The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27
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important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

aged 3, and her mother were burned to
death. The little girl caught fire from
a stove and her mother was burned
trying to save her life.
Ex-STATE SENATOR E. r. CAssATT. the
Pella Ca bank wrecker, was sem
fenced to nine years in the Anamosa
pe~nitentiary.
The forest fires which ragged in Mich
igan for a week were the most de-
structive in the last decade. Whole
counties were swept clean.
Bob HUGGLRD, a mulatto accused of
assault, was taken from the Jail at
Winchester, KY, by a mob of POO men
and lynched.
THE Hitchcock Manufacturing com
pany, manufacturers of wagons and
sleighs at Cortland, n. Y, failed for
$3.50, 600.
Miss CARRIE MOORE. aged 10, the
only child of W. F. Moore, mayor OF
Atwood, Ill, took her own life with a
pistol. A love affair was the cause.
TwENTY-EIGHT freight cars were
thrown down an embankment at
Carey, O., and an oil tank exploded
and the cars were burned.
HUNDREDS of acres of growing to
bacco in Connecticut were ruined by a
hailstorm.
ROSWELL C. HoaP, of New York, anC
William Hope Harvey, OF Chicago. be.
gan an eight-day contest in Chicago
over the currency question, the former
speaking for gold and the latter for
silver.
NEARLY 5000 men employed at the
mines in Negaunee, Mich, went out OF
a strike, their demand for an advance
in pay having been refused.
DURING the fiscal year 1895 the nun.
Der of immigrants who arrived in this
country was 276. 136, against 3l1,6l2
during the previous wear.
ANNIE WILLIAMS, aged Is years, step.
daughter of James 5. and Martha Will
liams, residing at Langdon Station,
Ind, killed both her parents with rat
poison.
ORDERS were issued by the post Office
department abolishing the post Office
at Pisgah, Morgan county, III.
NEBRASKA silver democrats will hold
a state convention in Omaha on Au-
gust %.
AT n meeting in Louisville the lead
ing distillers of Kentucky decided u
make no whI-ky in the state during
the seaso beginning July l, 1895, and
ending July /. 1886.
A SLEEPING car conductor and porter
We're arrested at Detroit for smuggling
Cinnamon in bertha rom Canada.
THE floods along the Rio Grande p:
10 cquG-e miles of East FL P.so, Te-:..
under water and all traffic was
blocked.
AT Z meeting in Chicago of the su-
preme executive bo-rd of the Amer
can Protective association a resolution
"a unanimously adopted against the
giving of lectures by e~1-priestG and e.
nuns under the auspices of the Organi-
cation, and declaring that the order IS
not making war on the Roman Cath
Ollie religion, buS on its political fea-
lures.
1T the twentieth annual convention
in Chicago of the National Amateur
Press association William Hancock, of
Fargo, \. D., editor of Prairie Breezes,
was elected president.
TIE ninth annual convention of the
Association of American Agricultural
Colleges and Experimental Stations
opened at Denver.
.LaMEs and Thomas Maloney and
James McNerney were arrested near
Union City, Pa, where they were
cCunterTeitinp silver coin.
HIGHwAYME-E held up the Wilmot
Springs stage near Howard Hill, Gre.
and robbed the driver and a passenger
of $500.
CASHIER L. I. PARRISH, of the Farm
ers' bank of Orrick, Mo-, was missing
with $4,000 of the banks money.
FIGURES compiled by the treasury
bureau of statistics n Washington for
the asst fiscal year show the exports of
merchandise to have been 1871. $50. 319,
OF excess of exports over imports OF
SIS, 732 .943; gold coin and bullion, Soc.
ISL, 1873, or excess of exports over i'm
ports of $780, S4, 40; silver coin and bull
lion, 81 ,22G,Gi2. or excess of exports
over imports of S37, 7O7, Gs4.
TIE family of c. c. Newton, en- route
from Marion, Ind, to Arkansas, ate
poisonous mushroons at Jonesboro, Ill,
and three of the children died.
THE kichelieu hotel in Chicago, II. |
v. BeE:is, proprietor, went into the
hands of a receiver with liabilities OF
1920, OCO.
Il. T. LEWIS, the Urbsna (O.) bond
forger, also ioated many thousands of
dollars of spurious bonds of Indiana
towns.
WILLIAM BECssEAU, the accomplice
of Mrs. Nellie Pope in the murder of
DIR. Horace n. Pope. on February ., in
Detroit, Mich, was sentenced to TWEEN
years Imprisonment.
THE bank of Norborne, o.. and the
Carrollton county co. bank were
placed in the hands of receivers.
ACCORDING to the annual report of
TIE American Bible society it printed
1. OOO. 600 Bibles during the year.
HUGHES FISHER, an old soldier at
Pa. extracted a bullet
his leg which he received thirty
three years ago at the battle of Gaines
Mills.
THE Puget Sound national bank Of
Everett, Wash, closed its doors with
liabilities of $685. 900.
A BRIDG on the Santa Fe road fell
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