The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-02-27

A special train on the ChlcaSo, y
lington & Quincy road ran from Chi
cago to Denver, a distance of 1,O25 miles,
in 1.O69 minutes, breaking all records.
Reports of mills starting up on wooden
and worsted goods in different parts of
Rhode Island are numerous.
The State national bank of ST. Joseph,
Mo-, capitalized at 100000. will go into
voluntary liquidation.
The supreme council of the National
Farmers Alliance and Industrial union
in session in Washington elected as
president Mann Page, of Virginia.
The eleventh annual convention of
the American Newspaper Publishers
association opened in New York.
The New York senate has passed ii
bill providing that persons convicted
of placing distractions on railroad
tracks shall be guilty of murder in the
first degree.
The greater New York commission
has adopted the charter prepared for
the consolidated municipality as a
whole.
Two negroes were lynched by a mob
near Webb City, Miss, for attacking the
house of a white man and burning it
to the ground.
The national congress of mothers as
sembled at the Arlington hotel in
Washington with 500 delegates present
from all parts of the United States.
The department of superintendent
of the National Educational association
in session in indianapolis elected y. {.
Shaeffer, of Pennsylvania, president.
Anton Shupe and wife were robbed
| and murdered in their home on the
Yankton reservation in South Dakota.
Chun Sing, a Chinese, was hanged at
| San Quentin, Cal, for a triple murder
| committed at Lundy in September, 1895
Three hundred picked men from
| Texas, Colorado and New Mexico left
Port Cavallo, Tex, to join the Cuban IN
s~urgents.
At the National Congress of Mothers
in Washington resolutions were adopted
10 boycott newspapers of an immoral
tone.
Nebraska is startled at the statement
made by Gov. Holcomb that ex-Treas'
urer BARLEY owes S537,762.l3 to the
state.
At the seventh annual convention in
| Dallas, Tex, of the National Alliance
Aid association, A. Wardell, of Topeka
Kan, was elected president.
Ben Colman (colored) was killed ii
a prize fight at Cincinnati with William
Rogers (colored).
At Anaconda. Mont, Mrs. Franz
Dressler and Sherman Ransom were
shot and killed by Frank Dressler, thu
woman's husband, from whom she wa!
separated.
At the farmhouse of Rev. Thoma:
| Spicer near Winona, n. d., Mr.. Spicel
and his wife and Mrs. W. Waldron ant
Mrs. W. Rouse and her twin baby boys
were found murdered. Indians were
charged with the crime.
Ewing F. Chaplin, receiving teller o.
the Fourth national bank in Boston, ha'
disappeared, leaving a shortage o.
$4,000.
During a trial before a justice a
Perkins. o. T., John Doherty, his son
and John and Sam Darkins assaulted
Amos Atkinson and his two sons, jim
and William, with knives and killed
the two sons.
In a freight wreck near Bosky Dell
ILL.,, the engineer, fireman and ont
brakeman were killed.
Samuel Spencer, ST., aged IS, and Sam
uel Spencer, Jr., aged 40, father and son
were killed by the ears at Wyalusing
Pa.
The last evening reception of this nd
ministration was given by the presiden
and Mrs. Cleveland at the white house
It was held for the benefit of the public