The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-02-15
AN EARTHQUAKE shock of an alarming

An earthquake shCck of an alarming
Santa Cruz del Sur, province of Puerto
Principe, Cuba. Houses rocked and
furniture was thrown about. causing
the people of the city and vicinity to
ron in terror into the streets and fall
on their knees in prayer for mercy.
AssEMBLYMAN RoBINsON's resolution
providing for an investigation by the.
encouragement of the alleged coal
trust, was passed by the New York as
sembly. on the 9th, by vote of 90 to IL.
THE British government received a
dispatch. on the 9th, stating that the
British had won two victories over the
slave traders in central Africa, and
nat II Arab chiefs had been taken
prisoners.
By the collapse of Il bridge ovcr the
Pequabuck river at Bristol, Mass. on
the 9Th, a score OF wOrkmen. who We're
trying to &ve the damaged structure,
were precipitated into the water, and
IA of them were drowned.
THE examination of the prisoners
arrested at Johannesburg and taken
to Pretoria for trial was formally op-
ened on the 9Th.
HOG cholera has broken out in Okla
homa. and is causing great loss to
many farmers.
A REPORT from Bound Brook. n. j..
on the 9th, said hat 100 lives had been
lost by a flood. followed by fire, the
people being driven from their burn.
houses only to be drowned by the
food.
THE CatEon anti-prize-fght bill. pro.
hibiting bull and prize fights in the
territories of the United States and
in the District of Columbia. passed the
senate, on the 9th. and was sent to the
president for his signature.
THE body of the woman found muir
dered and decapitated near Fort
Thomas, Ky, proved to be that of Pearl
Bryan, of Greencastle. Ind. and Scott
Jackson and Alonzo Walling, dental
students at Cincinnati. and William
Wood. son of Rev.. ID. y. Wood, of Green
cestle. Ind, have been arrested for
participation in the crime.
GEN. JOHN GIBBoN. the famous In
dian fighter. died at his home in Balti-
more, Nd. on the 9Th, ut the age of IS
years. His death vas caused by pneu-
mOnia.
Miss CLARA BARTON. president of the
American Red Cross society, with her
party. started from Paris for Geneva,
on the 18th: thence to Vienna, and di-
rect to ConstantinOple.
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in the senate. on the It'll. a bill making
February IL, President Lincoln's birth
day anniversary. a national holiday.
A DISPATCH from Accra says that
Gov. Maxwell of the Gold Coast colony
has issued a proclamation declaring a
British ~prOtcctOrate over AShantee.
WHILE rendering lard at her home in
Marion county. Kas.. Mrs Grant Car
ter seized the kettle, which had caught
fire, and in attempting to throw it out
doors threw the boiling grease into the
face of he- t.Iree-year-old daughter,
who was just approaching, fatally
burning her.
FRAKN BRowN.a hunter was decapitat-
ed by the wheels of Hannibal st. Jo-
seph train on the bridge across the
Mississippi. at Quincy. H. ON the eth,
the head of the victim falling into the
river.
The British steamer Laurestina
Capt. j. Gavin. which sailed from Bal
timore. Nd. on December 6. for Sligo,
Ireland. was officially posted at Lloyds.
on the eth. as missing. Il is believed
she went down with all on board.
HARRY HOWARD. famous as the chief
of New York city's volunteer fire de-
partment half a century ago, died, IN
the 9Th. of pneumonia.