The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11

GEN. SIR WILLIAM LoCKHARr, com
mander-in-chief of the forces in the
Punjab, who was summoned to India
to take charge of the operations there.
sailed from Brindisi to Bombay ON the
9th.
CHARLES GEORGE PERCIvAL, seventh
earl of Egmont, died in London on the
9th. The deceased was born June Is,
1S45, and succeeded his uncle, the sixth
earl. in 1874.
EX-CONGREssMAN T. L. FLAGLER, of
Lockport, n. Y, died, on the 9th, aged
Sc. He was president of the Holly
Manufacturing Co.
ACCORDING to the estimate of Com
missioner of Agriculture Moore, of Ken
lucky, who has just sent to the printer
his crop report for August, the farmers
of Kentucky now have more than &c.
600. 600 worth of wheat on their hands,
being 65 per cent. of the crop, the re-
mainder having been sold at good
prices. The wheat crop of the state is
estimated at over II, 200, 600 bushels.
SIsKIYoU, Cal, is the latest to come
'oAN Will OS SOAN lin -
large body of ore assaying S130 to the
ton has been struck in the Schroeder
mine, near Yreka. This is one of the
richest strikes ever made in Siskiyou
county.
NEARLY all of the southern cities have
established quarantine against the coast
towns on the gulf and Mississippi sound,
and it is believed the prompt precau-
tions will result in the speedy check to
the yellow fever scare.
The celebration of Labor day at
GAINESVILLE, O., vas married by several
accidents. William o.. Berne was ia
tally injured while alighting from a
train, and nine other persons were
hurt in street car accidents, four of
whom will die.
FIRE started at Cairo, W. Va, at mid
night of the 9th, and by 2:3O a. IN. of
the 9TH every hotel and business house
in the town had been burned, the losses
far exceeding 500, 900.
HARRY L. LEADLEY, of Rochester, n.
y, died in Bancroft, Mich, on the
9th. Before his demise he stated that
he had been guilty of killing a Miss
Emerson, in Rochester, and of embez-
element from a Rochester fire insur-
ance firm. Investigation proved both
statements to be false, and it is be-
lieved that Leadley's mind was wan
dering when he made them.
POSTMASTER STULL, at Mt. Pleasant
Ia, and Postmaster Hamilton, at War
,nD Id ,l1 I,1-al -
their offices, when removed, on the
ground that the recent civil service or
der covered their cases, have both sur
rendered their offices to the inspectors.
JUDGMENTS by confession aggrega-
ting $50, 1O2, were entered. on the eth,
against the American Cycle Manufac-
turing Co. of Chicago, and in favor of
the Continental national bank and As
Boyd of the Haymarket Produce
bank.
Mrs. H.. L. ~SPELLMAN, mother of
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, died, on the
7th, at Forest Hill, Mr.. Rockefeller's
Cleveland CO., home. She was IS years
old, and had been in failing health for
time.
COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY JAMES
ii. ECKELs, wife and daughter, arrived
at Yellowstone Lake, Wyo., on the
18th. He and Bank Examiner A. ID.
Lynch went fishing and caught Al
trout.
SENATOR MORGAN, of Alabama, sailed
from San Francisco, on the 18th, on the
steamer Australia for Honolulu.
Hon. SIR LEWIS WILLIAM CAVE, iudgo
of the English high court of justice, died
in London on the 18th. He was born in
1882. and was the editor of many i'm
porta Mt legal works.