The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A TREMENDOUS stir vas created in the
Delaware legislature at Dover. on the
27th, over 4 charge made by Mrs. W.
II. Acklan, daughter of eX-Judge 7. D.
Croker, a millionaire of Cleveland, O.,
that a demand had been made on her
by persons directly connected with the
legislature for Sc, 600 to secure the pass
age of her bill asking for divorce.
NoRAH CREINA BLANCH BRUCE, BAR.
oNEss ABERDARE, widow of the first
Baron Aberdare, died in London on
the 27th. She was a daughter of the
late Gen. Sir William Francis Patrick
Napier, K. C. B.
AN electric car was thrown from
the track at the corner of East Nor
rison and Eighth streets, Portland,
Ore, on the 27th, after which it
plunged into a slough 25 feet below.
Three persons were drowned and Is in
jured.
The Rio Verde valley, in the state of
San Luis Potosi, Mexico, was recently
visited by a hail storm, which not only
ruined the growing crops, but caused
great loss of life. Reports have been
received of the killing of Al persons.
On one hacienda 10 farm hands were
killed. Some of the hailstones weighed
over three pounds
THE Great Pacific group of gold
mines at Pinos Altos, N. NJ, has been
purchased by the Hearst estate, of San
Francisco, from Bell & Stevens. The
price paid was $3.50, 600, potash. Ex-
teRsive Improvements will be made.
LOUISE WEIsER, a domestic, walking
in the outskirts of Dubuque, Ia, on the
27th, with her mother, attempted to
stop a runaway team. Grasping one
horse by the bride, she ran some dis
lance, stumbled and fell in front of the
wheel. The loaded wagon, weighing
three tons, passed over her, and death
was instantaneous.
THE firstdetachment of the Red Cross
society of Russia, consisting of two
doctors and 20 Sisters of Mercy, with
all that is necessary for establishing a
hospital with so beds, started for the
seat of war on the 2Sth.
A REPORT was current in Paris, on the
SNI1, tldG ACpd "O1S OSADR
made on King Georges property at
Smidstrup, Denmark, with a view to
having the castle ready for its owner
in case of his abdication or deposition.
JAMES CoRsBY and wife, prominent
people of Maytield, KY, died, on the
27th, from the effects of poisoning, sup
posed to have been gotten through a
can of blackberries, eaten for dinner.
Both expired in great agony.
A BLIzzAR3 ragged at Malone, n. Y,
or the 27th, covering the ground with
six inches of snow. 1t was one of the
hardest storms of the season.
The Kentucky legislature, after a
struggle that lasted through two ses-
sions, during which 112 ballots were
taken. at a cost of 500, 600 to the state,
on the 2sth, chose w. ]. Deboe gold
rep as United States senator to sue
coed Senator Blackburn (sil., dem.),
after which the joint sessions adjourned
sine die.
ACCORDING to returns received by the
mint, director the gold yield of
California last year was SIT, ISL, 562,
which is an increase over 1895 of ST.
s47, 245. The yield of silver was S422,-
4S6, a decreased production for the year
of SIT, Sh2.
The latest notice received from the
press department of the Stockholm ex-
position states that the international
regatta arranged for July by the Swed-
ish Yacht club, in honor of King Os-
cars jubilee, is assuming great proper
tions.
The Turkish authorities have con-
demned to death the murderers of the
agent who was distributing the British
and American relief funds at Diarbekir,
Asiatic Turkey.
ORDERS were issued at Toulon, on
the 2sth, for further detachments of
French infantry to be ready to leave
for Crete at a moments notice.
A SMALL tornado passed just west of
Solomon, Kas., at 10 a. m. of the 2sth.
Telegraph poles we're blown down and
wires badly wrecked.
For the first time since the flood
reached its height the river at Cairo
went below the danger line on the
2Sth.
LIEUT.. GEORGE A. CALHOUN, U. S. N,
died suddenly in New York, on the
2sth. of apoplexy. aged IS years