The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-28

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Roeliff Brinkhoff, OF Ohio. as president.
THE Sovereign Grand Lodge of the
independent Order of Odd Fellows in
session at Atlantic City, \. j., adopted
an amendment to the constitution of
the order providing that no saloon
keepers. bartenders or professional
gamblers shall be eligible to member
ship.
Mrs. ANNA DAVIS, Mrs. Sophia Davis
and Miss Anne E. Ingram. of Big Rock,
H.. took out their final naturalization
papers. They are natives of Wales.
THE Indiana supreme court says that
the lending of public money by an Off
cial is a felony and lays the offender
liable to imprisonment for twenty-one
years.
THE government of the United States
is now in full possession of the Chicka-
manga and Chattanooga field. The
park dedicated on the 10Th to the ma
ton was consecrated with the blood of
$1,000 heroes in 1863. 1t was conse-
Grated by n battle which, for desperate
fighting and carnage. has few if any
cQudlS III Tie "OTIl = HISlOIA-
A NEGRO charged with criminally as
saulting a white woman at Benton,
La, was hanged by a mob.
THE ii. T. Clarke wholesale drug
company at Lincoln Neb., made an
assignment with liabilities of nearly
500, 600.
ROBBERS attacked an express train
Nv &lo WISCONSIN, Tantra rna1 in a
swamp near Waupaca, but failed to Sc
cure any booty. The train was ditched
by ties placed on the track.
BENJAMIN b. JONES, paying teller,
and Receiving Teller Joseph II. Wilson
of the National Bank of Illinois in Chi
cage were accused of taking $751; 500
from the concern.
The large sawmill of the Murphy
Lumber company at Green Bay, Wis,
was destroyed by fire, together with
the tramways, lumber piles, etc, en-
failing a loss of 500, 900.
THIRTY buildings were destroyed by
q cyclone which swept over Door
county, Wis, farmers being the prin-
cipal losers.
DAVE BURNETT, a farmer living ear
Greensboro, Ky, accidentally shot and
killed his two children, 3 and 5 years
old.
TIE national silver committee APP
pointed by the convention which me
| at Memphis some months 6gO has pre-
pared an address for general circula-
ton which declares that a double
! standard Is needed. that a popular vote
in 1876 would settle the question, and
that the United States can act indie
pendently of European nations.
FIRE at Trautman's station, o., de-
stroyed seven acres of buildings, the
loss being 5000, 600.
A SHORTAGE of $50, 900 was found at
Charlestown, w. Va, in the county
funds.
a FIRE ut Alden, MINI, burned four
teen stores, a church, a newspaper Of
fee and several other buildings.
Gov. UPHAM, of Wisconsin, in jump
ing from a carriage at Chattanooga,
| Tenn, fell and broke his right leg.
The great strike of iron ore miners
in Michigan was declared off.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses IN the United States during
the week ended on the Goth aggregated
81, OSl, SCI, 3S1, against SS91, 600, 9lS the
previous week. The increase. COM
pared with the corresponding week in
| 1894, was 20. 3.
In a quarrel over a game of cards at
Mckinney, Ky, 4 man named Kane
| shot and killed William Goodloe, two
Swope brothers, and two other man
whose names were not known.
ROBERT POOLE (cOlored) was hanged
at Spartansburg, 5. C., for the murder
of VIII Long (colored) in 1889.
THERE were 213 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 1877 the week
previous and 30 in the corresponding
time IN 1894.
A NEW census gives Iowa a popula-
ton of 2,O35, 900, against l,9ll, S94 five
years ago.
FIRE at Oneida. Kan, destroyed
nearly the whole of the business por-
ton of the town.
Music and oratory, a parade OF dis
tinguishcd visitors aud celebrated mil
| itary organizations and two receptions
ended the Chickamauga park dedica-
ton.
Two IHChEs of snow fell on the Goth
at Bald Mountain, 5. d. In Chicago
and other portions of the west the heat
was terrific.
The village of Tower Hill, ILL.,, was
nearly wiped out by fire.
NICK HAINEs was acting as a pail
bearer at the funeral in Bucyrus, O.,
of a friend who had dropped dead,
when he also fell dead of apoplexS.
AS THE result OF q trivial dispute
Peter Kennel, a farmer residing near
Arapahoe, Neb., shot and killed his
wife and then blew out his own brains.
THE State bank at Republican City,
Neb., closed its doors with liabilities OF
SCI, 900.
LILLIAN SHAFER, IN equestrienne, OF
St. Louis, and her companion, Edward
Kerns, of Chicago, were fatally injured
in a hurdle race at Findlay, o.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
REPUBLICANS of New York in onven
ton at Saratoga made the following
nominations: Secretary of state, John
Palmer, of Albany; comptroller, James
L. Roberts, of Erie; state treasurer,
A. b. Colvin. of Warren; state en-
gineer, c. W. Adams, of Oneida; attor'