The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-24

on the 18th
JOHN F. KEARNEY and Thomas
Haines, the two alleged Irish dyna.
miters who were arrested in Rotter.
dam September 13, arrived at Hobo.
ken, n. Y, on the steamship Werken.
dam On the 18th.
SECRETARY OF STATE CAssoN of Wis
consin has sent out word to county
clerks hat the democratic gold ticket
must be headed National Democratic
Ticket" and the Bryan ticket plain
democratic Ticket"
THE war department has rejected
the bids for mortars and small guns,
some 90 in all, and called for new pro-
posals. The prices ranged from about
90 cents to 80 cents a pound, which
was considered excessive.
THE republicans of Louisiana have
harmonized and there will be only one
ticket out. The sugar planters have
agreed to take down their electors,
and the regulars will withdraw their
COuRI CSo1Oudl
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THE French steamer Cordoba, from
New Orleans, September %, for Havre,
which passed the Lizard on the 1ath,
signalled that Capt. Bowen. who was
In command of the Cordoba when she
sailed, disappeared on the night of the
9Th.
A COMMUNICATION was received by
the state department, on the 1ith,
from the German ambassador at Wash
ington inviting the United States to
take part in the international art ex-
hibition which is to be held at Munich
mex year.
A CABLEGRAM from Vienna, on the
13th, announced the death of Herr An
ton Buckner, the noted musical com
poser. He was born September 4, 1924,
at Ausfelder, Austria, and received his
earliest musical instruction from his
father, a village schoolmaster.
The Indiana state board of election
commissioners, on the petition of the
National democracy for a place on the
ballots under hat name, unanimously
decided, on the 13th, to give the
party a column on the ballots under
the head Gold Standard Ticket" No
protest was entered to this decision.
THE bronze tablet which has been
erected at Judges Cave, West Rock,
Conn, where the re~gicides, Whalley
,Dl Infrn ,-ar cLa1taroI ,rLiIa +1n,,
were fugitives from the wrath of King
Charles II. of England, was formally
presented to the city of New Haven,
on the 14th, by the Society of Colonial
Wars.
The funeral services over the body
of Most Rev. Edward White Benson,
archbishop of Canterbury and primate
of all England, who was stricken with
apoplexy during the services in the
Hawarden (Wales) church, on the
18th, and died almost Immediately
afterward, were held in the cathedral
at Canterbury on the 10th.
BANK EXAMINER Cook was, on the
18th. placed in charge of the failed
AlIlsl Ill IL jain 100 a
capital of $500, 600; surplus and undi-
vided profits, $4,000, and individual
deposits, $500, OOO. The loans and dis
counts were stated at SS79, 900. The
cause of the failure is said to be due
10 inability to realize on assets.
The treasury receipts for the first
half of October showed a deficit of S..
739,373, and for the fiscal year to date
of $50, 934 ,O09. The total receipts for
the fiscal yea to date have been SOL
b75,6 go, and the expenditures have ag-
gregated S122, sos, go. The receipts fo2
the month of October to date have been
S12, 800, $50, and expenditures SIG, 40, coo.
The trouble between the silver and
gold democratic headquarters officials
at Chicago over opening mail matter
was settled in favor of the Palmer
house headquarters, on the 18th, after
a visit of a post office inspector to the
Auditorium annex. In future the mail
OF the gold headquarters will be deliy-
cred to the Palmer and Buckner COM
mittee.
THE Atterbury Glass Co., of Pitts
burgh, Pa, and the Hazel Glass Co, of
Washington, Pa, were reported, on
the 18th, as having voluntarily ad-
vanced the wages of their employees, |
who are non-union men, 10 per cent.
The action of these companies caused
since other glass manufact-
urers were demanding reductions, !
claiming inability to compete with
non-union made goods
The statement that the Venezuelan
boundary commission had come to a
decision sustaining the claims of Vene-
zuela in the boundary dispute be-
tween that country and Great Britain
is entirely without foundation. The
is not yet in possession of
the facts necessary to form a def
mite judgment and will not be until
the return of Prof. Burr from Europe
about the end of this month.
On the 10th the proprietor of the
Saratoga hotel in Chicago opened a
left as security for am unpaid
board bill and found q package of rail-
Dad bonds and deeds to real estate in
Iowa, Missouri and South Dakota,
at SOS. 900. The trunk was left