The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1895-01-19

NJ. CHALLEMEL LACOUR was, on the
10th. reelected president of the French
senate.
BoTH houses of the California legis-
lature assembled in joint session. on
::Irns. James II. Budd was declared
governor amid great enthusiasm.
THE South Dakota house and senate,
on the 10th, suspended the rules and
passed joint resolution offering 1900
for the arrest and delivery of the de-
faulting treasurer, W. W. Taylor. He
is about > feet inches in height,
weighs 200 pounds, has brown hair,
small mustache, blue or gray eyes and
fiorid complexion. He was last heard
of in New York.
THREE oil men were instantly killed
on the Prisser farm, three miles west
of Wapakoneta, o., on the 10th. Frank
Logan, John Pettigrew and W. j. Nc
Nally endeavored to thaw out 100
quarts of frozen nitro-glycerine with
hot water. 1t exploded, tearing them
all into fragments, together with
team of horses.
The post office department, on the
10th, received official notification that
Cape Colony, regarded as the most inn
portant acquisition in Africa for the
Universal Postal union, owing to its
position as the entrance for all African
mails, had joined the union on Janu-
ary l.
\ MoDUS vIvENDI between the United
States and Cuba has been agreed upon
at Madrid, pending only the settlement
of the question of the date upon which
it shall become operative. BY the terms
of the agreement Cuba comedies the
second column tariff in return for the
INSTRUMENTATION treatment.
REPORTS from the immigration au-
thorites at New York show the whole
number of immigrants arrived during
December was II. JOG Of this number
116 were debarred entrance as paupers
and 53 as contract laborerS, 10 were ad-
mitted on bond.
The town of Turtle Creek, 10 miles
east of Pittsburgh. Pa, was badly
gutted by fire on the night of the 10th.
The town post office, valued at $1,000
was torn down by the citizens to pre-
vent further spread of the flames. The
damage will reach 100000.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai, on the
10th, said that severe fighting had
taken place near Jehol, Mongolia, 100
miles northeast of Pekin. hundreds
of wounded Chinese were reported to
be arriving at Tien-Tsin daily.
FAILURES for the week ended on the
11th, as reported by R. G. Dun &c Co.,
were. for the United States, 400.
against 474 for the corresponding week
of last year; and for Canada, "a, against
81 last year.
CHESTER ALLEN, aged rs years, for
many years prominent citizen of
Paw Paw, Mich, died on the 11th. He
was formerly a railroad man, and
helped to erect the first railroad build
ings at Detroit. He helped to con-
struct the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy road and the first works at
Pullman. III. He was wealthy at one
time, but died poor.
ENGINEER c. WOoLMAS was killed
and Fireman J. r. Nettles injured, on
switch engine and a Wabash passen-
ger train in the Hannibal yards at
Kansas City, Mo. The passengers
were badly shaken up.
A SENSATION was sprung in the
Washington legislature, on the 18th,
when it was announced that Gov. John
II. McGraw had himself entered the
race for United States senator. Nc.
Graw friends maintained that neither
Ankeny, Wilson or Allen could be
elected. and that McGraw was the only
acceptable candidate for the place.