The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-17
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC,

y. II. CCRTls, a Kansas City horse
man, was relieved of a pocketbook con-
tanning 81, 800 by pickpockets in Cleve-
land, o.
RICHARD LEACH was e~lectrocuted at
Sing Sing, n. Y, for the murder Of his
wife, Mary S. Leach, on December IL,
1894.
HUERFANo COUNTY, Col, was attract
ing attention on account of important
discoveries of tin ore.
R. D. MARSHALL, of Chippewa Falls
was appointed judge of the supreme
court of Wisconsin.
WILL SIMS and Lucy Perry, sweet
hearts, quarreled at Paducah, KY, and
Sims started to leave when the woman
shot him dead and hen killed herself.
TWENTY-FIVE prisoners were terribly
injured by a falling bridge in the peni-
Tertiary at jefferson City, Mo.
WILLIAM NEWTON LANE shot and in
~stantly killed James ROdenbaugh and
mortally wounded the young mans
father, Ii. C. Rodenbaugh, in a drunk
en- debauch at Versailles, KY. All were
prominent citizens.
EVERY negro in Delta county. Tex,
was notified that he must leave at once
or he would be hanged.
THE total assessed valuation for tax
alton in Wisconsin this year will be
ebOut SGO5. 600, 900, which is about So
OOO, 600 more than last year.
THE fire loss of the United States and
Canada for the month of July shows a
total of S9,OS5. 900. against sic, 3O7, 900
for the same period in 1894.
WILLIAM Z. BRoCKwAY, the notorious
counterfeiter and forger, and three
members Of his gang, were arrested at
Jersey City, n. J.
THE Iowa Liberal league in state
convention at Marshalltown deter
mined to work in a n~on-partlsan man
ner to secure a law permitting the
manufacture of liquors in Iowa.
THE Rocky Mountain savings bank
at Denver closed its doors with liabil-
tiles of $4,000
PEORIA, Ill, has been decided on as
the permanent headquarters of the
Order of Railway Photographers.
TIE secret service gave warning of a
new Photographic counterfeit ive-doi-
lar national bank note. First national
bank of Flint, Mich, series of 1882.
A. E. KELLEY, a commission dealer,
shot and killed himself at the grave of
his wife in Cleveland, o.
A received at the war de-
partment from Gen. Coppinger at
Jackson's Hole, Wyo., said the Indian
scouts were still out and could find no
Indians, and that all was quiet.
THE Italian miners at Spring Valley,
Ill, drove the negroes from the town.
Women with three and four children
running after them were driven over
the hills and through the woods, many
shots being fred after them as they
fed. The governor was appealed to
for aid, and negroes in Chicago and
other cities were arming themselves
wit 4 view of going to Spring Valley
to avenge the outrage inflicted on their
race.
The reports as to the condition of
crops throughout the country made by
the directors of the different state
weather bureaus were favorable.
ELI HIX, a laborer at Bigstone Gap,
Va, while drunk set fire to his home
and he and four of his children were
cremated.
THE &. Y. Roots Flour company in
Cincinnati failed for 500, 900.
JOHN GREER and Henry Greer, cous-
ms, of Carter county, Tenn, fought
with knives over the ill-treatment of
the ~latter's child and both were killed.
TIE twenty-seventh reunion o: the
C--,-A-- r A.. 1888 a. H., 1920. .
will be held in Cincinnati Monday and
Tuesday, September Ii and II, 1895.
JOE HAMILTON and Clarence Chapman, |
of Lonoke county, Ark. cut each other
to death with pocketknives because
they could lot agree as to which
owned a bull.
JUICE GoFF in the South Carolina
registration case dismissed the COM
p~lainant's bill for an injunction. This
decision upholds the present registra-
ton laws.
The school census of Nashville, |
Tenn. shows the population 10 be ST.
374, of which 1864 are negroes, an in
crease in one year of s,26s.
THE president appointed Parton E.
Burton, of Washington state, to be
United States district attorney for the
district of Alaska.
The annual meeting of the Catholic
Total Abstinence union of America
commenced in New York.
TWELVE persons were reported killed
and twenty-five wounded in a wreck
on the Atlantic & Pacific railroad at
Grant Station, n. NJ.
BLACK rust was said to be running
hundreds of fields of spring wheat in
Logan, Trego and Thomas counties in
Kansas.
AT the national convention in Lima,
O., of the Union Veterans union L. +.
Ellis, of Cleveland, was elected COM
mander in chief.
MINERS in mass meeting rescinded a
resolution expelling all negroes from
Spring Valley, III.
THE total cost of the eleventh census
up to date is placed at $40. 531. 142. The
work will be completed during the
calendar year.
The old established book and station
cry house of B. +. Wade & Co. failed
at Toledo, 0.
IN a pacing race at Buffalo, n. Y,
Joe Patchen defeated Robert j., taking
three out of four heats. The best time
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