The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-10
Mrs. RosALIE ]. ANDERSON. of Rich.

MRS. ROsALIE j. ANDERSON, OF Rich.
mond, Ind, was awarded a verdict for
SIT, 900 damages against the North Chi
cago street railway company by a jury
in Judge Chetlain's court in Chicago
on the 1st. During the Worlds fair
Mrs. Anderson was injured while at
tempting to board a car. She sued the
company for $50, 900.
A BAND of rebels attacked the town
of Canas, near Artemisa, in the prov
ince of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, on the
both, but were repulsed by the Span
ish garrison. Before retiring the in
surgents looted a number of stores and
burned several huts on the outskirts
of the town.
THE public debt statement, issued
on the 1st, showed Il net increase in
the public debt, less cash in the treas
urv during the month of September
of 81, 500. O33. Total cash in the treas.
ury, SS49, 642, 772.
OF the recently expected 40, 900 rein.
forcements to Cuba 50, 300 had arrived
up to the 1st.
THE comparative statement of the
receipts and expenditures of the gov
eminent for the month of September
shows the total receipts to have been
S24, 5s4, pa, and the expenditures $780,
$40, 535, leaving 4 deficit for the month
of 81, 1895, ?91. The deficit for three
months of the present fiscal year is
So, 1913, 129.
Miss BESSIE, adopted daughter of C..
II. Smith. of st. Paul, Mimi, has gone
to Nuremburg, Germany, to live with
her grandmother, a Mrs. Schenck, who
is worth s., 600. 600, and whose sole heir
is the lucky Bessie.
GEORGE =. ANDERSON, an aerOnaut
with the Bozarth Balloon Co, of Gin
ton, Mo-, fell from his balloon at the
Miami county Nias.) fair, a distance of
fully 1900 feet, and was crushed into
a shapeless mass.
i LONDON cable. on the 1st, said there
was good reason for believing that an
important agreement had been arrived
at between the great powers, and that
all danger of Il European wal has for
the present passed away.
Mrs. HELEN HEGEMAN DEAN died at
her home i'll Brooklyn, n. y, on the
list. Had she lived until the last week
of January next she would have at
tanned the age of 1913 years.
POSTMASTER MOSES L. HOWELL Of
Sidney, Ia, Is alleged to be a d~efaulter
to the amount of $500, and is a fugitive
from justice.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has formally
declined the invitation to divide time
withSenator Blackburn in any speeches
he NAV deliver inkentucky during the
pending campaign.
The treasury gold reserve at the
close of business, on the I'd, stood at
$123, SIS, sol.
The great parade of democratic
clubs held in st. Louis on the evening
of the I'd is said to have been the great
est political demonstration ever held
in that city.
FIVE outlaws held up west-bound
passenger train No. . on the Atlantic&
Pacific railroad near Rio Puerco bridge,
80 miles from Albuquerque, n. NJ,
on the night of the I'd. One of the rob-
bers was shot by United States Mar
shall LOOMS, which was followed by a
general fusillade. After terrifying
passengers into submission the rob-
bers completed their work by blowing
up the express safe with dynamite.
THE democratic campaign book was
received from the printers, on the I'd,
at the headquarters of the congress
sional committee at Washington.
The Geographic transfers of curren.
CIV to the west and south through the
sub-treasury at New York, on the I'd,
amounted o 81, O25, 900.