The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-24
THE special postal delivery service

THE special postal delivery service
made an increase of Is per cent. in bus
mess during the last fiscal year, ASA.
317 letters being delivered. The aver
age time required Cor delivery was II
minutes. The net profit of the system
was about S100, GOO. The number of
postage stamps, stamped envelopes
and postal cards issued was 4, 195, 665,-
523, an increase of seven per cent. over
issues of the previous year.
ADvICEs from Juneau, Wis, On the
14th, stated that the liabilities of w.
I. Bumbusch, the banker and financial
agent who disappeared on the 10th,
and for whom a warrant had been is
sued, would amount to $500, 000.
CAPT. EMIL POHLsoN, Tony Maddy,
Fritz Vogt and George Dushayne, of
the Blue Island Chicago volunteer
fire department, are charged with
starting the disastrous fire of May II,
which destroyed the business section
of the town. The object of the men
was to induce the villages to employ a
paid department.
On the night of the 14th a Delaware,
Susquehana & Schuylkill engine
crashed into a crowded trolley car at
Hazleton pa Junction, killing three
men outright, probably fatally injur-
ing we others and swounding a score
mOre.
The marriage of David Wells, Sec
ond secretary of the United States en-
bassy in London, to Miss Marietta Ord,
daughter of a prominent London
physician, vas celebrated at st.
Georges, Hanover square,, on the 18th.
REV. j. NJ. CRAWFORD, a Presbyte-
rian clergyman of indianapolis, Ind,
aged 60, who was visiting friends in
Los Angeles, Cal, dropped dead from
heart disease, on the 18th. while max
ing a purchase in a clothing store.
j. ID. KENNEDY, a banker, and one Of
the wealthiest citizens of Manchester
Ia, committed suicide, on the ATTN, by
hanging. Business reverses are said,
to have led to the suicide.
PEARSON u WETZEL's big wholesale
queensware establishment at Indian
opolis, Ind, was destroyed by fire on
the 18th. The loss will be over S75,.
600; insured.
II is reported hat a railway train
on the Saar Eitfel line, Berlin, convey
ing a large number of recruits, was
thrown from the tracks, on tbs 18th.
and so persons killed and many more
injured.
The total registration in Detroit,
Mich, this year foots up "a, 36S, which
is a gain over four years ago of 1900.
THE steamship Columbia. which ar
rived at New York from Southampton,
on the 10th, brought 81, $50, 800 in gold.
Consignments of 81. 200, 900 on the Nor
mania and $3.50, 900 on the Etruria were
expected.
THE treasury gold reserve at the
close of business, on the 10th. stood at
Sl22, OO7, 700. The days Withdrawals at
New York city were Se76, 200.
A SENSATION was created at Glovers-
vile, n. Y, on the 10th, by the arrest
of City Clerk Wilmarth on a charge of
classifying the city's accounts and con-
verting money to his own use. vii.
marth, when ar~raigned, pleaded not
guilty. He was released on S1O,O 600
bail.
THREE iremen were killed and sew.
eral were seriously injured by col
lapsing floors during a fire in Mon
treal, Can, on the 10th, said to have
been the most disastrous conflagration
occurring in that city for many years.
HAROLD CAvELLE, alias kimball, the
matrimonial swindler, pleaded guilty,
on the 10th, before Judge Taft in the
United States court at Cincinnati, and
emf to the Ohio penitentary for
II months and heavily fined.