The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-03
Ex-ALpERMAS SALo W. RorH. of Chi

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cago, was indicted by the Cook county
grand jury, on the oath, on the charge
of embezzling $3.50 0 from the Ma.
tional Loan and Building association.
His bonds were fixed at S25, 900.
JAMES CALLAHAN, of Des Moines, and
A. Simmer, the noted phi~lanthropist
of Waverly, Ia, nave united in a dona-
ton of 500, 600 to the home for aged
and infirm in Des Moines. The insti-
tuition was started less than n year
ago..
TIE Spanish government is making
preparations to send 5000 additional
troops to the Philippine islands at
once, and also to increase the garri-
son on the island of Fernando Pc.
THE Bank of England, on the 24th,
advanced its rate of discount from ~
per cent. to 3 per cent.
Four thousand persons attended a
meeting at Liverpool, on the 24th, un-
der the auspices of the Liverpool Re-
form club, to protest against the rule
of the sultan of Turkey and the mas
sacres of Armenians in the Turkish
empire. Mr.. Gladstone was the prip-
cipal speaker of the occasion.
The pumping station and depot of
the Waters-Pierce Oil Co. in East st.
Louis, ILL.,, We're totally destroyed by
fire on the 24th. The flames extend
ed to the yard, of the Big Four railroad
and consumed a number of cars before
they were subdued; loss, estimated,
5000 O
LUGH CONWAY, aged 81, one of the
oldest citizens of Kansas City, Has,
while walking on James street, on the
24th, was run down by a bicycle rid
den by Il IL year-old boy and fatally in.
jured.
DECEMBER wheat began to take an
upward turn on the Chicago board of
trade, on the 9th. and John Cudahv.
the accredited holder of nearly all the
contract wheat for December delivery,
was reported to have a deep-laid
scheme to keep the stuff until the dol
lar mark is reached. He was said to
hold at least $4,000, 600 bushels of
wheat.
SOME years ago an attempt was made
to destroy by dynamite the monument
on South Mountain, a few miles from
Boonsboro, Md, erected to the mem
DRY of George Washington by the
citizens of B~oonsboro in 1877. and the
pile was much weakened. Lightning
or vandals a few nights ago completed
the work of destruction.
a FIRE in the hospital department of
the county Jail at Columbus, Ind, on
the 25th, caused a loss of S2O,O coo; no
insurance. The fire was started by a
prisoner named Alexander Bell, with
the intention of escaping. Three
prisoners were taken out almost suffo-
Gated.
LAzARD FREREs, of New York, re.
ceived 81, 100000 gold by the steamer
Augusta Victoria, on the 25th, and
5000, 600 by the La Bourgogne, making
the aggregate imports by this firm to
tn at date S16,35O goo. They deposited
s., 600, 900 gold in the ~sub-treasury.
A CONSTRUCTION train of 12 dump
cars on the Butler & Pittsburgh rail-
road was thrown over an SO-foot en-
near Butler, Pa. on the 25th,
to the failure of the brakes
TO work. One man was killed and
a number were badly injured.
THE net gold reserve in the United
States treasury, at the close of bust
on the 25th, stood at S119, GAG, 102.
The days Withdrawals of gold at New
York was So, 500. There was ex-
changed for gold deposited 81, 600, 900
currency.
DAVID B~AssETT, aged 81 years, was
crushed to death between the bump
ers of two ears in the st. Paul yards,
at Green Bay, Wis, on the 25th.