The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-03

SANITY hllACO.
GRAFTON G. WILLIAMS, paper dealer
in Philadelphia, failed for 500, 900.
DAIsIE aged 13, daughter of Charles
Klaus, of Columbus; May. aged II,
and Hulda, aged :, daughters of George
Klaus, were drowned in the Platte
river near Columbus, Neb.
By a decision of Judge Johnston all
cigar stores in Columbus, o., will be
closed on Sunday.
ALABAMA populists and free silver
republicans will hold a joint silver
convention in Birmingham in Novem-
Der.
ROBERT E. RIVERS, principal owner
of the Pickwick and Royal hotels in
New Orleans and of a half dozen sugar
plantations, failed for $4,000
EMELINE G. CIGRAND and her hus-
band, Robert E. Phelps, and a young
girl whose name the police refused to
divulge were the latest to be num-
bered among the supposed victims of
II. Ii. Holmes in Chicago. All three
have been missing more than two
years.
FIRE in Melrose, Ia, burned most of
the village.
Two NEGRO murderers, Whit Fer
rand and Anderson Brown, were eXe-
cuted at Salisbury, n. c.. in the pres
ence of 5000 people. Each confessed
his guilt.
The Central Labor union of Cleve-
land, O.. decided to boycott all grocers
and dealers who sell nonuniOn bread.
ADvICEs from Wyoming say that
fftv-nine white people were killed by
the hammock Indians near JacksOn's
Hole.
As result of duel at Brandenburg,
KY, Col. George Robinson. a county
official. was dead, and Maj. Blood
Schacklett. a county commissioner,
was fatally injured.
TIE commissioner of internal eve
nue. in his annual report for the fiscal
year ended June 30 says the total re-
ceipts from all sources for the year
were S!f3, 245,9 77, Il decrease of 81, 922,-
AL as compared with 1894.
PHILLIP NORMAN NICHOLAS vas
hanged at Richmond, Va, for murder
ing William J. Wilkerson and James
| Mills by drowning them.
Tom JOHNSON, a negro WHO murdered
| Mrs. fairfield and her daughter at
! Meridian, Miss, and assaulted another
daughter. was burned to the stake by
q mob.
THE secretary of the treasury direct
ed hat the money paid into the treas
ury on account of the income tax be
refunded to the persons and corpora
tons respectively entitled thereto upon
the filing of the refunding claims.
5. LoFTIN. a negro, charged with as
sauIting a white m in Lexington,
Tex, was taken from the officers by a
mob and lynched.
TUDOR BROWN, Willie Cook, Sim
EeEols and John Armstrong, negro
| desperadoes who broke Jail at Fernan-
diLa, Fla, were driven into the ocean
by bloodhounds and all were drowned.
JOSEPH NOLTE, Arthur Walter and
Miss Tillie Helm were drowned in the
Mississippi river at Burlington, Ia, by
the capsizing of a boat
THE national prohibition camp-meet-
ing commenced at Decatur, III.
A BILL was introduced in the Illinois
legislature for a tax of 2 per cent upon
| the gross receipts of all games of ball
and to prohibit the game on Sunday.
PROSPECTS for an enormous crop OF
corr and other products throughout
the west and northwest were never
more promising.
THE exchanges at the leading clear.
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
| S72G, GGj. 7GO, against $1,000, O30, 049 the
! previous week. The increase, com
pared with the corresponding week IL
1894. was 20.2.
TIE American Mutual Home associa,
ton is the name of an organization
formed at Kansas City, Kan, to en-
courage matrimony and to cultivate a
! love of home ana habits of industry
and sobriety.
IT developed that the negro Bob
Hagcard. who was lynched at Ford.
Ky. charged with having outraged
/ Miss EIkin. was innocent of the crime
SECRETARY MoRToN hasabolished the
seed division of the agricultural de
partmeut in Washington, to take effect
on the lst of October next.
THERE were 2O2 business failures III
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10Th. against 25G the week
previous and .49 in the corresponding
time in 1894
JosErH \. BEAM IA hanged at the
United States Jail at Washington for
the murder Of his ~stepdaughter, Mrs.
Annie Leahy, last December.
ADvICEs from the Indian trouble in
Wyoming say that every man, woman
and child in Jackson's Hole had been
murdered by the red men and the set
Element burned. The place had about
$40 inhabitants.
EVERY day brings to light one OF
more atrocious murders committed by
H. II. Holmes. the insurance swindler,
In all, SO far as known, circumstan'
tial evidence of the strongest character
points TO the man as the slayer of Julia
Conner, Gertrude Common, Amelia Ct.
grand. benjamin F. Pitzel and his
three children. Howard, Alice and
Nellie, Minnie and Alice Williams and
a Miss Wild. Mrs. Patrick Quinlan
confessed in Chicago all she knew