The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-02

horses were found in a five-chambered
cave on a farm in Sandusky county, O.
CoRDELIA HILL, of Rippon, W. Va,
killed her father, Robert Hill. He was
numerically chastising of his sons
THE house of Jacob Gaukel IA Star
City. Mich. burned during the absence
of Mrs. Gaukel and her two children,
aged 5 and . years, were burned to
death.
The American Publishers association
met in ninth annual convention in New
York, with 12O delegates in attendance.
THE business portion of the village
of Hamilton, n. Y, was almost wiped
out by fire. The loss a estimated at
$500, 600.
THE village of Lindsey, O., in the
western part of Sandusky county, was
partially destroyed by fire.
ALL the 10000 men in the building
strike to aid the electrical workers to
carry their point.
CALIFORNIA; assembly passed a bill
to prohibit the wearing of hats or bon
nets at theaters or other places of
amusement.
COMMISSIONED SEYMoUR's report shows
90, SOB patents were granted and 1920
expired ay limitation during 1894.
BOTH branches of the Missouri legis-
lature adopted a resolution to remove
the state capital to Sedalia.
DISSATISFACTION with his fathers will
led Albert Wallace, of Dillon township,
H., to shoot his sister, her husband
and a farm hand. The former would
die.
the bill providing for a board of arbi-
tration to settle labor disputes in Chey-
enne. He says it is unconstitutional
SAMUEL YOUNG, an aged resident of
Wiltshire, O., fatally stabbed his young
wife and then hanged himself. Jealousy
was the cause.
JOHN GEIGER, a pioneer resident of
Norfolk, Neb., has become possessed
of a fortune of 81, 500.O 900 through the
death of a brother in New York.
THE congress of the Daughters of the
American Revolution in session in
Washington elected Mrs. Mary Mop.
Foster, wife of the ex-secretary of
state, rs president.
BECAUSE of family trouble Charles
Matthews shot his wife at Omaha, Neb.,
and then killed himself.
TIE people of Montgomery and
neighboring counties in Kansas were
eating o rsefesh, not being able to
get other food.
A BILL providing for removal of the
state capitol from Lincoln to Hastings
was introduced in the Nebraska legis-
lature.
ARBUCKLE Bros coffee mills in New
York were damaged $4,000 by fire.
Several of the employees were injured
by jumping.
For the first time in it's history Mis-
sissippi has a surplus of corn and it was
being shipped to the west.
Four hunters were found frozen to
death in the woods 10 miles from New
Orleans.
THE liquor distillers of the United
States met in Chicago and formed an
association which includes every dis
tillery in the country of any impor-
lance except one.
WAsHINGToS's birthday was general
ly observed throughout the country.
RECENT violent snowstorms have
rendered citizens of eastern Colorado
destitute and they have appealed for
immediate aid.
THERE were 3O2 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 22d, against go the
week previous and 2sS in the CORE
spending time in 1894.
CHARLES NJ. FIGGAT, for Twenty-Five
years cashier of the Bank of Lexington,
Va, absconded, leaving a deficit of
S15O,0O0.
Gov. MORTON approved the act to
prohibit the display of foreign flags
upon public buildings in the state of
New York.
SIX persons were burned to death in
a fire which destroyed our and a half
blocks of the best residence and bust
ness portion of Hot Springs, Ark.
C. W. KNAPP, of the st. Louis Repub-
lie, was elected president of the Amer
lean Newspaper Publishers association
at the session in New York.
THREE unknown men blew the vaults
of the savings bank at Thomaston,
Conn, with dynamite and secured a
small amount.
WILLIAM WALSH, an aged man at st.
Joseph, Mo-, was terribly tortured by
robbers who thought he was boarding
money.
A wEsT-BoUND Frisco train was held
up by three robbers near Aurora, Mo-,
who failed to open the safe in the ex-
press car.
Police raided a secret society hall in
Chicago where a prize fight was in
progress and captured $50 men.
EMANUEL BARKER, an expressman in
Chicago. shot and killed his wife and
fatally shot her brother, Harry Bonner,
and escaped.
WILLIAM DOBBINs, a penurious old
market gardener at Birmingham, Ala,
was the victim of the gold brick
sharper to the extent of Sc, 200.
SENATOR'S Mills and Pease, of the
Colorado Legislature, came to blows
during a session owe a trivial matter.
OFFICERS at San Francisco captured
a rang of pirates which had been op-
Grating on a large scale for months.
ENOs RANDELL. a farmer IS years old.
died of heart disease at La Grange,
Ind One hOur 1ate- his wife apad *