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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION
FROM WASHINGTON.

TIE treaty between Spain and the
United States stipulates that coal
petroleum and machinery shall be ad-
mitted free into Cuba and Porto Rico.
and that the present duty on flour be
reduce one-half in exchange for the
free admission into the United States
of sugar, coffee and cocoa.
The vice president of Peru has ar
rived in Washington to negotiate for
closer trade relations between the
| nited States and his country.
The pension Office statement shows
that during the month of April there
were issued jl.il5 pension certificates,
the first payments on which aggrc-
gated -. S14.Sl5.
ANOTHER letter on the Bchring sea
question has been written to Sir Julian
Paunccfotc by Secretary Blaine in
which the claims of England are r,-
uted. and Mr.. Blaine wants to know if
England can exercise exclusive control
in an open sea why the United States
cannot do the same.
AT the annual meeting of the AmcIi-
can Medical association in Washington
DIR. q. II. Mary. of Boston, was elected
president. The association petitiuned
congress to create Il new cabinet officer
to be called the secretary of public
health.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the sth numbered 242 against 255 the
preceding week and 209 for the CORE
spending week last year.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 9th aggregated
81. .a5;. ;.}ls.%l0. against SI.255,012 sl5 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of ls94! the decrease
amounted to -.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16
FALSE AND RIDICULOUS.

The Assertion that No Sane Person Has
Ever Been UnIawfuIly Imprisoned in an
Insane Asylum Combattcd by the Sec
rotary of the Anti-kidnaping League of
New York.
New YORK, May 10.-Thc anti-kid-
naping leagues lawyer. Mr.. Albert
Bach. will tomorrow publish card re-
plying to the statement of the national
convention of the insane asylum super
intcndents at Washington, d. c., that
no sane person has ever been unlaw-
fully imprisoned in an asylum. NJ.
Bach denOunces the statement as false
and ridiculous. and cites the eases
of Mrs ClarisSa c. Lathrop. au-
thor of Secret Institutions" and Miss
Anna L. Dickinson, both of whom, he
says, are shown by the record, to have
been imprisoned without any legal au-
thority. and that of Mrs. Harriet f.
Beach. wife of the editor of the Scien-
tific American. who has just been re-
leased from Bloomingdale asylum on 4
habcas corpus obtained by the anti
kidnapping league and adjudged by the
court to be entirely sane, as Mrs. La
throp previously was.
Mr.. Bach says hundred of such cases
are on record: that the league is in pos
session of evidence that many persons
are unlawfully confined in the very
asylums whose superintcndents
deny that such thing had
ever happened. and that they are
investigating these cases. He states
that in another case the league has pos
itively ascertained that the physician
who consigned a lady to an asylum GER
| titled that She was insane without ever
having seen her, and that the league
] have called the attention of the author
| tiles to She matter and are working to
have this physician indicted and pun
iSlPu
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16
EXPLOSION AT A FIRE.
4 Large Number of Chicago Firemen
Severely Injured by an Explosion of
Chemicals.

Large Number of Chicago Firemen
Severely Injured by an Explosion Of
Chemicals.
Chicago. May 11.-Several firemen
and members of the fire insurance
patrol We're badly burned. Saturday
afternoon. by an explosion of chemicals
in the basement of dyeing establish
mcnt at i3 North Clark street. Az
alarm of fire was turned in. blaze OF
minor character having started among
the garments loosely strewn about the
place. AS soon as the fremen got &c
the scene n dozen of them descended
the stairs. Nobody warned them of the
dangerous character of the chemicals
stored there. No sooner had they all
got well into the room than loud ex-
plosion was heard. and moment later,
the bystanders were Mortified to see tho
poor fellows run wildly for the open
air, with hairless faces, blistered
features and clothes almost burned
from their bodies.
The names of the fire insurance pa
troll men injured are: Frank Lee,
fatally; Capt. O'Neill, John Ruane, W..
Ackle and Geo. Furnal. all seriously.
The firemen injured are: Assistant
Fire Marshal Musham; Capt. James
! Thorn. Lawrence Stafford, Truckman
Ryan. and two firemen, and two truck
| men. names not ascertained. No par
! ticular damage was done to the store or
! building.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16
WEST AND SOUTH.

