The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-12
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

car at Thirty-ninth street on the a0th.
Charles Mathusek, who stole the wal
let containing the money, was arrested
after a severe struggle, but two COM
p%anions who aided him snatched the
pocketbook while Mathusek was strug-
Cling with his captors, jumped from
the car and escaped.
The steamer City of Kalamazoo was
burned at her dock at South Haven,
Mich, on the morning of the 3Oth.
Robert Van Ostrand and ice Lang,
firemen, were burned to death. The
stewardcss is missing, and it is feared
she also has persisted.
PLAGUE has made its appearance in
Eormosa, and the Japanese there are
dying in large numbers. Cholera is
prevalent in Toxic, and appears to be
on the increase.
The home Of Luther Greenman, a
farmer, four miles northeast of Perry,
y. Y, was destroyed by fire, ON the
morning OF the Goth, and the entire
family. consisting of five persons, was
burned to death.
THE Falls Cotton Co. at Norwich.
Conn.,, resumed, on the 30th, after four
and Il half months shutdown and
some 500 employees began work.
NM. STEINWAY, The w~ell-known piano
manufacturer, who had been ill for
some time with typhoid fever, died in
New York on the 3Oth.
A NEW bridge is to be constructed
over the Hudson river at New York at
q cost not to exceed S25, 0O0, 600.
The $50 employees of the Standard
silk mill, at Philipsburg, n. j., who
mad been working on short time for
several months, went to work on full
time on the 3Oth. The knitting estab-
lishment of Seifert & Eitonieart. at
the same place, which had been idle
several months, has been purchased by
Carly IL Souders, who also commenced
operations on the 30th.
GEN. NEYLER, as acknowledged by
himself in interviews with prominent
Spaniards OF the Junta de DefenSa in
his palace at Havana, has resolved to
eXterminate all the Cubans in the
province of Pinar del Rio not engaged
as soldiers in the Spanish ranks, no
matter how peaceful and harmless
they appear.
a FIRE NGINE called out by n false
alarm at Everett, Mass, on the LIST,
was run into by a locomotive. The
engineer of the steamer was killed,
and the driver and both horses were
fatally injured.
ALL the logging camps in the neigh
borhood of Manila, Mich, are maxi
ing preparations to begin work, and
many have already started. The pros
poets are for 4 very prosperous win
ter.
The Wisconsin board of election can
vassers completed its labors, on the
I'd, finding that Mckinley electors
received 26S, 1876, as against 162, 52S for
the Bryan electors.
THE situation at Chippewa Fails
Wis, was very critical, on the I'd, the
entire city and much OF the Chippewa
valley being liable to destruction and
devastation at almost any moment by
the giving way of the immense ice
gorges hat had formed in the river at
intervals for many miles. The resi-
dents were rapidly moving their mer-
chandise and household effects to
higher ground.
The official count of the votes cast in
the recent election i'll the state of
Rhode Island is ZOO larger than at
first supposed. The correct figures are:
Mckinley, 37,34T; Bryan, 14.459; plu-
rality for Mckinley, y. 97s.
The body of Sheriff William Z. Her
ron of Plymouth county, Ia, was
found, bruised and frozen, beside the
railway track neal Merrill, Neb., on
the I'd, where he had evidently fallen
from a train.
On the 2d Kansas City (Mo.) police
officials arrested jeff Paget and Albert
Els, two Of the bandits who held ..p
and attempted to rob an Alton express
train at Blue Cut, near Independence,
Mo-, on the evening of October "a
Evidence against them is conclusive.
joan w. IRONS, secretary of the Full
ton county board of health, reported
to the Indian state board of health.
on the 3D., the death of FIVE children in
that county from diphtheria. Their
parents belonged to the sanctified
sect, and positively refused medical
aid Cor the children. Finally, how
ever, they submitted TO allow a ply
stefan 10 prescribe, and the disease
vas broken up after five children had
died.
The ladies' committee, which durinr
the past year has been engaged in
raising the 500, 900 endowment fund
for Il chair of English literature in
Lawrence university, at Appleton.
Wis, have completed their work. Mrs.
J. 7. Witter, of Grand Rapids, gave
$1,000, on the I'd, making S110, 900 raised.
and thus securing Senator Sawycr's
conditional gift of SIS, ZOO.
ELIZA CUMMINGS, 50 years of age. OF
Hillsboro, O., a gutsta at the Empire no
tel, SiXty-third street and boulevard.
New York city, while il a fit of insan-
ity, on the Sd, jumped from the fif.l
story of the hotel to the yard, and was
instantly killed.
NEWS was received from Cuba, on
the Sd, confirming the report that
Maj.-Gen. Serefin Sanchez was killed
IN an engagement at Las Damas
Santa Clara province.