The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-10-20
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AT a cabinet council in Paris, on the
9th, the plans for a cable from Brest
to New York and another from Hayti
to New York were examined.
Mrs. CoRBIN, wife of Col. II. c. Cor
bin, of Ohio, assistant acknowledgement
of the army, died at her home in Wash
ington city on the 9th. She had been
ill for several months.
The suit of Mrs. Martha Jones, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, to recover $1,000 from
the Fidelity Mutual Life association
on a policy on the life of her husband,
was brought to a remarkable and alb
rupt termination on the 9th. The de-
Tense produced in court a deposition
and photograph of TIE supposedly dead
man, showing that he is now living in
England. Jones disappeared in Deem
Der, 1889.
THE London mint has struck new
British dollar, which resembles the
Japanese yen in size, weight and fine
ness. The coin is expected to circulate
largely in Singapore and Japan. 1t
will be mainly coined by the Bombay
mint. which has agreed to charge l per
cent. mintage, instead of . per cent,
charged for rupees.
The North German Gazette COM
ments ironically upon the opinion of
the American minister at Pekin, who
advises the removal of the wives and
children of foreigners from Pekin to
Shanghai. in view of the probable
japanese attack upon the Chinese capt.
tai. The paper says that the minister
has no means of learning of the Japa-
nese movements.
ANOTHER battle has taken place in
the orient. the japanese having, on the
9th, run the gauntlet of the Chinese
fort on the Shan Tung promontory and
captured Che-Foo, a treaty port on the
Yellow sea. Foo-Chow, another treaty
port, 700 miles south. is threatened.
JENNIE, a ~2-year-old daughter of Con-
ductor Lancaster, of the Missouri Pa
cifc railroad. was burned to death, on
the 9th. at a farmhouse II miles south
of Olathe. Kas.. where Lamaster's chill
dren live with their grandmother. The
child vas playing with the fire in the
kitchen stove, when its clothes caught.
INVESTIGATION by the police has re-
vealed the terrible fact that forty old
soldiers have been robbed and muir
dered at the national military home at
Dayton, o., and only passing notice
taken of the crimes. The grand army
has taken the matter in hand.
GEORGE LAHORE, an acrobat, fell a
distance of forty feet during a per-
Torrance in Chicago or the 9th. His
right leg was broken in several places,
and it was thought it might be neces
sary to amputate it to save his life.
MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD, worlds
president of the w. C. T. u, who went
to Cincinnati to address the Ohio state
convention, vas reported seriously i'll
in that city on the 10th. Lady Somer-
set was with her.
PROF. LEYDEN, of Berlin, was again
summoned by wire to attend the car,
and started for Livadia, on the 10th, to
remain some time.
THE treasury department is prepar-
ing custom regulations to govern the
entry of exhibits for the Atlanta GA
exposition.
On the 10th the Hungarian house of
magnates passed the third reading of
the bill providing for civil marriages.
SIR JOHN DUGDALE ASHLEY, baronet,
the well-known sportsman, died in Lon
don on the 10th.
AT 1890 o'clock on the morning of
the 18th, burglars blew open the safe
- @La Nau, avfn1fan m nnSf nfHan
and secured $500 in money and stamps.
The explosion knocked out the whole
front of the building and awakened
the entire populace, but the burglars
made their escape.
A GREAT temperance meeting was
held in the Auditorium in Chicago, on
the night of the 10th, to give voice to
the opposition of the holy see to the
saloon.
ONE man was killed and six men and
one woman were badly burned or in
jured by jumping and dropping from
the windows of a four-story wooden
tenement house which was burned in
Boston on the 18th.
IN the United States circuit court at
Omaha, Neb., on the 18th, Judge Wool
son decided that the receivers may
not cut the salaries of the employees of
the Omaha & St. Louis (Wabas:tt road.
N. d. SMITH, an employee of the bu-
reau of engraving and printing, was
arrested in Washington, on the 18th,
charged with stealing so, 200 two-cent
stamps from the bureau.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis railroad
was sold in Minneapolis, Mimi, on the
18th. at sheriff's sale, and purchased
for the stockholders committee for
S.. ZOO, 900 cash.
PRINCESS MARIE. wife of Prince Fer
dinand of Bulgaria, gave birth to a
daughter on the 18th.
THE ameer of A~fghanistan was re-
ported, on the 18th, to be very ILL.,.
FOUR earthquake shocks were felt at
Athens, Greece. ON the night of the
18th.
JULIUS LICHTENBERG.a member of the
board of education of Detroit, Mich,
charged with accepting a bride, made
an unsuccessful attempt at suicide on
the 18th.
Two MEN were burned to death and
one probably fatally injured, on the
18th, by the burning of a barn near
Fort Recovery. o., which was fired by
a spark from a threshing machine
engine.
For the first time the naval con-