IL Nebraska John VI. Thaycr has re-
sumed the Office of governor and has
reappointcd all the republican Office
holders depo>ed by Mr.. Bovd-
c. P,RpEE's four children who left
East Tawas. Mich in an open boat
and who We're supposed to be drowned
reached Port Austin in safety
Az explosion of gas in the Ocean
mine at Clark2Sburg. W. Va. killed four
miners and several others We're badly
hurt.
PASSENGER trains on the Panhandle
collidcd at Tuscarawas. O.. and ID.
Longrnccller was killed ana {. ID.
Rogers. g. f. Marvin and otto Miller
were fatally injured.
WILLIAM WEIGHTMAS, while rcmov-
ing wheat from his barn for market
near Middlctown. Ind. found in til"
grain an old pockctbook confirming
s1I.JO0 in gold coin and paper currcn-
cy How the money came there was II
mystery.
W. c. WonDFoRD vent l5S hours and
- minutes without closing his eyes in
slccp-faSting contest in San Francis
CO. breaking the previous record of l4i
hours and - minutes.
Ar Marinctte, Wis. the safe of the
iron works was broken open hy burg
lars and robbed of 5000.
An Indian woman. living in Door
county. Wis. Mrs. Angelica Bear. is
said To- be l2i years old.
The Chilian insurgents vessel ltata
when she sailed from san Diego Cali
harbor carried away Deputy Marshal
Spauldinr. who was put off ut Ballast
point and returned to that city. He re-
ported that the vessel was well-armcd
privateer.
FLAMES destroyed the planning mills,
warehouses and lumber yard of
Schroth X Ahrens 4; Winona, MINI.
Loss, 100000.
\ METEOR passed over the Victor
TEX region. finally exploding with a
noise like the report of Il big cannon.
OK the sth six persons committed sui
eide in Chicago and six others Were
killed in accidents.
BY the burning of August liauntz-
mans barn at Manson. Ia. twenty val
liza Die nOrSeS were creHldItt
Is Chicago fire made thirteen fam
lilies homeless.
+. \. WALSH & Co.'S tinwarr manu-
factory in Milwaukee, was burned. the
loss being sl5O.O0O.
IS San Francisco a shock of Garth
quake shook buildings quite severely.
THE railway shops of the Santa Fe
road were burned at Galveston. Tex,
causing a loss of Sl01.0o0.
LIGHTNING killed two children. aged
Is and 10. of Mrs. Susan liardwick, re-
siding near Little Rock, Ark.
MRs. GEORGE BENNETT, of Ottumwa,
Ia. was burned to death. She was
standing by a bonfire when her cloth
ing caught fire.
AT scores of points in the upper pc
| ninsula of Michigan forest fires were
burning on the Sth and heavy damage
was reported. Several farmhouses and
other buildings were burned. In Wis
consin fires were raging all through
the northern portion of the state, doing
immense damage, and in Minnesota Il
wide area had been burned over. tire
village of st Louis being entirely
swept awGv,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16
THE GREATEST OF ALL.

From Present Indications the Worlds
Fair mt Chicag go will Eclipse All Previous
Exhibitions of Similar Characteristic
Foreign Interest in thc Enterprise Both
Widespread and dEnthusiastic-OurS South
American sisters Will he Well Repre-
scnted-
WASHINGTON. May 12-The World S
Columbian exposition Mt Chicago bids
fair to he the greatest exhibition ever
held in any country; greater even than
the Paris exposition of 1889. Advices
already received at the bureau of Amer
lean republics here attest remarka bic
and astonishing interest in the eXposi-
ton on the part. not only of the South
American republics. but of continental
Europe and China and Japan as well.
Every country on this continent south
of the United States from Mexico to the
Argentine republic has been heard from,
and are making great preparations to
place exhibits at Chicago.
In Europe, Great Britain has already
appointed commission, with the
Prince of Wales at the head of it, To
prepare wonderful exhibit for the
fair The Russian government has set
apart two millions and a half, and
leading merchants and manufacturers
OF Strausberg and Moscow are pledged
for as much more, for the purpose of
sending here the greatest, most diversi-
fed and novel exhibit ever coll
lected by n single government. Ger.
many will be present with wonder
ful display. and France has given as.
surancc of bringing a great exhibit.
On this continent Mexico Will prob,
ably lead her sister republics in size
and diversity of display, and has appro,
priated Sl,OOO.O0O to do so. Mexico,
Colombia. Guatemala, Salvador and
Costa Rica will erect their own build
ings at the fair. and Harbadoes, Jamaica
and the other British West India islands
propose to place their exhibit in typi-
cal building which they will erect. to
be called The West Indian Court. y
Although the opening of the exposition
is two years hence, the assurances are
complete for one of the greatest cXhi'
bitions the world has ever seen
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16
THE RUSSIAN JEWS.


