The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-27
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

following the public examinations of
the day. The orators were David
Harris, Miss Tulliola Tinnon, VIII S.
BiXler, Miss Ellen Conant, Miss Grace
Burton and President A. E. Turner.
The annual reunion social concluded
the days exercises.
AN trade was issued by the Turkish
government, on the 10th, appointing a
Christian governor of Zeitoun.
Mrs. CHARLES JENNINGS and William
Hartwig, of Evansville, Ind. were out
driving, on the evening OF the 18th,
when in passing a steam roller the horse
took fright. 1t ran into the curbing,
and Mrs. Jennings was thrown out.
When picked up she was dead, with
out a scratch or bruise on her person.
The doctors pronounced her death the
result of fright. She was IS years of
age, and leaves two small children.
The Goodrich reservoir, located IS
miles from Baker City, Ore, collapsed.
on h 10th, and a volume of water
rushed down the gulch, wrecking
everything in its path. The home of
R. French was swept away, and the
entire family, consisting of the par
ents and five children, were drowned.
A number of bridges were carried
away, and considerable damage was
done to grain fields.
GEORGE II. SEMPLE. the man who
shot Banker Wyckoff in New York,
and then turned the weapon upon
himself, died of his wounds in the
New York hospital on the 10th.
A r wind and rain storm
visited Brazil, Ind. on the night of
the 18th. The streets became rivers,
and many cellars were flooded. The
Swamp Angel mine of the c.. Ehrlich
Coal Co. was flooded by the overflow
ing of a creek near by, causing dam
age to the amour of several thousand
dollars, and the mine may have to be
abandoned.
The Spanish government has de
cided to recall Gen. Martinez Campos
to active military service. The gen.
eral himself declares that he will only
accept the command of a division in
Cuba.
HosHI TORI, recently appointed Jap
anese minister to Washington, arrived
at San Francisco on the Coptic or the
10th.
Hon. CHARLES H. WILLS, who was
recently appointed consul to Managua,
was, on the 18th, stricken with paraly-
sis at his home at La Plata, Nd. The
physicians doubt his recovery. Mr..
Wills is 70 years of age,
News was received in London, on
the 18th, that the British steamer
Drummond Castle, which sailed from
Table Bay, May 2s, for London, with
$50 persons on board, had been sunk
near shant, the most western of the is
lands off the coast of Brittany, France.
Two of the ships company had been
picked up by a fishing vessel, but
nothing was known of the fate of the
others on board.
THE governor of the island of Crete
convoked the Cretan assembly on the
18th.
The condition of Gen. W. H. Dimond.
superintendent of the mint at San
Francisco, i'll at the Gilsey house in
New York city, was reported, on the
10th, to be extremely critical.
A HURRICANE at Gutherie, Okla, on
the 18th, wrecked the Central high
school building and state capitol
grounds: badly damaged the Episcopal
bishops residence, the Catholic colored
academy and many private residences,
besides doing many thousand dollars
damage to other property.
BALTIMORE & OHIO express No. J.
west-bound. struck a carriage load of
people at Balls crossing, north of
Mount Vernon, O., IN the night of the
10th. and killed two of the occupants
outright, while it is feared the others
are injured beyond recovery.
ELLIS WILLIS. aged ~. who lived six
miles north of Lebanon, Ind. com
mitted suicide on the 18th. About a
year ago he was hvpnotized by a trav-
cling doctor, and since that time he
had never been free from the hypnotic
influence, his mind being deranged.
FREDERICK j.. ANDRES, an importer
of cotton. was arrested in Boston, on
the 18th, on a warrant sworn u by
j. Il. MoOrs, a banker, charging him
with the e~mbezzlcment of SIS 900.
THE remains of a man supposed to
be S. +. Rowe, of Las Vegas. y. NJ,
were found. on the 18th, at the base of
a 1,5O0-foot precipice on the north side
of Pixies Peak, Col. a month ago a
stranger reported to the authorities of
Manitou that he and a companion.
whose name he did not know, had
started from Gillette to Manitou in the
night. His companion had fallen over
a precipice.
AT the SEVENTEEN commencement of
the Western Reserve university at
Cleveland, o., on the 18th, among the
honorary degrees conferred was that
of Ii. D. upon Thomas Wentworth
Higginson. the eminent historian of
Boston.
The Middlesex wooden mill, at Low
ell, Mass, employing nearly 1000
hands, will close its departments one
after another for an indefinite period.
Over-production is the reason assigned
: for the suspension.
The Case families, of Hunterdon,
Warren and Sussex counties, \. j.,
have sent a lawyer to Cleveland, o., to
look after their interests in the Leon
ard B. Case estate. 1t is said to amount
to about $40, 0OO, 900.
In front of the Mott street entrance
to police headquarters in New York
city, on the 18th, a big bay horse that