The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-05-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE president, Mrs. Harrison, Mrs
ton, on the 18th, for Virginia Beach
| Va.
GEN. GREssER, the project of polio,
of st. Petersburg, who was poisoned in
a mysterious manner, as is supposed by
| nihilistS. died on the llth
ENGLAND has accepted the invitation
of the United States to bi-mctalliC
congress.
THE Oxford sugar refinery at Green
ock, Scotland, was destroyed by fire on
the 10th. Loss, ESQ, 900.
THE special committee of the Belgian
senate having the matter in charge has
passed a resolution favoring certain
proposed constitutional reforms. Many
of the senators disagree on the pro,
posals. and animated debates are ex-
pectcd.
THE Childs-Drexel home for aged and
INDECENT printers was formally dcdi-
Gated. in the presence of an immense
throng of visitors, at Colorado Springs.
Col. on the 12th.
THE Wollaston foundry at Quincy,
Mass, was burned on the 18th. Loss.
$4,000.
NEW MExICo's magnificent capitol
building at Santa Fe was totally de
stroycd by fire on the 18th. Loss. s25O.-
900. When the citizens saw there was
no hope of saving the building, they
stripped the two lower floors of furni-
ture, carpets, law library, and every
movable article.
The CheyenneS are off their allot-
mcnts in Indian territory and are driv-
ing white settlers off their claims The
Indians claim that they never signed
the treaty of sale of their lands, and
that if the white settlers do not leave
the country inside of ten days they will
he driven out. The Indians are all
armed. At the town of Cheyenne n
line of guards surround the town day
and night, and the citizens have re-
quested that troops be sent for protec-
ton.
The president has under considera-
tion the selection of the two arbitrators
to represent the United States in the
settlement of the Bchring sea question.
The Indications are that one of the
arbitrators will he from the United
States supreme bench, with the chances
strongly in favor with the selection of
Mr.. Justice Harlan. 1t is said that the
president has already requested him to
act in behalf of the United States, and
that he has practically consented to
serve
II. L. SCoTT, representing Philadel-
phia syndicate, has succeeded in get
ting a bond on the Miller, O'Bricu &
COnnors group of tin mines at Bear
Gulch, eighteen miles northwest of
Dcadwood, S. ID. Some of the mines
are well developed, one of them. the
Cleveland, showing a 6O-foot body of
ore carrying cassiterite in paying guam
tity. Mr.. Scott announces his syndicate
will put up plant capable of treating
500 tons of ore day.
DURING the pyrotechnic exhibition on
the Mississippiat st. Louis on the night
of the 1lth, in connection with the A.
o. U. w. celebration, Matte Stoffel and
an unknown man were crowded from
wharfboats into the river and were
drowned
Observation-Disclosures WANANAKER
has received an unsigned and undated
letter containing $4,000. In his letter
the writer says: This is the balance
of interest owe of the sum took from
the government in 1865. i have now
paid principal and interest. in all slT,-
700. No man has suffered more for his
crime than have, and I now pray the
Lords forgiveness for my sin"
A COMPANY has been organized for the
of one of the largest arti-
fetal reservoirs in the world. The site
taken is the Box canyon, 400 yards be-
low the junction of Tonto creek. and
Salt river. in Arizona. The height of
the dam is to be 200 feet, and the back
water will extend sixteen miles to the
Sierra Anch mountains, making a ca
pacity, according to report of the conn
ty surveyor, of l03, O5s, ,040, 500 cubic feet
of water.
Mrs. NANCY CH RIsTy, colored, cele-
brated the one hundredth anniversary
of her birth at Harrisburg, Pa, on the |
l2th. She was born in Mercersburg,
Franklin county, May IL, 1872, and re-
moved with her husband to Harrisburg |
in 1855. Until she was IS years old she |
worked on a farm near Mercersburg,
and attended school in the winter Mrs.
Christy has been blind for the past four
years.
Ri. HoN. ]. w. LowrHER, parliament
tary under secretary for the British for
eign Office, said in the house of COM |
mons, on the 18th, that the report of |
Carroll D. Wright upon the effects of the |
Mckinley tariff would be placed in the |
library of the house of commons as soon |
ss received from America