The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-07-11

| JUDGE JAMS VI. LOVE OF the [ nlted
States district court for the southern
district of Iowa. died at his home in
Kco!Iuk on the evening of the I'd.
Judge Love was born in Virginia in
1919, and mas occupied position on the
| United States bench since lSjJ.
SIR GEORGE BADEN POWELL, the En-
| glish Bchring sea commissioner ap-
! pointed to arbitrate the sealing ques-
tion, arrived At New York, on the 5th,
ON the Etruria. lie will spend few
! days at Ottawa in consultation with
| Premier Abbott and Minister of the
Marine Service Tuppcr, when he will
leave for Vancouver. where he will be
| joined 10y the commissioner on behalf
of Canada. Dr. Dawson. and their course
will be direct for Bchring sea.
WHILE laboring under an attack of
religious insanity, on the 5th. Mrs.
Mary Millmcr, of Pittsburgh. Pa, at
tempted to kill her S-months-old babe
by hitting it on the head with a hatchet.
| The baby's cries attracted the attention
of a woman who lived in the sam:'
house. who prevented her from finishing
her deadly work Mrs. Miller says her
child is IA second Christ and it was her
| duty tn kill it. The baby cannot live.
SEVERAL fires in san Francisco. re-
sulting from the Use of fireworks on the
4th. caused losses aggrcgating $780,
900. One fireman was fatally injured
and five others badly hurt by Il falling
ladder.
WHILE troops were practicing on
the construction of Il ponton bridge on
the river Aar. near Solcurc, in SwitZcr
land, on the 18th, the pontons capsiZcd
and nineteen men were drowned.
RECEIPTS of wool at BOSTON. for the
week ended on the 4th, We're 1881
bale domestic and SIC bales foreign.
Sales. l.G5l.OOO pounds domestic and
400. 900 pounds foreign.
TIE Chilian transport ltata and the
Initcd States steamer Charleston ar
rived at San Diego. Cal. on the 5th.
direct from Iquiquc, Chilli, after a trip
nf twcnty-thrcc days.
EX-NICE PRESIDENT HANNIBAL HAM
LIN. who served during the first term of
President Lincoln, died suddenly, on
tllt 'Ntlllll- "a Nilt sun at VIZ.
\ GERMAN merchant named Bonner
has donated 1000. 900 marks to erect j
hospital at Hamburg.
On the morning Of the Sd an express
train standing at the Ravcnna tO.D sta
tion of the Erie railroad while thc,cn-
ginrrr was making some slight adjust
mcnt of the gearing of his engine was
f,-,i,,l,t tS-i,i,.h h.,l
not been properly tagged. and a terrific
wreck cnSucd in which nineteen per-
sons were killed and a large number
injured.
Ar Farm. W. Va. on the Kanawha &
Michigan railroad, on the morning of
the 9TH. the two rear coaches of pas
scngcr train broke through Il :;5-foot
trcstlc which had been partially burned
during the night and fifteen persons
were killed and iifty-cight injured.
During a hallOn ascension at Man
haitian Beach, Denver. Col. ON the jth,
an elephant used for giving rides to
children became frightened and STAN
pcdcd. and Johnny Eaton. the son of a
railroad man. was tramplcd I" death
10y the huge brute before he could he
secured.
The Branch guards. of st. Louis,
took the first frcc-for-all prize at the
indianapolis IndJ prize drill. ON the
ith. first artillery prize. Dallas tTcx.)
battery; first maiden prize, Jackson
tMich.D cadets: first znuavc prize,
Aurora tlll.l znuavc>.
ONE nf the mnSt violent wind and
rain storms visited Galveston, Tex. on
the 5th, and was still raging early on
the morning of the 9TH. doing an cnor-
nous amount nf damage. The storm
was accompanied by an excessively
high tide. Tn" eastern portion of the
city was reported under water.
MINISTER LINCOLN gave Il Fourth of
July reception in London. which was
attended hy nearly every American of
any prominence in the city. II was
very brilliant affair.
FROM data in the hands of the com
mittcc of arrangements for the silver
cncampmcnt Of the 6. \. Il. in Detroit,
Mich. the first week in August, it is
estimated that nearly 2OJ. 900 veterans
and their friends will attend. Up to
the 9th Sl1O.OJ0 had been pledged to
dcfray the expenses of entertaining the
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