The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-14
The town Of Mount Pleasant, Tenn,

t4ClN VI A~A5 iAANNAo oI AlN
annual meeting in New York.
Luis Felipe Carlo. minister of the
! new government of Ecuador, is study
ing American institutions and Will en-
deavor to get teachers to inaugurata
the public school system III Ecuador.
At z convention in Guthrie a memo
rial was adopted asking congress to adj
nit Oklahoma as a state at once, rs she
has 4 greater taxable valuation and
population than any other state in the
union at the time of admission.
The Chatree block at Allegan, Mich,
was burned, the loss being 500, 900.
1t was reported that the reply of the
marquis of Salisbury to the note of
Secretary Olney on the Venezuelan
question was a refusal on the part of
Great Britain to arbitrate.
The Empire State express on the
New York Central road now makes
daily trips from New York to Buffalo,
40 miles, in 1875 minutes, making it
the fastest passenger train in the
world.
There was but little over a foot of
water in the Mississippi river Mt st.
Louis, the lowest record in nearly 20
years.
J. ". Forlines, engineer; y. W.
Straley, conductor. and brakeman G.
IL. IIeilgi We're killed in a railway
wreck at Lick Branch. W. Va.
y. H. Andrews Il Co., manufacturers
in Chicago of fine furniture and office
fixtures, failed for $fO0,OOO; assets,
$GUO,UOO.
William j. Murray, a prominent resi-
dent of Toledo, o., died after a continu-
Gus self-inposcd fast of II days.
The movement to bring about the
taxation OF church property in Missouri
was assuming commanding proper
tions.
y negro named IsOm Kearse, and his
aged mother, charged with stealing Il
Bible from a church near hroXtOn Ford,
5. C., were whipped to death with a
strap by Il mob.
Peter Maher and Robert Fitzsimmons
were matched to fight to a finish for the
worlds championship neal FL Paso,
Tex, between February IL and Febru-
airy Is.
y trust. comprising almost every car-
pet tack factory in the country, was
formed in New York, and the price of
tacks was advanced to almost double
the former rates.
John and Margaret Cowling, aged %
and 20 years, respectively, after having
been separated by divorce 81 years, were
reunited in marriage at Jeffersonville,
Ind.
In tearing out the wall of an aban-
doned cellar near Larncd, Kan, the
skeletons Of five men were found, and
they were thought to be the remains
of a party of land-buyers who went to
western Kansas in 1850 from PcnnSyl-
vania. and who mysteriously disap-
pcared. They were probably murdered
for their money.
Melancholia, brought on by trouble
i'll love affairs, caused Miss May Wills,
"A young society woman of Akron, o., to
hang herself.
+. NJ. c. King, a justice of the peace,
and his wife, who had been i'll, died sud-
denly in C%laybourn county, Tenn, from
the effects of a dose of medicine given
them by an Indian doctor.
At its quarterly meeting the W. c. I.
L. of Richmond, Va, adopted resOlu-
tions denouncing the new woman's
Bible"
The First national bank of Pratt,
Nam. went into voluntary liquidation.
All depositors were paid in full.
The mint in Philadelphia is turning |
out 100000 pennies daily because OF the
big demand.
Heinrich IIostman, of Dortmund, |
Prussia, arrived AZ Cincinnati on his
trip around the world on a bicycle lie
is to make the trip in two years.
There were 1924 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 2SS the week
previous and 3s5 in the corresponding
time of 1894.
Frank {. Elliott, state organizer for
the populist organization in Missouri.
was attacked by a robher in Kansas
City and fatally wounded.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 9th aggregated
Si,2+7, 1899. against SS7O,4S4,1S2 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 90.
The bonded warehouse of Elliot +.
was burned in New York, the
loss being %$25O,OOO.
Fire destroyed the stove works of j.
Woodruff & Sons at Salem, O., and
many valuable patterns were burned.
Mike Ford and William Senter were
at Atlanta, Ga, with Il large
quantity of counterfeit ten dollar sill
certificates on their persons.
The National Civil Service Reform
will hold their annual meeting
Washington December l" and I3.
Mrs. Joseph Reimein died in Toledo,
o., from the shock received by the
leath of her husband and daughter in
4 railway accident.
The hay crop of this year IN the mid
lie states is reported to be II per cent.
ess than last year.
In San Francisco Judge Murphy de-
MED Theodore Durrant's motion for a
lew trial and sentenced him to be
for the murder of Blanche La
mont, but fixed no date for the execu-