The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-21
The News Condensed
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

DOmC0 ill.,
"A FLOOD at Webb City. Mo, did dam,
age to the extent of 500, OOG.
THE worlds fair exhibition medals
and awards to Italian exhibitors will
be received by them in October.
~CHILCooTs, Chilkats and whisky were
responsible for the death of W. braves
and one squaw during an aboriginal
difference of opinion in Alaska.
The annual national encampment OF
the Grand Army of the Republic COM
menced at Louisville, Ky.
The Frank Moseley company, leather
merchants and amer at Montreal,
failed for $500. 600.
BECAUSE she refused to live with him
Lon Rocker cut the throat of his wife
at indianapolis. Ind, and also fatally
wounded Mrs. Emma PEGS, her sister,
and then cut his own throat.
The eighty-secOnd annual c%onclave
of the grand commandory of knights
Templar of New York state convened
at Niagara Falls.
CALIFORNIA celebrated the ~forty-fifth
anniversary of her admission into the
union.
WILLIAM BRINKLEY and his brother
James met at Columbus, Ind, after a
separation of sixty-two years.
FIVE business houses at Neosho, Mo-,
were destroyed by a rise in the river
and a number of dwelling houses were
carried away.
MANY rivers overfiowed their banks
-, Ira,paE nnnla+inp Sarara1 williams
and doing immense damage. The
town of Gridley was completely
wrecked.
MICHIGAN bankers n annual session
at Detroit adopted resolutions against
the free coinage of silver.
A CAR in which a number Of negro
employees of a sawmill in Holmes coun-
ty. Fla, were asleep, was surrounded
by masked men who shot two negroes
dead and wounded several others.
STRIKERS at Negaunee, Mich. were
becoming desperate and guards had to
be kept along the railroads leading to
Ishpeming to protect the passengers.
The second of the five races for
Americas cup was won by the Nalkyrie,
the British yacht, by A. seconds, over
a triangular course 30 miles long, of
the coast of New York.
JOHN BARII.LO and Michael SabC
were asphyxiated while cleaning tanks
at the Standard Oil company's plant
at Whiting, Ind.
AT Mascoutah, Ill, Mr.. and Mrs.
Michael Schauinger and Mrs. Mary
Weber. three people upward of &c
years of age, were thrown from q
wagon and probably fatally injured.
CHARLES ONGUN ndWilliam Gooding
started from Lacon, Ill, to make a
tour of the states on bicycles, to be
gone three years.
THE South Carolina constitutional
convention convened at Columbia.
II a railway wreck near Evansville,
Wis, +. p. Hollinshead and f. j. Sui
Ivan were killed and several other per
sons were injured.
THE entire family of Charles F.
Krueger-father, mother and six chill
dren-of Michigan City, Ind, is dead
from eating diseased pork one year
ago, the last surviving child dying re-
Gently.
a WOMAN dressed in boys clothing
has passed through San BernardinO,
Cal, looking for a runaway husband.
She had taken the brake beam route
from the east
DR.. A. W. HIT, of Chicago, says that
there are over 500 cases of leprosy il
the United States.
WILLIAM MURPHY, of Saginaw, Mich,
one of the best known lumbermen o.
the northwest, died in Bangor, Me-,
aged 81 years.
The Roman Catholic university il
Washington decided to admit womeT
as pupils in all the higher studies
STRIKE meetings were being held in
the Pennsylvania coke regions and the
indications were for labor troubles il
the near future.
TwO-JIM WAKEFIELD, anegro, commit
ted suicide at Elkton, Ky, because to
bacco worms destroyed his forty-acre
crop.
THE regatta committee of the New
York Yacht club heard evidence bear
ing upon the protested race and
awarded the second race of the series
between Defender and Valkyrie for
the Americas cup to the American
boat.
WILLIAM CALDWELL (colored) was
hanged by a mob neal Osceola, Ark,
for numbering Mrs. Rhea, a white
woman
The fire losses in the United States
and Canada during August amounted
to 50, 929. 900, against SO, 49,, 900 in Au'
gust, 1894.
THE exports of breadstuffs during
August amounted to 50, 500, 100, against
SO, sS4, zoo during August, 1894. The
provisions exported amounted to SILL
PSI ,339, against Si5,93O, l41 in August
last year.
WILLIAM DEAvIs, an aeronaut, was
killed at the Richie county fair at
Pennsboro, W. Va, by falling 1000
feet.
The pine regions of the Michigamme
End Paint rivers in Wisconsin were be-
ing swept by forest fires.