The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

FIRE, on the 18th, totally destroyed
the Bell grain elevator at David City,
| Neb., the largest in the state outside
of Omaha, and the city electric plant;
loss, S37, 900.
UPoN the conviction of Leslie c. Bon.
ner at Toledo, O., of perjury. on the
5th, his aged father attempted to COM
nit suicide with a knife and the son
tried tojump from the courtroom win
dow, so feet from the ground. Both
were prevented by bystanders.
BY the falling of a freight elevator
in the New York-city post Office, on the
18th, six menwere more or less serious
ly hurt Fourwere postal employees and
the other two were engaged by the con-
tractor incharge of the alterations now
going onin the federal building.
The Universal mill of the Pottstown
Iron Co., the Valley mill of the Glas-
gov Iron Co., and the Glendale rolling
mill, all of Pottstown, Pa, will start
| operations during the present week.
BY an explosion of gas in the Black
Diamond mine of the Brown Coal Co.,
two miles south of Monongahela, Pa,
on the 18th, several men were injured,
but none fatally. The gas is said to
have been ignited by an open lamp,
and the escape of the 500 miners was
remarkable.
THE board of directors of the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation Co., on
the Sth, declared a quarterly dividend
of n per cent. on preferred stock,
payable July /. This is the first divi-
dend the company has paid in several
years.
DR.. o. V. LIMERICK. of Cincinnati,
was, on the Sth, sentenced to two
years in the ~penitentiary for attempted
blackmail.
CAROLINE DANsATand Martha ElsHer,
each Is years old, were held to the
grand jury in Chicago for stealing two
bicycles. The girls rented the wheels
and erased the numbers.
The official copy of Consul-General
Lees report on the Ruiz case was filed
at the state department on the Sth. 1t
is announced that President Mckinley
will call upon Spain for full and COM
plete reparation for the death of DIR.
Ruiz.
SOLDIERS at Fort Sheridan, Chicago,
took a few shots, on the sth, at Casimir
Zeglen's bullet-proof cloth with their
improved army revolvers and we're I'M
able to pierce the tough fabric invent
ed by the Resurrectionist brother.
The sth inst. was the coolest June
day in New York on record, and il
came to a fitting end. At night a huge
black cloud blew over Norton's Point,
Coney Island, and for half a minute
there was snow.
DR. ANGEL, who was to have sailed
for Constantinople on the 18th, to IS
sumo his post of minister to Turkey,
has postponed his departure for a week,
in order to finish his work in the Mich
igan university, as lecturer upon inter-
national law.
THE Renwick building at Davenport.
Ia, occupied by the Davenport Furni-
ture and Carpet Co., was burned, On the
sth, an explosion being the cause.
Damage to the building, $4,000; fully
insured. The stock was valued at S20,-
600. and is a total loss.
GEN. NELSON A. MILES, U. S. A, left
Rome. on the Sth, for London, where
he will represent the United States
army at Queen Victoria's jubilee cele-
bration.
NATHAN SHURE, whose firewo rks
factory at 21S Halstead street, Chicago,
was destroyed by an explosion and fire,
on the sth, injuring a number of peo-
pie, has made an assignment
THE class of 1927, comprising 10<
young women, the largest class in the
history of the college, graduated from
VAssar on the 9th.