The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-01-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

CHANCELLOR Won HoHEELOHE. on be-
half of the king, opened the Prussian
landtag, on the 18th, without any spe-
cial ceremony. Two hundred members
of the body were present.
ST. MARY's Catholic church at An
derson, Ind. which cost $4,000 and is
the third finest in the state. was dam
aged by fire to the amount OF s. o on
the I4th.
UNITED STATES CoNsUL-GENERAL DE-
KAY. at Berlin, reports to the state de
partnent hat he has secured an allOt-
ment of room in the international art
exhibition, to be held in Berlin from
May to October next. for American
artists, and a promise from the presi-
dent of the exhibition committee hat
American artists shall have the same
privileges as artists in London and
Paris.
SUPT. CHARLETOS of the reform school
for boys at Plainficld. Ind. on the 18th,
notified Secretary Metcalf of the state
board of health, asking that the insti-
tuition be placed under quarantine i'm
m~ediately, as scarlet fever had broken
out among the boys. The disease, he
says. vas communicated through Il let
ter received by one of the boys.
NEAR Jacques store. south of Fort
Holmes. 50 miles southeast of Okla
hoTa City, Okla. on the 18th. a vigil
lance committee. composed of farmers
and ranchmen, captured and hanged
three deSperadoes-Tom Foley. a man
l-.r,, ~ IIT.ll H., ~ LIE I..,l
Choctaw named Marina.
JOHN j. BANNINGAN. general manager
of the United States Rubber Co.. gave
orders, on the 18th. for the indefinite
closing of the United States Rubber
Co s works At Millville, R. i. The or
der went into immediate effect, and
1000 men were thrown out of work.
PROF. JAMES BRYCE. who has just re-
turned from q trip to South Africa, in
addressing the Edinburgh chamber of
commerce, on the 18th, said that there
was 10 doubt that M~ashOnaland and
Matabeleland would prove to bc
wealthy, but railways were necessary
to develop them.
IT is learned that the German kaiser
will grant amnesty to a large number
of political offenders now serving SEN
tence in German prisons. 1t is believed
that nearly all the editors and social
lists who have lately been convicted
and sentenced for lese majestic will be
released at the quarter centennial of
the birth of the empire.
A GANG of Italian counterfeiters were
.r.n.t,I - Non, ND-l- ntX- -, %ha IEth
Among them were NicOlo Toranto, the
alleged chief of the malta in the
United States. and Frank Digeroglia,
caid to have been born in the kings
palace in staly. They showed fight.
but were disarmed.
THE announcement was made. on
the 10th, hat the liabilities of Kenn,
Sutterlee & Co. leather dealers and
importers, of Philadelphia, who failed
recently, will reach, if they do not ex-
coed 81 200. 900.
A SENSATION was created in st.
johns. y. F., on the 10th. by a state.
ment in the official organ of the gov
eminent that 1000 families in st.
Johns were without food, fuel or
clothing.
BILL DooLIN, the notorious train rob-
Der and outlaw, leader of one of the
worst gangs of desperadoes that ever
infested the southwest, was taken to
Guthrie, Okla, on the 18th, by his cap
tor, United States Deputy-Marshal
Tilgham, and lodgedin the federal Jail.
Two thousand people assembled at the
Santa Fs station to see the OUTLAW.