The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-01-12

THE decoration of Count Won Wa
dersee with the order of the Black
Eagle was officially gazetted in Berlin
on the I'd.
THE president, on the I'd, awarded a
medal of honor, for distinguished gal
lantry, to Brevet Brighten. Vim II.
Wilmington, L. S. v, of Jackson,
Mich. in voluntarily remaining on The
field, under heavy fire, at Bull Run,
July, 1s6I. ~ aid his wounded superior
officer Gen. then coloneD Orlando b.
Wilcox. resulting in the capture of
both officers.
A sToRY vas ~telegaaphed from Wash
ington. on the night of the I'd, that the
New York financiers, through Mr.. j.
Pierpont Morgan. had demanded the
retirement of Secretary of the Treas
ury Carlisle. and that the president
would stand by Mr.. Carlisle. A New
York dispatch, however, stated that
Mr.. Morgan characterized the story as
absurd.
DISPATCHES from Belgium, on the I'd,
announced that the Belgian govern
ment had prohibited the Importation
of American cattle, alleging the preva-
lence of pleuro-pneumonia in the
United States as the reason. DIR. Sal
mon. chief of the bureau of animal in
dustry, says there has been no pleuro-
pneumonia in the United States for
two years.
THE census office made public a re-
port, on the I'd, showing that the own
ers of farms and homes, regarded as
substantially the land owners of the
United States, own more than 90 per
cent. of the wealth of the country.
EDWARD MCMULLIN. a lineman in
the employ of the Western Union Tel
egraph Co, was awarded a verdict at
Newark, y. j., on the Sd, against the
company of $4,000 for injuries re-
ceived while working among the wires
on a pole in Jersey City in June. 1893.
GUARD TEMPLE, who recently shot
and killed Convict O'Day in the Ohio
penitentiary was, OF the Sd, exon
Grated by the coroner who rendered a
verdict of justifable homicide.
THE United States cruiser Detroit
arrived at Port Said, Egypt. on the Sd,
on her way from Naples to China.
ALEXANER BIDA, the French artist,
died in Paris on the Sd.
Mrs. MARY T. LATHRAP. president of
the Michigan w. C. I. u, died at her
home in jackson. On the Sd, of acute
neuralgia, aged Sc years. She had
beer i'll about a year.
ROBERT ERUCE, the head of a Chi
cage detective agency and one of the
best-posted men in the country on
criminals, was found dead in his office
on the Sd. He had been drinking
heavily.
FRANK P. MOORE was arrested at
Savannah, Ga, on the 4th, for using
the United States mails for fraudulent
purposes in sending clairvoyant circu-
lars through the post Office. He is said
to be wanted in Cincinnati for similar
offenses.
4 WARRANT was sworn out, on the
4th. for the arrest of ex-City Treasurer
George Swartzkopf.of Valparaiso, Ind,
on the charge of e~mbezziing city funds
to the amount of S13, $50 during his two
years service as city treasurer.
AN enormous crowd gathered at the
state house in Denver, Col, on the 4th,
to listen to Gov. Waite's final message.
AN Austrian polar expedition will
leave B~remerhaven in June, 1896.
Julius PRAYER will be in charge of it.
Snow fell in Nice. France, on the
4th, to the unprecedented depth of five
inches.
MICHAEL DERRICK and his we chill
dren, John and Michael, aged S and 1
years, respectively, were smotiIered to
death in the burning of their home in
New York on the 18th.