The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-08-08
CURRENT TOPICS.
III NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Youngstown, o., Oscar Gilchrist was
struck in the eye by a foul fly with
such force that the eye was knocked
into a pulp and fell out of his head.
WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, late general
manager of the Associated Press, died
at his home in Lake Forest, Chicago,
on the 27th. He had been sick for sew
eral days with pneumonia.
JAMES BYERs, agent for the Van
dalia railroad and Adams Express Co.,
at Moran, Ind, committed suicide on
counts with the express company $500,
and with the railroad company, SIS.
THE correspondent of the United
Press at Honolulu, writing under date
of the 21st, says that the volcano XII
lauea renewed its activity, during the
night of the 18th, and was worse than
ever.
THE destruction of crops. live stock
and farm property in Yankton county,
5. D., by the recent hail storm is now
estimated to amount to 500, 900.
IT is rumored in Constantinople that
the Turkish government contemplates
the issue of paper money.
A DISPATCH from Buluwayo, on the
2Sth, said: IA force of imperial troops
is being hrrriedly pushed to the front
from Maolutsie and Mangwe and Fort
Tuli. The situation is becoming more
serious every day."
BEING found guilty in the British
hIrh anTrt Of irStian on fhn Ogth nf
violation of the foreign enlistment act,
DR.. Jameson was sentenced to fifteen
months Imprisonment without labor;
Maj. Sir John Willoughby to ten
months; Maj. R. Wright to seven
months, and Capt. Henry F. Coventry
(son of the earl of Coventry, Col. K.
Grey and Col. f. II. White to five
months imprisonment each. They
were taken at once to Holloway prison.
CHARLES COREY and Miss Kate Fill
mann, both of Boston, were drowned
in the Niagara river, between Grand
Island and the Canadian shore. above
Niagara falls, on the 2Sth. The young
couple had hired a small boat for a
row, and in the rough water the boat
became unmanageable.
THE gold standard democrats of Ken
lucky will hold a state convention on
August 20, in Louisville, to perfect a
thorough organization of their forces
and select delegates to the national
convention decided upon at the recent
conference held in Chicago.
TIE United States consuls at Vera
Cruz and Acapulco telegraph the sur
geon general of the United States
marine hospital service the existence
of yellow fever at those points.
The fact has become known that the
recent flood in Colorado entirely de-
stroyed the Catskill branch of the
miles in length.
PART of the town of ~Ilfracombe,
Devonshire, one of the fashionable and
most attractive seaside resorts in En-
gland, was burned on the 29th.
ONE of the three men who partici-
pated in the recent Colorado Springs
and Cripple Creek Coll stage robbery,
captured by a deputy sheriff while
leaving a Denver train at Colorado
Springs, on the Goth, but for reasons
unknown the arrest was kept a pro-
found secret until the Goth.
EX-CoNGREssMAN JOHN I. BROWN died
suddenly at his home in Fowler, Ind.
a widow and an adopted child in COM
Portable circumstances.
THE notification committee appointed
by the Prohibition national conven-
ton, which met last May in Pitts
burgh, called upon Joshua lowering at
Baltimore, Md, on the 18th, and Off
cially informed him of his nomination
for the presidency upon the prohibi-
ton ticket.
A COMMITTEE from the University of
Chicago called upon Maj. Mckinley at
Canton, c., on the 10Th, as representa-
tives of the Republican club of hat
school to pay their respects TO the re-
publican candidate and to present to
him a life-sized marble bust of himself,
made by Hans Hirsch, the noted sculp-
tor of hat city.
ROBERT GARRETT, ex-president of the
Baltimore & Ohio railway and head of
the widely-known banking house of
Robert Garrett & Sons, died at Deer
Park, Md. on the Goth. Mr.. Garrett
had been in failing health fo- several
years.
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL WILSON has is
sued an order to all railway mail
clerks, directing them not to take an
active interest in the political cam
paign, such as would be involved in
their attending political conventions
as delegates, making political speeches
or assisting in the management of po-
litical campaigns.
DIR. JAMESON and his fellow Trans
vaal raiders are to be treated as first
class misdemeanants in Holloway
prison, London. They will receive
their meals from the outside, wear
their own clothes and have less dis
tinguished prisoners detailed to per-
form mental offices for them.
An express train from Philadelphia
with a special excursion train
of seven cars of Red Men near Atlantic
City. n. j., on the 3oth. the ponderous
trains coming together at right angles, |
and causing a frightful wreck in which
about forty persons were killed out
right and twice that number injured,
many Of them fatally. The wife of
one of the engineers who died at his
post, upon hearing the sad news, fell
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