The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-03

'AdAS commissioner ALO-AlhtlC1 d
New York, in 81, 800 bail for the grand
jury.
The anti-Turkish speech delivered
by Mr.. Gladstone at the mass meeting
held in Liverpool, on the cath, to pro
test against the Armenian atrocities,
was wired to the sultan at CONSTANT
uople.
THE Dublin Daily Express says thai
the police have discovered large guam
titles of dynamite and a pile of de
tonators at Marlin park, neal Galway
The explosives were found in a dis
used house situated on the seashore.
GEN. SIR W. II. KITCHENER, com
manding the Egyptian expedition t.
Dongola, wired, on the 24th, that he
had captured 900 prisoners and thai
his cavalry was pursuing the enemy
several of whom the pursuers haC
killed.
THE London Globe insists that the
visit of the ear and czarina to Balmo
IA. must be wholly of a private nature
and devoted to quiet enjoyment. The
paper condemns II attempt to induce
the czar to intercede in behalf of the
Armenians.
FAILURES throughout the United
States, as reported by Z. q. Dun 4
Co. for the week ended September %,
numbered 3l5, against PIC for the cor
responding week last year; for Can,
ada the failures numbered %, against
so last ear.
SIR CHARLES RUSSELL arrived at Gray
Gables, on the 23d, to pay his respects
to the president. lie wasaccompanied
by Secretary Olney and two other gen.
tlemen. The distinguished visitors
were received by the president and
Mrs. Cleveland.
Mrs. ELIZA GRIFFIN JOHNSON, the
widow of the late Gen. Albert Sidney
johnson, died in Los Angeles. Cal, on
the 25th,a the home of her son-in-law,
United States Attorney Denis. She
was "A years of age. Her former
home was in Kentucky.
GEN. McNULTA, receiver for the
Whisky trust, mailed checks, on the
cath, on 34S rebate claims, amounting
to $40, 45I. About six hundred more
remained to be mailed, amounting in
all to about 500, 600. These claims are
held in all parts of the country.
-
JULIA BRADLEY, an aged woman of
Peoria, ILL.,, has bestowed all her for
tune, estimated at 81, 200, 600, upon the
University of Chicago, on condition
that a branch school shall be built at
Peoria. Mrs. Bradley has planned for
the gift for Is years, but the fact has
only now leaked out.
A GREAT stir was created in Belle
.ontaine, o., on the 23d, by the action of
the city aldermen in releasing all pris-
oners from the jail for want OF money
to pay the sheriff for their keeping.
The entire police force was discharged
for the same reason, and the city was
left without any protection whatever
save the mayor and marshal.
"
A SPECIAL dispatch from Shanghai,
On the 23d, said that Russian engineers
were supervising the work of repairing
the docks and workshops at Port Ar
thur and the storing at that place of
vast supplies of coal, and it was be-
lieved that the results of Ii Hung
Changes entente with Russia on behalf
of China would shortly be displayed.
GEORGE +. CURTIS, the assistant Ii
brarian of the United states congress-,
Switzerland, by detectives who mis-
took him for a criminal from Monte
video, and was subsequently released
only to be rearrested at Genoa and
again liberated, has made a claim upon
the Swiss government for indemnity.
MINT DIRECTOR PRESTON was advised,
on the ED, that 81, 500, 600 gold had
reached San Francisco from Australia
and would find its way into the treas
ury. The gold is in English sover-
legal tender in the United States it
will be sent to the mint at San Fran
cisco to be recoined into eagles.
GEN. MEXIA, chairman of the ways
and means committee of the house of
representatives of the Mexican con-
gress, died in the City of Mexico, on
tine cath, aged II years. He was re-
garded as the leading statesman and
fnancier of the Mexican republic.
The town of Mexia, Tex, was named
for him. He owned 20, 200 acres of
land in Texas.
The twenty-ninth annual gathering
of the American Humane society met
in Cleveland O., on the 2sd. The sec
retary's report showed that during the
past association year 27,5O7 reports of
cruelty to children were received, u.s.
495 were relieved and 4,791 prosecu-
tions against abusers were conducted.
1t also showed "a, 746 complaints of
cruelty to animals, 102, OPS animals re-
lieved and 2,942 prosecutions. The
grand total of special Investigations
was 9s, 491.
THE steamer Doric, arrived at San
Francisco from Japan, on the 22d,
brought news of 4 series of catas-
tropics that had befallen the Mikado's
realm, caused by wind and rain,
earthquake and flood, and resulting
in the destruction of thousands of
"