The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-09

Youngest child of Mrs. Whittle, and a
negro servant were fatally burned by
an exploding gasoline stove.
A burglar killed at Newmarket, Mo-,
by DIR. Hale was identified as Harry
Huguley, the hayward son of II. W.
| Huguley, a millionaire brewer of Bos-
ton.
It was said that the Lincoln monu-
ment in Springfield, ILL.,, had been found
t o be only a pile of rotten brick, with n
veneer of stone, and that it would have
to be rebuilt.
The states of Illinois, Michigan, Iowa,
Wisconsin, Ohio. Indiana, Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska and the central
southern states experienced earth
quake shocks more or less severe, but
no serious damage was reported and no
lives were lost.
Moses Rosenburg & Co., dealers i n
dry goods and notions in New York,
failed for $4,000.
Mgr. SatolIi, papal delegate to the
| United States, has been madea cardinal
by the pope.
S. NJ. BiXby & Co., manufacturers of
shoe backing and harness oils, failed
in New York for S245, 900.
At a meeting in Washington in be-
half of Cuban liberty a committee was
appointed to urge the cause of the
patriots before congress at its session
carly in December.
Orville Smith and his wife were killed
lr- cna1-ac Of fhnir hnnnn nanr Ernnl-
fort, Ky.
All coinage of other than subsidiary
silver was suspended by order of Secre-
tary Carlisle.
At Green Springs, o., Bert Fox shot
his wife and then killed himself. No
cause for the deed was known.
Deserted by her husband. Mrs. Matte
Wolford poisoned her child and herself
ut Preston, MINI.
Half & Newbourer Bros, wholesale
| dry goods dealers and cotton buyers at
Houston, Tex, failed for 1925, 900.
Mrs. DR.. Mabel Spencer was appoint
cd county physician of Riley county,
Kan, and was said to be the first woman
ever appointed to a like position in the
United States.
Miss Flagler, daughter of Gen. Flag
Ter, of Washington, who shot and killed
Il negro boy who was stealing fruit sew
cral months ago was indicted for nan
slaughter.
Commodore Matthews, chief of the
bureau of yards and docks of the navy,
in his annual report estimates 81, 4,149
as needed for new work.
The Masonic Temple association at
Duluth, Mimi, made an assignment,
with liabilities of S135, 900.
William Haberman and Jacob Nogel,
prominent business men, were killed by
! the cars at a crossing in Elizabeth, n.
j., and John Hughes, a hack driver, was
fatally injured.
W. W. P, owned by Dubois Bros, of
| Denver, broke the worlds record for q
two-pile pace, making the distance at
Lincoln, Neb., in 4:22A.
The day set for the fight between
Fitzsimmons and Corbett has come and
gone without a contest. Fitzsimmons
was in custody at Little Rock and Cor
| bett was under bonds at Hot Springs,
Ark.
j. Lowentraub's roller and ice skate
factory at Newark, y. j., was burned,
the loss being 100000.
The public debt statement issued on
| the LIST showed that the debt increased
S5,341,472 during the month of October.
The cash balance in the treasury was
S179,94 1898. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $946. 431. los.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the LIST aggregated
S1,OS2, SSO,957. against S1,14s, 7OS,311 the
previous week. The increase. com
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was III.
There were 299 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the LIST, against 231 the week
previous and 259 in the corresponding
time in 1894.
Chancellor Martin, in Little Rock, is
SUED Il restraining order enjoining Cor
bett or Fitzsimmons from taking part
in 4 prize fight in Arkansas. The pugil-
lists and their hackers decided to retire
from the state.
The summer packing season in the
west has closed and the aggregate num-
Der of hogs slaughtered from March 1
TO October 81 is S,12O, 900, against $780,
600 for the season of 1891.
The supreme court of the United
States has adjourned until Monday, No
vember IL.
The value of the coinage at United
States minis for October was: Gold,
S7,215, 700; silver. $500 copper, $780,
500, making a total of S5.O59. 200.
The express companies of the coun-
try put into effect an advance of
33 1-3 per cent. in the carrying charges
of currency between New York, Boston,
Philadelphia and Chicago.
Mrs. Mary McDole, aged Sc, of John
ston, r. l., was shot and killed by her
son, Thomas Mclaughlin, because she
married a second time.
The famous stallion Ambassador,
valued at 100000, the property of the
kalamazoo Farm company, died at
Kalamazoo, Mich.
In a street fight at Warrior, Ala,
George Farley, aged Il, fatally shot his
father and a man named Strickland.
Central New York reported a heavy
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