The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-13

being SlOU, OJO.
DR.. c. D. SHERWOOD, once lieutenant
governor of Minnesota and later
founder of the town of Sherwood,
Tenn, drowned himself in the lake in
Chicago while respondent
ILLINOIS miners last year lost $685.
80 in wages through strikes and
gained practically nothing.
AUGUSTUS FIELDS, of Meadowville.
Mo-. a prominent business man, muir
dered his wife and child and committed
| suicide. No cause was known.
THE Arrowhead hotel, me of the
noted tourists resorts of southern Cal
i~fornia, was burned to the ground.
DERNBERG, CLICK &c HoRNER, pro-
prietors of the Leader, n of the lead
ing department stores in Chicago,
failed for over S225,0O
FIVE persons dead and thirty-three
injured wa the record of accidents of
| the Fourth of July in Chicago.
For the first time in five years all
the saloons in Atchison. Kan, were
closed, with no prospects of opening
again.
The bureau of navigation received
preliminary returns showing that CSC
| steam and sail vessels of 132, 7l9 gross
tonnage were built and documented in
The United States during the las fiscal
year.
FANTASY defeated the great Direc-
tum in a free-for-all trot at M~inneapo-
lis, going a mile in FOG.
AT the national convention in Flint,
Mich, of teachers of the deaf w.
O'Connor, of Georgia, was elected pres
ident.
The American Strawboard works at
| Anderson, Ind. the largest controlled
by the great company, were burned
the loss being 100000.
HOPE HENRY, a young colored preach
er. was lynched by a mob near Lake
City. Fla. He was charged with as
saulting a white
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 5th aggregated
s975, 994, 944, against s., O1O, 4S2, OIL the
previous week. The increase, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 14.9.
The Harvard bapk at Gainesville,
Ga, closed its doors with liabilities of
ST., 600.
GEORGE LAWSON while drunk fatally
shot his wife and then himself at
Springfield, Ill.
CAPT. PAUL WEBB, the famous swim
mer, lost his life lear C9ur d'Alene,
Idaho, in an attempt to ride down a
| 3OO-foot chute into the lake in his bar
rel.
HEAVY rains did great damage to
property near Fort Scott, Kan, and
many families were driven from their
homes.
THIRTY-sIx clipping couples from Ken
lucky were married at Je~ffersonville,
Ind, in as many hours.
As A result of a riot at a picnic given
by German Roman Catholics at 81
IBERIA, Ind, three persons were dead,
five fatally wounded and fifty seriously
hurt. The riot was started by a gang
of roughs who were drunk.
FOUR more deaths growing out of
Fourth of July accidents were reported
by the Chicago police, bringing the
total number of fatalities up to ten.
THE Santa Rita copper and iron mill
at Santa Rita, n. NJ, was burned, the
loss being 100000.
JOHN ANDERSON, Frank Bevans and
Miss Marembeck, all residents of Phil
adelphia, were drowned in the Della
ware river at Beverly, n. j., by the
capsizing of a boat.
JOHN WILLS was shot and instantly
killed and his sister mortally wounded
at a celebration at Lincoln Riuge, o.,
by a man named Upton.
THERE were 6,657 commercial failures
in the United States in the first half OF
1895, with liabilities of SIS. S39, 944,
against 7.O39 i'll the first half of 1894,
with liabilities of Sol, 739, 3O5. Manu-
featuring failures were 1,254, against
I,5Ol last year, and liabilities $40, 3Ol,-
DAG against S41, $40, lO2 last year. Bank,
ing failures were s~iXty-three, with liza.
bilities of S16,653, go, against sixty
three last year with liabilities of 3d..
Isl, 46l.
Thomas NoRvILLE (colored) was
hanged at Mobile, Ala, for numbering
Louis Coleman last summer
JOHN w. CARTER, a well-known ink
manufacturer of Boston, was drowned
while bathing at the beach at Har'
wick, Mass
JOHN C~UNSINGHAM, an aeronaut, was
instantly killed at Winigan, Mo. His
parachute failed to work and he fell
1900 feet.
The annual meeting of the National
Educational association began at Der,
YER.
JAMES RYAN, a blacksmith at Terre
Haute, Ind, shot his wife and then
killed himself. Domestic trouble was
the aus
LIGHTNING killed Postmaster Edward
Bryan, wife and child at Louisville,
Ala One boy survives
FREDERICK HELLMAS, a building con.
tractor, aged 81, deliberately killed
himself, his wife and their four chill,
dren in Chicago by shutting his house
up tight and turning on a gas jet. Nc
cause was known for the deed.
THOMAS PUCxETE tcolored) wGs
lynched by a mCp at Pelahatchie,
Miss, for robbing a farmer.
A CONFERENCE of the advocates OF
free silver coinage of all parties in Ohio
will meet at Washington Court House
on the 10th inst.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL