The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-12-29

NJ. DE 0bf IKE NlLLEs . NctCIdu war
correspondent, who has served the New
York Herald on a number of battle
fields, and is familiar with warfare in
all its multitudinous phases, takes the
view that the slaughter Of the Chinese
by the japanese soldiers at Port Ar
thur was fully justified, in view of the
barbarous atrocities committed by the
Chinese upon captured japanese scout
ing parties, whose mutilated remains
were in full view of the Japanese SOL
diers as they marched into Port Ar
thur.
On the goth Senator Quay introduced
a bill authorizing the secretary of the
treasury topurchase the land contained
in block 90, of Columbia Heights, a sub
urb of Washington, as a site for a resi-
dence of the president of the United
States. The bill limits the price to
three dollars a square foot, and the
total appropriation to 81, 200, 600.
PROF. E. l.. G. MORSE, principal of
the Phil Sheridan public school in Chi
cago, was arrested, ON the Goth, on a
warrant sworn out by the mother of
Alexander Beckerman, an s-year-old
pupil. charging him with assault in
whipping the boy. The rules prohibit
corporal punishment.
THE New York World printed a dis
patch from Minister DENLY at Pekin,
On the Goth, saying that there was no
truth in the report recently printed
that Yo-Ho-La-Na, the young wife Of
Al 1f Cl,-, L,I oorrpiffa1
suicide.
ARCHBISHOP CoRRIGAN, at the quar-
terly meeting of the trustees of the
diocese of New York. on the GOTHAM
nounced the Introduction By the pope
on the recommendation of the Ameri-
can bishops of the Odd Fellows, the
knights of Pythias and the Sons of
Temperance.
THE smallest child on record was
born of Norwegian parents at West
Creek, Ind, on the 10Th. The child is
a male, is perfectly formed as a babe
could be, and at its birth weighed only
nine C
COUNT BoTHo GUTENBERG, ex-presi-
dent of the PruSsian council of minis
tiers, was the guest of the emperor at
the royal huntat NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
on the 21st. Some of the other guests
surmised that the eX-premier of Prus-
STA would before long succeed Prince
Hohenlohe as chancellor.
EDWARD P. HARRINGTON, OF Brewer,
Me-, treasurer of the Brewer savings
bank, committed suicide, on the 21st.
by shooting himself through the tenn
pie. He had been a prominent mer-
chant and business man for many years.
He was SIS years old. There was no
shortage in his accounts.
The post Office department has re-
scinded its fraud order against Sears,
Roebeck & Co., A. Curtis & Co. and the
Alvah Manufacturing Co., of Chicago
and Minneapolis, the promoters hav-
ing agreed to abandon their scheme.
JACOB CLARK, a w~ell-known civil en-
gineer and a surveyor of Elizabeth, n.
J., was, on the 21st. struck and fatally
injured by a locomotive while at work
surveying the tracks of the Central
railroad of New Jersey.
A DISPATCH from Tien-Tsin under
date of December 20 says: The em.
peror has granted plenipotentiary pow.
ers to Chang Yen Knaw, vice-president
of the Tsung Lii Yamen, to make peace
with Japan.
THE failures in the United States
for the week ended on the 2lst were
$40, against 344 for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were Sc, against 81 last year.
JAMES BULLOCK, secretary of the
Montreal Hunt club, shot and killed
himself in his office in Montreal, Can,
on the 2lSt.