The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-12

JOHN TOP, of Cleveland, one Of Tho
prominent business men of northern
Ohio, and a son of David Tod, one OF
Ohio's war governors, died suddenly
of apoplexy at the Crittenden hotel in
Columbus on the I'd.
DR. Louis PERNAs, Senior Figuerra,
a druggist, and several other we'll
known residents of ~Cienfnegos, Cuba,
have been arrested as political sus-
poets.
HALF 4 dozen steamers are said to
be bound tight in the ice along the
north shore of Lake Superior, and it
will be impossible to release them.
Mr.. AND Mrs. WALTER NJ. CASTLE
are in Philadelphia. The object of
their visit is to have the afflicted WON.
an undergo treatment for nervous dis.
ease. Mrs. Castle is in a private insti-
tuition, and she has been examined by
specialists. 1t is the intention of Mr..
Castle to have his wife's mental and
physical condition improved before
starting for their home in California.
THE ten-year-old son Of Z. B. Warder,
a wealthy citizen, was strangled te
death at his home near Antioch, KY,
ness, and was seized with a spell OF
coughing that resulted in death.
A COPY of the Book of Common
PRAYER of the Church of England,
abridged and edited by benjamin
Franklin, at London, in the year l773,
was sold for 81, 80 at auction in Bos.
ton on the 81.
THE guns of the vanguard of the
army of Gen. Maxine Gomez are thun.
dering uncomfortably near the gates
of Havana. while the captain-general
is ostensibly in pursuit OF Antonio
Maceo in Pinar del Rio.
EUGENE W. HARRINGTON, deputy city
comptroller of Buffalo, y. Y, has been
arrested IN a charge of grand larceny.
An investigation had shown that Har-
rington had been ''stutling" a payroll.
HAVANA newspapers are urging the
necessity for carrying on farming
operations in the island to avert Il
disastrous famine.
IT is claimed by the Uruguayan min
lister of foreign affairs that the threat
ened revolution in that country is un-
important.
ALL the candidates on the silver
municipal ticket of Boston withdrew
on the 18th.
The strike committee, on the 4th,
called out all of the Hamburg harbor
workmen, irrespective of the character
of their employment, in order to as
sist the strike of the dock laborers.
The men called out include the engin-
GERS, bargemen and others employed
by the state and city.
The proposition of Englishnen, act
ing unotficiallv, to present Ambassa-
dor Bayard. at the close of his mission,
with a substantial recognition of the
esteem in which he is held by individ-
mails, is said to fird no expression of
disapprobation a. the state depart
men
ECUADOR has had another disastrous
fire, Daule, an important town IL the
province of Los RIOS, being the scene.
More than thirty houses in the busi-
ness section of the town were de-
stroyed, the losses aggregating hun
dreds of thOusa nds of dollars.
ARTHUR PALMER, of Montezuma, O.,
and L. l.. Godfrey, of Emlenton, Pa,
both oil men, were drowned in the
reservoir at St. Mary's, o., on the 4th.
Palmer broke through the ice and God
frey went under while e~ndeavoring to
rescue his companion.
The Milwaukee health department
reported, on the 4th, Il Wholesale poi
soning of families in the northern part
of the city. supposed to have been
caused by eating bread from a certain
bakery, containing arsenic