The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-03-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

FORMAL notice was servpd. nh the
i%th, lev President Struckman of the
heard cf Cook county commissioners
ON the city of Chicago, to vacate the
city hall. The next move on the part
of the county will be an eicctment
| suit. which the city will defend.
Ar the expiration of the fortv-eight-
| hours notice given hv the Brazilian
government, active operations against
tiie rebels at Rio were begun at noon
of the 18th. Their fire was not re-
turned by the insurgcnt ships, and
when the government fleet entered the
harhor they found forts Villegai-non
and CohraS abandoned by their garri-
sonS. The terms of capitulati,.n Of
fcrcd lay admiral da CANA were re-
iectcd, and unconditional surrender
was demanded by President Pcixoto.
The London Times after making
allowance for the difficulties which
Lord HoScbcry had to encounter, says
1.-The general feeling is that his debut
as premier was distinctly disappoint-
ing"
IL the trial of suits instituted by
'AA'iiA1NAA'i N'iiA NslII lNt anu
Minister Dr. Miguel against the writ
crS Plack and Schwcinhagen and Book
seller Ewald, begun in Berlin on the
18th, for having issued pamphlet en-
titled "Pharisees and IIypocrites," the
defense set up was that the charges
are true.
THE new antdutc for laudanum
poisoning was successfully admins
tered in the Homeopathic hospital at
Pittsburgh, Pa. on the 18th. To a man
who had swallowed five ounces of the
deadly drug with suicidal intent, and
upon whom all the ordinary means of
resuscitation had been used without
avail.
A NUMBER of participants in the late
revolt ut Costa Rico have taken steam
er from Port Limon for New Orleans
Twenty-three of the prisoners taken
were shot.
RICHARD PUEYEAR, who murdered |
Christian Ehlcrs. near Tannersville,
Pa, escaped from Jail at Stroudsburg
on the 18th. lie WIS pursued by citi- |
zens, captured and hanged to tree.
The conflict of authority between |
Gov. Waite of Colorado, and the board |
of fire and police of Denver, supported |
by the sheriff Of Arapahoe county, cul- |
minated, on the 18th, in the governor |
calling out several companies of nj !:
litia to take forcibIc possession of /
the city hall, in which the sheriff
with over 100 special deputies
and the city police were intrenched. |
Both sides were oDduratc, and blood |
shed would have followed had not Gen.
McCOoll, with United States troops |
from Fort Logan, appeared on the
scene rs Il peaccmalier.
OK the 18th United States Ambassa-
dor Bayard had an interview of nearly
an hours duration with the earl of |
Kimberly, British secretary of state
for foreign affairs. 1t is understood
the interview had reference to the re-
cent interference on the part of Capt
a. &. Cuzon-llowe of the British war
ship Cleopatra in the matter of the
seizure of the Mosquito reservation in
Central America by the Nicaraguans
THE weekly statement of the Bank
of France, issued on the 18th, showed
an increase of 1850, 0OO francs gold and
a decrease of 900, 900 francs silver.
For the first time in the history of
The United States Japanese has ap-
olied for naturalization papers in Bos-
on. His name is Shebato Saito, aged
- He is a graduate of the State school
Of South Carolina and the Washington
academy in Maine. and also attended
the Georgetown university at WASH
ngton. He married an American
woman. The case will be decided on
he 22d.
a MITE of baby is thriving in an
Incubator in New York, and though
'he weighed scant two pounds when
,he was born on February "a. on the
5th she tipped the beam at five and
,ne-half pounds and was as fat as
1utter roll. So she promises to be
.redit to her mechanical foster moth
#. the incubator. She is the daughter
# f. Clarence and Florence ii. G.
iaight.
ELEVEN survivors of the company of
100 which left Pittsburgh, Pa, for Cali
ornia during the gold excitement of
$40 met in that city, on the night Of
he 18th, to celebrate the forty fifth
anniversary of their departure. After
briet business meeting and the re- I
lection of the cid officers 1.-The 49ersD
at down to an elaborate banquet
FALSE teeth sold at one cent per set, .
,old watches at $3.50 each, and seal ,
acques at is1@ cents apiece, at the sale ,
4 unidentified property held by the
ost and found department of the ,
Worlds fair in Chicago on the 18th z,
)ther lost goods were sold ut equally {
ow prices, aud nos over s5G0 was real {
asd BY the Exposition managera