The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-08-22

CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SPAIN is, it is said, contemplating
CONSUMPTION to raise more soldiers for
Cuba.
''DIvINE HEALER' SCHRADER was
stoned and run out of Fort Worth,
Tex, as soon as he was found to be an
impostor.
SAM I. PLATT, n real estate man of
Kansas City, Mo-, met business rever-
ses and committed suicide On the 10th.
AN Italian man-of-war has captured
off the coast Of Erythrea the Dutch
steamer DOelwyz, laden with $4,000
rifles, which are supposed to be of
Belgian manufacture, and which were
destined for Abyssinia.
The government report o n the cotton
situation, on the 10th, cutting pros
poets more than ten per ceat., caused
a rise in speculative prices.
CHOLERA again shows an increase in
Egypt, and anxiety is felt on account
of the absence of reports from the camp
of the Egyptian forces on the Nile. 1t
is feared that a serious condition pre-
walls there.
WINFIELD SCoTT, the Santa Fe rail-
road official who had been missing for
several weeks, appeared at his home in
Chicago on the 18th. He was in a
dazed condition and unable to tell
where he had been except to say that
he had been overcome by the heat
while in a Turkish bath house.
GEORGE WALTERS, a well-known cit
izen of Columbus, o., was thrown from
his sulky, on the 18th, by his horse
running away. His foot caught and
he was dragged five blocks and ia
tally injured.
S. p. PoND, train dispatcher, and Il.
c. Friesner, operator for the Toledo &
Ohio Railway Co., who are held re-
sponsible for the terrible collision at
Columbus, o., on the night of the 10th.
have been placed under arrest, charged
with manslaughter.
\ HAsTILY-cONVENED British cabinet
meeting was held at the foreign office
in Downing street, London, on the 18th,
in which the situation in Crete was
under discussion for two hours.
The Murray Hill Bank of New York
was closed, on the 18th, by inspectors
pending an investigation of its books.
FIRE at Anamosa Qa.) penitentiary
started in the cellar of the prison din
on the 18th, and in Il short
time was beyond control, and the en-
tire entire building was destroyed, in
Guiding a large library OF 1900 vol
umes. The loss will be $4,000.
QUEEN VICTORIA has issued a mes
sage to the nations thanking them for
their expressions of loyalty and affec-
ton as the period approaches when the
length of her reign will have exceeded
that of any other English monarch.
A CONTEMPLATION at Norfolk, Va,
on the 18th, destroyed the Atlantic saw
mills, the Old Dominion guiana factory
and the Merritt wrecking warehouse
and the docks, causing Il loss of $780,
OCO. Twenty-Five tiremen were pros
trated by the intense heat.
AT Mount Etna, Ind, over 1900
pounds of black bass We're taken from
the Salamonie river with buckets on
the 18th. The river runs through the
oil belt, and during the freshet the
water was covered with oil, which
drove the fish to the shore.
The private bank of North & Tay-
lor, 800 West Madison street, Chi
cago. was closed at ten o'clock on the
morning of the 18th.
AT least three persons, and possibly
others, were burned 20 death in a fire
that d~estroyed>a six-story brick build
ing at No. 4G5 Greenwich street. New
York city, on the 18th. Several per-
sons We're injured by the smoke and
heat and by jumping.
EX-PREsIDENT HARRISON has prom
ised to open the campaign for the re-
publicans in New York city by a speech
to be delivered on the evening of Au-
gust %.
On the 18th - prominent democrats,
representing nearly every county in
the state, met in Wheeling, W. Va,
and formally boltei the national demo-
cratic platform. They also, in equally
strong terms. denounced Mckinley and
protection, ara called q convention to
meet in Wheeling, on the 29th, to
elect delegates to The Indianapolis
sound money convention.
NoLLAH REZA, who on the afternoon
of May l assassinated Nazr-Ed-Deen,
shah of Persia, by shooting the mon
arch with a pistol as he was entering
the inner court of the shrine of Shah
Abdul Aim, near Teheran, was, on
the 18th, hanged at Teheran for his
crime. Immense crowds of people
witnessed the execution of the assas-
sin.
CASHIER ". G. PETERS of the Column
bia national bank at Tacoma, Wash,
charged with classifying the books and
appropriating the funds of the insti-
tuition, was, on the 18th, found guilty.
President Henry Oliver of the Column
bia national bank. who is under indict-
ment for embezzlement, will be tried
in February next.
IT was reported, on the l2th, that a
British m~an-of-war had seized the
Mexican island of Clarion, which be-
longs to the state of Colima. and will
establish a coaling station there.