The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-04-13
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

POSTMASTER BISSELL issued
an order restricting second-class mat
ter to actual subscribers for journals
entitled to the pound rate.
The post Office at South Omaha, Neb.,
was broken open and robbed OF over
$1,000.
Armstrong and Maggie Farrelly, of Ell
lensburg, Wash, left Tacoma, Wash,
to seek their fortunes in the gold fields
of Alaska.
REPORTS to the director of the mint
show coinage during the month of
March as follows: Gold, So, 500, 102;
silver, S573, 535; minor coin. $50, 1875; to-
tai coinage, SO, 500, 1886.
The British ship Morseby. long over
due, reached San Francisco PAL days
from Liverpool, having been delayed
and disabled by South Atlantic storms.
THE public debt statement issued on
the I'd showed that the debt increased
SIS, 81, los during the month of March.
The cash balance in the treasury was
S1s7, 917, 261. The total debt, less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to S9Os, 73O. o46.
THE Forty-ninth general assembly of
Tennessee reconvened at Nashville.
ELIAS j. HALE, judge of probate of
Foxcroft, Me-. who shot himself, was
found to be a defaulter as treasurer of
the town in the amount of Sis, 20.
By the upsetting of a skiff John Bro
tia and Thomas Grogan, both residents
nf piftchrrrh rrara 1-nTunnI
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the I'd was: Wheat,
"a, 3O7, 900 bushels; corn, 13, 407 900 bush
els; oats, 6, 1s4, 900 bushels; rye, 267 600
bushels; barley, 1877, 600 bushels.
GREEN BAY and Fort Howard. Wis,
voted to consolidate, the name of the
new town to be Green Bay.
THE supreme court of Iowa rendered
a decision sustaining the constitution
atty of the ''mulct" law.
A CYCLONE in Boone county, KY, did
great damage to property and many
horses and cattle were killed. The vii
lage of Lewisburg was nearly wiped
out.
THE steamboat City of Haverbill was
said to have gone down with all hands
in a fierce gale off Barnegat, on the
New Jersey coast, and ten lives were
reported lost.
THE Florida legislature convened at
Tallahassee'for it's biennial session of
sixty days.
FIRE at st. Charles, Ill, did damage
to the extent of $1,000 900, burning a
number of buildings.
WHILE Mrs. Thomas Jones was pre-
pairing her ballot at the polls in New
castle, Col, she tainted and fell. burst
/ ing a blood vessel, from the effects of
which she died.
THE Findlay Rolling Mill company
of Findlay, O., made an assignment
with assets of $3.50, 600 and liabilities of
S125, OO0.
Miss AMY WEST was awarded $50, 600
damages at Pikeville, KY, against
Moses Deskins and wife in a suit for
SANDER.
THE packet Iron Queen was burned
on the Ohio river at Antiquity and the
colored chambermaid was lost.
WILLIAM L. WILSON took the oath of
Office as postmaster general.
In a runaway accident near South
Bend, Ind, two children of James
Hicks were trampled to death.
IT was discovered that employees of
the United States Express company
had during the past year defrauded the
company out of nearly 100000.
FREDERICK W. GRIFFIN, assistant
cashier of the Northwestern national
bank in Chicago, was arrested for
stealing $50, 600.
INSURANCE companies were canceling
policies on Indianapolis saloons, fear
ing the new temperance law might in
cite to arson.
NEWTON WALTERS, who shot and
killed the two Cox brothers and then
attempted to assault their sister near
Galena, Kan, was hanged by a mob.
BILL passed the Michigan legisla-
ture by which the county Of Manitou
is disorganized and attached to Charlie
voix and Leelanaw counties.
The post Office at Springfield, Ill,
was robbed of about $4,000 worth of
stamps.
THE city council passed an order for
bidding glove contests in Chicago be-
cause aldermen were denied free ad-
mission.
CAPT. ROBERT ANDREWS, of the
schooner Sydney Jones; Washington
Andrews, his nephew, and John Phil
lips (colored) were drowned at Balti-
more.
SIX HUNDRED tramps created a reign
of terror in the towns of Bivalve and
Port Morris, n. j.
Col JAMES GILBERT, the giant of
Barnum, Forepaugh. and all the other
big shows of the country, died in New
York, aged IS years. Gilbert stood :
feet 9 inches in his stockings and was
big in proportion.
AFTER a career of twenty-five years,
during which it has become world
famed as a caravansary, the Grand Pa
cifc hotel in Chicago closed its doors
permanently.
CHARLES GEsKA, a young lad con-
victed of numbering his step-fathera and
afterward burning the body, vas sen
fenced at Elyria, o., to the peniten-
tiary for life.
Gov. STONE issued q proclamation
converting the Missouri legislature in !
extra session April %.
SPEAKER MEYER, of the Illinois
house. ordered the preparation Of a
bill to extend the principles of civil
service reform to the state depart
ments.
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