The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-05

prison at JenersoavUle, Ind, and that
1t was being circulated by Henry Pat
ton, foreman of the Patton Manufac-
turing company, located in the peni-
tertiary.
JOHN R. GENTRY paced a mile at Du-
buque, Ia. in 2:03H.
To SAVE the life of her baby boy
aged 8 years. Mrs William Dickinson,
suffered herself to be trampled to
| death under the hoofs Of a runaway
team at Neenah, Wis
Gov. CULBERsox. of Texas, called an
extra session of the legislature to meet
October 2 to make provision for pre-
venting prize fighting in the state.
Rev. DR. TALhAsE, Of Brooklyn, has
accepted the call to be co-pastor of the
First Presbyterian church in Washing
ton.
MARTIN ADAMS was hanged at Column
bus, O., for causing the death Of John
Dinner by poisoning his beer.
TUE Cooperative Banking essoci&-
ton, capital stock 500, 900, suspended
at New Orleans The bank had but
few depositors
AT the closing session in Chicago of
the Irish national convention an or
~ganization was effected to be known
as the Irish National Alliance and
having for its object the securing of
the Independence of ireland by any
means within its power consistent with
the laws and usages Of civilized ns-
lions.
By an explosion six men lost their
lives at the Belgian mine lei Lead
vile, Col, and four others were badly
injured
JOSEPH RENIscH, a pressman, and
Della Bolip, his sweetheart, committed
suicide at St Louis.
FEDERAL officers at San Francisco
were notified that all British sealing
vessels were carrying arms contrary
to law.
AT Weir City. Kan, Paddy" Purtell
and johnson, the Terrible Swede,"
were sentenced to one year each in the
penitentiary for prize fighting.
The village OK Haskins, O., was al
most totally destroyed by fire.
THE Western Baseball ASSOCIATION
closed the season with the Lincoln
(Neb) club as champions. The per-
centages were as follows: Lincoln,
.626; Des Moines, $50; Peoria, sos;
Rockford, $40; Quincy, .5o4; Burling-
ton, 500; Dubuque. .419; st. Joseph, 1881
WILLIAM GIDEON, a farmerne lear Mont
pelier, O., shot and killed his wife and
then shot himself. Gideon was de-
spondent because of foreclosure Of a
mortgage on his farm.
A PHYSICIAN in Cincinnati, who has
made C study of the diseases, claims to
have found a remedy which will abso-
lutely and permanently cure diabetes
and Bright's disease.
FORTY THOUSAND people celebrated
in Atchison Kansas 400, 600. 900 bushel
corn crop in one of the biggest and
noisiest carnivals the west has eve
seen.
WHITE CAPS took William Massey, of
Fulton, Mo, charged with abusing his
family, out of his house and rawhided
| him within an inch of his life.
OVER 10000 persons were idle at
Hazleton, Pa, because of a water fam
Inc.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 27th aggregated
1897. 924, 422, against 81. os1, s6l, 3s1 the
previous week. The increase. conn
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was EOS.
A CYCLONE which passed through
/ Crown Point, o., destroyed much prop
erty and severely injured three per-
Son
BY a collision of trains near Tunnel
ton, w. Va, one person was killed
two fatally injured and several others
seriously hurt.
THE state department at Washing
ton was advised of the payment in
London of the Spanish draft for the
Mora claim, amounting to 81, 449, 900 in
gold.
CoRwIN C. Haywood, of Warren, O.,
died suddenly from accidental poison
ing. He ate toadstools in mistake for
mushrooms.
The oldest counterfeiter in the
| United States, William Norris, of De
Kalb county, Ala, was convicted at
Birmingham Of making and passing
spurious coins. He is almost 100 years
| old.
TIE body of John Kuttler, a farmer
living near Barada. Neb., was found
in his hog pen, partially eaten by the
hogs.
WHILE attending the "apple car
| p;val- at Glenwoo6 Ia ID. II. Reed. of
Blue Springs, Neb., secretary of the
| Nebraska State Horticultural society,
was run down by a fast mail train and
killed.
THERE were 216 business failures in
| the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 213 the week
previous and 235 in the corresponding
| time in 1894.
THE worlds pole team trot record
was broken at the fair grounds track
at Springfield. Ill, q mile being made
in 2:12H.
THE state department at Washington
Announces the death in Corea of Ye
| Sung Su, the Corean minister to the
| United States He had been absent
from his post for about a year. He
died Of cholera.
HENRY GILES, a Monroe county
Tenn.) youth, tried to kill his mother
because she objected to his marriage.
He failed. then shot himself to death.