The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-04-18

HOUSE committee on elections No. .
Mr.. Mccall, of Massachusetts, chair,
man. on the sth, decided four contest.
ed-electiOn cases, three in favor of sit
ting democrats and one in favor of the
contestant, a colored man from the
First South Carolina district.
THE house committee on post offices,
on the 18th, heard Representative Bow
ers, of California, in support of various
bills before it providing for a system
of postal savings banks at the various
post offices throughout the country.
No action was taken on the measure.
IN the case of Mrs. Fannie Bagby,
recently appointed a school trustee at
West Point, Va, superintendent OF
Public Instruction Massey has decided
that she is not eligible, and that no
woman can hold Office in Virginia. 70
matter how small its importance may
be.
The New York court of appeals
handed down a decision. on the 18th,
which holds that clubs are not amen
able TO the state excise law, and the
inference is that they can not be re-
quired to take out a license to sell
liquor under the Raines liquor-tax
law.
MARQUIS YAMAGATA, field-marshal
of Japan, and suite arrived in Chicago,
from Omaha. on the 10th. The diStin-
guished party were driven to the Au-
ditorium hotel, where the marquis was
formally called upon by Gen. Merritt
and staff, with whom he later visited
and inspected Fort Sheridan.
BY the action of the house, on the
9th. in passing the Jones senate bill,
Ohio adopts the electric method of ex-
ecution. 1t does not. however, go into
effect until July l, and continues the
gallows method of executions for all
persons upon whom the sentence of
death had already been pronounced
GARDINER WILLIAMS, an American,
general manager of the De Beers Min
ing Co. who was arrested at Kimberly,
on March ), charged with having sup
piled arms to the Uitlanders on the
Rand, to be used in their threatened re-
voltagaiust the Transvaal government,
was committed for trial at Cape Town
on the 9TH.
POTATOES are so cheap in some parts
Of New York state that farmers are
throwing them away. One man is
burning them in his stove, and says
they make a very hot and steady fire.
At some auctions of farm property
held lately tubers sold at pa cents Il
bushel. and in many instances no bids
could bc secured.
THE steel bridge spanning the Gin
ton river at Mount Clemens. Mich,
over which the cars of the Rapid rail-
way, an electric line, ran, gave way.
on the 18th, while a motor car and
three loaded gravel cars were cross
ing, and the train was precipitated
into the river. Motorman William
Spencer was seriously injured.
AKRON co. detectives. on the night
of the sth, arrested Romolus Colelk,
alias John Smith, a farm hand who
was formerly employed by Alvin y.
Stone. on a charge of numbering Stone
and his wife and Ira Stilison'near Tall
madge. o. The prisoner, after some
pumping. confessed the crime, stating
that his intention was to assault Flora
Stone, who had rejected his atten-
tons.
CAPT. G. TAIRCHILD and Thomas H.
Barrett. United States inspectors of
steam vessels, on the Sth. rendered
their decision on the grounding OF the
American line steamship New York in
New York harbor on February 29last.
generating Capt. Charles ii. Grant,
commander of the vessel, from the
charges made by Pilot Richard Bigley,
and holding the pilot responsible for
the accident.
THE state department has received a
letter from Mr.. Edward Downes,
United states consul at Amsterdam,
asking that the public be warned
against the folly of spending time or
money toward the collection of what
ure known as ''old Dutch estates"
which, he says. do not exist. Neither
has the Bank of Holland in which
the unclaimed millions" are alleged
10 lie ~dcposite1, an existence