The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-05-04
The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

1HE virginia rat Midget q mu-
scum character, died at Peru, Ind. Her
name was Mrs. William Taylor and she
was 3 feet tall and weighed over 400
pounds
FRANK HOWARD Poor, serving a SEN
tence for forgery at Concord, Mass,
has fallen heir to about SIG, DOC, OOO
through the death of Frank Howard, a
Nevada mine-owner.
THE American Industrial union, a
new labor organization, was born in
Chicago.
The decision of the supreme court in
h income tax case necessitates a
change in the estimates of the govern
ment for the fiscal year ending June 80,
and from the best data obtainable it
was believed hat the deficit for the
year would amount to $40, 100000.
WILLIAM OWEN (colored) was hanged
at Warner, Ark, fer Draining his wife
with a hoe.
CITIZENS of St James, Mo-, presented
sixty acres of land and a large build
ing to the women's relief corps of the
soldiers home.
FOREST fires were ragingin the noun
tains in the southern interior of West
Virginia. fully 1000 acres of timber
land having been burned over.
GEORGE H. KICKER, 25 years old,
editor of the Bristol Conn., Herald,
committed suicide during a fit of dis
pondency by cutting his throat.
The Wisconsin supreme court says
that 4 decision OF the law which pro-
vides that life Imprisonment works alb
solute divorce without further proceed
ings is valid.
THE body of Edwin Forrest is to be
removed to a mausoleum at the Edwin
Forrest Home near Philadelphia.
AT San Jose, Cal, Albert Anderson
broke into the room of Mrs. Alice T.
Blair at midnight and stabbed her to
death and hen killed himself.
JAMES r. HOLLAND, cashier of the
Merchants and Farmers national bank
of Charlotte, n. c., was discovered
short in his accounts to the amount of
$4,000.
A VOLUME issued at Washington
shows that the total appropriations by
the Fifty-third congress were S497, OOs,-
800, and that LIB new offices were
created.
THE Missouri legislature convened
in extra session at jefferson City.
DURING the absence of Joe Robinson
and his wife their house at Quincy,
Fla, was burned and three children
were cremated.
In the New York assembly the bill to
make Lincoln's birthday. February IL,
q legal holiday was passed without a
dissenting vote.
THE Dime savings bank at Wilt
mantle, Conn, closed its doors with
1920, sol on deposit and a surplus of
about sea, OO0.
THE Minnesota legislature adjourned
sine die.
Mrs. WILLIAM hartley, of Harris
horn, o. T., took a dose of arsenic and
forced her 7-year-old daughter to swal-
low a like quantity of the drug. Both
are dead.
THE total receipts from internal rev.
enue for the nine months of the present
fiscal year ended March 81 were S1O9,-
995,015, the net increase being 81, $780,
1913 over the preceding nine months.
THE national session of the COM
mandery general of the Sons of Amer
lea convened at Shenandoah, Pa.
The United States supreme court set
May 6 for hearing arguments on the
petition for a ~rehearing of the income
tax question.
In the Delaware conference of the A.
NJ Z oh,-ol ~ Dl;1olal-ls DsI--
Ruley decided that smoking is a sin
FIRE in the manufacturing and
wholesale house of Lanpher, Finch &
Skinner in st. Paul resulted in a loss
of SIPS, 900.
II was reported that seven Polanders
who were clearing land at Wild Rose,
Wis, were cremated by the burning of
their shanty.
FIRE destroyed the entire business
portion of Chester, Neb.
Louis BUDENwITCH and Senior An
tonic Rem, citizens of Argentina who
are making an overland trip for their
government from Buenos Ayres to Chi
cago, arrived at Little Rock, Ark, hav-
ing walked the entire distance. 10. 145
miles. They left Buenos Ayres August
z, 1892.
THE carpet and plush mills of James
Dobson at Falls of Schuylkill, Pa, were
closed indefinitely, throwing 1000 en-
ployes out of work.
THE New York assembly adopted a
resolution favoring the annexation of
Canada to the United States.
A FOREST fire covering G square
miles and consuming valuable pine
timber vas raging near Lakewood, n. j.
INCOME tax returns in Alabama num-
bered $40, and it was believed the tax
in the state would amount to but
$4,000.
THE village of PerIey, Wis, was
nearly wiped out by fire.
A STATEMENT shows hat the total
western packing for the winter season,
ending March l, was 7,191, 900 hogs, an
increase of 2, 3O7, 900 over the preceding
year.
The Methodist Episcopal bishops Of
the entire world met in convention at
Carlisle, Pa.
GEN. DARLINGTON BooTH, of the Sal
walton Army, has renowned Queen
Victoria and will become an American
citizen.
CORA MCCAMLEY SMITH, who pleaded
guilty to poisoning her stepfather,
Michae Smith, a year ago, was SEN
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