The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-11-07
CURRENT TOPICS,
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

tiers are being received every day,
alleging fresh instances of Horner's
sharp practices.
Mrs. CARRIE WHALEN, wife of Daniel
Whalen, jumped from a bridge at
Rochester, n. Y, with her infant child
III her arms. She was rescued with a
rake, but the babe was dead. She said
she was moved to the act because her
husband could not support her. She
had been drinking.
THE treasury gold reserve at the
close of business, IN the 27th, stood at
S1I9,O56, PAS. The days Withdrawals
at New York were S431, 4OU.
THE battleship Oregon arrived at
Monterey, Cal, on the 27th, to prepare
for her final acceptance trial of Is
hours at sea.
THERE was filed in the Middlesex
court of insolvency at East Cambridge,
Mass, on the 27th, a voluntary petit
ton of insolvency on behalf of Rev.
Elmer II. Capan, d. D., president of
Tufts college. There was no state
ment of assets and liabilities.
The Illinois state supreme court, on
the 27th. refused to grant a rehearing
in the case of Julius Mannow, the
self-confessed murderer Of Carey b.
Birch in Chicago.
AFTER u partial hearing in the case
of Dugald Crawford, charged with at
tempting to intimidate voters, Acting
Judge Smith, in the st. Louis court of
criminal correction, discharged the
defendant on the 2Sth.
The treasury gold reserve at the
close OF business on the 2Sth stood at
Sis, 1872, O4O. The days Withdrawals
at New York were sos. 500.
The three-year-old son of Oscar Mar
shall, Il North Bend wis., farmer,
was murdered, on the 2Sth, at Gales
vile, by n hired man named Palmer.
Marshall and the man had a quarrel,
and to get even with his employer
Palmer took the little boy to the barn
and deliberately crushed his skull with
an AK.
Gov. STONE of Missouri has offered
e reward of $500 for the arrest and
sentence to the penitentiary of each
person who robbed the Chicago & Al
ton train at Blue Cut, on the night of
the cath, and $500 for each one sem
fenced to be hanged.
ELMER S. DUNDY, judge of the United
States district court for Nebraska,
died at his home in Omaha. on the
18th, after a brief illness. aged &C. He
was a native or Ohio and went to Ne
braska in 1857. He leaves n valuable
estate to his widow and three children.
DURING a political rally at Breeder,
w. Va, on the night of the 2Sth, a riot
occurred in which several persons
were injured, among the number be-
ing two ONE
A. B. HAMILTON died at Harrisburg,
Pa, on the 2sth, from the effect of a
stroke of paralysis. He was SO years
old. Hamilton learned the printing
trade with Simon Cameron, and held
the position of assistant clerk of the
state senate, printer to both houses of
congress and state printer.
AN explosion of natural gas at Ava
Ion, a suburb of Allegheny, Pa, on the
2Sth, killed Bessie Osborne, aged Is
years, and seriously injured her
brother Dale, aged nine years, and her
sister Edith, aged six years. The house
was badly wrecked.
The marriage of Miss Helen Hoyt
sherman t. Mr.. William Ogilvie Crit
fifth was solemnized at Des Moines, Ia,
IN the 2Sth, al st. Paul's Episcopal
church. The bride is the youngest
daughter of Maj. Hoyt Sherman, Il
brother of Senator Sherman and the
late Gen. Sherman.
JOSEPH w. HAMBURGER, a wealthy
business man of Harlem, n. Y, drank
a pint of carbolic acid, on the 2sth,
and killed himself. Mr.. Hamburger
was 81 years of age, a member of the
Columbia club, and was reputed to be
worth $500, 600.
II. c. COCKRELL was convicted in the
United States court at Louisville, Ky.
on the 2Sth, on the charge of using the
mails for fraudulent purposes, and SEN
fenced to IS months imprisonment in
the Jeffersonville Qnd.) penitentiary
and fined $500. This is the limit.
GEN. FITsHUGH LEE, the United
States consul general to Cuba, in
formed a correspondent at Havana, On
the 2Sth, that he would sail for New
York on the 31st. Gen. Lee said hat
the purpose of his trip was to visit his
family and attend to private business.
FRANK b. BUNCE, the manager Of
the Lyceum theater in New York,
died in his office at the theater on the
?9th.
BY an explosion of gas in No. 3 shaft
of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Co.,
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the goth, four
men were killed and two injured.
Two members of a rescuing party who
entered the mine soon after were over
come by fire damp and died in their
tracks.
WILLIAM A. HARRIS, known all over
the United States as the manufacturer
of the Harris-Corliss engine, died at
the residence of his son in Providence,
Il. l., on the goth, in the sixty-second
year of his age. Death was due to d
cancer in the stomach.
The string of horses taken over from
America by Duke and Wishard and
entered in various events on the En-
glish turf during this years racing
season, were sold at auction at New
market, on the Goth, at prices ranging
from 42O to 1900 guineas.
The treasury gold reserve 1T the
close of business on the 29th stood at
eI1s o-o 3I5 The DAVIS withdra walls at