The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-27

order denying the use of the mails TO
the Mecklenburg Schwerein state lot
terry Of S~chwereiu. Germany.
The business portion of the little
town of Alta Vista, Ia, was nearly
wiped out by fire.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH refuses to
allow pay for Sunday work OF interior
department employees.
A n shows the population Of
Milwaukee to be 273, 900.
WHEY BUM, a negro who murdered
j. Martin at Summerville, Ark, on
July ., was chased to a dense swamp
By 4 posse and killed.
ARTHUR NEWMAN, late a magistrate
On the island of Trinidad, was arrested
in Brooklyn upon the charge of en-
bezzling $780, eco from estates of which
he was the administrator.
FIRE destroyed nine buildings in Gin
cinnati and killed two firemen. The
property loss vas $500
Two Me- Were shot to death and six
were wounded IL an afray at Larned,
Misc, the elimination of a family feud
between the Terrells and McRees.
THE ;ruit crop report for July shows
a heavy decline in condition. especially
in the New England states, New York,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota.
THREE members of a gang of cattle
thieves were hanged by vigilantes
nesr Chamberlain. 5. d.
TIE annual congress of the National
Prison association of the United States
will be held IN Denver, Col, September
IA { is.
THE report that Gen. Harrison had
said to friends that he would under no
circumstances lie a candidate for the
presidency was positively denied.
Hon winds have injured corn in cen
tral Iowa.
A ToRwLDo in Tazewell county, Ill,
~unroofei many buildings and " men
were killed by lightning. At Pekin
houses were wrecked.
". p. WAGNER, a member of the
wholesale drug house of Wagner &
Wagner, of indianapolis, Ind, was
drowned while fishing neal Fort Scott,
Kan. He was on his wedding tour.
WILLIAM FREEMAN and John Good
(colored), were hanged at Greeusburg,
Pa. Freeman murdered Gertrude
Smith July %, 1894. Good killed a
man named McSlaughter in a gambling
row.
IN z wreck on the Peoria & Pekin
railway near Peoria, Ill, Miss Martha
Wright, o. Eureka, IA, vas killed and
sir other persons were injured.
bcTD2Ew -HOMAs (colored). accused
o: d brutal assault on an aged white
wona near Moss Point, Miss, was
c7iiel from the train at Scranton,
Miss, AID lvnched by a mob.
CRARLES GORE, for ycars treasurer of
the New York Herald, disappeared
with So 900 belonging to the company.
Two MEN were killed, We fatally in
iured and three seriously injured by
tee caving in of a sewer trench in Har-
rison, =. J.
CAPT RALPH HACKETT, David Canary
and John Cattanock were swept from
the tug Torrent by a tow line at De-
troit and drowned.
KERRY Brown (colored) was hanged
at Live Oak, Fla. He killed Ed Ry-
berg (white) on March q. Brown
confessed that he had murdered seven
men. all for money.
ROBERT j. paced a mile at Saginaw,
Mich, in 200.
CRIED MASTER SOVEREIGN issued a
manifesto to the knights of Labor re-
citing the n of the masses and
calling for a general boycott on ma
tionsl bank notes in all dealings be-
tween individuals, the boycott to go
into effect September /.
TIE fifth annual session of the
Baptist Young Peoples Union con-
vencG at Baltimore with 10000 persons
il attendance.
Tie total production of pig iron in
the United States in the first half of
ls91 was 4,Os7.55S gross tons, against
2,717. $50 tons in the first half of 1894.
ALoNzo MEYERS. y years old. killed
his ~lG-year-old wife and fatally wound
ed Herbert Lindson, a friend, at Long
Reach, Cal, and then shot himself ia
tally.
THE Delaware peach crop is esti-
mated at 1909. 600 baskets. worth $780,
00O-greater than it has been in ten
years
The b~imeta;lists of Georgia, who IA
vor the free coinage of silver. met at
Griffin and adopted resolutions calling
for the immediate and independent
free coinage of silver and gold.
TIE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 10Th aggregated
81, O3O. 900, O49, against 81, LAG, 243, COG the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was eco.
The president issued an order plac-
ing employees of all pension agencies
under civil service rules
The national silver committee in
session in Chicago adopted resolutions
urging the organization of bimetallic
leagues throughout the entire coun-
try.
CHICAGO is to be the headquarters of
the American Spirits Manufacturing
company which will succeed the
whisky trust.
THERE were $50 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10Th, against 253 the week