The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-21

LOUIS DF NtlSOn casey.
The supreme court of Iowa decided
that a physician may advertise his bust
ness and not violate the statute.
John IIokan and John Davey were
killed By falling slate in the Goa! mines
at CoXyiile. Ind, and Edward Opendorf
IGgt Il similar death at EosedaIe.
j. ?. Riply, a distiller al Lawrence
burg, Ky, failed for 100000
The Changers Bank o: California. one
of the oldest commercial banks III san
Francisco. went INTO voluntary iiquida-
ton.
Fire destroyed the building in Chi
cago occupied by d. II. Fritts d Co., pic
ture-fralne manufacturers, and CAUSED
a damage OF 100000.
St. .Erlelianus' orphan asylum at St.
Francis, Wis, WAS burned, the loss be-
ing over 100000. There were 2UU chill
Gren in the building, but all We're safe
/! removed.
Mrs. Nancy J. Thompson, aged IS
years. was found starved ana frozen 70
death near Maple City, Kan.
At the meeting in New York of the
American Federation OF Labor rcsoIu-
lions we're adopted protesting against
the passage III congress OF the COM
p~ulSory arbitration bill and against
capital punishment.
Representative T.. N. WooIncr, of
Pennsylvania, representing the Fourth
district, fell on Il slippery sidewalk i'll
Washington and broke his left leg.
The bark IhcobaId arrived 1T San
francisco from Coal bay with the first
cargo Of coal ever shipped from .A!aska.
line character OF the information re
ceived at the war department III Wash
ington concerning the reported Apache
outbreak i'll Arizona shows il to be
trifling, and not likely to lead to any
general uprising.
The discovery in the dissecting room
of Il medical college ut Topeka, Kan, of
the bodies OF three women stolen from
cemeteries caused Il riot tina. required
the calling out of troops.
The schooner EIwood of San Fran
cisco is missing, and was supposed TO
have gone down off the Alaskan coast
between Cooks inlet and GluZ!er bay,
with all on board.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of Carloci, Ill.
a gang of clever counterfeiters were
arrested at Pittsburgh by United States
authorities.
Aaron Harper (colored) was hanged
at ~Coffcyyillc, Miss, for the murder of
lis wife last April.
The Weir plow shops at Monmouth.
Ill, were almost totally destroyed by
fire, the loss being $l5O,UUO.
Miss Pearl barton, Il young girl WHO
had beer asleep al Wiikesbarrc, Pa.
since November -, died without aw,A-
cning. The doctors were unable 4 Say
what Ike cause OF Gcath WAS.
L. {. Taylor, city editor Of the Al
ton (Il.) ScntiHci-DcIuocrat, scIl dead
of aYopieXy.
At the annual convention in Haiti-
more Of the National Reform a$Suria-
ton 4 proposed amendment 10 liz" con
stiIutiUn OF the United States Was az
proved that lucknow lodges Almighty
God AS the source OF all authority Ill
civil government, the Lord Jesus Chris;
the ruler of nations, and the re-
vealed will of God as the supreme al
thCrity i'll civil affairs.
The most famous blockade runner
during the rebellion, Alexander Collie.
died in poverty in New York.
The supreme court of Minnesota de-
cided that state Legislators could not
hold any other Office. This decision
throws out of office a large number of
men
y statement made by the bureau OF
statistics shows that b~readstufTs valued
at $101 ,349,2It were exported during the
II months ended November 80, against
S1~11.N20,@i5 during HE same tima III
1924. Provision exports were $I3S.6o2.-
3I5, against $l51.Sg5.=59 i'll 1891.
William Campbell d Co.. manufacture
of woolcns in New York, failed Tor
S1OO.0 500.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses III the United States during tine
week ended on the 18th aggregated
81. 129, G6,2SS, against $1,2f7.1gf,9J the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week i'll
1894. WAS lO.6.
George l;ubriEht, Il w~eak-ninded
young man. while in church at Evans
p, lille. Ind. suddenly attacked Miss Car
rie Daum and stabbed her fatally.
There were 3oo business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th. against 32+ the week
previous and %4y in the corresponding
of 1894.
Max Goodrich, aged So. in a fl of ical-
rage fatally mot his young wife.
Bertha. at their home i'll Philadelphia
and then sent a bullet through his Own
The secret service officials in Wash
discovered 4 new counterfeit $50
States note of the series of 1850,
with the portrait of Hamilton poorly
engraved.
BY n premature explosion OF powder
and dynamite four men were killed at
La Toilette. Tenn. and four other Hen
were missing. !
The American Red Cross society has
decided to accept rhc duty of distrib-
utiny relief funds for the Armenian
sufferers.
Steamers arriving in New York re-
-Cnprtpd terrible wpafhPr at sea. !