The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-13

The passenger elevator Of the Fref-
denwald Printing Co., OF baltimore,
Nd, fell from the fourth floor to the
basement. on the Sd, with an awful
crash. Fourteen men and women
were in the ear. The elevator conduc-
tor had a miraculous escape, coming
out uniIiured. The other Is persons
were terribly injured, broken legs and
arms being the fate of many.
HERR RoHLFs, the African explorer,
died at his residence at Ruengsdorf-on-
Rhine, on the Sd.
Miss LUCILLE CALDWELL and Rev. j.
p. Halsell eloped frcm Danville, KY,
to Cincinnati. on the 3D., and were
ried. The bride is the youngest daugh-
ter of Judge Logan W. Caldwell and
the groom a young minister of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church.
THE Indian widow of Peter Seyeres,
who died at Caughnawaga, Can, re-
Gently, was, according to the Indians,
born in IT'S, and was a ~pure-blooded
Iroquois. Her great age of lis years
gave her great prestige among her peo-
pie.
PERsIMMoN. the prince of Wales colt,
at ) to l against, won the Derby. Leo
| pold de Rothschild'S st. Frusquin vas
second. and II. L. B~eddington's Earwig
third. Persimmon's was the best Derby
time since 1857.
RESIDENTS of Eastwoods Heights, a
suburb of Syracuse, y. y, are wildly
excited over the finding of gold in pay
ing quantities. The ore vas discov-
cred by j. +. Batter, while digging q
well. at a depth of 10 feet.
AUSTIN CoRBIN, the railroad mag
nate, was thrown from his carriage in
front of his farm house neal Newport,
y. H., on the 4th. and SO badly injured
| that he died a few hours later. His
coachman. John Stokes, met a like
fate. and Corbin Eigell, a nephew, and
Paul kunzier, who, with Mr.. CorbIn,
were just starting on a fishing trip,
were also thrown out and very seri-
ously injured.
IL the United States district court
at st. Louis. on the 18th, Judge Adams
sentenced Horace K. COudy to II
months in the Randolph county jail
at hard labor. Coudy was a clerk in
the money-order division of the st.
Louis post office, and pleaded guilty
to embezzling mo~ney-order funds.
DETECTIVES MCCAULEY AND EVAN.
HOE, with their prisoners, VIM Dun
! Iop and VIM. Turner, arrived at New
York from Liverpool or the 4th. Dun
| lop and Turner declined to make any
statement in relation to the robbery
/ of the Burden family diamonds.
On the 18th the senate passed, with
out amendment, the house filled-cheese
bill, by Il vote OF b to Is.
THE festivities attending the Hun
garian millcnniaI celebration. the in
augural ceremonies of which began at
Buda-Pesth. on the I'd. were resumed
on the 18th. The principal feature of
the ceremonies WAS the public eXhibi-
ton of the emblems Of royalty.
AT the mornings session of the an
nual congress of the Scotch-Irish So.
cicty Of America. at Harrisburg, Pa.
on the 9Th. Robert Bonner. OF New
York, was reelected president for an
other year, Notwithstanding his ex-
pressed desire to retire.
DUNLOP and Turner, the Burden
jewelry robbers, were arraigned il
the general sessions court in New
] York city on the 18th. Dunlop pleaded
guilty and was remanded for sentence.
Turner pleaded not guilty.
MINISTER to Mexico Matt J. Ransom
is on a visit to his home in North Caro-
lima.
The senate, on the 5th, confirmed
the nomination of VIM. Churchill, OF
New York, to be consul-general at
Apia, Samoa.