The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-06
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the oath was: Wheat,
&C. POS, 900 bushels; corn, $780, 600 bush
els; oats, $4,000 bushels; rye, 49,
900 bushels; barley, 10000 bushels.
JOHN OSBORN, Son & Co., dealers in
wines in New York, failed for 81 $780,
900.
SPECKER Bros. & Co., wholesale dry
Foods dealers at Cincinnati, failed for
$500, OOO.,
A YCLoN near Greensboro, KY, de-
stroyed trees, crops and houses IN a
path nearly a mile wide.
A DRY lake bed at Red Lake, S. D.,
containing $500 acres, was filled with
water to the depth of 8 inches by a
cloudburst-
ANTON METzGAR, aged 81, a reputed
anarchist at Allegheny, Pa, COM
mitted suicide by placing a bomb in
his ear and touching it off. The whole
side of his head was blown off.
In the 4mile college boat race at
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, Columbia de-
feated Cornell and Pennsylvania, max
ing the distance in 81 minutes and 25
seconds.
A NUMBER Of barns were wrecked
and horses killed by a tornado near
Albert Lea, Mimi.
SEYMOUR KEENER killed his two cous-
ins, Lille and Laura Moore, near Tai
lulah Falls. Ga. Keener was rejected
BY Lille and he said he would kill
both his cousins
THE five children of William Cass
died of diphtheria within a week at
their home in Grinnell, la.
THE family of Gustav Kunz, of Arens-
Vile, Ill, contracted anthrax ron a t
ing oil diseased meat and the mother
and four children died.
GEORGE G. BooTu, of Detroit, Mich.
purchased and Immediately assumed
control of the Chicago Mail.
JOHN FRYE, a dissolute young white
man, was lynched at Gretna, La, by a
mob for burning the cabins OF colored
people.
A. r. HOLMAN, IN attorney and tax
collector at Spring Valley, Mimi, was
missing and was said to be short $4,000.
The cruiser Atlanta was under orders
to leave New York harbor to enforce
the neutrality laws in Cuban waters.
GUS LOEB and wife, formerly Of Bar
louisville, KY, were robbed and muir
dered by a band Of outlaws in Hardin
county.
SEVEN negroes were arrested at San
Antonio, Tex, charged with train
wrecking.
THE Illinois legislature convened in
special session at Springfield.
Gov. MORTON pardoned Mary Druse,
who was serving a life sentence in Au-
burn. \. V. for the murder of her
father in Herkimer county ten years
ago. Her mother was hanged as the
principal in the crime.
BUSINESS men from nearly all of the
river towns between Minneapolis and
New Orleans met IN the Minnesota city
to discuss the project of opening the
Mississippi for navigation up to the
extreme northern portion of Mime
sofa.
THE will of Gen. Walter Q. Gresham,
late secretary of state, was admitted
to probate in Chicago. The entire es'
tate. valued at S51, 600, is left to Mrs
Gresham.
NJ MEETING was held in the OLD
South Westinghouse, Boston, to begin
a campaign to secure 5,OO0,0 600 sigma
lures to a petition for a new govern
ment for Armenia.
JOHN MoINAR was hanged at Column
bus, O. Molnar and two other Hun
parians killed Daniel Gehring at Cleve
land because Gehring objected to Mol
ner marrying his daughter.
FREIGHT train was derailed neal
Aiken, $. c., and Brakeman Hugh
Weatherford, Fireman Cherry and Al
bert Brown, a negro, were killed.
THE condition of crops Throughout
the country was reported as favorable
BY the explosion of a demijohn of al
cohol in a saloon in New York Charlie
Miller, Abraham Miller and Katie ShaI
were fatally burned.
BILL STOKES (colored), who attempted
an assault on a white woman, wa
lynched by a mob in Colleton coun
ty, S. C.
THE supreme court of Nebraska say
that where brallemen are injured b.
the carelessness of another brakeman
L1GN are 1GllON
way company is not liable.
THE Alpine tunnel on the South Par
road in Colorado, said to be the high
est railroad tunnel in the world, wa
reopened. 1t had been showed up 10
five years.
HAYWOOD & SoN, bankers at Clinton
Ia, failed for $3.50, 600; assets, $4,000
The Telephone Protective associa
ton of America, formed in opposition
to the Bell Telephone company, wa
organized at Pittsburgh, with j. +
Keelyn, of Chicago, as president
By the explosion of a boiler at a saw
mill at Walthourville, Ga, two me-
were killed and a third fatally II
jured.
FIRE caused the total destruction o
the plant of the st. Mary's (0.) Woolel
Manufacturing company and seven ad
tacent buildings. Total loss, 100000