The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-06
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts
DOMESTIC.

wealth.
SIX United States prisoners escaped
from Jail at Fort Scott, Kan, among
them being Bill West, the notorious
outlaw.
In a fight with shotguns in Macon
county, Ala, the result of a long
standing feud between the Riddle n
Christian families, Slab Riddle was
killed and Charles and Andrew Riddle
were fatally wounded.
The town of Gilmanton, Wis, was
nearly wiped out by fire.
MRS. JOHN F. CORE, OF Marion, Pa,
took her 2-year-old child to a well and
dropped it in and the infant was
drowned.
The report of the experts IN Chicago
who Investigated the whisky trust ac-
counts says that a discrepancy of ST.
e24, I2O existed.
SEVERE wind storms swept over Ohio,
Illinois and other towns. Dust storms
prevailed in Iowa and Illinois.
The mutilated bodies of Mrs. Sam
Butler (colored) and her s-year-old son
were found at Meridian, Miss. They
were supposed to have been murdered
by the husband of the woman.
A TORNADO visited Delaware, O.,
and surrounding sections, unroofing
houses, ~uprooting trees and demolish-
ing fences
The Steel Edge Stamping and Retin-
ming company, of Mills, Mass, failed
for S192, 636.
The 15Oth anniversary of the foun-
dation of the Second Parish Unitarian
church was celebrated at Binghemton,
Mass, in the Westinghouse which was
erected in 1742.
THE survivors of the invading army
that marched to Washington under
Gen. Coxey a year ago had a reunion
at Massillon, o.
COAL operators in Indiana were dis
cussing a plan to form a pool like the
one recently effected in Ohio.
CITIZENS of Lexington, Neb., were
urging Sam Vol Tai, a C~hinaman, to
make the race for mayor of the place.
The bank at Mount Morris, Ill, was
robbed, the safe being wrecked with
dynamite. It was thought that only
$50 was taken.
INCENDIARIEs caused the total de-
struction of Robinson & Co.'S stock
barns near Decatur, Ind. Over $50
hogs and some cattle and horses were
burned.
FLAMES that started in the furniture
store of A. F. Tanner & Co. in Mil
waukee burned out twenty business
houses. the total loss being 81, 900, 900.
THE president appointed Col. Thad-
deus II. Stanton to be paymaster gen.
eral of the army, to succeed Gen. Will
liam Smith. retired.
A BILL was introduced in the New
York senate to prohibit the wearing of
tights by women.
THE commission sitting in Washing
ton in the claims of American citizens
against the Venezuelan government
decided in the formers favor.
MINISTER THURsToN. of Hawaii, de-
cided to depart from Washington be-
fore his government could officially re-
call him.
AT Greenville, Miss, fire destroyed
the Planters oil mill, the loss being
SIP, 900.
The Nashua savings bank, the third
largest in New Hampshire, closed its
doors with liabilities of So, o 900.
JOHN R. TUCKER, aged 81, an attor-
ney at Jacksonville, Ind, was killed
in an encounter with William Taylor,
aged 20.
MAGGIE TMLER, convicted of the
murder of Freda Huntington in Chi
cago, was sentenced to be hanged.
This was the first time that a woman
had been condemned to death in the
courts of Cook county.
ANOTHER shortage of 100000 was
found in Chicago in the accounts of the
whisky trust.
THE seventeenth annual encampment
of the G. A. R. department of Michigan
commenced at Mount Clemens.
Gov. ALTGELD issued a proclamation
designating Friday, April 10, as Arbor
day in Illinois
Two MEN were killed and three others
badly injured by the explosion of a
sawmill boiler near Van Vert, o.
CLOSING arguments were made in the
Debs case before the United States SUI
preme court in Washington. An early
decision was expected.
FRANK SUTLER, an assayer, shot and
fatally wounded his wife at San Fran
cisco and killed himself.
A FIRE in the Bell clothing store in
Chicago caused a loss of $4,000.
1t was said that a prominent citizen
of Jacksonville, Fla, was under con-
tract with sympathizers of the Cuban
patriots to engage 10000 negroes from
Florida to go to Cuba to aid the pa
triotS.
GEN. s. B. DABoLL, of st. Johns, was
elected department commander OF the
Michigan q. A. R. at the annual en-
campment in Mount Clemens.
THE Commercial bank at Cincinnati,
a state institution long regarded as
financially solid, closed its doors with
liabilities of 81, 600, 900.
A SETTLEMENT of the Davis will con-
test was effected by the heirs of the
Montana millionaire.
A RESOLUTION fixing May . as the
date for final adjournment was adopted
by the Illinois senate.
IT was stated in Chicago that the
prices of all kinds of meats would be
higher this summer than they have
been for ten years past.
Ten horses and twelve cows persisted