The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-03
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.

William Elzey and his wife and Mrs.
Thomas Elzey and Miss Myers were
fatally injured.
JUDGE Ross in the United States
district court at Los Angeles, Cal, de-
clared the Wright irrigation law I'M
constitutional. This decision invali-
dates bonds to the extent of $50. 900, 900
that are held all over the United
States and Europe.
A GREATER portion of the business
section of Silver City, n. NJ, was de-
stroyed by a food.
REV. d. W. GILLIssLEE, of Live Oak,
Fla, reported a reign of terror among
the negroes of Lafayette and Taylor
counties. He said their churches were
being raided by white men, congrega-
tions dispersed and pastors driven
away.
AT Angels Camp, Cal, the Utica
mine, which had been yielding $500, 600
worth of gold every month. vas dam
aged by fire to the extent of S25O,0O0.
MARLEY, HARVEY & Co, retail cloth
ing and furnishings in Detroit, Mich,
failed for sos. OOO.
4 HEAVY rain flooded over 100 houses
at Connellsville, Pa. and thousands of
coke ovens were drowned out by the
torrent.
DESTRUCTIVE forest fires were still
raging in the pine woods near Long
Lake, Mich.
FIRE that started in the Wright &
Adams machine works at Quincy. ILL.,,
DESTROYED SEQ, 600 worth of property
and crushed the life out of Percy Hun
saker, Il fireman.
MASKED men boarded a w~est-bound
Lake Shore Il Michigan Southern eX-
press train at Reece siding. near Wau-
seon, O.. forced open an express ear and
at the pointo of revolvers compelled the
messenger to unlock the safe. 1t was
known that at least S. 900 was taken.
IL another fight between Indians
and settlers near Jacks Hole, Wyo.,
three white men and six Indians were
killed.
THE number Of immigrants arriving
in New York from January !. 1895, to
date exceeds by nearly $4,000 those
who arrived during the same period in
1894.
A PREMATURE explosion of dynamite
on the drainage canal near Willow
Springs, Ill, killed William Kelly,
Joseph Smith and Thomas Soaker.
THE bank of Archie. located at
Archie, Mo-, went into the hands of a
receiver.
The Connellsville pa coke region
was swept by a tornado which spread
destruction far and wide. Railroads
were washed out, delaying all traffic,
buildings blown to pieces, hundreds of
cattle drowned, orchards uprooted and
crops laid waste. The total loss was
estimated at $500, 900.
4 CLoUDBURsT swept over the village
of Brecon, O. damaging many build
ings. and a large number OF cattle and
sheep were drowned.
RESIDENTS of Ba~tesville, o., blew up
with dynamite the only saloon in the
town.
gibson ROLAND, a well-known young
farmer near Manchester, Ia, shot and
killed his brother Henry, also a farm
er. and then shot himself. No cause
was known.
ROBERT Il. THOMPSON and Theophile
Curry left Chicago for a our around the
world on stills Such a thing was
never attempted before.
In a dispute over money at Hot
Springs, Ark, W. c. Myers and his
brother James. popular young men,
were shot and killed by d. W. Clai-
born. a liveryman.
HERMAN FRANTz, an artilleryman,
left Fort Hamilton, Y. V, on Il bicycle
for Fort Smelling, MINI.
IN 4 quarrel at a social party at
Union Ridge. W. Va, knives. razors
and reviewers We're used and four men
were killed and several others serious
ly wounded.
REPORTS as to the conditions OF crops
throughout the country made by the
directors OF the different state weather
services say they were in fine condi-
ton.
TIE steamer Terrier reported upon
arriving in New York that in a col
iision July II with the British schooner
Eagle two men, two women and a child
were drowned.
THE Lake View Land company at
Los Angeles, Cal, failed for 5000. 600.
DURING a fire in the residence OF
Rev. W. II. Scudder, pastor of the Con-
gregational church at Norwich, y. Y.
two of his children, Mary and Clarine,
aged G and . years respectively, were
burned to death.
". ii. TAYLOR. dealer in dry goods
1t Fort Worth, Tex. failed for 500. 900.
J. b. PEITCHARD and his wife, who
lived near Rosston, Tex, were killed
by lightning.
ROSE GARDEN. a dissolute woman,
killed Mary Sullivan and Lizzie Brown
at Barboursville. Ky.
TROOPS were ordered out to protect
the settlers in the jackson Hole coun-
try in Wyoming.
JOHN :. COLLINS, a negro who shot
and killed Student Frederick Oil at
Princeton, y. J., last June, was SEN
fenced to twenty years at hard labor
il the state prison.
GEORGE REED, a painter 36 years OF
age. shot and killed his wife in St.
LOUIS in a fit of jealous rage.
AT a convention of coal miners in
Pittsburgh, Pa, it was decided to give
the operators their choice of advancing
wages or fighting another strike.
CHARLES NJ. WEBB has declined the