The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-08-22
NATE EARNsuAw, Ii years Old, son OF

NATE .EARNsHAw, II years Old, son OF
a well-to-do farmer, residing five miles
south of Olathe, Kas., committed sui
eide, on the 18th, by shooting himself
with a revolver. The lad had been a
slave to cigarettes.
THE first regular train was run over
the Lake Superior & Ishpeming rail-
way on the 18th. The road is COM
pleted from Marquette to Negaunee,
Mich, and will soon be finished to
Ishpeming. 1t is primarily an ore.
hauling line.
DANIEL BUFFERS, n of the oldest
members of the Chicago board of trade,
died, on the 18th, of stomach troubles
aggravated by the extreme hot wealth,
er.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN and Arthur
P. Sewall were formally notified, or
the night of the 18th, in the presence
of an audience that packed Madison
Square garden, New York city, of their
choice by the Democratic national con
vention as the nominees, respectively,
for president and vice-president of the
| United States. Gov. Stone of Missouri
delivered the notification speech.
THE Michigan Buggy Co.'S factory
at Kalamazoo, Mich, was burned on
the 18th. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$40, 900. The Kalamazoo Wagon Co.'S
factory adjoining was saved by hard
( work. The fire originated from spon-
taneous combustion in the paint shop.
On the 18th Pittsburgh, Pa, was the
center of a severe electrical storm,
which was preceded by Il short space
of pitchy darkness. Five persons were
drowned in Pine creek. swollen to u
torrent by 4 cloud-burst.
IT wa announced, on the 18th, that
the Lake Michigan Car Ferry Co.,
operating in connection with the 500
line had cut freight rates > cents on
first class and IA cents on lower
classes of freight.
FIRE. on the 18th, destroyed the
original building of the Manhanset
house, Shelter Island, y. Y. Loss,
100000. The guests lost nothing.
FIVE deaths, attributable to the eX-
treme heat, We're reported at Hart
ford, Conn, on the 18th, making "A in
all during -Our days
DURING the display of fireworks Civ
en- in honor and in the presence of
President Faure at Rennes, France,
on the evening of the 18th, 4 bomb
was prematurely exploded, killing n
girl and seriously injuring five other
persons.
A DISPATCH from Bombay, on the
TItl rnIl. Tarrih1n RAnIS Inrn nn-
Cured through the overlooking of the
River KiStna. The damage to prop
erty is immense, and many persons
have been rendered homeless, their
houses having been swept away. Two
hundred persons were drowned by the
sinking of u BOAT near Tatara. The
overlooking water from the river has
washed out a breach seven miles long
in the MAN or IIyderabad railway.
TIE deadlock in the Eleventh
(Mich.) district republican congress
sional convention was broken, on the
18th, when w. l.. Mesick, of Antrim,
was nominated on the 3G3d ballot.
ALBEIT PLACE and Walter Whipple,
local wheelmen, left Providence, Il. l.,
at l p. m, on the 18th, in an attempt
to.break the bicycle record from hat
section of New England to San Fran
cisco.
On the 18th, Prof. Albert Nelson
Prentiss, in charge of the botanical
department of Cornell university, died
at Ithica, y. y, in the siXtieth year of
his age.
THE position of Capt. John a. Lee
as police commissioner of st. Louis
having been declared incompatible
with hat of elector-at-large he will re-
sign his police commissionership.