The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-08-01
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

stonet TO INQUIRE into the nScdl treat
mento of Ireland by England has just
been published, and the facts which it
reveals are well calculated to startle
Englishmen who have anydesire TO see
a particle of justice extended to the
sister island. The report declares that
instead of being compelled to bear one
eleventh Of imperial taxation, Ireland's
just share would be one-twentieth. At
the present time she contributes $751;
800, 900, while her equitable share is
only S24, OOO, 600.
On the 21st German Swain, a farmer,
living one mile south of Attica, Mich,
killed three of his children with a
butcher knife, set fire to his house and
then committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart.
AT the close of business on the goth,
the treasury gold reserve had been
reduced to $50, 761, 336.
JOSEPH W. JOHNSON. of Bridgeport,
Conn, was found dead in his room at
the Midland hotel in Kansas City, Mo-,
on the night of the Goth. His clothes
were of expensive black worsted, and
in the pockets were found S236. Sc in
money, mostly in large bills. Heart
failure was the cause of death.
NAYLoR's opera house and three adj
joining buildings in Terre Haute, Ind,
were destroyed by fire, on the 2lst,
causing a loss of S15O,OOO to s175, 900,
with perhaps S12O, 600 insurance.
DrnI~c @ba ooeSora of tho ba rLan-
tine Herbert Fuller from Boston to
Halifax, where she arrived on the
2lst, the captain and his wife and the
second mate were brutally murdered
in their berths. The vessels crew
were promptly placed under arrest,
pending investigation of the myster-
ious and bloody affair.
TIE main storage house Of the Dia-
mond Match Co., "a and Sc Michigan
avenue Chicago, was destroyed by fire,
on the 21st, causing a loss of SO, 600.
The fire broke out at 3 a. m, and "A
caused by an explosion on the second
floor. the exact nature of which wGs
not known.
Mrs. J. II. ToLFREE committed sui
eide at Mojave, Cal. on the night of
the Goth. by drinking carbolic acid.
She was private secretary to President
Cleveland when he was mayor of Buff
falo. 1t is believed she was insane
when the deed was committed.
d. G. BARKER, of Albert Lea, Mimi,
knocked down by an electric car
in st. Louis, on the 21st, and badly in
jured. He was attempting to board a
car from the wrong side of the tracks
when the accident happened Barker
Is Ga years of age, and was in attend
ance at the populist convention.
THE London Times of the 22d an
nounced the death in that city, on the
goth, of Charles Dickens, con Of the
great novelist.
Two NEW counterfeits of United
States silver certificates have been dis
covered by the treasury department.
The first is n one dollar, series of 1891,
check letter c, signed by j. Fount Till
man, register, and d. n. Morgan, treas
urer, and having a portrait of Stanton.
The second is a five dollar, series Of
1891, check letter B, signed by j. Fount
Tillman, register, and d. \. Morgan,
treasurer, and having a portrait of
Grant.
A CLoUDBURsT caused the loss of ten
lives on B~enson's creek in Franklin
county, Ky. On the 21st. While the
cloUdburst was worst in Franklin
county, the heavy rainfall extended
ever Shelby, jefferson, Woodford and
counties, and was general
over the state.
Miss ANGIE KILLBrRN and Miss Hall,
of Chicago, the latter a sister of Mrs.
Albion W. Tourgee, were thrown from
a carriage at jamestown, y. Y, on
the night of the 2lst, and sustained
injuries which, IN Miss killburn's
case, resulted in death.
EX-SENATOR MATT W. RANSOM, min
to Mexico, left Salisbury, y. c.,
on the 22d, for Mexico City, to
official duties. The generals health
is much improved.
a NODES monument to the memory
of John Brown was unveiled at North
Eliza, n. j., on the 21st, under the
auspices of the State Forestry ~associa-
ton. An address was made by Gen. E
A. Merritt, and State Excise Commits
sioner Lyman delivered the Grafton.
THE New York Sun publishes an ex-
preston from Prince Bismarck on the
pending European crisis, in which the
ex-chancellor is reported as saying that
England must eventually fight Russia
and France to retain her grip or India
and the Soudan.
REV. DR.. HALsEY W. KNAPP, a we'll
Brooklyn, on the ed, aged a years.
THE town of Hot Springs, King|
county, Wash, a health resort with
about two hundred population, was
reported, on the ped, to be in immi1
nent danger OF destruction by forest
The flames had crept down the|
sides of the Cascade mountains andI
into the foothills where the village isl
and threatened to consumed
everything.
THE Republican state convention att
w. Va, on[he 22d, nom-|
mated Hon. G. w. Atkinson by accla-I
for governor.
PRESLEY STEWART, a farmer. resid1
ing three miles south of Middletown.
o., near Shakertown, has discovered a
rich deposit of the finest quality a
mica in a hill in the center of mis- land
1t is worth sl2 a pound.
JOSEPH P. MYERS, who was cashie1
of the Seaboard Air Line at Charlotte