The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-02-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

BURGLARS went through the resi-
dence of Gov. Matthews of Indiana, on
the night of the nth, and stole Sl2 in
money ard the governors gold watch.
They entered the pantry and helped
themselves to the pastry and other
edibles.
BY the bursting of water pipe on
Franklin Avenue hill, in Cleveland, o.,
early on the morning of the 18th, sew
eral hundred feet of the hill was
washed into the river. The one-story
frame house of Mrs. Mary Ravey, aged
60. was washed into the river and Mrs.
Ravey was drowned.
STERLING ELLIOTT. of Massachusetts,,
was elected president OF the League of
| American Wheclmen at Baltimore,
Md, on the 18th, and Louisville. KY,
was chosen as the place for holding the
next annual meet.
THREE men were killed and three
seriously.injured in collision between
an east-bound stock train and a west
bound freight. four miles east of Fair
port, y. V. on the 18th. Several
horses were also killed.
TIE town of Waterloo, Ind, on the
Lake Shore railroad, was nearly de-
stroyed by fire on the ETH. The total
loss was placed at $4,000.
COUNT WILHELM Won BISMARCK. gov
ernor of the province of East Prussia.
and youngest son of the aged eX-chan-
cellor, was, on the 18th, reported to be
dying at koenigsburg.
FNrr +r.nSr,pr rni1 -aga-r-n ~ flo
close of business, on the 18th, stood
at Sol, SILL 1873, n gain for the day of
So. sol $40, being the second days re-
ccipts of gold from the new bond issue.
THE board of directors of the Ma
tlonal Association of General Secrcta-
ries of the y. NJ. c. \. decided. on the
18th. to call the annual convention OF
the organization to meet in Cleveland,
o., June ) to .. About five hundred
general secretaries. representing the
United States and Canada, will at
lend.
AT 1890 D. m, on the 18th. the cal
endar of the New York state assembly
was suspended in order that the clerk
might read to the house the memOra-
bic speech of Abraham Lincoln on the
battle field of Gettysburg, and the
house then took a recess out of respect
20 the great statesman's birthday
anniversary.
THE famous negro jockey, Isaac
Murphy, who was known from the At
lantic Il the Pacific, and who had rid
den to victory some of the most famous
horses in America, died, on the 10th, at
Lexington, Ky. He left about one
hundred thousand dollars to his
widow.
Ii HUNG CHANG and Shas Yu Lien
have been appointed delegates to rep
resent the emperor of China at the
coronation of Emperor Nicholas II. OF
. Russia at Moscow.
On the 18th. railroad employees at
Topeka. Kas.. discovered that Joseph
Love, a Shawnee county farmer, haG,
to save passenger fares, packed his
three children, aged seven, nine aud
eleven years. in a box for shipment by
freight to Guthrie, Okla. Love pleaded
poverty and a stranger advanced him
money to buy tickets for his little ones.
The American line steamer Paris
from New York, February ). sunk the
local steamer Her Majesty while dock
ing her at Southampton, on the 18th.
As the Paris swung around her rudder
struck the smaller vessel, sending her
to the bottom.
A REPORT from Brisbane, Queensland,
on the 18th, said: "a passenger steamer
capsized in the Brisbane river, in
Queensland, and 40 of the persons who
were on board Of her were drowned"