The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-09-14
News Condensed.
important intelligence From All Parts.
DOMESTIC.


WHILE respondent DR.. E NJ. Reming-
ton killed his mother at Hot Springs,
Ark, and then took his own life
LABOR DAY was generally celebrated
throughout the United States.
Ed DONOVAN, of Natick, ran 1Ooyards
at Brockton, Mass, in nine and three
ffths seconds, breaking the worlds
record for that distance.
THE forty-ifth annual Ohio state fair
opened at Columbus
HENRY Il. WOLFE & Co., of LOUIS
vile, Ky., one of the largest clothing
firms in the south, failed for s25o,o0o.
THE wholesale clothing store OF
Shell, Rosenbaum & Steefel was burned
at Rochester, N. Y, the loss being
500, 900.
A LOCOMOTIVE became unmanageable
on the New York & Sea Beach railroad
and ran into an excursion train near
Bay Ridge, injuring sixty-eight per
sons, some probably fatally.
o. B. HACKENBERGER won the 25-mile
bicycle race at Denver and beat the
worlds record. his time being l:04:4-7,
the old record being los As.
WILLIAM BUTCHER, a desperate negro,
was taken from Jail at Hickman, KY.
by a mob and his head was shot OF
and his body riddled with bullets.
THE American Association for the
Advancement of Science met at Spring.
field, Mass
THE t~wenty-irst annual convention
of the Railway Postal Clerks Mutual
Benefit association began in Chicago.
THE coinage at the mints of the
United Statesduring August amounted
to "a, SIT, 600, as follows: Gold, s3,672.'
200; silver. S74s, 900; minor coins, s97,'
400.
THE prevalence of cholera in Homo
lulu and the orient has created a scare
at San Francisco and Portland, Ore.
and the local boards of health were
adopting stringent measures to repe
its invasion.
COUNTY JUDGE BULLOCK, OF Lexing'
ton, KY, will appoint women for cleo
ton and registration officials. This
will be the first instance of the kind in
Kentucky, if not in the United States
ANGELO ANDREW, the largest wal
paper and paint dealer in Akron, o.
assigned to James V. Welch.
FIRE at Evansville, Ind, destroyed
the Hellman -four mill, an elevator
and 100, 600 bushels Of wheat, the los:
being 100000.
A ToTAL eclipse of the moor was OBJ
served at many places in the United
States.
THE tug L. d. Smith was the frs
American craft to pass through the
new Canadian ship canal
Mrs. JOHN B. GRIFFIN and a little
daughter were the only survivors of a
family of six at Little Rock. Ark,
three children having died of starva
ton and the father of alcoholism.
THE annual convention of the lum
bermen of the United States opened il
Buffalo, N. Y.
NAPoLEA C. RATE, his wife and
three daughters were poisoned at
Akron, O., by paris green in boiled
cabbage. Mrs. Rate and Alice, aged
Is. could not live.
RAND q GosHoBS, the large retail
dry goods and shoe house of Charles.
ton, W. Va, failed.
The trial of William Henry Theodore
Durrant for the murder of Blanche
Lamont commenced in San Francisco.
JOSEPH B. NORTON was hanged al
Jasper, Fla, for the murder of jaime:
Denmark on January A last.
The receipts of the government fol
the two months of the current fscal
year were $751; 22, 1914, against SIS, 226,
Gas for the corresponding months Of
the last fiscal year. Expenditures fol
the like period were 81. 1S6, PAS, against
SOS, sos, 2ls for the last fiscal year. The
treasury deficit for the fiscal year, Of
the excess of expenditures over re
ceipts, was stated al S13, 1l3, s54. Las
year for a like period receipts ex'
ceeded the expenditures 1921. 726.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Sd was: Wheat
35,4sO, 900 bushels; corn, 5,412,00o bush
els; oats, 3,4l7,OOO bushels; rye, 445,'
600 bushels; barley. $4,000 bushels.
THE livery stable of Fleming Bros.
at Petersburg, Ind, was burned,
twenty-eight valuable horses being de
stroyed. A hotel was also burned,
the guests losing all their valuables-
AMBROSE E. DEAN and his wife while
driving were struck by a Wabash tra:r
near Montpelier, O., and instantly
killed.
The boycott of national bank note.
ordered by General Master Workman
Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor
was said by Washington officials to bt
a failure thus far.
THE new flag law was observed a
most of the public school buildings il
Illinois
The public debt statement issued OF
the 4th showed that the debt increased
Sc, s15,413 during the month of August
The cash balance in the treasury wa
Sls4, 039, l56. The total debt, less thu
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $685., 924, 232.
A TREASURY statement shows q net
decrease of money of all kinds in cir
culation in the United States on Sep
TENDER 1 of $40, $50, 95s, making the to
tai of circulation s1,6o3, $50. Oes, Oh
S22.s 81 per capita, based On 70,127, 0Ot
population. AS compared with Sep
tember /, 1894, there is a decrease il
circulation of S43, 000, COO
A TORN of wind and rain did grea
damage in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana
Michigan and other states, while