The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

MS Cdlu III L 1AI1NAN2 RAhNS
the proceedings Mr.. Shoemaker, one OF
Holmes counsel, was found to have in
troduced a false affidavit and was held
TO answer.
At Fountain Ferry, KY, E. j. Berlo,
Of Boston, broke the two-mile bicycle
record, making the distance in 3:43 Is.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th Wheat,
eO.326, 900 bushels; corn, 100000 BUSH
els; oats, 5,972,OOO bushels; rye, 1885,
OCO bushels; barley, 4,O47,0 900 bushels.
The Nez Perces Indian reservation in
the state of Washington was opened
for settlement.
Sun Chief, principal chief of the Paw
nees in Oklahoma, is dead. and the
whole tribe was mourning.
Chief Hazen of the secret service, in
his annual report shows that during
the year 500 arrests were made, with
few exceptions for violations of the
statutes against counterfeiting. Al
tered and counterfeit notes, counterfeit
coins and the like were captured hay
ing an aggregate face value of almost
s. ,00O,00O.
A convention to consider the question
of statehood for Oklahoma will be held
ut Shawnee on December / next.
Earthquake shocks were felt in por-
tons of Missouri and Colorado.
The Henry o. Shepard company, one
of the best-known printing firms in Chi
cage failed for 100000.
In 4 test case Judge Kicks, of the
United States circuit court, sitting at
Cleveland, decided that a receiver of a
defunct bank can assess stockholders
and recover in suits from those who
refuse to pay.
Fire destroyed the livery stable of d.
F Rooms and five dwellings in a Fran
cisco and 30 horses were cremated.
A Great Northern train crowded with
passengers was held up four miles west
of Clear Lake, Mimi, but the bandits
we're scared away without obtaining
booty.
A bright comet was discovered in the
constellation Virgo by Prof. Perrine.
of the Lick observatory a: San Fran
cisco.
David Henderson, a young colored
school teacher at Dunlop, Kan, who
assaulted Dora Ray, one of his pupils,
was cited to appear before the school
board. and while there fatally wounded
Samuel Ray and his wife and two other
persons with a Ratchet.
The National Grange in session mt
Worcester, Mass, reelected J. H. Brig
ham, of Delta, o., as national master to
serve his fourth term.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Grier, of Viii
mot, Wis, died within an hour of each
other. The husband was aged 70 and
the wife 10. Last April they celebrated
their golden wedding.
Fire in the Parker block at Lowell,
Mass, caused q loss of S350,000.
The president has appointed John l..
Peak, of Kansas City, Mo-, United
States minister to Switzerland, to sue
coed Minister Broadhead, resigned.
At the 9th annual banquet of the
chamber of ommerc of the city of
New York Secretary Carlisle spoke on
national finances. He said the legal
tender note was the fundamental vice
of our currency system, was response
BILE for many vagaries, and should be
retired.
At Purcell, l. r., 30 buildings were
burned at a loss of S15O,OO0, and two
merchants were arrested for arson.
Jesus Vialpando and Feliciano
Chavez, convicted of numbering and
burning the body of young Tomas Mar
tinez, were hanged at Santa Fe, n. NJ.
The magnificent new battle ship In
diana was accepted by the government
from the builders.
a great forest fire was raging on the
Little Kanawha near Parkersburg, w.
Va, and large tracts of woods and barns
Bnd fencing had been burned.
One hundred retail druggists of Kan
sas City formed a stock company to
manufacture all proprietary remedies
consumed by the local trade.
Daniel II. Brenizer, cashier of the
Citizens Trust and Surety company in
Philadelphia, was said to be short $685.
COO in his accounts.
Two earthquake shocks frightened
the residents of Cairo, H., but did 10
damage.
The Texas Paper company and the
Deering Harvester company lost their
plants by fire at Dallas, Tex, the total
loss being S%125,O00.
AS the result of a feud between the
Handley, Jones and Kilgore families,
near Birmingham, Ala, Joseph Kilgore
and John Jones are dead and Johu
Handley is fatally injured.
The work of the United States wealth
er bureau for the past year cost SS7S,-
439. and the warnings of cold waves
secured from freezing more than ST.
275.OOO worth of agricultural products.
The Linz block at Sherman, Tex, was
burned, causing a loss of 100000.
White railroad men at Moss Bluff,
Fla, who resented the introduction of
negro laborers, raided their cabins,
killing three End wounding many more.
John White, n prisoner in the county
Jail at New Martinsville, w. Va, escaped,
and fatally shot three men who at
tempted to capture him.
The Choctaw Indian council has
pissed a bill making it treason, pnnish-
able by death, to sell land to a nonciti-
zen or to urge a change in the present
government.
A forest fire burned over $4,000 acres
near Santa Rosa, Cal, destroying houses
and barns and other property.
Albert England, q post Office robber,