The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-06-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs. Gilbert, wife of the late NJ. y
Gilbert, Episcopal bishop coadjutor fol
Minnesota, died in St. Paul on the 10th
Mrs. Gilbert had been in feeble healtl
since the death of her husband severa
weeks ago.
By a gas explosion at the Ellsworth
mines at Ellsworth, Pa, II miles west
Of Monongahela, on the 10th
Thomas Forsylne and William Rodgers
we're killed and three others were
wounded.
Four persons were killed and about
twenty-five injured, of whom three are
probably fatally hurt. in a collision 1T
aWrwick, Il. l., on the suburban line
Of the Union Railroad Co. on the 10th.
a new airship, invented by Herr
Weissmann, a mechanic. has been tried
at Berlin. 1t assembled 20 meters and
few Is, landing safely.
John Hendricks stabbed his stepfa-
Their to death at Fl. Worth, Tex. on
the 10th. AS a result of this tragedy.
Hendricks mother died an hour later
from fright.
All telegraphic lines between Tien
Tsin and Pekin are interrupted.
Envoy Vessels, in a confidential
talk with one of the best-known men
Of Ohaha, Neb., on the 10th. said the
Beers would make a proposal to the
United States looking to annexation
Of the South African republics.
The British losses in the operations
in South Africa up to May &c, are stat
ed officially at 317 officers and $3.50
men killed in action and died of
wounds and disease; 712 officers and
1884 men woundeu, and lis officers
and ABS men missing and prisoners.
In addition, 10,4S1 officers and men
ave been invaliued home.
The Beers have destroyed the rlii-
way, in Gen. Roberts rear, from
America station. which is about ten
miles north of Kroonstad, for some
p miles as far as RoodSvaal. They are
said to be in three columns, and are
apparently well directed.
The more serious the conditions
grow in China, says a Washington dis
the more decided and definite
the policy of this government
to be drawn into proceedings for
the dismemberment of the Chinese |
empire. Grants policy is the guide Of
the present administration.
A severe hailstorm visited portions |
of Kansas on the morning of the 10th.
from the vicinity of McPher-
indicate damage to the wheat crop
to the extent of 25 or 30 per cent.
Two negroes, Henry Askew and Ed. |
Russ, were strung up to a tree Just be-
hind the railroad station at Mississippi
Miss, on the 10Th. The better
of citizens were opposed to
lynching, though determined to
prosecute the negroes, who had been
seen in the vicinity where a acrime had
been committed.
Farmers of Oklahoma are in the
midst cf a tremdous wheat harvest.
Wheat men say that no such wheat
'-op was ever raised in the west as is
being harvested in Oklahoma. south
'rn Kansas and the Indian territory
southern Texas.
The Garfield national bank of New
York is to be investigated by Comp
roller of the Currency Dawes as a
consequence of the testimony of Mayor
IAN Wyck, given before Justice Cav
lOr, in New York, concerning the
manner in which he got the money tc
Jay for his Ice trust stock.
Unofficial word comes from London
hat Mr.. Reginald Tower, secretary of
he British embassy in Washington,
vill shortly become first secretary of
he British legation at Pekin, which
J just now an important center.
Senator Platt, of New York. said, in
n interview on the 18th: IF 1 live 1 Z
ill serve out my term as senator. But
fter 1908 1 shall retire from public I
fe and from active participation in ]
olit;ca." II