The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-24
CURRENT TOPICS,
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Withdrawals being S21S, 100.
BERTHE TRIP, whose right name is
supposed to be Helen Forsland, a mem
Der of the Salvation army, committed
suicide at Butte, Mont, on the 18th, by
taking poison. The girl was 70 years
of age, and the daughter of a farmer
living neal Spokane.
president CLEVELAND and his off.
cial advisers were in cabinet session
for an hour and a half, on the 1ath,
discussing topics to be considered in the
annual reports of the executive officers
and in the presidents message. All
the cabinet officers were present ex-
cept Secretary Carlisle.
AN unknown man jumped into the
water at Prospect Point, Niagara Falls,
Y. Y, on the 18th, and was swept over
the American falls. The only wit
nesses, two hackmen, described the
stranger as Il short man about 35years
old, weighing perhaps 135 pounds, and
wearing a cinnamon-colored overcoat.
SCIENCE has a new discovery to an
nounce to a grateful world. 1t is a
sur cure for snake bite-the specific
SO long sought in vain. The honor of
the achievement belongs to DIR. A. Cal
mette, of the PaSteur institute at Lille,
France. He has succeeded in obtain
Ing an antitoxin by inoculating horses
with progressive doses of the poison of
the most deadly s~erpents, such as the
cobra. Having at length rendered the
animals proof against the venom, even
in large quantities, he draws from
them the serum. which he calls anti
venom" This fluid, injected into the
body of a person bitten by any kind of
snake, will save life, if there has not
been too much delay.
a SERIOUS subterranean disturbance,
very much like an earthquake on a
small scale, took place at D~umbarton,
Scotland, on the 18th. The steamship
Circassian, which was lying off a quay,
was suddenly shaken and violently
moved 80 feet by a commotion under
her stern. The bank was heaved up
for a distance of 100 feet and the ship
yard was considerably damaged.
THE president denied the application
for pardon in the east of F. 5. Hard
ing, alias Sam Harding, sentenced in
Alabama to two years Imprisonment
and S10O fine for making counterfeit
coin.
The International ASSOCIATION of
Fire Underwriters convened at the
Clifton house in Niagara Falls, Ont,
the 18th. There were about forty
five representatives in attendance.
questions regarding fire un-
were discussed.
OWEN MCCARTHY, ex-city treasurer
and ex-chief of police of Chicago, died
in that city, on the 12th. of old age.
He had lived in the city GO years, and
had been one of the leading politicians
of Cook county.
The city of Great harrington, Mass,
was visited, on the 12th. by the most
destructive confagration in its his
tory. About sixty firms, representing
all kinds of business, were burned out.
The loss was estimated at from $780,
OO6 to $500. 600.
A DELEGATION composed Of NEARLY
300 members of the Early Settlers So
eiety of Cleveland and Cuyahoga coun-
ty, o., called upon Maj. Mckinley on
the l4th. There were a great many
very old people in the delegation, and
there was a touch of pathos in the
spectacle they made when they
marched slowly up with their white
locks and hating footsteps. Maj. Nc
kinley's venerable mother was at her
residence, and assisted in the re-
ceptiOn of the visitors.
A SERIOUS battle occurred between
the sophomore and freshmen classes
Of the State university at Madison,
Wis, at the close of class meeting of
freshmen on the l4th. AS the latter
class emerged from the gymnasium,
they were set upon by the sopho-
mores, and 4 severe struggle ensued,
in which many were severely wound
The victorious freshmen ducked !
several of the sophomores in the lake.
THREE men attempted to rob the
bank at Meeker, Col, on the 18th.
They succeeded in holding up the
and cashier and looted the
bank; but when they reached the
street in their effort to escape they
we're confronted by a crowd of citi-
and Il hot battle ensued. After
.he smoke had cleared away, the three
and one clerk were found w.
ng dead.
a LONE train robber held up a Union
Pacific train, about eight miles from
ogden, Utah, on the 18th. He caused
he train crew and passengers to be-
ieve that lie had confederates in hid
ng, and thus prevented resistance.
After some time spent in an attempt
o blow up the express safe, he con-
himself with looting the mail
ar and carrying eff a load of regis
cred letters.
AT Columbus, Ga, on the 14th, J. A.
4 shoemaker, and Henry White,
lis son, foullv murdered two pulice-
men in that city and fatally wounded
There was no cause for the
commission of the crime other than
he fact that both men had been sum-
nOned to appear before the recorder
n some trivial o~tfense.
THE annual report of the third as
acknowledgement for the past
year shows that the total expen-
litures for the year were $40, 626, $50,
nd receipts, $50, 400, POS, leaving 4 def
iency of SIS, 127, OsS, or a reduction of
j, 679, $50 less than the preceding year.
AT two o'clock on the morning of the
5th the directors of the Bank of Com
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