The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-05-11
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

persisted in the flames.
A CYCLONE swept through Omaha and
vicinity and seven persons were in
jured and a large amoun of damage
was done to property.
EMIL FURRER, a farmer, and Jacob
Katt were burned to death in a barn
near Milford, Conn. The fire was of
incendiary origin.
THE Cleveland co. police authorities
ordered all poolroooms, policy shops,
gambling houses and every place
where games of chance are run to
close Nickel in = the = slot machines
were not exempted.
AS A result of a trivial quarrel. w.
W. Ellsworth, a noted swine breeder
at Woodstock, Ill, killed his hired man,
George Flllwebber, and then blew his
own head off.
THE sixth negro was lynched in But
Ter county, Ala, for the murder of
young Watts Murphy.
THE Lloyd, Late & Thompson Dry
Goods company at Kansas City, Mo-,
failed for 500, 900.
THE interior department at Washing
ton was taking steps to have the nu-
merous abandoned military reserva-
tions scattered over the country opened
for settlement.
JOSEPH DENMAN, 45 years old, drowned
himself at Cleveland because he had
been charged with forty-five crimes of
which he declared he was innocent.
THE residence of George Denniston
in Crookston, Mimi, was burned and
his aged parents lost their lives in the
flames.
Two COMPANIES of the Fifth regiment
Michigan state troops left Houghton
for Marquette, Mich, to keep peace
between union and non-union laborers
or the docks of the South Shore rail-
way.
FIRE partially destroyed the plant of
the Kehlor Milling company in East
st. Louis, the loss being $780, OO.
A PROTRACTED drought had seriously
injured oats, wheat and other crops in
Kansas. No good rains had fallen for
over six months.
AT English, Ind, Edward Steeple-
tons 15-year-old son, who has been a
mute and almost deaf all his life. began
to talk like his brothers and sisters.
IN Il raid on ''moonshiners" near
Huntington, w. Va, Lee Ward was
killed and 100, including twenty wom-
en-, were arrested.
A STRIKE in the Flat Top coal region
near Roanoke, Va, went into effect.
$4,000 miners in thirty-five mines going
out.
FIVE large -four milling plants in
Milwaukee were merged into a com
bination or trust with the object of re-
ducing expenses.
The home of Stamford Kimley, near
Atchison, Kan, was burned during the
absence of Mr.. and Mrs. Kimley and
their two children. aged 3 years and Il
months, respectively, were cremated.
JOHN COLEMAN, a negro who lived
near jacksonville, Fla, who shot and
mortally wounded his wife because she
did not make soup to suit him, wal
lynched by a mob.
CROPS throughout the northwestern
states were reported to be in good con.
dition.
ARCHIE BROWN, son of the governor
of Kentucky, was shot dead in a
bawdy house in Louisville by Fulton
Gordon, who also killed his wife, who
was with Brown.
CAPT. SLOCUM sailed from Gloucester,
Mass, in his 4O-foot sloop Spray on a
voyage around the world.
AN old feud at Newborn, Tenn, cul-
minated in a pitched battle / which
Abbott and John Fulgham brothers,
and Beauregard Townsend and his son
were killed.
ST. LOUIS authorities have begun
war on the Washers" One of them
was fined 500.
The treasury receipts at Washington
for the month of April amounted tC
spa, 247, $50 and the expenditures to S32.-
952, $50, leaving a deficit for the month
of IS, 7O4. S54 and for the fiscal year to
date S54, 247. OO6.
JAMES YOUNG, ~janitor at the court
house in Brazil. Ind, shot and killed
his wife at Hoosierville because she
had left him and then drove to Brazil,
went to the courthouse and shot him
self to death.
THE public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed hat the debt increased
S19, 1O9.s ST. during the month of April.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$50, ST., GIG. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to S917, S39. 9O3.
w. 7. Lopez, night manager of the
United Press in New York city, COM
mitted suicide by inhaling gas. In
somnia was the cause.
REPORTS to the bureau of the mint
show coinage during the month of
April as follows: Gold. 1859. 800: sill
yer. S595. 900; minor coins, S129, 772.
Toral, IS, 364.O72.
THE government school building on
the Santee Indian reservation in Ne
braska was burned for the second time
within two years.
FIRE destroyed Wilkins, Ketcham &
Rothschild's furniture and upholstery
factory and warerooms in Chicago, the
loss being 500, OG0.
Two MEN fatally shot and one Sc
r1ously injured was the result of a
frustrated attempt to rob a Burlington
train near st. Joseph, Mo.
CAPT. HARRY B. McMAsTER. assistant
cashier of the National bank of Eau
Claire, Wis, was arrested on a war
ram charging embezzlement of s25 900
from the bank, and Charles NJ. Greene,
city treasurer, was arrested on q
charge Of stealing $50, 900 from the