The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-02-29

ball at San Tarem, Portugal, and in the
ensuing panic many lives We're lost.
Forty dead bodies were recovered.
]. T. LAMBoRS, a wealthy farmer,
vas found murdered in his house at
Fall Leaf, Kas., on the 10Th. The
murderers literally chopped the old
man to pieces. They left no clew.
THE grand lodge of Kansas has de-
cided to establish a Masonic home in
that state. The location has not been
fixed.
president CLEVELAND in denying a
pardon, on the Goth, to T. NJ. o. Hol-
ston, convicted of forgery in a pension
case, said he was decidedly in favor of
strict punishment lin a case like this
which involves the swindling of the
poor and needy veteran and prostitu-
ton of the benevolent intentions of
the government as embodied in its
pension law
An expedition bound for the interior
of Labrador will leave Philadelphia. in
June, for the purpose of studying the
ESquimeaux and collecting specimens
of the flora and fauna OF that region.
Prof. Frank Russell. curator of the
University of Iowa, will accompany
the expedition as archeologist.
On the goth the president signed the
act to extend the mineral land laws
of the United States to lands en-
braced in the north half of the Col.
vile Indian reservation.
THE secretary of the interior, on the
Goth, approved school indemnity selec-
tions embracing 1915 acres of land
inuring to the state of Minnesota, sit
uated in the Marshal, st. Cloud and
Duluth land districts.
DETAILS of the dynamite explosion at
Viedendorp, Transvaal, show that
thousands of persons have been rem
dered homeless by the terrible calamity
of the 18th; 100 persons are believed to
have been killed. 2OO men, women and
children severely wounded, and many
others have been more or less injured.
EUGENE FATE, Il noted band-instru-
ment maker, living at Elkhart, Ind,
while intoxicated, on the 18th, lay
down in his front yard and, his wife
pClir away IlOLI liOllIC. was HoJ UIS-
covered until the morning of the Goth,
when he was found to be so badly
frozen that he will die.
4. LEEMAN, of Wilkesbarre. Pa,
claims to be the owner of Martin
Luther's wedding ring. Leeman says
the valuable relic came into the pos
session of the family 40 years ago. 1t
was purchased IN Europe.
OK the eve of her departure from
Rochester. y. Y, for California, Miss
Susan Is. Anthony, was, on the Goth,
rendered a reception by 200 Of her adj
mirers at the home of DR.. Linn. The
affair was also the celebration of Miss
Anthony's sixty-eighth birthday an
niverSary.
ALBERT |. FOSTER, for five years tax
collector at Concord, y. H., was ar
rested, on the 2lst. on two complaints
charging him with the embezzleInent
of $4,000 OF the funds received by
him. He admitted his guilt. and said
he lost the money in a bucketshop in
Boston.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended on the 21st,
as reported by r. &. Dun & Co., were
$50, as against 3O2 for the correspond
ing week last year. For Canada the
failures were &c. a@aint 30 last year.
THE treasury gold reserve became
intact, on the Fist. for the first time
since September : last, standing at
S1Gj, O92. SAB.
On the 2lst the associated banks of
New York city held SaS.627.OjO in ex-
cess of the requirement of the 25-per-
cent. rule.