan & Investment company
of New York, was accused of misap-
propriating 100000.
PRESIDENT DEBs. of the American
Railway union. and his fellow-prison-
ers were denied a writ of error by the
United States supreme court and the
last Monday in this month was as
signed for a hearing on the habeas cor
pus proceeding.
HORACE W. HIBBARD. general freight
agent OF the Vandalia line, dropped
dead of heart disease at the Southern
hotel i'll St. Louis.
Two MASKED men boarded a Rock
Island train near Wichita, Kan, and
forced a passenger to hand over $50.
FOUR girls were drowned at Wink
ler's Mills, near Blue Rapids, Kan,
while skating on the Blue river.
The boiler in a sawmill near Alto.
Tex, exploded, killing lobe Richards,
Lewis Alexander, William Lewis and
Abner Lee.
TWENTY horses were cremated in a
fire that destroyed Scudder's livery
Darn at indianapolis.
JOHN KRISTINE. a farmer, committed
suicide near Eaton, O., rather than see
his family starve.
THE American Slate Blackboard as
ISOLATION was organized at Bethlehem.
Pa, with 500, 900 capital. Twenty-Five
manufacturers are members.
Two BOYS IA years of age, who ran
away from st. Vincent's industrial
school at Utica, n. Y, were found
frozen to death.
HOUNDED to desperation by office
seekers. Sheriff Williams, elected by
populists at Prague, Wash, resigned
the office.
The Second brigade of the New York
national guard was called out to sup
press the rioting street railway strikers
in Brooklyn.
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggre-
gated S977. SOP GAG. against 81. 039. 1876. 951
the previous week. The increase. COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was CT.
GEORGE MORGAN, of Freeport, Cal.
shot and killed his brother Harvey and
then shot and killed himself. A quar-
rel over the division of property was
the cause.
GEN. JAMES s HACKNEY. formerly adj
jutant general of Missouri. was found
dead at his home in jefferson City. He
had been drinking heavily.
PROPERTY worth more than 500. 900
was destroyed by a fire that broke out
in the wholesale dry goods store OF $.
WaXelbaum & Son in Macon, Ga. Four
firms were burned out.
THERE were 373 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 400 the
week previous and 401 in the CORE
spending time in 1894.
SAMUEL HOTELLISG, a young farmer
of Rolling Green. Mimi. killed his wife
and her parents and was slain by pur-
suers. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
Mrs. COATES. a widow at Miff1in Ind,
confessed just before death to the muir
der of Jacob Wintermyer twelve years
ago.
GEORGE SHEA. ex-judge of the marine
court at New York, died. and his son,
George. % years of age, died before the
burial of the father.
THE National Farmers alliance is
sued an appeal for aid for destitute
farmers in Nebraska and South Da-
kota.
JOHN DEvOX. of Chicago. who IS reor-
ganizing the Clan-na-Gail in the east,
says the order is strong in the west.
THE police board of Denver proh:b bit
ed the exhibition of Giving pictures"
in that city.
STARVING miners in the Nassillon
Co., district issued an appeal for aid.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE Michigan legislature in joint ses-
sion elected Mcmillan and Burrows as
United States senator's.