The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-19

being the head of the transfer gang
of thieves, II. c. Litchfield, manager of
the Railroad Transfer company at
Kansas City, Mo-, committed suicide.
IT was feared that the steamer
Africa, with her crew of ten men, had
been lost on Lake Huron.
PAINTER WEST, a farmer of Vim
cennes, Ind, was unloading lime, when
by accident his eyes became filed with
the lime dust, which completely de-
stroyed his eyesight.
MAJ. ARMIES (retired), who was ar
rested recently for using insulting
language to Gen. Schofield, and con
fined in the barracks at Washington,
was discharged by Judge Bradley, of
the district supreme court, who char
acterized the arrest as unlawful, ty-
rannical and capricious.
The Green county bank of Spring
field. Mo, was ordered closed by the
bank examiner and placed in the hands
of a receiver.
THE anniversary of the execution of
the seven students and the beginning
of the first insurrection was celebrated
by Cubans at New York, Tampa. Key
West and other places.
THE Missouri state grange, in session
at Warrentown, passed resolutions de-
handing an export duty on agricul-
tural products.
A STAY of proceedings was granted
in the case of Father Flaherty, under
sentence at Geneseo, n. Y, for assault
ing a young girl, and the prisoner was
liberated under $40, 900 bail.
A STORAGE reservoir at Scranton,
Pa, containing $500, 900 gallons of wa
ter, burst and did great damage to ad-
joining property.
EDWARD EVANS met his wife. who
had just secured Il divorce from him,
on the street at Alexandria,, Mimi,
and shot Der dead, and then sent a bull
ct through his own heart.
THE executive committee of the Ma.
tional Library association decided to
hold the next convention at Cleveland,
September l, 1896.
C~INCINNATI's board of trade will send
d junketing committee to Mexico to
drum up trade.
THE state health authorities of Ken
lucky were alarmed over the preva-
lence of diphtheria and typhoid fever
in the state. Many deaths were re-
ported.
LIZZIE BRYANT, aged IA, died at Sa-
bula, Ia, being the fifth victim of the
poisoning at the Taplin-Gage wedding
at that place.
MOsHER & MCDONALD, one of the
largest logging firms in Washington,
whose property is worth $500, 600, was
placed in the hands of a receiver.
HARRY Lyons was hanged in Chi
cago for the murder of Albert Mason
on February 9 last.
Four men were killed and seven
others fatally injured as the result of
the collapse of the casting house of the
Cleveland valley mills at Cleveland, O.
MIS-. CATHERINE HARK, aged 81 years,
was murdered at Dayton, O., and her
daughter, with whom she quarreled
the day, was held for the crime.
SAILING vessels and revenue cutters
Behring sea report a great
scarcity of seals this season and aver
that in five years the seals would be
wholly eXterminated.
Mrs. JOSEPH BURNS died at Duluth,
Mimi, from blood poisoning. While
caring for her young son, who was i'll
with diphtheria, the child in its agony |
bit the mother and death was the re-
suit.
a o named Toomey died at Pitts
burgh, Pa, from excessive cigarette
smoking. He had smoked several
boxes daily for years.
MANDY CADY and Florence English,
her paranour, were sentenced to be
hanged at Washington, Ga, for the
murder of the woman's husband.
THE Citizens bank of Omaha, Neb.,
was closed by order of the state board
of examiners. Inability to realize ON
paper caused the failure.
THERE were 26S business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the 18th, against 2G7 the week
previous and 231 in the corresponding
time in 1894
DANIEL LAWSON, aged %, and Miss
Georgia Rhinehart were found dead in
Utu dL the ENdlJ mouse at Omana, |
Neb., where they had been asphixiated
by gas.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses IN the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
14+, 3O3, 1862, against 81, 1877, OS9, III, the
previous week. The increase, com
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 23.2.
DELEGATES from normal schools of
Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas
met at st. Joseph, Mo-, and formed an
O~ratorical association.
BY the explosion of a threshing en-
CINE near Mountlake, Mimi, Joseph
Jasper Malette and two
other men, names unknown. were
killed.
AT Liberty, Tex, Kit Robinson Ccol-
ored) IA hanged for the murder in
June, 1895, of John Johnson.
EDWARD kEssLER, manager of the
Louisville branch of the American To-
oaccD company, stood before a mirror
committed suicide.
THE Illinois Federation of Labor in
session at Peoria laid a motion on the
table expressing sympathy for Eugene
Debs.
The bill providing for the removal
If the intruders from the Cherokee ia
ion passed both houses and was signed