The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-01-23
AIIsCELLANEOC8.

/ there and the resumption OF the sway
of civil law. Tuesday the stone mill
was surrounded by troops under Col
! Sanquinez, and after feeble resistance
/ the beleagured force surrendered and
were placed under arrest The total
number of captives IS l07, but the lead
| er, Romiji Sais escape !.
CHRISTOPHER FURSEss, member OF
parliament for Harllepool, Eng, has
invited subscriptions from British ship
owners TO defray the cost of convey.
ing to the Russian famine sufferers
4 900, 600 pounds of flour contributed
in the United States.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued a
proclamation reserving from entry or
settlement the Pecos river forest re-
serve in New Mexico and making it
public forest reservation,
THE employees of the Pittsburg. Al
legheny & Manchester Electric. Trac-
tion Co., struck the other morning
against an increase in hours of labor.
The lines were completely tied up.
THEsexports from the United States
in December were millions beyond the
record. The business situation at every
center is reported by Dun & Co. as ex-
cellent
THE Andrews Opera company's sleep
er was wrecked near Brainerd, Mimi,
the other morning and Mrs. Andrews
and her maid burned to death. Other
members of the company were badly
hurt
A COAL train of twenty-seven cars,
caboose and engine became unmanage-
able on the steep grade at Little Horse
Shoe bead, east Of Bainbridge, O., the
other night and was wrecked Two
men were killed.
A COMMERCIAL convention has been
signed between Portugal and Brazil
by which special advantages are grant
ed to Portuguese wines and Brazilian
sugar.
FIRE the other night destroyed the
large mill owned by John Stohr, shirt
manufacturer, at Pattison, n. J. The
loss is about SIS, 900.
A DISPATCH from St Paul, Mimi,
said that on the night of the I4th the
mercury went down until it froze. All
through The northern part of Minnesota,
Canadian northwest the temperature
ranged from 30 to so below zero, on
spirit Thermometers.
SHORTLY before midnight of the 18th
fire broke out in the Leader building
at Pittsburgh, Pa, and destroyed / it and
the block adjoining. The total loss to
the Leader is $50, 900, with S45, 900 in
surance.
The Chicago worlds fair federal legis-
lation committee has issued an address
to the public in regard to the S., 600, 900
loan.
THE past week was dull one in Eu-
ropes stock centers. This was es-
pecially conspicuous in London and
Paris
BIG fire occurred at Kansas City,
Mo, on the night of the 18th, the
Deardorff building at Eleventh and
Main being destroyed. Loss, over
S17O, 900; insurance, S12S, 400.
A PRIEST of San Salvador was shot by
a young man whose betrothed he was
accused of betraying A mob killed an
officer in trying TO secure the young
man.
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two deaths and the destruction of Van
Tassers new elevator and grain ware
house.
The wretch who had slashed the
throats of five drunken men in New
York city was arrested the other night
in the act of cutting the throat of man
on the street
WARRANTS have beel issued by the
fe ieral authorities in southern Texas
for many prominent ranchmen for
furnishing food to the CARA revolu-
ZIONIST
A DISPATCH from Belgrade says that
Servia is ravaged by diphtheria Two
children of one of the ministers died in
one night All the schools of the city
are closed in consequence of the cpl
demlc.
A LATE dispatch from Huntsville,
Ala, said tina. the North Alabama Inn
provement Co. had sold and transferred
all of their properties to the North
western Lan1 association of Pierre, :.
d. 1t was the largest deal made in the
south for several years, involving the
transfer of upward of $4,000, 200 worth
of property.