The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-26
Il. Ii. ADAMS, Publisher.

CAPE GIRARDEAU. MISSOURI
SECRETARY and Mrs. Carlisle left
Bar Harbor, Me-, on the 10th, for a
short visit to Gray Gables, en- route to
Washington city.
THE United States cruiser Bancroft
sailed for Constantinople on the 18th.
She will touch at Gibraltar for orders
from Secretary Herbert before pro-
ceedinG to her destination.
Ten trains filled with members OF
various republican clubs of Chicago, to
the number of 1000, left that city, on
the night of the1Sth, for Canton, O.,
to pay their respects to Maj. Mckinley
at his home.
LORD CHEF JUSTICE RUSSELL of En-
gland arrived in Washington, on the
18th, where he was net by Attorney
General Harmon, who was delegated
to look after the entertainment of the
distinguished visitor.
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CHAIRMAN JONES Of the Democratic
national committee, on the 18th,
most positively denied that Senator
German had succeeded him in the man
Hgement of the Bryan and Sewall cam
paign, as had been reported.
THE democracy of the state of New
York, in convention at Buffalo, on the
18th, Endorsed the Chicago platform
and the nomination of w. j. Bryan
and Arthur Sewall, and nominated
John Boyd Thacher, a gold bug, for
governor.
AFTER a 14-hours' trip through Hi
nois, Indiapa and Kentucky, on the
l4th, William Jennings Bryan arrived
at Louisville. The entire trip was a
series of enthusiastic greetings and
speech-making, and by the time Louis
Vile was reached Mr.. Bryan was
oretty nearly a used up man.
MISS MARGoT HOBART, a niece of
Hon. Garrett II. Hobart, the republi-
ran candidate for vice-president, made
her debut in the theatrical profession
with Elancy's "A Boy Wanted" COM
pany playing at the Grand opera house
In Washington on the 18th. She made
a pronounced hit in the small part as
Iigned her.
JOHN MCBRIDE, the former president
Of the American Federation of Labor,
md the leader of the United Nine
workers Of America for years, has
been engaged by the democratic nat
ional executive committee to organize
Bnational labor bureau in the interest
of Mr.. Bryan, and be the chief of
the bu reau.
LORD CHEF JUSTICE RUSSELL of En-
gland, accompanied by his wife and
daughter, visited the points of inter-
est in Washington city on the 18th.
United States Attorney-General Har-
mon, Justice Harlan, of the United
States supreme court, and Gen. A. w.
Greedy chief of the signal service, es-
corted the visitors.
NEAR Bucyrus, O., the Crawford
bOullN IllolOI lSdI ooSlCIl oh NV 4fIh
dedicated a monument to mark the
spot on which Col. VIM. Crawford, act
ing under orders from Washington,
marched against the Wyandotte In
dams, and was attacked, defeated and,
with the greater part of his force
burned at the stake, June 5, 1882.
JUDGE ToSEY, of Louisville, Ky, on
the 18th, adjudged Col. Henry l..
Stone guilty of contempt of court in
advising the board of aldermen of
that city in the recent impeachment
proceedings to disregard the courts
orders, and fined him $50. Col. Stone
fled an affidavit attempting to swear
Judge Toney off the bench, but his
motion was overruled.
In a letter, on the 10th, Sir Charles
Dixie sd idthat if Great Britain should
20 to war she would also plunge India,
Canada and Australia into war. posi-
bly, without their consent, and added:
1.-The forcible Iassage of the Oar
danelles might lead to a general war,
for which we are wholly u~uprepared
and in which our very existence as a
power would be at stake"
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II was announced in London, on the
10th, that the prince of Wales would
pay a visit to Lord Rosebery at the
ex-premier's seat, Dalmony Park, Lin
lithgowshire, remaining there until
the arrival of the car, whom he will
Join at Leith. 1t is understood that
during the visit of his royal highness
Lord Rosebery will endeavor to in
duce the prince to urge the car to
adopt an anti-sultan policy.
REV. A. j. WEDDELL, d. D., who dur.
ing the war, as pastor of st. Paurs En-
glish Lutheran church in Cumberland,
Md, by his espousal of the cause of
the Union from the pulpit, made him
self known throughout the north and
south, was found dead, on the 18th, in
bed at his home in Norristown, Pa,
where he was pastor emeritus of the
Evangelical Lutheran Chu rch of the
Trinity. Death was due to heart
trouble.
REV. THOMAS WILLIAM RUSSELL, the
minister who offered prayer at the
opening session of the recent state
convention of Iowa democrats died