The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23

Gov. MCINTYRE Of Colorado received
a telegram from Washington, on the
18th, asking him to proceed at once
against the murderers of the Italians
at Walsenberg.
AN amended bill to abolish capital
punishment passed the Nebraska sem
ate on the 14th. 1t had a good pros
pect of passing the house, and the gov
n was said to favor it.
FOUR men were buried under the
walls of the Commercial Trading Co.'S
building in Laramie, Wyo., which was
destroyed by fire on the 18th. James
Foster vas taken out dead, and George
Cordinier, a university student, was
fatally injured.
A PHENOMENAL vote. was cast at the
republican primaries in Cleveland, o.,
on the 18th, the total reaching 23, 332.
Many ONE took advantage of their
recently-acquired franchise and at
tended the primaries.
CAPT. LEONARD G. SHEPARD, chief of
the revenue marine division of the
treasury department, died in Washing
ton city of pneumonia, on the 18th, af-
ter an illness of ten days, aged 81.
A CONCURRENT resolution. proposing
an amendment to the New York con-
stitution giving women the right to
vote, passed the assembly, on the 18th,
so to 81.
A SYNDICATE is forming in Belgium
to import Canadian horses into that
country.
JUDGE L. E. MCkIsICK, acting as
special counsel for the government, on
the 18th, filed his claim, involving S15,-
600, 600, in the case of the government
against Jane L. Stanford, e%xecutrix of
the last will of the late Senator Stan
ford, to o from the estate the
pro rata of taxes due the United States
from the Central Pacific Railway Co.
The women of Orange, n. j., will is
sue. on April l, an extra edition of the
Orange Chronicle for the benefit of the
Orange free library. Preparations for
this edition are being made on a very
extensive scale and it is expected that
this sample of purely women's work
will be one of the most unique of its
kind.
THE failures in the United States,
for the week ended on the 18th, as re-
ported by Z. G.. Dun & Co, were 266,
against 26+ for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures numbered 81, against SIS last year..
ALoIs FoIDL killed himself on Logan
avenue, a fashionable thoroughfare in
Denver, Col, On the 18th, by exploding
a dynamite cartridge about an inch
and a half in diameter and four inches
long. The entire left side of his body
was blown into fragments.
QUEEN VICTORIA arrived at Nice,
Italy, on the 18th, and was received
with a great display of ceremony by
the mayor and other municipal author.
tiles.
TIE Red Star line steamer Fries
land, Capt. Nichols, having on board
$50 American eXcursionists, arrived at
smyrna on the 18th.
The California senate, on the 18th,
defeated the woman suffrage bill,
which had already passed the assem-
bly,.
The American loan opened in Lon.
don, on the 18th, at 81 per cent. pre-
MUM and closed unchanged.
On the 18th the Nebraska senate
passed the Watkins bill, abolishing
punishment, which had already |
passed the house.
SECRETARY GRESHAM, in spite of his
sickness .and the inclemency of the
weather, resumed duty at the state de-
on he 18th
Ii HUNG CHANG, China's peace en-
voy, sailed from Shanghai. on the 18th,
for Japan, with his suite of forty per.
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