The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-26
A srRoNe shock of earthquak Ike was

a sTRON0 SHOCK OF edrtnGua Nc WIS
felt at Bale st. Paul, Que, on the 18th.
The shock was of about a minutes du.
ration.
WHILE acting as marksman during
rifle practice at the District Volun-
teers' camp at Niagara, Ont, or the
nth, Private Hatton, of Owen Sound,
was struck on the head by a stray bull
let and instantly killed.
THE board of national soldiers home
managers, during "a business session at
Leavenworth. Kas., decided on issuing
an order against admitting any more
veterans to the home at that place.
The home is overcrOwded, and the
board has no money to put up new
barracks. According to this new order,
no more veterans can be received at
this home the coming winter.
Mrs. HENRY HAYES. of Montgomery
county, Tenn, fastened a button-hole
bouquet upon the coat of her boy, IN
the 18th, using a needle. The little
fellow went in the yard and began
turning somersaults. He fell in such
a manner hat the needle stuck into
the body, piercing the heart, causing
death.
UNLESS the weather makes a decided
change for the worse in the meantime,
it is not believed that the presidential
family will resume their residence at
the White House much before the be-
ginning of November. Such was the
presidents purpose when he started
away on his vacation early in june.
Mrs. MARY O.. HARDEs, in the one
hundredth year of age, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs, A. q. Otis,
at Atchison, kas., on the 18th. Mrs.
Hardes was one of the oldest women
in Kansas. She represented five gen.
erations, Mrs. John \. Martin, widow
of ex-Gov. Martin, being her grand
daughter.
THE largest lump of gold that has
ever been in New York city was
wheeled down Broadway on the 18th.
1t was taken from the Grand Central
depot to the United States assay office
in Wall street in a common express
wagon, guarded by five detectives.
The big lump weighs 4: 1877 ounces, and
is worth 500, 600.
a STATEMENT prepared at the mint
bureau shows that the silver coinage
during the month of August aggre-
gated s., $50, Geo. This yielded to the
government a profit or seigniorage of
$50, O27.O3, which represents the diff
ference between the cost of silver when
purchased and the coinage value.
AN engineer, a firemen and 4 o
ductor were killed, and Il paymas-
ter, paylnaster's assistant, a porter, a
bridge superintendent and trackmas-
ter were injured, on the 18th, by a
collision between a pay car and en-
CINE and a freight engine on the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railway,
west of Connersville, Ind.
OTTO RIsMAN was killed and John
Cross was probably fatally injured, on
the 18th, by a collision neal Midvale,
Pa, between their carriage and a car
on the Milwaukee, Etna & Sharps.
burg electric road.
BY the collision of a freight and
coal train on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western road near Halstead,
Pa, on the 18th, Engineer Codding-
ton of the former train was killed.
The treasury gold reserve at the
close of business on the 18th stood at
Sl15,424,424. The days Withdrawals
of gold at New York were SOC, 600.
Mrs. MARTHA Mccoy, a seamstress,
of Lawrence, Kas., was found dead in
her bed, on the 18th, death having
beer caused by several gashes in the
right side of the head, inflicted with
a Ratchet which lay by the woman's
side. Robbery was the probable NO"
tive.