The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-01

THE president, on the 21st, sent L,
the senate the nomination of Charles
H. Smith, to be surveyor of customs at
the port of St Louis.
THE post Office department has issued
a fraud order against the Financial and
Commercial Co. of Chicago.
WILLIAM HAAS and William Wylie,
Cincinnati murderers. were electro
cuted at the Ohio penitentiary annex,
the first under the Ohio law, on the
morning of the 21st. Both electrocu-
tons were completely successful, not a
hitch occurring.
! NANCY ALLISON MCKINLEY, mother
of the nations president, celebrated her
eighty-eighth birthday anniversary, on
the 22d, at her home in Canton, o.
She was in excellent health, barring
slight attacks of rheumatism.
ROBERT w. HAMER, a well-known re-
tired broker living at 1857 Deming
court, Chicago, committed suicide, on
the 22d, by shooting himself through
the heart. Dependency over ill-health
is supposed to have been the cause.
FIRE broke out in store houses num-
Der one and two in the Washington
navy yard, on the 22d, and caused a loss
of $4,000.
FIVE masked men broke into the res
dence of John Quinlan, at Niles, o., on
the 22d, and, after gagging and bind
ing him, ransacked the house and Sc
cured 81, 200 in currency, besides lots of
valuable jewelry.
/ DrDDrcrN.r TIVE IIor A ofI.I;ara
died at his home in Washington city,
on the 22d, at 2:O5 p. m, after an i'll
ness of some weeks. Spinal meningitis
was the cause.
The general conference of the super
intendents of the Baptist missions of
the west, met in the Young Mems
| Christian association building in
Omaha, Neb., on the ed. Many prom
inent missionary workers from west
ern states and territories were present.
IRA STANsBURY. of st. Louis, aged "a,
got angry at Motorman James E.
Tharp, on the ed. because the latter
insisted that Stansbury get his buggy
off the car track, and, stopping the
vehicle right in front of the car, let
down his buggy top and deliberately
shot Tharp, fortunately, however, in
fiicting only a flesh wound. Stans-
bury was arrested.
AT WiIliamsport, Mich, on the 23d,
Mrs. Albert Hovey, aged 81 years, muir
dered her mother-in-law, aged so, with
an AK, severing the head entirely
from the body. and then poured oil on
the ~lifeless body and set it on fire.
IL response to ar inquiry from WASH
ington, the Commercial club of Oma-
ha, Neb., on the 23d, wired an offer to
furnish warehouses for the Indian sup
ply depot free of cost to the govern
ment for five years.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY decided, on
the 23d, to nominate VIM. r. Day, of
Canton, O., to be first assistant secre-
tary of state, and eX-Representative
Bellamy Storer, of Cincinnati, to be
minister to Belgium.
JOHN II. RAP, a Chicago wholesale
liquor dealer, vas shot and killed, on
the Esd, by his former secretary and
confidential clerk. who afterward put
the revolver to his own temple and
killed himself.
ACCOMPANIED by so or 60 Cinnamon
of high and low degree, WI Ting
Fung, envoy extraordinary and minis
ter plenipotentiary from China to the
United States, Spain and Peru, reached
Chicago, on the ed, on his way to
| Washington, and after a drive through
the principal streets of the city, left
over the Panhandle for Washington.
REPRESENTATIVE DORR, of West Vir-
ginia, introduced a bill IN the house,
on the Esd, to repeal the civil-service