The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-12
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

some time.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH, on the 1st,
took formal leave of the heads of bu-
reaus and other employees of the inte-
rior department.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE SMITH, president of
the Woman's Rescue League of the
United States. has taken up her quar-
tiers in New York city, and intends to
dismount every wheelwoman in
Gotham-if she car
SECRETARY CARLISLE said, on the 1st,
that President Cleveland would write
a letter indorsing the nominees of the
indianapolis convention.
ACTING COMPTROLLER BOWERS has de-
cided that a man transferred from the
volunteer service to the regular army
is not entitled to veteran bounty.
DANIEL SPRAKER, president of the
Mohawk River bank. died in Fonda, n.
Y, on the list, of pneumonia, aged 9S.
Mr.. Speaker had been president of
the bank since its establishment, over
forty years ago, and was probably the
oldest bank president in the United
States.
II CllIll Idlh DhilNliiS vi lliC pAS~
turesque Kentucky institute for fee
ble-minded children, at Frankfort, was
destroyed by fire, on the LIST, rendering
homeless 200 Predetermined children
and destroying $50, 900 worth of prop
erty.
The Banca Bulcse, located in Brook
Ign, and operated by PietrO Gallo &
Son, is closed, the prOprietors having
left the place. When the building was
opened, on the list, it was found that
the safe was open, but empty. 1t was
asserted by Italians that the deposits
amounted to $4,000.
THE resignation of Hoke Smith as
secretary of the interior went into
effect on the 1st inst. Assistant Sec
rotary Reynolds assumed charge of
the department pending the arrival of
Gov. Francis.
Mrs. GEORGE KNoPP was arrested in
Council Bluffs, Ia, on the list, charged
with using the mails for fraudulent
purposes, and held for the grand jury.
She advertised for a husband and sue
cceded in getting the better of a mat
rimonial ~adventurer who married her
thinking her to be rich.
The battle ships Families and Ira
falgar, fagships of the British Med
iterranean squadron, and IL other
British warships left Malta, on the 1st,
for the Levant.
AN explosion in the nitroglycerine
house of the California Powder Co., at
Pinole, Cal, on the 1st, wrecked the
building and caused the death of IL
workmen, eight Chinese and our white
men.
RI. Hon. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,
British secretary of state for the colo
MES, was a passenger on the steamer
Teutonic, which arrived at New York,
on the I'd, from Liverpool. His visit
will be a brief one, as he intends re-
turning home in about a fortnight.
THE steamer Laurada, the Cuban fl
ibuster, which recently landed at
Navassa and transferred her men and
arms to the tug Dauntless, and later
arrived at Port Antonio, Jamaica, has
peel grounded. 1t is suspected that
her mishap was the result of foul play.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Rome, on
the I'd, said it was rumored there that
King Humbert will his alb
dication after the marriage of the
prince of Naples, the heir apparent, to
Princess Helene of Montenegro.
ADIsPATCH from Lowell observatory,
Flagstaff, Ariz, to Harvard Observa-
tory, on the I'd, announced the re-dis-
covery, by DIR. Lee, of the companion
- S;.,,, -, nAe;ti>, a o,r1a OlO AarraaS
and distance SO. This companion was
first seen in 1859.
A DISPATCH to the London Times
from st. Petersburg says that the our
of the car throughout western Eu-
rope will not be changed on account
of the death of the Russian minister
of foreign affairs, Prince Lobanoff-Ros-
tovsky.
The gold Democratic national o n
vention which met at Indianapolis,
on the I'd, held two short sessions and,
after effecting permanent organiza-
ton, adjourned until the Sd.
THE turret battleships Navarin and
Imperator Alexander IL, the torpedo
cruiser Pocadnik and two torpedo boat
~destroyers, all belonging to the Rus
sian Cronstadt squadron, nave been
sem to the Mediterranean.
Mrs. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, on the
I'd, denied the published report that
her hus bands condition was precari-
Gus.
In the democratic state convention
at Concord, \. H, on the ID, a resolu-
ton indorsing the administration of
President Cleveland was rejected over
whelmingly on a rising vote, only 81
rising in the affirmative.
Ex-Gov. FRANCIS, of Missouri, took
the oath of Office as secretary of the
interior in Secretary Carlisle's Office,
on the Sd, and immediately entered
upon the discharge of his new duties.
THE Rational encampmelt of Tie
Grand Army of the Republic, in session
at St. Paul, Mimi, on the Sd, selected
Buffalo, n. Y, as the place of holding
the next general encampment. There
was practically no opposition