The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ACR>ho I'm - SNNAAs
IA killed near Newcastle, Col, on
the 25th. Mr.. McKibben was on a
hunting trip, and while changing sad
dies a pack horse fell on him. He
lived long enough to be taken to New
castle, but died shortly after his ar
rival there.
The roller mill and warehouse
owned by Everett, Aughenb augh &
Co.. at Waseca. Mimi, was burned
early on the morning of the 18th.
Loss, $4,000; insured for one-half.
The mill will be rebuilt soon. This is
the third fire started in Waseca with
in a week, and it is supposed to have
been the work of tramps.
CLOSELY pursued by Chicago police
officers, on the cath, with arrest inevi-
table. and after a fruitless attempt to
shoot his pursuers, an unknown bur
glar turned his revolver upon himself
and fell dead in the street.
THE ~stagecoach between Grande and
Arapahoe, in Day county, Okla, was
held up by four highwaymen, IN the
l5th, and the four occupants were or
dered to stand and deliver. Mrs. Amy
Childs, of Philadelphia, refused to dis
mount, and was shot dead.
A DISPATCH from Zanzibar, on the
Goth, said: This evening an ultimatum
was sent to Said kalid informing him
that unless he strikes his flag and
makes d complete surrender by nine
o'clock tomorrow the palace will be
bomparded. All the British residents
of the town have been requested 20 go
on board the val ships lying in the
harbor by eight o'clock in the morn
ing
On the Goth a dry house of the Ohio
Powder Co 5 mill at Goes station, six
miles from Nenia, O., blew up, killing
two men, Charles Higgins and Frank
Eiche. Both men were married, and
Higgins leaves, besides his wife, two
children, aged u and 16 years. 4
house on the same spot blew up ten
years ago, killing three men.
THOMAS {. PLATT refused to be a
candidate for the gubernatorial nomi-
nation by the republican state
ton at Saratoga, n Y, on the Goth,
lJau IlpII- L idDh y. ibidCh, VI Ivy, COiI-
gresham from the Nineteenth district,
was nominated on the fourth ballot.
ON the 18th a body of Turks made
an attack upon the Cretans at Male
vyzi, but were repulsed, losing 30 of
their number killed and 90 wounded.
PAUL r. BROWN, trading in Philadel-
phia as j. w. Brown s. Co., wholesale
grocer, made an assignment on the
Goth. The failure was due TO The
tightness of the money market. The
liabilities will exceed SlGO, 600; assets
stated.
TIE body of Bill Doolin was official
~ identified by the government Off
Gals at Guthrie, Okla, On the Goth,
and proof filed for the So, 800 reward.
The body a embalmed and taken to
Fort Smith. Ark, to claim another
81, 700 reward: thence it was taken to
Missouri for a similar purpose.
FIFE consumed the milling plant and
house OF Everett Aughenbaugh
q Co. at Waseca, Mimi, on the Goth.
loss. $4,000: insurance, S25,-
900. The plant will be rebuilt.
THE fire at Octonagon, Mich, has left
scarcely a vestige of a once thriving
village of 1000 inhabitants except 4
hungry, shivering horde of sufferers,
who have not yet been able to find ac-
commodations of any kind, either food
Or lodging, since they were driven
their homes.
OTIS HALL, Il prominent jewcler of
ID .1-s11a LII ,rE.1n =, U',,-, Ha,t.
The Goth, on business, took a dose
of antipyrene for relief from a head
ache, and died an hour later from
paralysis of the heart, caused by the
drug.
HUNDREDS, including n large mum
her of college men and professors,
Il fish at Bar Harbor. Me, on
the 18th, which was landed at Rodeks
Weir, and none were able 10 classify it.
1t looks like a shark, has two fms, is
feet wide, six feet long, and
weighs coo pounds. 1t tore along the
bay at d frightful speed, but became
helpless in shallow water.
CONGRESSMAN d. d. WooDMANsEE. of
Ohio, was elected president of the Ma
League of Republican clubs at
Milwaukee, on the 26th. The ballot
resulted in Il vote of $40 for him and
SO4 for Charles Ulysses Gordon, Of Chi
The league will meet next year
in Detroit, Mich.
THE Michigan gold democratic state
convention met at Lansing, or the
26th, and nominated a full state ticket
headed by Rufus Sprague, of Green
for governor.
THE annual report Of United States
shipping commissioners for the year
ended June 80, 1896, show total ship
and discharges of seamen for
seagoing vessels to have been
129, ASS. compared with 11s.4s3 Tor the
previous year.
The death at Atlantic City, y. j.. of
Judge Arthur Macarthur. ro.ired. of
the District of Columbia supreme
court, aged 81 years, was announced
the Goth.
WILLIAM TAYLOR, an old resident of
Wichita, Has, fell from the window OF
TO the pavement, on the 26th,
and was instantly killed. His neck
was broken.
FIETY Armenians took possession of
the Ottoman bank at Constantinople,
the Goth. killing several soldiers.
The Armeniaas resiEted efforts of
troops to dis!odge them. The rioting
became general. 1t was believed to Ue
the result OF Il revolutionary plot.