Novel Grounds Set Forth for Their Ex-
puISion from the Realms of the Gar
Their Fecunlity is Too Great.
LONDON, May IA plausible state
mcnt has been published defending on
a novel ground Russian persecution of
the Jews. 1t is to the effect that at
the rate of increase of Jewish families,
compared with the increase of the Rus
slams proper, the empire, in the course
Of a few generations. would be mainly
Jewish. and the orthodox subjects OF
the czar would be in n hopeless minor
ity.
4 st. Petersburg letter says that the
officials are making the most absurd ex.
cuses everywhere for the persecution ot
the Jews. One of tie reports started
at Kieff vas that there had been a
mysterious disappearance of several
Russian children. and that the children
were kidnapped by the Jews for the
purposes of sacrifice. 1t was even
alleged that the calcined bones OF
a victim had been found. The stories
were readily believed by the more
ignorant. and had much to do with
the cruel treatment of emigrant Jews
by the populacc.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16

An interesting incident in connection
with President liarrison's visit to At.
lanta was his meeting with Mr.. George
Cook. an elderly gentleman and well,
known piano manufacturer of Boston.
The grandfather of Mr.. Cook was the
Capt Cook who saved the life of Gen.
William Henry Harrison from the In
dams at the battle of Tippecanoe. Mr..
Cook and Mrs. Cook had been spending
a few days with Gov. Bullock, and on
invitation of Mayor IIemphill went w
the road to meet the president. The
meeting of the two Tray-haired grand.
sons was very cordial, and they en-.
joyed pleasant chat
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16

MOUNT PLEASANT, Pa, May 1O.-Re-
ports having reached Gov. Pattison that
the coke operators were keeping their
men in the mines without letting them
come to the surface, and in some cases
that the men were chained to prevent
them from leaving the mines, Gov. Pat
tison yesterday morning sent Adjt.-
Gen. McClelland here to make an in
vestigation. In company with mum,
Der of labor officials the adjutant-gen-
eral visited the different mines, and
after thorough investigation reported
to Gov. Pattison that there was not q
word Of truth In the sensational 70
portA
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16

A NEW pedagogical industry has
arisen. In san Francisco. according to
the Alta. there are a number of teach
crS of American who command good
prices. Foreigners who have been
taught English in the schools of their
native land find themselves completely
at sea on their arrival here. and many
of them who can afford it employ teach
crs TO instruct them in learning the
peculiar idioms employed by the Amer.
leans. The localisms. especially. they
find most perpleXing to master. and
the teacher must be well up on all the
mannerisms and slang expressions OF
the day
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16

