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

on the breakwater at Holyhead, En-
gland, on the both, and all hands, TWEEN
ty-four in number. were drowned.
THE Delevan house at Albany, n.
Y, was burned on the night of the
3Oth. One life was reported lost, and
several guests were injured in their eff
forts to escape from the building.
A DISPATCH from Pekin of the 3Oth
announced that Ii Hung Chang had
been superseded in the supreme COM
mand of the Chinese armies by Kun Vi,
ex-viceroy of Nankin.
Milo LEES barber-shop and lodging
house at Elwood, Ind, was wrecked by
an explosion of natural gas on the
30th, and six persons were badly in
jured.
JOHN FITZGERALD, ex-president of the
Irish National League of America, and
one of the most extensive railroad con-
tractors in the country, died at Lin
coin, Neb.. on the 30th.
REPORTS from the orange district of
Florida indicate a loss to that industry
and to the pineapple raisers of fully
s. 600, 900 as the result of the recent
cold snap. 1t was the coolest known
there since 1885.
The decision of Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage to leave Brooklyn and preach
henceforth in the New York Academy
of Music has been followed by a dis
ruption of the Brooklyn tabernacle
congregation.
In the burning of his residence at
Newaygo, Mich, on the morning of the
3Oth, Charles White lost his life in a
vain effort to ave that of his 6-year-
old son.
TERRIBLE restitution exists in Per-
kirs, Chase, Dundy, Lincoln, Hayes,
Hitchcock and Frontier counties, Neb.,
and the worst feature is the people
in several localities are afflicted with
scurvy for want of wholesome food.
THE city building at Biddeford, Me-.
was damaged to the extent of $50, 600
by fire or the morning of the Both.
Besides the city offices, the post Office
and police station, the building O n
tanned the drug store of DR.. Warren.
McKenny & Meard's hardware stores.
Mrs. Wards millinery parlors and the
York County savings bank, all of
which were damaged by smoke and
water.
WILLIAM L. STRONG was indicted
into Office as mayor of the city of New
York, on the 1st, his election repre-
senting very much the same conditions
and social elements that asserted them
selves, in 1872, in the choice of William
Havemeyer for mayor: the main pur-
pose in the earlier case being the over-
throw of the Tweed regime. and il the
present case to correct abuses known
or suspected in the police and other
departments of the city government.
A Mrs. REINECKE, wanted in New
York for embezzling $4,000 worth of
diamonds, which she had struggled
into the country for several New York
firms, was arrested in Santa Rosa, Cal,
on the 1st, The arrest was made by
Mrs. VI. E. Darragh, searcher in the
New York customs service, who had
followed Mrs. Reinecke across the con-
tinent.
UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR EUsTIs
and Consul-General Morse held New
Years receptions at their respective
residences in Paris.
MORE than 90. 900 prisoners will be
benefited by the cars decree of am
nesty. Many of them have been al
ready liberated.
The Prince knitting works at Chica-
go, employing $50 girls, were burned
on the I'd. Thirty of the young ladies
were rescued from the third-story win
dows by the firemen. Cause, sponta-
neous conclusions; loss, $40, 5000, partly
insured.
JOHN b. BERGAMINI, 80 years of age,
and his wife Kate, 20 years old, were
found dead, on the morning of the I'd,
at their home in New York. They
had been suffocated by escaping gas.
The recount in the mayoralty N
test in Winnipeg, Man, was completed
on the I'd. AS a result McMicken vas
unseated and Gilroy was declared
mayor by S majority.
Two STREET CARS in Indianapolis,
Ind, collided, on the I'd, in a binding
snowstorm. About twenty persons
were injured more or less seriously by
the accident.
OK the I'd. Gov. Morton of New York
nominated Alva II. Doty to be health
officer of the port of New York, and he
was promptly confirmed by the senate.
AN emery wheel burst in the Pope
knitting Co.'S factory at Bucyrus, o..
on the I'd, crushing the skull of Frank
Greenwich. a 17-year-old employee.
THE principal part of the village of
Sherman, n. Y, was burned at l o'clock
on the morning of the I'd; aggregate
losses, $4,000.
EIGHT business places, including the
leading stores and post office at Per-
rysville, O.. were burned on the I'd:
loss, $4,000.
HAMILTON FISH was, on the I'd, elect
ed speaker of the New York state as
sembly.
FRANCIS II, the last king of Naples,
was buried. on the Sd, from the parish
church in A-co, the Tyrol, Austria