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

JOSEPH MORRISON, a farm laborer, has
been arrested at Bridgeton, N. j., on
the charge of attempting to kill Mrs.
Abbie Meyers, aged 20. for whom he
worked. Morrison says that he was
hired to kill Mrs. Meyers by her rela-
tiveS.
By reason of the breaking of the con-
Meeting rod attached to the governor,
the Acton fy-wheel of a pair of Corliss
compound engines of the Tacoma
Wash.) Railway Co., went to pieces, on
the 12th, completely ~wrecking the
plant and building and causing dam
age to the extent of $50, 600.
A TERRIBLE railway disaster occurred
at Gjentofte, Denmark, about midnight
of the 18th. The express from Belsin-
goer ran into a passenger train stand
ing at the station, wrecked eight car
riages, killed 40 persons and injured
60 others, most of them of the artisan
class.
Mrs. E. J.. IsBELL was instantly
killed, on the 18th, by falling down an
elevator shaft in the dry goods store of
Scruggs, Vandervoort Il Barney in st.
Louis.
OAKLAND, Cal, on the 18th, royalty
entertained 10, 900 delegates who atten-
ded the International Christian En-
deavor convention just closed in San
Francisco.
FAILING to get a formal invitation,
the king of Siam, who is touring the
world, refuses to visit America.
AT Springfield, Mass, on the 18th,
between 11:2O a. m. and 2:3O p. m. 4.44.
inches of rain fell.
AT Danville, ILL.,. on the 18th, about
400 foreign coal mine strikers attacked
a cageful of colored miners as they
reached the top of the shaft with
knives and slaves, but were bested and
driven to the woods. Later the strik-
ers attacked a train on the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois carrying miners to the
city. The miners inside the coaches
opened fire, and about so shots were
exchanged. 1t is reported that one
miner was killed.
THE Minnesota board of pardons, on
the 18th, decided unanimously not to
recommend the pardon of the Younger
brothers from the Saltwater peniten-
tiary, where they are serving a life
sentence for the Mortified bank rob
berry and attendant murder of Cashier
Haywood.
A PETITION has been forwarded from
the Americans resident in Siam asking
the reappointment of Hon. John Bar
rett, the present consul-general.
The police department of Kansas
City, Kas., are now working women
prisoners at the James-street Jail at
breaking stone, the same as the male
prisoners
The senate committee on foreign
affairs reported a resolution, on the
14th, empowering the president to take
such sufficient action as will secure the
immediate release of American citizens
now held as prisoners in Cuba, and for
the restoration of the American
schooner Competitor to her owner.
REPRESENTATIVE SIMPSON, of Kan
sas, on the 14th, introduced in the
house a resolution directing the speak
er to appoint a committee of five to in
vestigate the Sugar trust
THE California mine, one of the most
famous of the lost mines of southwest
California, has been re-discovered after
untold hardships and sufferings, by
two prospectors.
Two LARGE reservoirs in the Fishkill
mountains, which supplied water to
the towns of Matteawan and Fishkill,
burst their walls, at two o'clock on the
morning of the 14th, and the water that
was released swept through the
Duchess valley, causing the death of
several persons and destruction Of
much property.
Ex-CoRoNER JAMES MCHALE, for
years a prominent figure in Chicago
and Illinois state politics, died in Chica-
60, on the 18th, Of dropsy. He was 50
years old.