AT indianapolis. Ind. Minnie Whit
taker, aged II years. committed su.-
eide because her father had been sent
to prison.
Miss JENNIE TUPPEI was burned to
death in Chicago by a gasoline explo-
sion and Miss Clara Peng met like
fate from burning alcohol
The failure of the Western Farm
Mortgage Company of Aberdeen. :. ID.
with Il capital of S25O.ooO, was an
nounccd.
AT Marshall, Mo-. William Price was
hanged for aS>aulting Miss Alice NinaS,
who later committed suicide rather
than testify at the trial.
Is Michigan the villages of Walker
vile. Foxville and Morley were de
stroycd by forest fires, and al other
points many hoa>cs and barns were
burned and millions of feet of timber
were reduced to ashes.
IN quarrel with his wife James L.
Stewart. miner 1T Mansfield, O..
threw = lighted lamp at her and she
was burned To death.
IL the National league the percent
ages of the baseball clubs for the week
ended on the 9th were: Chicago, .GGi:
Boston. go: Cleveland, ST.: New
York. :i;i: Pittsburgh. 40: Philadel-
phia, I::S: brooklyn. .43S: Cincinnati.
.%l2. The percentages of clubs in the
American association We're: Boston.
.6g5: Baltimore. .G52: 1t. Louis. .:r'2!;;
Louisville 10: Columbus. ~: Cincin-
rati. .42S: Athletic. .f03: Washington.
.227
The monument at the center of pop
ulation of the I'nitrd States 20 miles
east of Columbus. Ind. waS unveiled
at : p. III. on the 10th. and the event
will 90 into history as the second ofthc
kind in the past hundred years. the
first being in 1910. and the place p
miles west of Washington. u. {.
AT Logansport. Ind. Martin Griner
shot and killed his mistress. Mrs. Anna
kcistcr and then killed himself.
FLAMES ut Manning. Ia. destroyed
almost the entire business portion Of
the city. Loss. Sl23.O01.
TuE loss of the steamer Lucy Lowe
in the straits of Juan de Fuca with
tiitr-fvc colonistS on board WIS re-
ported The party left Tacoma April
II TO settle on land near the Giuestahrs
river.
AT Ottawa. Ill, Charles Ford was
hanged for the murder of David Moore
in June. ls90.
ROBERT ENNIs' barn was burned near
Euthvcn. la. and = hoy ard ten horses
pcri>htd in the flames.
IEwIS DUxCAN and his brother Viii
liam. of layton. O.. were Instantly
killed by a passenger train on the Big
Four road at East CTmrninSville. O.
On the Santa Fc road a stock train
was wrecked near Trinidad, y. NJ. and
80 head IF cattle and four men were
killed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16
IATEt.

AFTrE a strik" OF several weeks dura-
ion at the hricllvarGs of +. y. Havis X
Son. of Denver. Col. the prnprictorS
with ffy. nc-racS. armed with double
harrvicd shnt"EnS, heavily charged
with Jacllshnts started for the yards.
on the nth. with the avowed intention
of beginning work or dying in the at
tempt They were met on the way by
crowd Of strikers who barred their
wav and refused to let them pass. The
determined men opened fire at close
range on the strikers, several of whom
were fatally and many severely in
iurcd. of the fatally injured one died
soon after the shooting occurred.
THE man@lcd remains of young
man (supposcd to have been Samuel
Bright. on his way To Herman, Mo. to
marry a Miss Wendcll.l were found on
the New York Central railroad track a
few miles west of Schnectady, on the
nth. 4 letter was found in his pocket
giving the willing consent of the girls
father to the union, Notwithstanding
the young suitors poverty.
THE supreme court of the United
States has affirmed the order of the
New York circuit court denying writs
of habeaS corpus in the eases of the
prisoners Woods and Jugigo. now in
Sing Sing prison under sentence of
death by clectrocutiOn.
MAJ. =. II. DOWNING, collector of the
port of san Pedro. Cal, died on the
18th. Mr.. Downing is the fourth col
lcctor under the present administration
who has died when Just entering upon
the duties of his office.
EIGHT men were killed and twenty
five injured by an explosion in the
forehold of the British tank steamship
Tancarvillc, while undergoing repairs
at Newport, England. on the 10th.
HUNGARIAN crop reports show that
ryc. oats, barley and feeding stuffs have
suffered greatly because of the heat
which has recently prevailed. There is
fair average wheat crop.
PREMIER FIELDING. of Nova Scotia,
estimates the expenditures of the prov
ince at S571. 900 or $50 600 in excess of
the receipts. of this expenditure $780,
600 is for interest charges.
Three men were killed and thirteen
injured in n collision between two sec
tions of log train ut Shepherd, Mich,
on the night of the 10th.
THE lumber dealers of New York
CITY declared lockout, on the 11th,
and the men thus thrown out of work
number about 10000.
PEACE has been established in Hon.
duras. and the revolutionary movem mt
started at Amapala by Domingo Vis'
! ggez is 81 an end.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16
MILLIONS ABLAZE.
Forest Fires of Unprecedented Extent and
Destruciiveness Raging in Northern
Michigan-MilliOns of Acres Ablaze and
the People Helpless to Stay the March
of the Destroyer.

