The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-24

FRANK MCLAUGHLIN, proprietor OF
the Philadelphia Times, died of rheu-
matte govt at his residence in Phila-
delphia on the l4th.
JAMES E. BERRY, formerly of Glow
ersville, NY. who posed as a million
aire and scattered his money lavishly
in the west, gaining a wide reputation
as a spendthrift, has returned to Glow
e~rsville apparently strapped.
The Athens correspondent of the
London Telegraph claims to know that
the powers are considering a scheme
by which Russia, Austria and Great
Britain will cooperate to coerce Tur-
key.
TRAFFIC on the Boston & Maine rail-
road was temporarily suspended, on
the 18th, by the washing away of
bridges, cave-ins and slides, due to the
series of cloudbursts which swept over
New Hampshire.
AT the session of the Republican Ma
tional League clubs in Detroit, Mich,
on the 14th, Leonard j. Crawford, of
Kentucky, was elected president.
Omaha was selected as the place of
meeting in 1895.
The arbitrators of the coal miners
strike were in high glee on the night
of the 14th, and said they were on the
road to a settlement of the troubles in
the Pittsburgh district, and conse-
quently the settlement of the strike.
The ninth annual session of the
Transmississippi congress convened at
Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 14th. The
delegates were warmly welcomed by
Gov. Wells of Utah and Mayor Glen
denning of Salt Lake City.
JOHN SCOTT OLIVER the California
deputy sheriff who was indicted in
New York recently for abduction, at
tempted suicide in the Tombs prison,
on the 18th, by thrusting a lead pencil
down his throat. He was not seriously
hurt. This was his second attempt at
suicide since his arrest.
THE Crescent tin-plate mill at Cleve-
land, o., was closed down in every de-
partment on the 18th. The heaters re-
fused.to go to work, and without them it
vas impossible to operate the mill.
The company decided to shut down
indefinitely.
MARQUETTE, Mich, Father Mar
quette's namesake city, held a great
celebration, on the 18th, in honor of
the unwilling of a bronze monument
to the explorer and priest.
COMPTROLLER FITCH of New York
made advertisement, on the 18th, for
the sale of gold bonds for the city of
New York amounting to $40, O53, 017.27.
The bonds will bear three per cent
interest.
A FREIGHT train in The L. & G.. N.
yards at Austin, Tex, ran over four
white boys who were sitting on. the
side of the track asleep, killing three
of them instantly and badly wounding
the fourth. An hour later the same
engine ran over and killed anegro who
trying to steal a ride.
THERE is great excitement on the
Birmingham England stock exchange
owing to the belief that there IS a cor
ner in cycle tubing. There has been
a heavy advance in prices, and several
spectators have been badly pinched.
Two dynamite bombs were exploded,
on the 18th, at Guadalajara, capital
of the province of that name in New
CASTLE, Spain. Several persons were
and others seriously injured.
The case of eX-Banker Charles W.
Spalding, who has been on trial in
Chicago, for the e~mbezzlement of funds
belonging to the University of Illinois
intrusted to his care as treasurer of the
board of trustees, was given to the jury
on the 18th. A verdict of not guilty
was rendered. There are still Is indie
ments hanging I'VE S~palding.