The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Rev. DR.. HENRY HARTMAN, professor
emeritus of Dickinson college, and one
of the foremost educators in the
Methodist Episcopal church, died, on
the I'd, at his home in Baltimore, Nd,
at the age of IS years.
The illumination and fireworks dis
play on the river at Springfield, Mass,
on the night of the 5th, was marred by
the drowning of the two men who
were handling the fireworks, w. Ma
Done, of Brooklyn, and John Z. Nolan,
of New York. Malone fell into the
river, and when Nolan attempted to
rescue him the drowning nan seized
him and both sank.
BEBTRAM HILL, the six-year-old son of
Chauncey Hill, a San Francisco archi-
tect, was carried up, at Oakland, Cal,
on the 5th, clinging to a guy rope of a
balloon from which an 8ronaut was to
descend by a parachute. When 1000
feet high the little fellows hold gave
way and his body, falling to the earth,
was crushed out of shape.
THOMAS MORGAN and his wife met a
horrible death at Youngstown, o.,
on the 5th. They were driving near a
cliff when the horse backed the buggy
over the bank, and Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
gan fell 60 feet and both were killed.
The senate, on the 5th, confirmed
the nomination of R. Weldeman, Of
California, to be consul at Hong Kong,
China.
On the 9th a disturbance was Gre
ated in Monterey, Cal, over the display
of a Portuguese flag beside the Amer
lean ensign instead of below it over
Ortin's grocery store. Patriotic citi-
zens took down the Portuguese flag,
but finding it again flying removed it
and burned it. Ortin complained to
the Portuguese consul.
The new town of Lincoln, n. J., cell
ebrated Independence day by electing
q municipal government in which
women share equally with men.
e.. V. n. LoTHRUP, ex-minister to
Russia, who was badly Frustrated by
the heat in Detroit, Mich, on the 5th,
was reported much better on the 9th.
The list of persons who died in that
city from sunstroke and heat prostra-
ton. on the 9th, reached Ii.
SENATOR HARRIS, of Tennessee, who
is i'll in Washington, was, On the 9th,
considered to be in a serious condi-
ton.
In speaking of the great miners
strike, on the 9th, Secretary of State
Sherman said that such disturbances
were always serious, and threatened
to become.injurious to business inter
ests.
JOHN HENRY BARKER, colored, vas
electrocuted at Sing Sing, N. Y, on
the 9th, for wife murder committed on
August 80, 1895, just outside the town
of White Plains.
A TERRIFIC thunderstorm which
passed over the Lake st. John district,
of life and considerable damage to
property.
THE tariff bill passed the senate, on
the 18th, by a vote of IS to Is.
BELLAMY STORER, the new United
States minister to Belgium, arrived at
Brussels on the It'll.
DURING three days, ended on the
7th, 40 inquests were held in Cincin-
natl over the remains of victims of the
intense heat.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 9TH, showed:
Available cash balance, 1924, SIS, 500;
gold reserve, Sal, 9S7. 56S.
On the 7th Russia sent a circular
note to the powers suggesting that
steps be taken to expedite the con-
clusion of peace between Greece and
Turkey.
The Japan Herald, commenting on
the Hawaiian situation, n~aively gives
away the intentions of Japan, which
are of a by-no-means peaceful charsc-
ter towards either Hawaii or the United
States