The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-04-18

REPRESENTATIVE SMITRs a~nti-lynch-
ing bill has become a law in the state
of Ohio. 1t provides that the heirs of
any person suffering death at the hands
of a mob may have an action for dam
ages against the county where the
lynching occurs and may o 5000.
THE Armstrong bicycle baggage bill
was passed by the New York state as
sembly and senate, on the sth, by large
majorities. The bill, as passed. pro-
vides for the carrying of bicycles as
baggage.
THE Westinghouse club house at
Wilmerding, Pa. was totally destroyed
by fire, on the Sth. causing a loss of
$50, 200; fully insured. The club house
was one of the finest in the country.
Mrs. CoRNELIA MORSE, aged 30 years,
wife of Edwin F. Morse, senior mem
Der of the firm of Morse, Williams &.
Co.. met an appalling death at Phila-
delphia on the sth. While riding her
bicycle she collided with a runaway
and was impaled on one of the shafts
of the wagon.
WITH the approval of the secretary
of war, the major and two troops of
cavalry stationed at Fort Sheridan,
ILL.,, have been transferred to the dG-
partment of the Colorado. One of the
troops will be sent to Fort Huashuca
and the other to Fort Grant, both in
Arizona.
AssAssISATIoNs of japanese continue
throughout the Corean provinces. Ru-
mors have been circulated that par
ties of Russians are travelling through
out the peninsula tanning the anti
japanese feeling.
THE British ship Blairmore was cap
sized by a squall while at anchor in
Mission bay, Cal, on the 9th, and sank
in five minutes. Six of her crew were
carried down with the vessel and
drowned.
THE shortest divorce suit on record
was decided at Wichita, Kas., on the
9th, when Judge Dale granted Jennie
Henderson a decree of separation from
Nelson Henderson in exactly IS sec
Onds after the case was presented &c
him. There were just % words
sFoSen. and but two questions were
proponnded.
The house committee on territories,
on the 9th. by a vote of six to four or
dered favorably reported the bill ad-
hitting the territory of New Mexico
TO the Union as a state.
A DISPATCH from Havana, on the
10th. said that it was definitely known
that the rebel leader. Comes, was alive,
despite the many recent reports of his
death.
An explosion of fire damp occurred
in a coal mine at Wallaneuva. neal
Madrid, on the 10th, by which four
persons were killed and a number in
jured.
:. Il. MINsHALL. an attorney of Pent-
water, Mich, on the 10th, shot and IA
tally wounded William o. i. Sands.
president of the Sands II Maxwell Lum-
Der Co. He then went to his own
home and after killing his wife, his
~l6-year-old daughter and two infant
children. finished his bloody work
by cutting his own throat. Mr.. Sands
died of his wounds a few hours later.
THE Italian government was in
formed, on the 10th, that the Dervishes
were ~retreating to OsobriO. on the
Nubian side of the Atbara river,
abandoning their mules, their wounded
and their stores.
GEN. WEYLER declared. on the 10th.
that Spain had reaffirmed the impossi-
bility of even thinking of reform until
the Cubans should be pacifed by force
of arms.
THE village of Lyons, O., was almost
entirely destroyed by an incendiary
fire on the 10th. The business portion
of the town vas completely wiped out.