FOfest Tres ci ithpfctSuchttu nheA
Destructiveness Raging in Northern
NIichigan-Millions of Acres Ablaze and
the People Helpless to Stay the March
of the Destroyer.
DETROIT, Mich, May 1O.-A fire is
raging in the upper central counties Of
the lower peninsula the like of which
was never before known. The flanes
reach almost without a break from
Mason county, on Lake Michigan, to
Iosco county, on Lake Huron, with the
forests of Lake, Osceola, Clare, Glad
win, Ogemaw and Altoona, where Gen
eral Alger owns large interests, all
ablaZe.
A fire of scarcely less magnitude ex-
lists in the upper peninsula. The in
cline of the Duluth, South Shore & At
lantic railroad, through Marquette,
Houghton. Baraga and Ontanagon coun-
ties, is in the path of the flames. Two
railroad bridges have already gone on
the line. and the telegraph lines are in
bad shape.
Fears are entertained that the fire
will reach the town of Meredith in Clay
county. TAFT township. in Iosco county,
is also in danger. Friday night the
flames swept into Oscoda and burned
out 100000 worth of property. Two
houses and 1000. 900 feet of lumber were
burned.
Great apprehension is felt at Au Sa-
bic. An appeal for help has been sent
to Alpena. II is feared the city will be
swept away if the wind shifts. Mil
lions of acres of pine are burning.
LUDINGToN. Mich, May 11.-Wallier-
vile. small town in Ocean county.
the terminus of Butler & Peters
logging camp, was almost totally de
strOycd by forest fires Saturday after
noon. The hotel, stores, livery barn,
saloons, blacksmith shops, and all but a
few dwellings went up in smoke Five
hundred thousand hardwood logs were
also burned. Fires are raging in the
woods over the country and doing in
calculable damage.
Kitzinger's mill at Free Soil was also
destroyed by forest fires.
GRANI RAPIDS, Mich, May 1.-the
Chicago & West Michigan station al
| Shields. near White Cloud. was de
stroycd by forest fires Saturday after
noon. Eighteen Chicago & West Mich
igan freight cars We're burned at Lilley
on the Chicago X West Michigan, and p
coo. 600 feet of logs owned by Dunshern
Bolinder & Co., of Muskegon, We're de
| stroyed Saturday afternoon.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16

IT is little things of life that tax
ones nerves st. a. a Stalwart youth
OF Lcavcnworth. Kan. found when he
accepted wager that Er could not
stand Il quart "f water drnpp'd into his
open hand drop by drop from Il height
of three feet. Before five hundred drops
had fallen into his hand he a.most cried
with pain and SAID he had enough
After little water had fallen each
drop seemed to crush his hand and Il
blister in the center of it was the re
Il
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16

KEELEY. the motor man. explains the
am making 4 sympathetic harness fer
the polar terrestrial force first. by
exciting the sympathetic concordant
force that exists in the corpuscrlar
;RtcrstItial domain. which is concord
ant To it: and. second. after the con-
cOriance is established. by ncgatiZing
the thirds. sixths and ninths of this
concordance. thereby inducing high
velocities with great power 10y inter,
mittcnt negation. is associated with
the dominant thirds"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16

A CORE saw. intended for boring out
completed at Taunton. Mass. for a
company in Lacrosse. La The saw is
made of wrought iron, cylindrical in
shape, and steel cutter teeth are dis
tributed about its edge. 1t was expected
that the saw would cut barrel per
minute. and during trial of the first
machine core 10l. inches in diameter
and q I. inches long was bored ont in
thirty seconds. \ mill for the manu-
facture of barrels by these machines is
to be built in Louisiana.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-05-16
Fifty-Five CoIonists Lost on a Foundered
Vessel.

MISNEAPoLIs, Mimi, May IA spe-
cial to the Tribune from Tacoma, Wash,
says: The steamer Lucy Lowe has
foundered in the straits Of Juan de
Fuca. with fifty-five colonists on board.
The party, numbering fifty-six, left Ia
coma April 81, to settle on land near
the mouth of the Guestahes river, but
were beaten back by high seas and be-
came short of food. John y. Grant. OF
Tacoma. the only survivor, returned
here Saturday. lie believes the entire
party has been lost A search party is
being fitted ont.