The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-03-23
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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well, commanding the Atlanta, at Co.
Ion, stating that all was quiet at
Bocas del Toro and all well on board
his vessel.
FREDERICK GEORGE BRABAZoN Pom.
SONNY, sixth earl of Bessborough, died
in London on the 18th. He was 50
years of age.
In London, on the 12th, the new
American loan opened at 5 per cent.
premium and closed at 81.
A SIX months dispute for possession
of St. Paul's (Polish) Catholic church
at Omaha, Neb., eliminated, on the
18th, in a pitched battle in the church
edifce, in which pistols and all kinds
of missiles were used-one man in the
party attacking the priest was seri-
ously injured by two pistol-shot
wounds, and the altar was riddled
with bullets, one of which pierced the
image of the Virgin Mary. Several
arrests were made.
JOSEPH PIERRE DRoUILLARD, a vet
eran of the war of 1912, died, on the
18th, at his home in Gallipolis, o., his
demise leaving but four surviving vet
Grams of that war. Mr.. Drouillard
fought in eighteen pitched battles in
the war of 1912. Had he lived until
September, he would have been nine
ty-nine years old.
THE body of David Aldridge, of
Rome. n. Y, one of the victims of the
steamer Longfellow disaster in the
Ohio river at Cincinnati, was recovered
from the wrecked hull, lying at Traut-
mans station, s miles down the river,
on the 18th.
WILLIAM w. TAYLOR, the fugitive
treasurer of South Dakota, was traced
by a Pinkerton detective to Havana,
where he had gone from Tampa. Fla,
on the steamer Olivette. He had a
months start, and got away from Cuba
before the detective could lay hands
on him. He was last heard of in the
City of Mexico, under the name of
Mason.
AT Stringtown, Okla, on the night
of the 18th, robbers entered the store
kept by NJ. Pounda, and, loading the
safe on a pair of trucks, secured at the
station, hauled it several miles into
the country and blew it open with dy-
Mantle. They secured about $50.
POsTMAsTER-GENERAL BIssELL re-
turned to Washington, on the 18th, to
close up the urgent business of the de-
partment prior to his retirement on
April l.
WHILE assisting the Ward line
steamer Seneca, from Havana, to make
her dock at New York, on the 18th, the
tug NJ. p. Starbuck was capsized and
her crew thrown into the water. All
were picked up little worse for their
immersion except the captain, Joseph
Brandow, in whose case the efforts at
resuscitation proved unavailing.
Mrs. KATHERINE TODD CRITTENDEN,
widow of the late Maj.-Gen. Thomas
L. Crittenden, of Kentucky, died, IN
the 18th, at the home of her nephew,
Edmond II. Taylor, of Buena Park,
Cook county, ILL.,, after an illness of
two weeks.
AGENTS WHITNEY and bennett, of
the Parkhurst society, were arrested
in New York city, on the 18th, on
charges of conspiracy to prosecute De-
tectives Jacobs and McManus. War
rants were also out for Samuel Cohen,
who figured in the cases.
GEORGE GRIDDALL and Maggie
Wachter. witnesses for Harry Hay
ward, the defendant in the Cling muir
der trial in Minneapolis, Mimi, ar
rested for perjury, were liberated, on
the 18th, because the grand jury re-
fuse to indict them, believing convic-
ton impossible on the evidence sub
mitted.
THE Spanish cruiser Reina Regente
with 400 souls on board, was three days
overdue at Cadiz, on the 18th, and
much anxiety was felt for the vessels
safety.
News was received from Shanghai,
on the 18th, hat Col. Won Heneken,
the German commander, had left the
Chinese service.
IN London. on the 18th, the new
American loan opened at SIS and closed
at So.
ARTHUR SAUER. the bookkeeper and
cashier of the Defiance co. national
bank, who disappeared January IS,
was arrested, on the 18th, in the Bre-
WORT house in Chicago, by Central de-
tectives who had long been on the
lookout for him.
JUDGE BAKER, of Chicago, on the
18th, discharged the last panel of twen-
ty-three jurors, after rendering a de-
cision hat the system in vogue of
drawing citizens for jury service in
Cook county is illegal, and that every
jury serving in the courts to-day is do
ing so on an unlawful basis, and that
all verdicts rendered by them are,
therefore, illegal.
By the burning of a hotel at Mac
keysville, w. Va, early on the morn
ing of the 18th, three persons lost
their lives and four others were so
badly injured as to make their recov-
cry doubtful.
FIRE in Kansas City, Mo, on the
18th, destroyed a four-story building
occupied by the English Supply Co.,
dealers in engine supplies and wrought
iron materials, and a five-story build
ing occupied by the Western Newspa-
per Union and the Great.Western type
foundry, causing a total loss of over
$500, 600, about one-half covered by in
suranee.
SIX ITALIANS and one American lad.
were killed (the last-named accident
ally), on the 18th, by a mob in ~retalia-
ton for the murder of a saloon-keeper
at RonSe Col II, is thOupht the Ita1-