The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-07
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


a fiye-story brick building at the
southwest corner of Wabash avenue
and Randolph street in Chicago was
destroyed by fire, the total loss being
SI22.0U0.
Herman IIattenhaft, n physical in
Ltructor, killed his two children and
himself in Brooklyn, y. Y. No aust
was known for the deed.
\ negro tramp who tried to wreck n
train near Calvert City, Ky, was taken
Into the woods By u mob and riddled
with bullets.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 25th was: Wheat,
e2,221,O 600 bushels; corn, 4,G22 ,000O bush
els; cats, G,O55,OOO bushels; rye, 1872
COO bushels; barley, 5,957,00O bushels.
In a collision on the Santa Fe road
near Shoemaker, y. NJ, between an eX
press and freight trains, IL passengers
were more or less seriously injured.
The eighth annual convention of the
trans-Nississippi commercial congress
convened at Omaha.
William Z. Royce, when arraigncd in
Sioux City. Ia, for the murder of Con-
slant EOush, entered a plea of insanity
due to the cigarette habit.
Bushrod Kelch shot and killed his
divorced wife ut Cleveland and then
sent 4 bullet through his own head.
The \. II. Fuchs millinery store, one
of the largest in st. Louis, wa burned,
the loss being $l5G,G0O.
The Nebraska Savings and Exchange
bank closed its doors at Omaha with
liabilities of $15O,OUO.
There i,re 7oO,O0O,OGO onc-ccrt pieces
outstanding at the prcsen. time, and
for the past two months the daily out
put at the Philadelphia mint has been
10000.
The National Society for the Proven
ton OF crime WAS Incorporated at
Springfield, ILL.,, with headquarters in
Chicago.
The Nicaraguan canal commission in
its report to the president says the pres
cnt surveys are inadequate and mis-
leading, and that the estimated cost of
the work is entirely too low.
1t mas been decided to remove the
body Of Mai. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock
to Arlington cemetery in Washington
from Norristown, Pa, where it has
rested since 1856.
Angus F. McGillis and his wife were
probably fatally burned by the expIo-
sion of a lamp in their home at Menom-
inee, Mich.
Arrangements were completed at
Cleveland by which 5000 Christian En-
d~eavorers were to unitedly pray for
Robert IngersoIl's conversion.
At the fair grounds in McArthur, O.,
c. II. Rogers was ridden on a rail and
afterward tarred and fcathcred for
speaking disrespectfuIly Of 4 lady
schUOl-teachcr.
The president will in December APP
point more than 100 postmasters to of
fees i'll the presidential class.
y score of pedestrians, including a
number of the most famous walkers in
the country, started on a siN-day go-as-
you-pIease match in Minneapolis.
Grand Master Chipman's report
shows that there are $4,000 odd fellows
and 22,COO Daughters of Rebecca in In
diana.
Alaska's gold output for 1895 is esti-
mated to be 81. 100000.
Gideon Moore and Paul Kruger, lead
crs of Il gang of ~counterfeitcrs, were
captured by government detectives,
the former at Cameron, Mo-, and the
latter in St. Joseph.
Thomas Colt, a photographer, shot
Miss Carrie Plate at Arlington Heights.
n. j., and then killed himself. Jeal-
ousy was the cause.
Harry Hayward, who is to be hanged
in Minneapolis next month for the muir
der of Catherine Cling, and who has pro-
tested that he was innocent. confessed
his guilt.
Lloyd Montgomery. an 1S-year-old
boy under arrest for the murder of his
father, mother and Daniel McKeecher
near Brownsville, Ore, made a full con-
fession, admitting he killed all three
of them.
Senator David B. Hill, of New York,
inaugurated his lecture tour at the
academy of music in Milwaukee. Per-
sonal liberty was his theme, and he
made a plea for more genuine American
ism. lie said he was not entirely
pleased with American representatives
Mt foreign courts, and said our govern
1nent should not be cut after the Eng
lish pattern. He also spoke good words
Tor Hawaii.
In the recent blizzard cores of coal
laden barges along the Ohio river were
torn from their moorings and carried
down stream to destruction and conse-
uuent loss to the owners. At Franklin,
Ind, the city hall was blown down. At
Montpelier, Ind, scores of oil derricks
were RACED and many houses were I'M
rooted. In the Ohio oil fields a dam
sge of $4,000 was done. In Illinois.
Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin property
was also destroyed.
E. A. Long, of hartford, Wis, editor
Of the Green Lake County Reporter,
shot himself fatally because of business
troubles.