The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-05

BUNCH" MCBhn, the well-known
southern railroad man who has Viii.
liam Jennings Bryan under contract
to deliver a series of lectures, claims
that he has already received al offer
of $4,000 bonus for his trade with
Nh. Bryan.
The total number of dock laborers
on strike in Hamburg, on the 2sth.
was 5000, and these had been joined
by the lighter men. Ships arriving
from England and Sweden were bring.
ing men to replace the strikers.
A DISPATCH received from Manila,
the capital of the Philippines, via
Toxic, Japan. on the goth, said the
rebels had won a victory over the
Spanish forces, and that an attack
upon Manila was feared.
MRS. SARAH TILLoTsoN, who was
buried Thanksgiving day from the
old ladies' home at Terre Haute, Ind,
was perhaps the last survivor of those
early settlers who took refuge in Fort
Harrison, in September, 1912, when
Tecumseh's braves were on the var.
path.
JUNGLE BILL" CROFT. the pioneer
centenarian of eastern Kentucky, who
lived at Rockhouse, died recently at
the extreme age of lob years. Uncle
Bill" claimed to be 107 years old. He
was an odd character. He built his
own coffin - years ago.
WALTER NJ. CASTLE, of San Francis
Co, with his wife and little boy, whose
trou bles abroad have been fully told
in the dispatches from London, arrived
at New York, on the steamer Havel,
On the Goth.
Two BRITISH subjects, from British
Columbia, having been arrested in
Gu ba, the Spanish government will be
called upon at once for an explanation
by Colonial Secretary Chamberlain.
Mrs. Z. W.. VANDERBILT entertained
366 news and messenger boys at a tur.
key dinner, Thanksgiving day, in Ma
sonic temple, Newport, r. /.
A DISPATCH from Breslau on the Goth
said that so persons were killed in a
colliery explosion at Zengrosee, Rus
sian Poland.
AT 3:3O o'clock on the morning of
IllC -tlil, hIC OuO III IN OdChSOu
county Jail at Kansas City, Mo-, and
for awhile it appeared as if the struc-
ture would be destroyed and many of
the prisoners. 16S in number, ere
mated. Prompt work By the fire de-
partment prevented al awful holo-
caust, and the damage to the prison
was confined to about 5000.
CHIEF CLERK C.. II. SCHLoTT, of the
Guartermaster's department AT Jeffer-
son Barracks, Mo-, who disappeared a
few days before, leaving letters init
mating his intention to commit sui
eide, returned, on the 9th, looking
very s~heepish, and admitted that he
had made a fool of himself.
VIsCoUNT COUGH, first secretary of
the British embassy at Washington,
has been appointed secretary Of the
British embassy at Berlin. Mr.. VIM.
de Bunsen, British charge d'affaires
and consGl-general at Bangkok, Siam,
has been appointed TO succeed Lord
Cough.
BENJAMIN APTHoRP GOULD, the WELL
known scholar and astronomer, died
at Cambridge, Mass, on the night of
the Goth. as the result of a fall.
THE Kentucky state canvassing
board began the count of the presi-
dental vote IN the 9th.
GEN. HEREAUx was reelected presi.
dent of San Domingo at the late gen.
eral election.
EGYPT has been officially declared
free from cholera.
Hon. VIM S. FoRMAN, of Illinois, tool
the oath of Office and assumed his
duties as commissioner of internal
revenue on the 27th.