The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-05-23
BENJAMIN HARRIsos MCKEE, grand.

BENJAMIN HARRIsOs MCKEE, grand.
son OF Gen. Harrison and son of Mr..
j. Il. Mckee and Mrs. Mamie Harrison
Mckee, was, on the 18th. reported
. seriously i'll at Saratoga Springs, NY,
with what appeard Ia be pneumonia.
MRs. HENRY SCHwATKA and her six
year-old daughter Nas shot and killed
by a Chinese cook 1t Yreka. Cal, on
the 18th. The ChinIman made an at
tempt to kill an infant child. but
failed. He then co nmitteh suicide.
FIRE. on the 18th in the house occu-
pied by the American legation for the
coronation fetes Moscow, Russia,
created considera ble alarm, hut was
quenched with only the attic being
damaged.
Miss MAIZE ToDn. a cousin Of Robert
T. Lincoln, was killed at Lexington,
Ky, on the 18Th. 10y being run down
by an electric car while riding a
bicycle.
ANTI-MIssIoNARY riots have broken
out at kiang-ien. The British mission
was looted ard burned. The mission
aries escaped.
ST. DON MICS Roman Catholic
church in IIolmesburg. suburb of
Philadelphia. was totally destroyed by
fire ON the 18th. Loss, S5G.O0U; insur-
ance s4j. lO0 1t is stated that the fire
was causcd by watchman dropping a
lighted match in the interior of the
church
R"PEIT II. DoLAS, photographer
: Do IL nl1
y. Y, was found dead, on the 14th
with his head wedged between two
pickets of the wooden fence in trent
of his home.
The cruiser Oregon. on her trial
trip. on the 18th. off Santa Barbara,
Cal, made 10. - knots per hour. This
breaks all records for vessels of her
class. and entities her builders 10 ls5,
Gdo premium.
SENATuR llANSBRoUUH. from the com.
mittee on library, on the 18th. favor
ably reported to the senate a bill for
the crec.;aE ot :: ::.;:ii iii;.iit al Ivttys-
burg Pa. to President Lincoln.
4 SPECIAL commission has arrived in
san Francisco authorized by the Jap
anese government to study into the
workings of electrical power and tele-
phone systems in the United States.
DURING a heavy thunder storm, on
the 18th, John Bentzel, aged %, a
farmer at Olev, Pa, was killed by
lightning as he was in tn e act OF aris
ing from bed.
On the night of the l4th, James
Northrup. of Anamosa. Ia, who had
suffered with asthma, got up and
dressed himself, put on white shirt,
clean underwear, and combed his hair
and then laid down on the bed. Call
ing his wife to him, he told her he was
going to die, and wanted to be buried
Just as he was and not to disturb him
in the least. He went to sleep, and in
less than 80 minutes was dead.
On the 18th, Judge Baker, of Chi.
cago, granted a stay of proceedings in
the case of Joseph Windrath. who was
to have been hanged for the murder,
on June % last, of Carey b. Birch.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended on the 18th,
as reported by L. q. Dun & Co., ag-
gregated PA, against 22l for the cor
responding week last year. For Can
ada the failures were 81, against 81
last year.
ON the evening of the 18th the city of
Sherman, Tex, was visited by the
worst cyclone in the history of north
Texas, which cut swath $50 yards
wide for several blocks. destroying
everything in its path, and causing
the death of probably 100 persons,
while an equal number were severely
injured Many of the finer residences
of the city were razed to the ground.