The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-31
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY cAs.

SECRETARY OF rHE TREASURY CAB
LIsLE addressed an audience at Coving-
ton, KY, on the evening of the Ped, on
the. political issues of the campaign.
Some OF his arguments were greeted
with misses, cries of traitor" and a
fusillade of rotten eggs.
ONE of the victims of the recent pot
terry fire at Akron, o., was Francis
Harrison, who gained some fame un-
der the name of "Dr. Tanner" by a
long fast he once INDUCED in.
REPORTS from Spanish sources in
Cuba say that Antonio Maceo is
hemmed in in his mountain retreat by
several Spanish columns, and is short
of food and ammunition.
DAVID LEE, related to the Lees, OF
Virginia, and Mrs. Virginia Rouss,
daughter of the New York multi-mil.
lionaire, were secretly married in New
York city, because they anticipated
parental opposition.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch says a
conflict has occurred in the sultan's
palace between the Turkish and Alba.
MAN guards, during which several
were killed on both sides
JOSEPH LUPINEK, 90 years old, a stu.
dent at the Western Reserve college at
Hudson, O., who lwas assaulted and
robbed by footpads. in Cleveland, died,
on the ped, from his injuries.
KATE CLAxToN's only daughter,
Maud, died in Paris, October 10, short.
ly after the birth of a daughter. Shit
was the wife of Julian F. Meuditt, and
had resided in Paris since her mar.
riage.
A LONDON ~cablegram says: A lead
ing authority in Mark lane says that
England will need at least 90, GOO, 600
quarters of wheat in IL months, and
she will not be able to depend upon
India or Russia for any of it.
THE missionary ship Day Spring has
been wrecked on a rock north of New
Caledonia island. The captain and
seven men escaped in a boat, but the
remainder, nine persons, persisted.
NEAR Summerville, ". Va, the boil
err of a saw-mill exploded, on the 22d,
instantly killing three men and fatal
ly injuring two others.
II was officially announced at Otta.
wa, Ont, on the 22d, that the govern.
ment commission appointed to inquire
into the operation of the tariff will be-
gin its work on November 10. The in
quiry will be conducted by Sir Rich
ard Cartright, Hon. W.. S. Fielding and
Hon. w. Patterson, who are members
of the commission.
j. Z. BAssETT. an employee and book.
keeper of Swift & Co., the big Chicago
pork packers, was arrested at New
Orleans, on the 22d, on the charge of
having embezzled $1,000 of the com
pany's money.
HENRY FORBES, chief clerk to Mama
ger Howe of the Palmer house in Chi
cago, vas found dead, on the morning
of the Esd, in a at La Vita hotel,
The gas was turned on, and letters to
his wife and daughter showed that
death was intentional.
EDWARD j. IVORY, alias Bell, the al.
legged Irish-American dynamiter, who
was arrested in Glasgow on Septem.
Der IL, was again arraigned in the
Bow-street (London) police court on
the 23d.
Sun VAT Sen, the Chinese physician
who was kidnapped by emissaries OF
the Chinese legation in London, was
released, on the 23d. on the demand OF
the British government.
NJ. AMIE ETIEME BLAvIER, member
of the French senate, representing
the department of Main-et-Loire, died,
on the 23d, in Paris. He was SO years
of age.
HoN. COLUMBUS DELANo, ex-secre
tary of the interior, died at Mount
Vernon, o., on the cath.