The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-22
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

tation to visit the Cotton States expo
sitiOn at Atlanta. Ga, October -.
a DISPATCH from Cape Colony, South
Africa, says that the assembly, on the
18th, By a vote of - TO a3, adopted the
resolution introduced by Premier
Rhodes to annex Bechuanaland.
THE oath of Office was administered
to Acknowledgement Harmon by Justice
Harlan, of the United States supreme
court, on the 18th, and the new cab
met officer attended his first cabinet
session the same dav.
THE commercial treaty between Rus
STA and Japan was signed at st. Peters
burg on the 18th.
OK a report of Police Captain Clay
ton that the Seaside Athletic club, of
Coney Island, y. Y, vas a nuisance
and It's exhibitions undesirable, Mayor
Schieren, on the 18th, refused to issue
a license to the club. The mayor took
the same ground last year, but was
compelled by mandamus proceedings
to issue a license.
r. II. BELTS. assistant cashier of a
Fort Worth Tex bank, was arrested
at Sierra Blanca on the 1lth. He was
running away with the funds of the
bank. Fifteen hundred dollars and a
quantity of jewelry were found in his
valise. Belts was en- route to Mexico.
The full extent of his populations had
not been a~scertained.
EUGENE DEBS, president of the Amer
lean Railway union, surrendered to the
United States marshal, in ChicOgO, on
the 18th, and was parOled until train
time. He failed to appear, however,
and the officer was compelled to go Oh
to Woodstock without him taking the
other prisoners. Having surrendered,
Debs' bondsmen are no longer liable.
OFFICIAL adviceS have been received
at Washington that Japan is about to
greatly increase her navy and that
proposals for bids for war vessels will
soon be thrown open to all the great
ship-building countries.
ACCORDING to advices received in
Washington Japan is anxious for the
construction of a telegraph cable be-
tween the United States and Japan.
The announcement is made that Japan
will grant a liberal subsidy to any
company which will construct and
maintain such a cable.
Mr.. AND MEs. GLADSTONE sailed, on
the 18th, for Hamburg, and thence will
90 to Kiel, to witness the ceremonies
attending opening of the Baltic and
North Sea canal.
SECRETARY OF STATE OLSEY. on the
the 12th. sem formal communications
to the encouragement and the secre-
taries of the treasury and navy, direct
ing them to take all necessary steps to
enforce the neu t~rality laws, in view of
the increased activity of the insurrec-
tionists in Cuba and of their sympa-
thizers in this country.
TIE jury in the cases of Councilmen
?. L. Caulield and Thomas Haley, of
New Orleans, charged with attempt
ing to extort a bride for certain track
privileges from Supt. Marshall of the
Louisville & Nashville railway, re-
turned a verdict of guilty on the 18th.
The Milford IN. H. savings bank
suspended payment on the 18th. The
ACTION was lhdut HCCCSSdIN w lbC
large number of notices Of withdrawal
OF deposits. The bank has deposits Of
about 5000, 900.
GEORGE HOsMER, the oarsman, who
was thought to have been fatally in
jured, recently, by accidentally swal-
lowing pieces of glass. has been dis
charged from a hospital in Boston con
valeScent.
THIRTY business houses and dwell
ingS, comprising almost the entire
business portion of Geneva, Ind, we're
burned on the night of the 18th. Loss,
nearly 500, 600; insurance, one-half.
THE Mariaberg monastery, the
monks of which were accused of i'll
treating lunatics who We're confined in
the institution, has been closed by or
der of the German government.
RICHARD OULAHAN. one of the lead
ing participants in the abortive Ste
vens Fenian movement for the liberia
ton of Ireland, died in Washington
city on the 18th.
EIGHT brick ard five frame stores,
the Episcopal church and two resi-
dences were burned at Washington,
Ga, on the night of the 18th; loss,
about $40. 600.
THE fire in the Antonienhuette mine,
in Prussian Silesia, was eXtinguished
on the 18th. All of the imprisoned
miners except tw%enty-siX were saved.
The Crane IRON works at Allentown,
Pa. on the 18th, increased the wages
of its $500 employees 10 per cent, dat
ing from the Sd.
FREDERICK PATE, colored. residing in
Battle Creek. Mich, while attempting
to make a balloon ascension and para
chute drop at Marcellus, Mich, on the
12th, caught in the top of a tree while
hanging from Il trapeze. Breaking
loose from the balloon he fell to the
ground, 30 feet, breaking his hip and
many ribs. He died an hour later.
SUIT. CHAs. PETTIGREw of the Hi
noiS Steel Co. says the company is GO
ing 10 erect a large construction mill
in Joliet on 4 twenty-acre tract of land
owned By it just south of the present
works. This mill will be built at a
cost of about 81, 600, 900, and will en-
ploy over LOCO men.
GRAssHoPPERs appeared in clouds at
Elkhart, Ind, on the 18th, descending
upon fields of grain, cor and grass in
such numbers that everything seemed
to be alive with them. They ate