The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-07
The News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts,
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
WHILE counting his hoard of $4,000
at Hamilton, Ala, Ben Stillman upset
a lamp, which set fire to the house, and
the money and building were con-
sumed.
A. J. GABLER and Mrs. Ada Vennum,
a lady friend, were drowned in the
Elkhorn river at Waco, Tex.
WINDOW manufacturers from
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Hi
nois met in Cleveland, o., and organ
lied a combination, the purpose of
which is to advance prices.
AFTER almost five years of work and
the expenditure of over $4,000, 600, Nj
agara has finally been harnessed and
the monster {, OOO-horse power dynamOs
of the Cataract Construction company
are now sending out electricity for
commercial uses.
PROBATE JUDGE WHITE decided at
Cleveland hat Will j. Mcconnell, the
well-known temperance lecturer, is in
sane.
ENGINEER NEAL MCKINLEY saved the
lives of many passengers IN a railway
"TeCh HtdT hlCIlIllOLu DCdCl. W dSl.,
but was killed himself.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
35,Os9, 900 bushels; corn, $3.50 bush
els; oats, 3, 7l9,0OO bushels; rye, $780,
600 bushels; barley. 5000 bushels.
SOLOMON HUGHLETT, one of the most
prominent democratic politicians in
Missouri, killed himself with q gun at
Wellsville.
SOME $50, 600 persons saw the parade
of over 25, 900 Sir knights Templar in
Boston. At the business meeting
Grand Commander McCurdy delivered
his address. The report of the grand
recorder, William b. ~Isaacs, Jr.,
showed hat there were 961 regular
communicates, and thirty-nine under
the jurisdiction of the grand body.
The membership of the former is 1O3,-
54l and of the latter 3,1l9.
TIE charred remains of the body of
Howard Pitzel, the one remaining miss
ing child of Benjamin Pitzel, were
found stuffed in a chimney in the Gel
lar of a house which Ii. H. Holmes oc-
cupied two or three days last October
in Irvington, Ind.
A MEETING of the largest steel con-
Germs in the country was held at Pitts
burgh, Pa, and preliminary steps were
taken to form an organization to con-
troll prices.
AT Wapakoneta, O., a strike on the
waterworks trenches developed into Il
tragedy and three men were fatally in
jured.
RAINS throughout the northwest
greatly improved pasturage and crops.
CRACKsMEN blew open the safe in the
post Office and general store of E. E.
Phillips at Rush, Mo-, and got away
with money. stamps and papers valued
at over 81, ZOO.
SECRETARY CARLISLE returned to
Washington after a months absence
spent mostly in a tour of the great
lakes.
As THE result of a quarrel Frank
Hurst and Belle Levi were fatally
wounded by Charles Williamson and
William Broshears near Rockport. Ind.
THE annual encampment Of the Ma
tional Spiritualist association COM
menced at Liberal, Mo.
JOHN d. SCULLY, who for the last
fifty years has been president of the
First national bank at Pittsburgh and
its predecessor, the Pittsburgh Trust
company, resigned because of failing
health.
THE twenty-fourth annual conclave
of the grand c~ommandery of Colored
Knights Templar opened in Cleveland.
The president reappointed Matt W..
Ransom to be United States minister %
Mexico.
CONFIDENTIAL advices received at the
department of state in Washington
were to the effect that Spanish rule in
Cuba could not last much longer, pos
sibly three or four months at the out
side.
FIGHT members of a gang of counter
feiters were captured near Perry, U. T.
MASKED men stripped and tarred and
feathered William Sprill and his wife
at Burnettsville, Ind, and ordered
them to leave town.
IT was announced that Secretary
Olney had made a peremptory demand
on the British government for a settle
llthI VI lAC hcuSZuC4d OOuLOdll lie
pute.
FOURTEEN states were represented at
a meeting of the Western Editors as
ISOLATION at Salt Lake City.
The weather bureau in Washington
will hereafter place on its charts read
ings of sensible temperature-that ac-
tually felt-and make it a prominent
feature.
AT Lewisburg, Tenn, Jerry johnson
(colored) was lynched by a mob for
making an insulting proposal o white
girl.
FIRE in Louisville, Ky, destroyed
the building occupied by Hampton.
Crane Il Ramey, dealers in paints, var
nishes and oils. Loss. 500. coo.
The feature of the second day of the
knights Templar encampment in Bos-
, ton was the competitive drill. The
grand ~treasurer's report showed cash
resources Of $40. 302.