The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-31

CAPE GlRARDEAU. MISSOURI
The Nebraska supreme court de
.ided, on the 21st, that gold democrat
could use the party designation on thu
official ballot.
CHARLES +. CRISP, e~x-speaker of the
house of representatives, died at
private sanitarium in Atlanta, Ga, OF
the 23d, aged 81.
The Chinese legation at London il
accused of Selling and OBTAINING an al
legged Chinese conspirator, and is un
der surveillance by the London police
Ii Hume CHANG, the special envoy O
the emperor of China, arrived at Pc
kin, on the Goth, on his return from
his tour of Europe, the United Statel
and Canada.
HAMBL1N ANDRUs, one of the propri
etors of the Empire medicine factory
at Yonkers, N. Y, was instantly killed
on the 2lst, by the explosion of som
chemicals in his laboratory.
The executive council of the FEEDER
alton of Labor, in session at Indianap
oils, Ind, on the Goth, discussed tn,
eight-hour amendment to the fedora
laws. The federation hopes to have
new and effective law enacted.
THE sesquicentennial celebration o
the foundation of Princeton college
closed, on the ED, with a remarkabl,
gathering of educators at the fiesta
board. President Cleveland was on,
of the principal speakers of the day.
DR. DARBY BERGIN, aged 70, a mem
Der of the Dominion parliament fol-
Cromwell and Stormont, and one Of
the best-known men in that part o.
Canada, died, on the 22d, from the eff
fects of injuries sustained by a fall.
On the 21st the Nelson column in
Trafalgar square, London, was almost
completely covered with floral an
chors, wreaths, etc, which were more
numerous than upon any previous an
niversary of the battle of Trafalgar.
FAILURES throughout the United
States, for the week ended on the 23d
as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., aggre-
gated 274, against 231 for the CORE
spending week last year. For Can,
ada the failures were 60, against 3s
last year.
The Old Bailey grand jury returned
- 4r,,a hill rs, tha Ontl nras-st aIr
Tina Scott, the mother of Countess
Russell, who was arrested on the 9th,
at the instance of her son-in-law, Earl
Russell, on a charge of having crimi-
nally libeled him.
A NEWSPAPER and magazine writer
named Fulenburg killed his wife, his
three children and himself at Blace-
witt, near Dresden, On the Goth, by
putting poison in their food. Fulen-
burg had become Respondent and des-
perate through poverty.
Forty bishops, representing the
house of bishops of the Protestant
Episcopal church of the United States,
met in New York, on the Goth, to elect
two bishops to preside over the next
missionary jurisdictions at Duluth,
Mimi, and Asheville, n. C.
BY a decision of the San Francisco
court of appeals the Oregon & Cali
fornia railroad secures the right and
title to over 200, 600 acres of land lying
in and adjacent to the city of Portland,
Ore. The victory means a clear gain
of several million dollars to the cor
poration.
Mr.. WILLIAM PRITCHARD MORGAN,
liberal member of the British house of
commons for Merthyr Tydvill, sum-
moned a meeting of his constituents,
on the Goth, for the purpose of discus
sing the question of his resigning his
seat in parliament in favor of Mr..
Gladstone.
The London Globe in its financial
article says: The rise in the Bank of
England's discount rate is not likely
to affect trade, though it will hurt i'm
prudent spectators, for a rise in the
bank rate can stop the American drain
of gold the moment it approaches the
danger point.
THE Madrid Epoca denies that there
is any foundation for the report that
a coalition ministry will be formed at
an early date. The paper adds that
the cabinet will pursue it's present
policy, and if they are not supported
by the country the ministers will re-
tire from office.
The new British cruiser Diadem was
successfully launched at Glasgow on
the 21st She is a ship of 11,OOO tons,
ASS feet long, and the contracts for her
construction require her to show a rate
of speed of 21A knots an hour. Her
armament will enable her to fire 1000
rounds a minute.
A DISPATCH from Rome says: Tor
rental rains have fallen throughout
upper Italy, and all railway traffic is
delayed in consequence. High gales
prevailed in the Venice district. The
grand canal of Venice overlooked into
the Piazza st. Mark, submerging it to
the depth of two feet.