The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-12-28
DOMESTIC.

Secretary CarliSle'S annual report
shows that the revenues of the govern
ment from all sources during the last
fiscal year amounted to S39O,373,2O3.
The expenditures during the same
period aggregated S433,17S,426, leaving
q deficit for the year of S42, sos, 223. The
revenues for the current fiscal year are
estimated upon the basis of existing
laws at S431, 9OT, 4O7, and the eXpendi-
lures at S44S, 9O7, 4O7, which will leave a
deficit of $I7,OOO,O 900. The burden of the
report is Il plea for the retirement of
the greenbacks.
\ fast express train on the Erie rail-
road went down an embankment near
Coshocton, y. Y, and five persons were
seriously injured.
An express train on the Cincinnati.
Hamilton & Dayton road was wrecked
at Milton, o., and 81 persons were in
jured.
: Fitzsimmons signed articles of agree
ment to fight Peter Maher for the
worlds championship on February ii
near FL Paso, Tex.
Over $4,000 taiIcrs in New York,
Brooklyn and Jersey City were locked
out by their employers.
The marriage of Miss Clara Hazel
Busch, daughter of AdoIphus Busch,
the millionaire brewer, and Herr Paul
Won Gontard, a prominent citizen of
Germany, took place in St. Louis.
The German national bank at Lin
coin, Neb., closed its doors with liabiI-
tiles of $15U,000.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 10th was: Wheat,
6G,S35,0OO bushels; corn, 80 600 bush
els; oats G,134,O00 bushels; rye, 1885,
900 bushels; barley, AIS bushels.
All the street car lines III PhiIadel-
phia were tied up by a strike of the EN-
ployes for shorter hours and the priYi-
lege of belonging to 4 union.
Two Internal machines were inter
cepted in the mails in Chicago. One
was addressed to Philip d. Armour, the
millionaire packer, and the other was
for George NJ. Pullman, president of
the Pullman Palace Car company.
John Robinson. aged 25 years. fatally
shot at Philadelphia May Eckert, aged
"a years. his alleged wife, and then
committed suicide.
Tea party day,"in celebration of rhe
Boston tea party 122 years ago, was OBJ
served in Boston by the Daughters Of
the Revolution.
James Thompson, of Ceylon, India.
lost his life in n fire at the exposition
grounds at Atlanta. Ga.
The body of Alexander Krell, whose
piano factory was burned in Cincinnati
with a loss of over 500, 900, was found
in the cellar of the ruins.
0ne-half the business portion Of Vi
emma, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire. the
loss being 100000.
The message of President Cleveland
to congress transmitting the cores
pcndence between Secretary Olney and
Lord Salisbury relative to the Vene-
zuela boundary dispute insists upon the
validity of the Monroe doctrine, and
upon its application to present condi-
tions, and clearly indicates n deter
animation for its enforcement, as the
English government has refused 10 ar
bitrate the question in dispute.
Delegates from national, state and ter
ritorial societies, leagues and alliances
OF temperance reform workers met in
convention in Washington.
The Federation of Labor in session IN !
New York adopted a resolution that |
party politics should not have any place
in the organization, selected Cincinnati
as the next place of meeting AMI adj 4
journed sine die.
= The business portion of Richmond,
No., was burned, the loss being over
$780, 600. !
Hans II. Koehler, a wine dealer in
San Francisco. failed for S3T5,OOO. as
sets. one suit of clothes.
The Merchants Elevator company at
st. Louis made an assignment with lia-
bilities Of over S150.0O0.