The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-30

Oh q QGdrfel Arthur cpcSO
shot and killed his betrothed, Annie
Frisch, at Celina, O., and then killed
himself.
A TERRIFIC simeon, filling the air
with sand, swept ove the country
near Denison, Tex. Houses e un-
rooted, trees blown down and q great
deal of damage done.
IN a collision between freight trains
near Hinckley. ILL.,, Engineer Spencer
and Fireman Williams were killed.
The first bank with \ woman presi-
dent eve organized in the United
States closed its doors at Genoa, Neb.
BURGLARS entered the residence of
Andrew Shorb, a farmer living ear
Columbus City, Ind, and robbed him
of 5000 in gold and $500 in green
backs.
TIRE Western Transfer & Implement
company's warehouse and storehouse
and elevator of Hubbard & Ceres lin
seed oil mill were burned at Sioux
City, Ia, causing an aggregate loss of
$500, 0OO.
FURTHER advices say that sixty per
sons persisted in the mine disaster at
Red Canyon, Wye, of which fifty-one
were married men and nine young men
and boys.
The Johnson county savings bank at
Warrensburg. Mo-, closed its doors.
FLAMES that started in Kern's coffin
factory in New Orleans destroyed prop
erty valued at $3.50, 900.
DANIEL SUMMERS (white) and Isaac
Allen (colored) killed each other in a
duel near Carthage, Miss.
THE secretary of the treasury APP
pointed William Martin Aiken, of Gin
c%innati, O., supervising architect of the
treasury, vice ORourke, resigned.
The president appointed William NJ.
Springer, of Illinois, and C. B. Kilgore,
of Texas, to be United States judges
for the territory of Oklahoma.
A FOREST fire that had burned over
twenty-five acres of valuable timber
was still raging within . miles of Egg
Harbor City, n. j.
The famous stallion Ralph Wilkes,
owned by the Thayer brothers and
valued at $4,000, died at Lancaster,
Mass
MEMBERS of the Yale-Cornell crew
will go t. England to compete for the
grand challenge cup at Henley in July.
AT Buffalo, n. Y, Clarence Robin
son was sentenced for life and his wife
given twenty years for numbering
Montgomery Gibbs.
A DECISION at Findlay, o., makes the
proprietor of a cafe and the owner of
the premises liable for money lost at
poker in the cafe.
THE Women's club of Michigan have
organized the Michigan Federation of
Women's clubs and elected Miss Clara
Avery, of Detroit, president.
BELIEF was gaining ground in Wash
ington that the supreme court would
declare the income tax law unconstitu-
tional.
TIE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the ed aggregated
$685., 491, 1896, against Ss9S, 639,277 the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1873.
TwENTY-NINE buildings in the bust
ness portion of Bayou Sara, La, were
burned.
THE residence of P. Dollard at Chap
leau. Ont, was burned and three of his
children were cremated in an upper
room.
THERE were 27s business failures in
the United States in the seven days
l A. o0l o1oret OcC %lo
week previous and pa in the CORE
spending time in 1894.
jim MORRISON, a notorious murderer
and counterfeiter in Alabama, was
killed while resisting arrest near Toad
vine.
REV. DR.. W. NJ. B. YoNCE, professor
of ancient languages at Roanoke col
lege, Virginia, dropped dead in a church
at Salem.
The Nebraska legislature passed a
bill forbidding the sale of cigarettes in
the state to any person under 81 years
of age.
WALTER BARK was hanged at Table
quah, l. T, for the murder of johnson
Reese several years ago.
OuNEth 'AlSlN NSOAOiCbJ was Ad4iSCu
at Natchitoches, La, for the murder
of Maj. Anthony, also colored.
E. T. COFFIN, a San Antonio telegraph
operator, lnherits So SOC. 600 from an
uncle who has died in Brazil.
NORTH DAKoTA's university and nor
NAL school will close, owing to the fact
that the governor reduced their appro-
priations.
A BILL appropriating 100000 for the
benefit of drought sufferers passed
both houses of Nebraska's legislature.
THREE tramps who had started a fire
in a timers charcoal stove were suf-
located to death in a box car at Trim
idad, Col.
NEW YORK health officers discovered
a man stricken with leprosy who had
been living in a tenement for sixyears.
SEVEN members of a German family
in Toledo. o., were seriously afflicted
with trichinosis, caused by eating dis
eased sausage.
MADISON county. Ind, "a being ter
rorized by lawless men and farmers
will employ bloodhounds to hunt them
down.
DUN'sreview of trade notesa stronger
demand for money and other evidences
of improvement in business.
A BILL was introduced in the Illinois
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