The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-07-04
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

a. oduh. d OF CnlcdRO, lOr
training Mrs. Leslie Carter for the
stage. Interest at five per cent. from
1890 was allowed by the court, and mo-
ton by Fairbank for a new trial was
denied.
Mrs. HANEY, the keeper of the sec
ton crew boarding car at Rock Springs.
Idaho, and her six-months-old child
were shot and killed. on the 23d, by n
man who was recently discharged from
the section. The murderer then COM
mitted suicide.
THE big pottery of Richard o. Rem
mey e Son, located at kensington, Pa,
was destroyed by fire on the 23d. The
loss on stock and buildings will
amount to $4,000; partially insured.
Nearly 100 hands are thrown out of
employment.
An attempt was made about mid
night, on the night of the 24th, to as
sassinate Rev. A. Cornish, pastor of
the United Brethren church. one of
the largest churches in Fort Scott,
Kas. He had been driving boy thieves
from an orchard and was armed. He
fired four shots at his assailant, who
fed, but none took effect.
SAM CoRwIN, his wife and daughter,
arrived at Kenton, o., on the ed, hav-
ing driven from Oklahoma. l, 400 miles.
The trip took two months and cost $40.
EX-CoNGREssMAN I. II. HUDD died at
his home in Green Bay, Wis, on the
23d, of paralysis of the heart. He was
A. La,4 $1,000 ,a1,s, nc - &
the northern part of the state.
Mrs. ELIZABETH BURY, wife of
Daniel BURY, who was hanged for
his share in the Phoenix murders, in
Dublin, in 1882, died in Chicago on the
ed.
DURING a sharp thunderstorm at
Sioux City, Ia, on the 23d, lightning
| struck and instantly killed Mrs. Mary
Paulson while standing in her dining
| room.
DURING the political excitement in
Chatham, Ont, on the night of the
23d, a balcony of the Royal Exchange
hotel collapsed while a crowd stood
underneath. Fifteen persons were Sc
verely and some probably fatally in
jured.
EDWARD KANTER died at his resi-
deuce in Detroit, Mich, on the 24th, of
Bright's disease, aged ~ years. Mr..
Kanter was the founder of the Ger
man-American savings bank of De
troit, and was well known in New Or
leans and other southern cities.
DENNIS GRIFFIN, a hod carrier. 90
years old. who was working on the
Brighton lodging house in San Fran
cisco when it collapsed, died from his
injuries, on the oath, making the
fourth victim of that distressing disas-
ter.
EVERY state in the Union was repre-
sented in the fifth annual convention
of letter carriers, which opened in To-
ledo, O., on the cath.
BENJAMIN L. SHIvLEY, of st. Joseph
county, was nominated for governor
of Indiana by the Democratic state
convention, on the oath, together with
a full state ticket.
A CYCLONE swept over a section of
country four miles south of Clayton,
Wis, on the oath. A number of dwell
ings and barns were demolished. One
man, name unknown, was fatally in
jured.
On the cath the republican editors of
Michigan paid their respects to Maj.
Mckinley at Canton, o. They were
introduced by Hon. James O'Donnell,
editor of the jackson Citizen. formerly
congressman from the Third district,
and prospective candidate for gov
ernor.
A CLOUDBUEST did immense damage
in Marshall. Tyler and Wetzel coun-
ties, W. Va, on the 18th. Several in
stances of teams and cattle being
washed away are reported.
JAMES EVANS fired into a crowd of
young men gathered at his house in
Newark, o., on the night Of the 24th,
to bell his daughter Lizzie, who
was married early in the evening, and
mortally wounded James Arlington,
aged "a, one of the belling party.
TIE jury in the case of eX-State
Senator L. C. Oil. of Youngstown. o.,
on trial at Columbus on a charge of
offering brides to influence legislation,
returned a verdict. on the 18th, after
seven hours deliberatiOn, OF not guilty.
HENRY VI. STANLEY. NJ. T., the AFR
can explorer, was, on the oath, re-
ported i'll in London with infiamma-
ton of the stomach. His condition
was serious.
EX-SENATOR LYMAN TRUMBULL died
at his home in Chicago, on the 25th,
after a long illness. aged So.
Col. A. q. BRACKET, retired, died
at his residence in Washington city on
the 25th.
IT was officially announced at Bulu-
wayo. on the 18th. that Fort Charles
was surrounded by the insurgents, and
that wagons with food supplies for
Gwelo had stopped at Marendelia,
which had been looted by the enemy,
who secured %, 600 rounds of ammuni-
tion.
SIX THOUSAND Sioux, the remnant of
the most powerful fighters of the
American Indians, celebrated the great
event in their war history-the TWEEN
tieth anniversary of the destruction OF
Clusters command on the Little Big
Horn June %, 1876.
AN organization was formed at En-
poria, Kas., on the 25th, for enforcing
the fish laws. Within a week over 80
dynamite explosions have been heard
at night in the Cottonwood river in
Lyon county, and the river was filed
with dead fish.