The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-12
THE steamer Rosedale. with $50 pas.

THE steamer Rosedale, with $50 pas
sergers on board, was struck, in the
East river off Broome street, New
York city. on the Sd, by a Twenty.
third-street ferryboat, and sank in
about five minutes. The Rosedale was
on her way to Bridgeport at the time.
All the passengers, it is said, were
picked up by passing craft.
DURING the exercises at the Audi
torium at st. Paul, Mimi, on the Sd,
Col. Thomas G.. Lawler, of Rockford,
ILL.,, the past commander-in-chief of the
6. A. T., was presented with a gold
watch and long gold neck chain as a
token of the esteem and owe felt for
him by the grand army throughout
the country.
The national committee of the ma.
tional democratic party held 4 meet
ing immediately after the indianapolis
convention had adjourned. 1t was de.
cided to have an executive committee
of nine to manage the campaign, and
W. ID. Bynum was selected for chair.
man of the executive committee.
CAPT. ALFRED DREYFUs, who was
sentenced to be publicly degraded and
confined for life in a fortress, after
having been convicted by a cOurt-mar-
tial of selling plans of French fortiti-
cations, etc, to a foreign government,
has escaped from the Isle du Grand
Salut, on an American schooner.
AFTER almost three months, during
-.l:l H. 1ASoo,e lo,n r-a-1ya1 arnrr,
clew, four of the men who robbed
George Kolb, a wealthy farmer, last
June, have been landed in jail at Tus.
cola, III.
PETER RAUCE, a Waterman at the
prospect Hill coal mines, V%incennes,
Ind, fell down the shaft, a distance OF
$50 feet, and was crushed into a hor-
rible mass. not a whole Done being left
in his body.
LAST June Mrs. Pauline Succo, a
Pittsburgh CPa.) widow, had $4,000.
She advertised for a position as a
housekeeper, but got n husband in
stead. Now she has neither husband
nor money.
THE Edgar Thomson steel works, of
OdTIltSlt y, DIT IlllSpuIS "a L d. IhNS
been closed down indefinitely The
action was a general surprise, as it was
not even suspected.
OTIS B~URLINGAME, living near La
Porte, Ind, marketed eight quarts OF
Strawberries i'll that city on the 3D..
They were picked from vines that bore
a good crop in the regular season, and
this second crop is equally as good as
the first. He sold them readily at %
cents a quart.
REV. r. +. REESER, pastor of the
Lutheran church at Iiollidaysburg,
Pa, and John ID. Love, a well-known
merchant, were drowned, on the night
of the Sd, in the Juniata river, five
miles below Hollidaysburg where they
had gone fishing.
IL. II. THORPE, sole owner of the cit
liens bank of Salina, O., filed a deed
of assignment for the benefit of cred
itors on the 4th. The assets are asti-
mated at SEQ, 600, with liabilities about
the same. Depositors, it is said, will
be paid in full.
THE Northwestern Millers' assc<fa-
ton, also known as the Flour trust,
has gone to the wall. 1t was organ
lied a year ago to maintain a uniform
price of flour and do away with COM
petition.
THE Columbus (O.) Central Street
Railway Co. has gone into the hands
of Geo. II. Worthington, of Cleveland,
as receiver. The company is capital
lied at 81, 500, 900, and is bonded for
that amount.
SIEGEL, Else MAN & Cos leather man.
ufactory at Newark, n. j., was burned
on the 4th. Loss, $50, 600; insurance,
$4,000.