The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

On the 25th w. f. Mittman, a dane
ing teacher, shot himself in the corrl-
dor of the thirteenth story of the Chi
cago chamber of commerce building
and then threw himself to the court
below, narrowly missing pedestrians
in the crowded lobby. 1t is thought he
dead before he struck the pave
ment.
TuEexamination of Herr Won Tausch,
the former chief of the secret political
police, who is charged with four-fold
perjury and treason, was continued in
Berlin on the 25th Ven Tausch wept
during the course OF the proceedings.
E. S. MALoNEY. of Tennessee, son-in-
law of Senator Mills, of Texas, and for
20 years a clerk in the post Office de-
in Washington. expired from
heart disease, on the 25th, while driv-
ing to the office.
The secretary of war has awarded
the contract for building six locks and
dams in the Monongahela river to
James McCarron, of Philadelphia, at an
aggregate cost of 1922, Isl.
DURING a display of fireworks at
Nantes, France, on the evening of the
cath, four persons were killed and a
score of others were injured by the ex-
plosion of a bomb.
JOHN C. MILESTONE, late secretary OF
the Cincinnati w~ater-works, was arrest
ed, on the Gath, on a charge of embez-
element of water-works money. The
arrest was on a warrant sworn out by
President Herman, of the board OF
affairs.
IT is understood in Madrid that
Senior Sagasta, the liberal leader, will
soon publish an important political
statement in which he will announce
his unalterable opposition to the sale
of Cuba, and his u~nyielding support of
the maintenance of the integrity of
Spanish territory.
THE first vote in the senate on the
tariff bill occurred, on the Goth, on
Senator Vests amendment to reduce
the rate on boraX to three cents per
pound. The amendment was defeated:
Yeas, 20; nays, 81.
A DISPATCH was received from Prov
incetown, Mass, on the 25th, announc-
ing the arrival there of the Province
town fishing schooner Joseph R. John
SON with the loss of Ii of her crew.
The Indiana supreme court decided
that the fact that a candidate for an
office offered a bride or reward to a
voter disqualified him and made him
Ineligible to Office. The decision was
based upon the state constitution.
ELISHA DYER, of Providence, was in
augurated, on the 18th, governor,
captain general and COMMANDMENTS
chief of the state of Rhode Island and
Providence plantations for the yeare en-
suing"
FRANK MUELLER, convicted of the
murder of his late employers wife and
! sentenced to be e~lectrocuted a Column
bus, O., in September, has made a com
| plete confession in writing.
ONE THOUSAND striking New Ycri
| tailors resumed work, on the Goth, hav
ing gained the concessions demanded
| from the middlemen. Meyer Schoen'
| field. the leader of the strikers, said
he did not look for a settlement OF the
tailors' contest earlier than four week:
| hence.
THE Society of Architecture of Bel
| gium has taken the initiative in con
voking an international congress O
architects to meet at Brussels Angus
IS. The United States government Il
invited to send special delegates to rep
resent it in the congress.
THE Ward steamship line has Offered
free transportation of all supplies thu
government may wish to send to suffer
ing Americans in Cuba
FRANK McCoPPIN, postmaster at Sar
Francisco for the past five years, ano
a prominent democrat, died, on the
Goth, as the result of a surgical opera
ton.
Rev. C. S. WALKLEY, OF Springfield
O., recently appointed United State
army chaplain, received orders, on thu
Goth, to report at Fort Harrison, Mont
THE statement of the condition o
the treasury issued on the Goth showed
Available cash balance, $3.50, 264, 9aS
gold reserve, S144, OO4, 9S2.
CHAs. E. WILSON, colored, wa
whipped, on the Goth, in Centrevili
Md Jail by the sheriff in fultillmen
of the sentence of the circuit court TO
Queen Anne county, which condemne'
him to Is days in Jail and Is lashes TO
wife beating.
Mrs. MARGARET KELLY, of Carroll
Ia, has just celebrated the n hundre,
and seventh anniversary of her birth
She was born in Longford, Ireland, il
1890, and in 1866, shortly after the dealt
of her husband, came to America. He
oldest son is more than 81 years of age
and is living IN Kansas, well ant
hearty.