The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-11-28
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| The new memo
rial trade building at the Hampton
VA Normal and Industrial institute,
was opened on the 18th, with appro-
pirate ceremonies, in the presence of
an audience which thoroughly tested
the seating capacity of the spacious
chapel.
The body of ". W. Ingram, a we'll
known resident OF Chicago, was found,
or the 18th, in the woods near Mich:-
CANINE, Mich, lying beside the body
of a deer which the deceased mad evil
IDENTIFY shot. Both man and animal
were covered with snow. Mr.. Ingram
was about 81 years of age.
The child of Washington Mckinley,
who lives at Sparta, O., was killed in a
curious manner She was walking
from school with a lead pencil in her
hand, when she tripped and fell, the
point of the pencil pe~ntrating the
chest and probably striking the heart
MAJ. WINFIELD d. OsGOoD, of the
Cuban insurgent artillery. with Gen.
Maceo, a Boston boy, and not long ago
a famous half back on the P~ennsylva-
MIA football eleven, has at last been
heard from, and the report of his death
at the hands of the Spanish forces Is
proven false.
On the 18th a dispatch was received
in New York city, from Madrid, to the
effect hat Gen. Weyler had resigned
as captain-general of the Spanish army
in Cuba, and that Gen. Prando had
been named By the government as his
successor.
PORTSMOUTH, y. H., is at last going
to get protection il case of q war. The
harbor, which has been entirely with
out protection, as well as the navy
yard, is all to be changed, and it is eX-
pected that before 4 year has gone by
Portsmouth harbor will be impregna-
BILE to foreign battle-ships.
THE work of preparing coast de-
lenses for Boston harbor and a
yard is to be commenced at once. A
battery, consisting of W. eight-inch
disappearing guns, will be placed at
Point Constitution. on the site of the
old light house. 1t is expected That the
Notifications will be finished by Janu-
airy /, 1897.
u. W.. NIhh1, CLdil illdH VI tllC 4O"d
Democratic state central committee,
died, on the 18th, at the Savoy hotel,
in Des Moines, where he had been sick
for two months. Mr.. Curry's death is
reported to nave been the result of in.
juries received while being initiated
into a Des Moines lodge of Elks.
PATRICK CRoNIN, aged 20, a ]prisonee,
jumped from a rapidly-moving traiu
between Erie and Pittsburgh. Pa. OF
the 10Th, and was fatally injured. Hp
was followed by Thos. McCrea, wap-
den of the Erie ~penitentiary, his guard,
who was killed.
THE federal grand jury at Chicago
returned l6 indictments, on the 1gtl,
Of which seven were against coulter
feiters and passers of counterfeit ccias.
The other nine were against small yio-
lators of the internal revenue laws IN
the sale of liquors.
GEORGE \. MORRISON, the default;ng
county treasurer of Rensselaer, colnv
ty, New York, began his ten years AID
six months sentence in Clinton prison
on the 10th. Morrison was also cashies
of the National bank of Troy, yet he
leaves his wife and family without d
cent.
Hon. JOHN w. FOSTER and wife a.
rived in Honolulu on the 2d, and hfa.
since held frequent conferences with
government officials and leading roy
~allsts, indicating that he is studying
Hawaiian affairs with reference to ar
neXation. lie 4 stated to German
planters who oppose annexation that
if it is defeated he believes the reel.
procity treaty will be annulled.