The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-23
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.


DOMESTIC.
In South Cardinals constitutional
convention l clause was adopted provid-
ing that any county in which a lynchiny
occurs or where u prisoner suffers bod
lily injury shall be liable to damages OF
not less than 81. 900.
The annual report of the Chic&a-
nauga and Chattanooga National Park
commission shows that ~ miles of roads
have been constructed and the park
now includes j,56S acres, upon which
S27,S2O has been expended. Twenty
three monuments and markers have
been placed and lis foundations pre-
pared for state monuments.
The 18th and greatest of New York's
horse shows opened at the Madison
Square garden in nal city.
The president issued a proclamation
~suspending the prohibition of inspec-
ton of neat cattle from Norway, Swe-
den, Holland, Great Britain, Ireland,
the channel islands and the countries
of North, Central and South America,
including Mexico.
The Lawrence Beach hotel, one of the
la ENSI oulAlliANl Oh lOll-
Island, WAS burned, entailing Il loss OF
$4,000
Secretary Herbert ordered the San
Francisco to AleXandrctta to protect
American life and interests in Turkey.
\ fire in b. Uhrig & Sons coal yards
in Milwaukee caused u loss of $50, 200.
The United States supreme court de
cided officially that beans are vege-
tables.
The one-mile worlds bicycle record
was broken at Louisville by Otto ZeIg-
ler. who made the distance in 1:53 %.
The corner stone of the pedestal for
the William Henry Harrison statue vas
laid in Cincinnati.
The Atlanta exposition directors an
nounced that the gates would close De-
cember 81.
The ina crop report of Kansas shows
a product for the year in corn of 201,-
457.396 bushels.
The 18th annual Baptist congress
opened in Providence. Il. l., with Il large
attendance from all parts of the III
try.
During the past season 100000 hogs
were packed in Cincinnati, against 49,
0OO in 1894.
c. n. Loring, a Minneapolis specu-
Iator, failed for $4,000. Two years
ago he was worth SSOO.OOO.
The plant of the York (Pa.) Wall
Paper company was destroyed by fire,
the loss being S15O,OOO.
The 25th international assembly of
the knights of Labor met in Washing
ton.
The women of 10 states gathered in
their respective state capitals On the
18th to do honor to the life and work of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, it being the
SUth anniversary of her birth.
The Tombs police court, which for 20
odd years has been held at the corner
of Franklin and Center STREETS, New
York, was permanently closed.
The residence in Detroit of ex-senator
Thomas '. Palmer, presiden, OF the
worlds fair commission, was burned,
and valuable works o: art and bric-a-
brac collected from all over the world
were destroyed.
At St. Joseph, Mo-, James Pollard. n
young farmer, was sentenced to be
hanged for shooting to death Joseph
Irwin July 80 last.
The bureau of statistics in its state
ment of domestic exports says that
during the ten months ended October
so. 1895. the mount of exports of bread
stuffs, cotton, oils and provisions was
S299,S12,916, which is n loss, as COM
pared with the same period in 1894, of
S25. 795.69S.
Rev. Il. A.. Torrey. of Chicago. resigned
rs president of the international Chris
tan Workers association at the meet
ing in New Haven, Conn, and Rev. Rus
sell II. Conwell, of Philadelphia. was
elected to succeed him.
H. II. Holmes. convicted in Philadel-
Irhia of the murder of i. f. Pitzel,
through his counsel fled reasons for a
new trial.
In an address before the Georgia leg
i~slature ~cN-Speaker Crisp declared him
self unequivocally in favor of the free,
unlimited and Independent coinage OF
silver at the ratio OF sixteen to one.
William Kuntz murdered Mrs. Caro-
line Menn and her ten-year-old girl at
Laredo, Tex, and then killed himself.
At Brislow, Ind, Judd Linden,
Thomas Ellis and Frank Orr were suf-
located by foul gas in p well.
i. T. Hatch, appointed minister to
the United States from Hawaii to sue
coed Minister Thurston, arrived at San
Francisco.
y freight train collided with a work
train neal birmingham, Ala, and Tony
Cunningham, Moses McGce and Stephen
Mcdonald were killed.
By the death of an uncle in Australia
the daughter of William Kelly, a poor
gardener in Philadelphia, receives SI5,-
oOL. 900.
The main building of the Randolph
paper box factory in Richmond, Va,
was totally destroyed by fire, the loss
being $15O.OO0.