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

The Montrose (Col.) hotel, . two
story frame structure, and a block of
stores were burned on the 9th. Robert
II. Mead, aged IS years, of Portland,
Col, a guest at the hotel, was burned
to death. A dozen other guests were
rescued uniniured.
Hon. j. c. WELTY, of Canton, has
formally announced that he will be a
candidate for the democratic nomina-
ton for governor of Ohio at the state
convention, and that he will have the
support of his home county.
THE decision of the Baltimore health
officials to return Miss Mary Samson,
the leper, to Allegheny, Pa, will. if
attempted to be carried out, meet with
strong opposition from the health
board of the latter city.
CLAUDE D. HARRINGTON, for seven
years superintendent of the National
arrested, on the 9th, on a charge of
having embezzled over 81, 600 of the
academy's funds.
ADvICEs from Simferopol, capital of
the Russian province of Taurida, on
the 10th, said that torrential rains had
fallen in that district, i%nundating a
portion of the province. Many per-
sons had been drowned, the rivers
had overlooked and ruined the crops,
and the damage to the wheat crop was
enormous.
THE fourth biennial sale of the prince
of Wales, hackneys and harness horses
was held, on the 10th, at Princess Stud
farm, at Wolferton. near Sandringham,
Norfolk, England. Nearly all of the
horses sold were bred by the prince of
Wales at the Wolferton farm, under the
supervision of Sir Dighton Probyn.
LARS ANDERSON, until very recently
a member of the United States diplo-
matte corps at Rome, Italy, and Miss
Isabelle Perkins, of Boston, heiress to
SIT. 600, 900, were married in Boston on
the 10th.
THE strike at Jones & Laughlin's
iron works at Pittsburgh, Pa, was, on
the 10th, declared off by the strikers
committee, and all the old men hat
could went back at once at the reduc-
ton.
SAf1- bEhB1. OulIcu oLdbtS CuRluteE
in charge of the levee districts from
Vicksburg to New Orleans, announced,
on the 10th, that the struggle with
the high water of 1897 was over.
JAMES HUGHES TAYLOR, a veteran
tragedian of wide reputation, died of
dropsy at bennington, Pa, on the
10th, aged IS. He made his debut in
Portland. Me-, in 1850.
Mrs. JOHN CAMERON, wife of the
superintendent of the Victor coal
mines at Pueblo, Col. and a prominent
society leader of that city, was fatally
burned, on the 18th, by the explosion
of a can of benzine with which she
was cleaning furniture. Her son, IS
years old, was badly burned in trying
to save his mother.
REV. FREDERICK o. HOLMAN, D. D.,
formerly pastor of the H%ennepin Ave
nue. NJ. E. church in Minneapolis,
Mimi, and one of the most brilliant
and best-known pulpit orators in the
Methodist church, died, on the 18th, of
lung trouble, aged 40 years.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 18th,
showed: Available lash balance, $780,.
495 .632; gold reserve, S144, 23S. 372.
BROKER ELvERToN r. CHAPMAN left
the District of Columbia Jail, on the
18th, at 1O:15 a. m. his time" having
expired at midnight.
WHILE the canvasmen were at work
on the big tent of Ringing Bros cir
Gus, at Wappeton, n. D., on the 10th,
the center-pole was struck by light
ming. Charles Walters and Charles
Smith were killed and four employees
were shocked.