The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-07-25
The Jury in the case of W. II. House.,

THE jury in the case of ". II. House,
ex-assistant city attorney of Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 10th. rendered a
verdict of guilty. Mr.. House was
charged with aiding and abetting in
the e~mbezzlement of city funds. Ex-
City Attorney Moreland escaped trial
on the same charge by entering a plen
Of guilty when the case was called for
trial on the 18th.
The strike situation at the Brown
hosting works at Cleveland, O. assumed
so dangerous 4 phase, on the 10th, that
three o companies of troops were
hurried to the scene.
On the Goth Postmaster-General Will
son will deliver an address at Chilli
Gothic, o.. the occasion being the city's
centennial.
THE labor leaders of New York are
talking about holding n monster mass
meeting in Union square and inviting
Bryan and Mckinley to participate in
4 joint debate for the OBLIGATION of the
workingmen of the city.
WILLIAM c. WHITNEY has formally
boltcd the ticket nominated at Chicago.
He says nothing could induce him to
vote for Bryan or to assist in any way
in his election.
A. !. MoSTGoMERY, Charles Hyatt
and Dock Bennett were arrested at
Perry, Okla, on the charge of having
murdered Allen Cook. a well-known
farmer and lawyer in the eastern part
Of the county. Cook had been missing
ten days, and was found buried in {
field.
Col +. W. NELSON, who conductec
the prosecution which resulted in the
conviction of Jackson and Walling for
the butchery of Pearl Bryan, was ten
dcred Il banquet by the Commercial
club of Newport. Ky.
THE members of the cabinet are still
waiting for their cue from Mr.. Cleve.
land. Only one of them, the naval sec
rotary, has, as yet, declared open oppo
sit;on to the Chicago ticket.
REV. MARION ROSE, BORN neal Knox
vile, Ill, for % years past a well.
known Methodist minister in the In.
diana and Illinois conference, died at
Virginia, H., on the 10th, aged &C
years.
IL Brooklyn, n. Y. on the 18th, Jo-
scph Block was sentenced to prison
for life on a conviction of burglary in
the first degree. He had previously
pleaded guilty to petit larceny, and,
under the habitual criminal law, a
second conviction made the fixing of
the maximum penalty imperative.
A DISPATCH from San Francisco, on
the 18th, said: Stephen j. Field. asso-
ciate justice of the supreme court of
the United States, is seriously i'll and
likely to die before morning. He is
being brought to San Francisco from
his country home at Paso Robes this
evening.
THE 5000 employees in the Lehigh
Valley Coal Co.'S collieries at Shenan-
doah, Pa, were a~greeably surprised.
on the 18th, by being ordered to re-
sumo work on full time, instead OF
four threc-quarter days a week, as be-
fore.
FAILURES throughout the United
States, as reported by L. e. Dun & Co.,
for the week ended on the 18th, were
269, against 25S for the corresponding
week of last year. For Canada the
failures were 81, against 80 last year.
Miss EVA NELSON, a school-teacher.
died, on the 18th. at Omaha, Neb., from
injuries received in the Logan Qa.)
wreck, making the twenty-sixth vic
tim of that awful disaster.
THE treasury gold reserve at the
of business on the 18th stood at
sos, S71.21G. The days Withdrawals |
were So, 333, 100, of which So, 900, 600 was
for export