The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-16
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC


Loss, 500 .000.
A fire that broke out in the Powers
grand opera house destroyed an entire
block in the business enter of Decatur,
Ill, the total loss being 100000.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 4th was: Wheat,
100000 bushels; corn, 4~,S54,OOO BUSH
els; oats, 100000 bushels; rye, 1904
COO bushels; barley, $4,000 bushels.
Sergeant Matthew NJ. Wolff, of Com
pany Il, 23d regiment, U. S. A, died sud-
denly at Dallas, Tex, from hydro
phobia, resulting from the bite of a cat.
The United States Leather company
of New York shut down for co days the
0 tanneries under its control, throw
ing $4,000 persons out of work.
The Litchfield Qll.) Car and Machine
company went into the hands of a re-
ceiver with liabilities of $16S,000.
Seven students of the German theo-
logical seminary at Bloomfield, n. j.,
were expelled for haZing.
Ida Gaskin, aged II years, was assault
ed and murdered in Omaha by three
young men, who were under arrest.
Albert England (colored). who stole
S25 worth of goods from a store at
Beebe, Ark, was taken from officers by
q mob and shot to death.
An ordinance was passed forbiddinS
the sale of cigarettes or cigarette paper
inside the city limits of Eureka. Ill.
Capt. Frederick Lang and his wife
were murdered at their home in Gar
denvilIe, Nd, by burglars.
The business part of the village of
L~awndale, ILL.,, was nearly destroyed by
fire.
James Haffa. of Philadelphia. COM
mitted suicide at Niagara Falls by
jumping from the Goat island bridge
into the rapids.
Farnum Whitcomb, so years old, one
of the richest farmers in Wapello coun-
ty. Ia, while returning from voting was
killed by 4 train a Ottumwa.
News reached the state department
of the death at Antigua. West Indies. of
James b. Fox, United States consul at
that place.
1No llCL NSiC instantly Tx anu
two were fatally hurt by a coal ear
jumping off Il trestle at Shaw. W. Va.
Carrot p. SewelI and Jane n. Robert
son eloped from bethlehem, KY, and
were married at Jeffersonville. Ind. by
Magistrate Hause. The bride is the
youngest daughter of a family OF 81
children-ten boys and IL girls ali of
whom have been married by Magistrate
Hause within three years.
After having been in business in
Philadelphia for more than a quarter
of a century Herzberg brothers, whole
sale furnishing dealers, failed for $780,
900.
Rev. William +. Hinshaw, the Metho-
dist minister adjudged guilty of muir
dering his wife at Danville, Ind, was
sentenced to the states prison for life.
He made a speech declaring his inno-
cencc.
The potato crop in the United States
measures up over 2S2,O00,O 900 bushels,
against 1s5. 600, 600 bushels last year.
After being twice married and twice
divorced. William j. Buford and Mary
Buford, of Franklin county, Mo-, were
married for the third time.
a fire in New York destroyed the
Manhattan bank building and other
property. the total loss being nearly
81 600.
Rain extinguished the forest fires in
Indiana and Wisconsin.
The Fair will case in San Francisco
s. settled out of court. and what
promised to be a bitter contest over an
estate valued at $40. ZOO, 900 was thus
prevented.
An explosion of boilers in the journal
building in Detroit killed at least II
Iersons and injured 30 others, some
fatally.
Harry Clark. of Denver. broke all
worlds bicycle recor@s, unraccd, for
both class \ and b 49,? three to five
miles. His time was Nv Sollows: Three
miles, 7:lS Is; -four miles, $3.50; five
Mules, 12:342-5.
In q tenement house fire in New York
city Charles Ryan and his wife and four
children were burned to death.
The cases in Milwaukee against En-
gene Debs and other officers of the
American Railway union were dropped.
Mike McGuire and Dave Folston,
-yoodsmen, were killed and terribly mu-
SLATED by three bears lei Foxb,ro,
Wis.
w. G. Peters, cashier of the Columbia
national bank at Tacoma, Wash. was
arrested on a charge of embeZzIing
$4,000.
All the bishops of the Methodist Epis-
copaI church with one exception met i'll
Chicago to map O. the work for the
coming year.
Thirty thousand counterfeit United
States stamps and the plates FROM
(which they were printed were captueG
in Chicago by secret service officials.
The furniture factory of the Wood
s~on-Johnson company in West Lycch-
burg, Va, was burned. the loss peing
500. 200.
The Minnesota supreme court Itn-
dered n decision holding husbands re-
~sponsible for ISLANDERS uttered by their
wives.
In a football game in Philadelphia be-
tween Hahnemann college and the \.
NJ. G. a. Ii. c. Hurloch was fatally hurt.
The Chickasaw Legislature, which has
Just adjourned, passed a bill barring all
iutermarried citizens from any prop
erty rights in the ChickaSaw nation