The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-02-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

TIE trial of the notorious counter
f~eiters. VIM. E. Brockway, W. f. Ag-
ner and Abbie L. Smith. wa resumed
in the federal court at Trenton. y. j.,
on the 18th.
THE three-year-old daughter of Will
liam Wilson. of Garfield. O., while
playing with sulphur matches, ate off
the heads and died from the effects
of the poison within two hours of
the Occ
The Vulcan coal mine, located in the
hog back just below the town of New
castle, Col, was completely wrecked
and set on fire by a terrific gas eXplo-
sion, on the 18th. and it was believed
that 60 workmen in the mine were
instantly killed.
BILL NYEw as stricken with paralysis
at his home at Buck Shoals. eight miles
from Asheville, y. c.. on the night of
the 18th, and his condition was such
hat his physicians feared he could not
o
THE president, on the 10Th, approved
the bill abolishing the post of chap
lain and professor at the West Point
military academy and providing that
a regularly ordained clergyman be APP
pointed to serve as chaplain in Il civil
ian capacity for a term of four years.
PRIVATE WILLIAM II. IAMS, who
gained unenviable notoriety for insub-
ordination during the great strike at
Homestead. Pa, "A reported. on the
18th, to be dying in a Baltimore (Nid.)
hospital from a bullet wound in the
abdomen, received during an a~lterca-
ton with a fellow-lodger.
A JOINT resolution to revive the
grade of acknowledgement of the
United States army was introduced in
the senate, on the 10Th. by Mr.. Elkins,
of West Virginia. and referred to the
committee on military affairs.
OUT of work, out of money and
served with Il ~disposses, notice, James
Mccartney, a New York bartender,
shot himself through the head, in his
apartments, on the 18th, while standing
with his wife's arms around his neck.
Their six children were asleep in the
mex room at the time.
BESIDES the sum of go. 5O0,O 900 which
will be asked by the British admiralty
for the construction of four battle
ships, four first-class cruisers, four
third-class cruisers and 60 torpedo de-
stroyers, the government will ask par
Lament for a large sum for guns and
e
THE board of inquiry that investi-
gated the grounding of the steamship
st. Paul exonerated Capt. Jameson of
any cu~lpability in the matter.
THE vote on the Arizona statehood
bill has been reconsidered in the house
committee on territories, and it now
stands unprecedented, as it did before
the vote s~idetracking it was taken.
THE pardon of ex-United States Con-
sui Waller, a prisoner in France on
conviction of treason in Madagascar.
was sem to President Faure. on the
10Th, for signature.
THE young king of Corea has arrived
at st. Petersburg with the object of
seeking the protection of Russia for his
country.
A DISPATCH from Havana says that 80
days is the limit which Gen. Weyler
has set for the wiping out of the revo-
luton. He promised a delegation of
sugar planters that by March Is the
country would be cleared of the insur-
gents.
THE city of Guthrie, Okla, retains
title to Noble park, containing almost
Is acres, in West Guthrie, by a decision
rendered by Secretary Smith, Affirming
g lower ruling.