The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-01-11

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The Atlanta exposition came to an
end. The total attendance during the
"a days was 1900, 600 and the receipts
amounted 10 nearly 100000.
To prevent a strike the Illinois Steel
company closed their shops neal Chi
cago, throwing 1900 men out of work.
The legislatures of New York, Massa-
chusetts and Maryland convened in
;heir respective capitals.
Gideon IIauser, a tramp, shot four
men at Ayilla, Ind, and then killed
himself.
Five men were burned, three of them
fatally, by an explosion of gas in the
Cirard mine at Shamokin, Pa.
Two baby boys of Thomas r. Bebb
we're burned to death at Palmyra, o.,
and the mother lost her reason in con-
sequence.
Henry F. and David B.. QuarreIs,
cousins, and both aged about 10 years,
while crossing the railway tracks near
EllyrOns, Va, were struck by a train
and killed.
While asleep in their house near
Frontenac, Kan, Robert, John, William
and Archibald McFadden (brothers)
were burned to death.
Five villages, with a population of
10000 were annexed to Cincinnati, Civ
ing that city q population of $4,000.
For the first time in the history of
Colorado the gold output for 1895 eX-
Ceeded in value that OF silver. The fig
ures are: Gold, SIT. 34O,4 1885,; silver, Sl4,-
259.O49.
Andrew Brown, a negro cattle thief,
was hanged by a moi near Westvilje,
Miss.
The Philadelphia bouIse, the first
general exchange building erected in
this country, was formally Dedicated.
The public debt statement issued on
the I'd showed hat the debt decreased
S1,17g,349 during the month of Decem-
Der. The cash balance in the treasury
was $17S,O27 200. The total debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury,
to $947, POS, 1852.
Montana produced in metals about
$47, 900 during the year 1898.
Mrs. John Brumer and her two girls
went down an embankment in a wagon
near Akron, o., and were fatally in
jurcd.
The monthly statement of the d.
rector of the mint shows coinage exc
cuted at the minis of the United States
during December, 1895, to have been as
follows: Gold, SS,097, las; silver, $751;
5g2; minor coins, S107, $50; total, S.
2S0.J73.
Anthony Huber, William Penn and
John Strong were fatally crushed while
working in a box a near Cincinnati.
The tlour output at Minneapolis for
1895 was 1O,5S1 900 barrels, the largest
ever made by 100000 barrels.
+. NJ. Nandcn & Co, wholesale dealers /
in liquors and tobacco at Jackson,
Tenn, failed for 100000.
Albert WoodIey, who murdered his
intended wife, Jennie Buchanan, on
May :, 1894, was hanged in the yard of
the county Jail at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Gov. Greenhalge, of Massachusetts.
was inaugurated at the capitol in Bos-
The president gave his first state din
ncr of the season, thus inaugurating
the social gaieties of the winter ill
Washington.
In a fire that destroyed the residence
of John IL. Hibbard at Columbus, O.. he
aid his wife and two children and Miss
Fay Hibbard and Mrs. Grace Hubbard
Lee, his W. sisters, were burned to
Peter Schertz, in the banking ard
failed for 100000.
In anticipation of the expected bond
there was considerable business
in gold in New York at II per cent.
premium.
Four persons were killed, one fatally
four more were missing and 81
received injuries more or less serious
us the result of an explosion in 4 build
ing in St. Louis. The money loss was
SlGO,0UO.
Fire swept over ten square miles of
territory in Boulder county,
Col, causing Il loss OF over $1,000 0
The statement of the receipts and en-
" IN SlltSN GtiltS SllONS
during the month of December
the receipts aggregated $26,2SS.937 and
expenditures amounted to $25,S14,-
III, leaving n surplus for the month of
The exchanges at the leading clear
houses in the United States dur
.ng the week ended on the Sd aggre-
$1,000, O42, 400, against S1,144,g2S,- &;
102 the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding week
1895, was ~.
The burning of the Thornton Buggy
house at Des Moines, Ia, ,
u loss of S100, 900. '
There were 4O3 business failures in |
he United States in the seven days $
,nded on the Sd, against 316 the week s
and 373 in the corresponding {
period Of 1895. C
At Millidgeville, KY, n boy named :
Walters, while playing, secured a re-
oliver and fatally shot his two little !
'~ousirs, two girls. aged four and eight, l
md then sent a bali through his own
head. '
The bodies of two more men were !
;cund in the ruins of the explosion in /
It. Louis, making q total of six lives =
ost.
A fire that originated in the basement Q
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