The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-10
TOPICS.
q NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

a white thorn tree ana R"dIIeud ounce
bud upon it. This year his ounce
thorn tree contains a dozen large
ounces, and no worms have appeared.
KING HoTU took the town of St.
Louis on the evening of the I'd. The
keys of the city were delivered to him
by Mayor Walbridge in the presence
of thousands of citizens and the merry
monarch, the Prince of Funny Fellows,
resumed his reign amidst loud ac-
claims.
The United Association of Journey
men Plumbers, Gas Filters, Steam Fit
tiers and Steam Filters Helpers opened
their seventh convention at the Build
ers' and Traders exchange in Milwau-
kee on the 2Sth. The convention rep
resented both the United States and
Canada.
ALL the railroad telegraph operators
on the Pacific division of the Canadian
Pacific railroad went on strike, on the
29th, in obedience to orders from 7. IL
PiersOn, chairman of the grievance
committee at Montreal. Trains were
running as usual on the Pacific dlvi-
sion, and it was not thought any seri-
Gus stoppage of traffic would result.
FIRE, on the morning of the goth, de-
stroyed nine business houses in CadlI-
lac, Mich, among them the telephone
exchange, causing a loss of $4,000,
partly covered by insurance. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
DURING the performance in the Peo-
pies Palace variety theater in Aber-
deem, Scotland, on the night of the
3Oth. a fire broke out and the audi
ence was thrown into a panic and
made a rush for the exits. 1t is stated
that at least forty persons we're in
iured, four of them fatally, while a
number of others who are known to
have been in the theater when the
fire started were reported to be miss
ing.
In Alexandria, the Virginia suburb
of Washington, just across the Poto-
mac river. the damage done by the
storm, on the 3Oth, is estimated at not
less than 500, 900, and at least two
lives are known to have been lost.
Nearly 200 houses were badly dam
aged by the tornado in its course.
ONE of the worst wrecks that ever
occurred in that section happened on
the Lehigh Valley railroad a short
distance east of Batavia, n. Y, IN the
3Oth. As a result one man was killed
and another probably fatally injured.
FRANCE has concluded treaties with
Austria and Italy in regard to Tunis,
and now England's refusal to renounce
her 'most favored nation" rights alone
prevents Tunis from becoming abso
lutely French territory.
AT Harper's Ferry, w. Va, on the
3Oth, an old nan pushed into the thick
of the crowd, declaring that he wanted
to hear The Boy Orator." Several
brawny fellows lifted him to their
shoulders that he might see as well as
hear. He suddenly collapsed, and an
examination showed that he vas dead.
ANDREW NELSON, who was herding
1000 sheep on the eastern slope of the
Cascade mountains in Washington,
was buried beneath the carcases of
LOO of the animals who were tramp
led to death in a stampede.
AN explosion of ammonia occurred
at the Schmidt brewery, owned by the
indianapolis Qnd.) Brewing Co, on the
3Oth, which completely wrecked the
cold storage plant, badly injuring'
eight men and causing great damage.
THE fftieth anniversary of the we'd
ding of MI. and Mrs. Alfred Tredway,
of Dubuque, Ia, vas duly celebrated
on the 3Oth. They were married at
| Lyons, n. Y, September 30, 1916. They
removed to Dubuque in 1851.
GEORGE BARNUM, an old hermit and
hunter, was found, on the 3Oth, muir
| dered in his hut near Harrison, Mich.
| He was a brother of the late 2. L. Bar
mum, Snowman, and served in the late
civil war.
AN immense bed of ore, carrying rich
deposits of gold and silver, has just
been located on the west slope OF
| Mount Tacoma, Wash, near the snow
line. There are millions of tons, run
ming $50 per ton, in sight.
THE reviewing stand of the Iowa
semi-centennial parade at burlington
fell, on the LIST, injuring several per,
sons.
JOHN C. BoDEwIG and George W
johnson, charged with having wrecked
a mail train on the Chicago & Grand
Trunk railroad at Battle Creek, Mich.
on July l6, 1894, during the A. Il. |.
strike, in which the fireman was iu-
stantly killed and 4 number of persons
were injured, were found guilty of
conspiracy in the United States court
at Detroit, on the LIST, after q trial
lasting ter days.
The members of the Venezuelan
commission will soon resume their dis.
c~ussion of the boundary question al
their headquarters in Washington,
when the evidence collected and
studied Independently by them during
the past few months will be compared
and arranged for incorporation in the
final determination of the true divi
sional line.
A MALIGNANT fever similar to that
which appeared in 1893 has prevailed
in Turkestan for the past two months
Ten thousand persons have died from
the fever.