The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-11-14

late Sir John MilIais, who died in Au-
gust last.
The estimated gross earnings of the
Rock Island road for the month of Oc-
tober were 81, 671, $50, a decrease from
the corresponding month of last year
of sos, $40.
GEN. FTTZHUGH LEE, accompanied by
Thomas Jones, his private secretary,
arrived at New York, from Havana,
on the 4th, on the Ward line steamer
V~igilancia.
JAMES K. JONES, chairman of the
democratic national committee, aban-
doned headquarters in the Auditorium
annex at Chicago, on the 9th, and went
to his home in Hope, Ark
HIS ROYAL highness, William Mich
olas, duke of Wurtemburg, died sud-
denly, on the 9th, on his estates in the
Austrian Tyrol from a stroke of APP
oplexy. lie was 6s years of age.
THE Constantinople correspondent
of the United Associated Presses tele-
graphed. on the 4th, that Shefik Pasha
had replaced Nebeim Pasha in the
office of Turkish minister of police.
CHAIRMAN HANNA announced. on the
5th, that Mckinley and Hobart's cleo
ton was assured by over n million
majority of the popular vote, the
largest ever given to any presidential
candidate.
DIR. ALoNzo H. CUNT, a member of
the American board of commissioners
for foreign missions, and one of the
visitors at Andover theological semi
nary, died suddenly, on the 4th, of
heart disease.
Hon. CHARLES A. EWING, late secre-
tary of the Illinois state central COM
mittee of the gold democratic party,
and a leading figure in the councils of
that organization, died suddenly at
Decatur, Ill, on the 9th.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended on the 9th,
as reported by r. &. Dun & Co, were
$50, as against ESQ for the correspond
ing week last year. For Canada the
failures were So, against 40 last year.
The annual report of the second
assistant postmaster-general shows
the annual rate of expenditure for all
mail transportation at the close of the
fiscal year to be $40, 593, 932, of which
SAT, 993, OCT was for inland mail and the
E. L. f,,-. n--fn
On the 4th President Cleveland is
sued his proclamation appointing
Thursday, the Twenty-sixth day of
November, as a day of national
thanksgiving for dangers averted and
blessings bestowed, and universal
prayer for a continuance of guidance
and blessing.
THERE were handled on the Big
Four lines proper in October, 537,476
passengers, against ga, $50 in October,
1895. There were handled on the Peo-
ria & Eastern in October, 16, 099 loaded
cars, lO,62O fewer than in October,
1895. In October there were handled
on the Big Four system proper, $780,
OOt 1OuNCN SoAop oSoAAo OSTN' ~ w
tober, 1895.
On the 18th, Mr.. Bryan, having been
informed hat National Chairman
Jones conceded the election of Mr.. Nc
Kinley, Immediately sat down and
wrote a patriotic and complimentary
dispatch to the successful candidate,
gracefully accepting the arbitrament
of pending issues by the people, whose
will is law.
The sub-treasury at New York re-
fused, on the 5th, to accept deposits of
gold, as the working force was engaged
in counting silver deposits which ac-
cumulated, ~uncounted, in the weeks
preceding the election. Recent hoard
ers OF gold are showing much anxiety
to get rid of the metal in exchange
for greenbacks.
In the county circuit court at Jack
sonville, Ala, on the 5th, in the case
of Miss Lizzie Hendrix, who sued the
Southern Railway Co. for S1O,U 900 dam
ages for being ovcrpowered and kissed
by a conductor while she was riding
on an accommodation train two years
since, a verdict was rendered for plain
tiff, who was awarded S245.
LIVERPOOL commercial and shipping
circles are well satisfied with the re-
suit of the presidential election in
America. The exchange was crowded,
on the 4th, at an early hour, and the
bidding at the opening was very active,
resulting in advances in prices of from
one to six points, Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul and Louisville 81 Nashville
leading in the rise.
REPORTS from all parts of the coun-
try, on the 5th, told of long idle facto-
ries, workshops and foundries, en-
ploying workmen to the number of
many thousands, either already
started up or preparing to do so at the
earliest moment, a feeling of conf
dence in the future having brought
out boarded millions of gold TO seek
profitable investment.
RAILROAD managers are looking for
greatly increased traffic within the
next few weeks. They say now that
the election is over, the merchants
fhr0uphOut the west and IN