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

W. Grayson, a Sewer county CTenn.)
farmer, was called from his house and
shot to death by a gang of white caps.
The visible supply Of grain in h
United States on the 18th was: Wheat,
46,65S,O 0 bushels; corn, 24,394,00O bush
els; oats, 12,494,OOO bushels; rye, 3,9O1,-
coo bushels; barley, 1882, 900 bushels.
It is stated hat the big machine bolt
trust has gone to the wall. 1t comprised
sIl the leading machine bolt manufac-
turers in the country.
The domestic merchandise exported
during January amounted to S93,5O5,-
103, against $S5,543,304 for January,
1896. The imports amounted to $751;
a27,os1, against SOS, 647, 800 for January
last year.
By the death Of William Lampson, a
banker at Leroy, N. Y. Yale college re-
ceives a bequest of 81, 100000.
Maj. Mckinley was unable to receive
callers at Canton, o., because of IN at
tack of influenza.
A pay train on the railroad near Can
delaria was wrecked by the Cubans n
over $780, 900 in silver was secured.
Miller Ripley. aged IS, and his wife
of ten days committed suicide by
drowning in a river near Chattanooga,
Tenn. III feeling between Ripley and
his wife's family was the cause.
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the sentence OF two years IN
prison and a fine of $4,000 in the case
of Joseph r. Dunlop, publisher OF the
Chicago Dispatch. Mr.. Dunlop was
charged with sending obscene matter
through the mails.
The exports of gold coin and bullion
during January amounted to SS71,944,
against $40, 566, 526 in January, 1896, and
the imports were S556,621, against S1o,-
S67,94O during January, 1896. Silver ex-
ports amounted to S3,367,94o, against
$1,000, 299 during January, 1896, and the
imports amounted to S877,O67. against
S1,O57.59 during January, 1896.
II il announced that all the leading
Kentucky distillers will keep their
plants closed this year.
John H. Hoffer, the former cashier OF
the First national bank of Lebanon,
Pa, pleaded guilty to the embezzle-
ment of $1,000 and was sentenced to
ten years in prison.
Three italians, John Fanieko, Paola
Furesak and Pedro Philipo, were run
down and instantly killed by a train at
Upton, Pa.
The annual meeting of the Depart
ment of superintendent of the Nation
al Educational Association began in In
diapapolis.
Peter Schmidt and Samuel Foster
(colored) were hanged at Clayton, Mo-,
for the murder of Bertram E. Atwater,
of Chicago, on January %, 1896.
The General Federation of Womer's
Clubs, presided over by Mrs. Ellen NJ
Henrotin, of Chicago, met in Washing.
ton.
The Warsaw On. " salt baths and
s%anitarium were burned, the loss being
S1OO,OOO
The total receipts Of the 80 largest
post offices in the United States for jan
uary, 1897, were s2,s59,911, and for L.
uary, 1896, S~2,944,354, a net decrease o:
S104,443.
DIR. Arthur Duestrow, the young mil.
lionaire who shot to death his pretty
wife and infant son in St. Louis Feb
ruary 10, 1894, was hanged in Union,
Mo.
A woman suffrage amendment was
lost in the Nevada Legislature by a vote
of Is to S.
1t is estimated that $4,000 persons
are suffering from the grip in Phila-
delphia.
1t is stated that President Cleveland,
Secretary of State Olney and Edwin F.
Uhl, of Grand Rapids, Mich, now min
lister at Berlin, will form a law partner
ship in New York.
T. W. Hines & Co., manufacturers OF
ladies' straw and felt goods in New
York. failed for 100000.
The doors of the Merchants national
bank at Jacksonville. Fla. were closed
At the annual meeting in Chicago OF
the National Dairy union ". D. Hoard
of Wisconsin, was reelected president
The Office of the Post in Pittsburgh,
Pa. was almost totally destroyed by
fire, causing a loss to the paper Of about
100000