The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-23

man March %, 1889.
JUDGE NOBLE, of Cleveland. declared
unconstitutional the law requiring a
license for the sale of goods made by
convicts in other states.
FIFTY destitute farmers broke into a
car loaded with relief supplies at Kear-
ney, Neb., but were forced to relin-
quish their plumber.
JAMES and Samuel Arbogast, broth
ers, who lived in Pendleton county,
w. Va, were frozen to death.
THE two son of John Caulfield were
frozen to death near Johnstown, Pa.
FLAMES in the Denig & Fersop block
at Columbus, o., caused a loss of $780,
900.
ALFRED KELLEY, a retired real estate
dealer at Columbus, O., failed for $780,
900.
BY an explosion of natural gas
George H. Cutler, of Meadville. Pa,
"a killed, and his wife, ~16-year-old
Son, and Katie Stack, a domestic, were
probably fatally burned.
The recent storm cost Gloucester
(Mass.) nineteen lives and two vessels,
besides thousands Of dollars damage to
vessels which were saved.
STRIKERS destroyed the office of the
Buckeye glass factory at Wheeling, w.
Va, with dynamite, endangering many
lives.
MEASURE providing for the construc-
ton of a new federal building at Chi
cage was signed by President Cleve-
land.
FIRE in Salt Lake City destroyed
buildings and merchandise to the ex-
tent of $780, 900.
THE Alabama legislature passed a
bill to abandon the convict farm and
return convicts to the mines.
A JOINT resolution in the Kansas
legislature for a constitutional conven-
ton was defeated in the house.
DoHERTY & WADswoRTH's silk mill,
one of the largest in Paterson, n. j.,
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
100000.
A NEW labor organization was formed
at Columbus, o., to be known as the
Independent Order of the Knights of
Labor. It starts out with 90, 900 mem
bers.
AN old negro named Jordan and his
wife persisted il u fire at Galveston,
Tex.
PHILIP MARTIN, a negro boy of IS
years, vas hanged at Kansas City for
killing Eli Stilwell, a laborer who
jostled him while drunk on the street
on the night of July 4, 1893.
ETH-u ~ carD,,c1r, traJ Nv
the collision of trains in a tunnel on
the Castle Shannon road near Pitts
burgh, Pa.
GEORGE b. HARPoLE and Casey Greg
DRY, of Fairfield, ILL.,, were asphyxiated
by gas in a hotel at Springfield, Ill.
CHURCH women who began a crusade
by singing and praying in Sioux City
Ia. saloons were roughly used by the
hangers or.
THE Black diamond coal mine at Be
vier, Mo-, was flooded with water. and
the $50 miners narrowly escaped with
their lives.
Mrs. FRANK JONES and two children
were burned to death in their house
near Drennon Springs, KY.
THOMAS X. GEORGE. of Eckerty, Ind.
died of heart disease. His 6-year-old
daughter died of grief, and both were
buried in the same coffin.
The heaviest snowstorms ever known
in Texas, Louisiana and Alabama were
reported.
A PIT removal bill was killed in
the South Dakota senate by a vote of
20 to 10.
BEN WARD (colored) was sentenced at
Newark, O., to twenty years impris-
onment for criminal assault on a
m
CHARLES ANDREWS, aged IL years, was
SO worried over failing to pass the ex-
aminations in a Cincinnati school hat
he took paris green and died.
TENNESSEE, Alabama, Mississippi and
Arkansas were experiencing the most
severe and protracted season of cold
weather ever known in that part of
the country.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
Ss24,4 16, 4S0, against S979, SO5 ,O4O the
previous week. The increase, compared
with the corresponding week in 1891,
was 81.
A RANCHER named August Rem shot
and killed his wife and then killed
himself near Terry, Mont.
The Minnesota house has adopted a
resolution looking to the removal of
the state capital from st. Paul to Min
neapolis.
The navy department was advised
that the war ships Charleston and York
town were rescuing American mission
aries at Che Foo.
THERE were 270 business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the 18th, against PSI the
week previous and 323 in the CORE
spending time in 1894.
THOUSANDS of cattle and sheep have
been frozen to death on the Montana
ranges and it was feared that many
human lives had also been lost.
PRINCESS PAULINA," the smallest Of
women, known as the living doll"
died in New York, aged 10 years. She
weighed but eight and n half pounds
and was only II inches tall.
THE Bank of Lexington at Richmond,
Va, closed its doors with liabilities of
$1,000.
The Westchester temporary home
for children near White Plains, n. Y,
1uoS br,rpad Tho oOO inmates aSo,rip-