The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-17

The Norwegian DARK Ariadne, Capt
Pulsen, in ballast for Bay Verte, ran
ashore below Green Cove, i've miles
west of 1ngonish, Nova Scotia. during
an easterly gale, on the 7th, and went to
pieces Immediately. The captain and
nine of the crew were drowned. Chris.
youth named Johannus Rayenburg,
are the only survivors of the crew of l2.
The boiler in a steam feed mill eX-
ploded at Buchanan, Mimi, on the sth,
killing one man and fatally injuring
two others. William Berch, the engi
neer, was killed; Jacob HUM was SO
badly injured internally that he will
die, and Peter Oestrich had both legs
blown off.
The morocco factories Of Garrett &
Barr, Charles Baird & Co. and Wash.
ington. Jones & Co., at Wilmington,
Del, were damaged by fire, on the sth,
to the extent of $3.50, 900. William
McNeal, a fireman. was killed by fall
ing walls.
GEN. SIR HERBERT KITCHENER, COM
mander of the British Egyptian expedi-
ton; Slatin Pasha, of the intelligence
department, and other leading officers
of the expedition have returned to
Cairo.
Miss CLARA BARTON, the head of the
Red Cross society, was given a welcome
on her return to Washington, on the
sth, from her trip to Turkey. A re-
ception in her honor at the S%horeham
hotel was given.
A BOMBAY dispatch, on the Sth, said
there had been 81 fresh cases of bubonic
disease since October 2 and IS deaths.
A quarantine against Bombay has been
declared at Alden and at the Egyptian
ports.
A BERLIN dispatch says: The Kol-
nische Zeitung asserts that a written
treaty of alliance is in existence be-
tween Russia and France, but that it
is only defensive in its provisions.
GEORGE DU MAURIER, the artist and
novelist, author of ''Trilby," died in
London on the Sth. His death was
painless, and he passed away surround
ed by friends.
REV. DR.. ANDREW J. PURDY, pastor
of the Asbury NJ. f. church in Buffalo,
dropped dead on the street at Corning.
n. y, on the Sth. He was about fifty
years old.
The Victoria (AustraIia) assembly,
on the Sth, after an all-night sitting,
passed the second reading of the bill
establishing female suffrage and lone
man to one vote"
TEMPLE HoUsToN shot and fatally
wounded j. Il. Jenkins at Woodward.
Okla, on the night of the Sth. The
difficulty arose over the action of Jen-
kins in splitting in the face of Temple
Houston's son Il few days before. Hous-
ton was placed under arrest. He is a
nephew Of Gen. Sam Houston.
NEAR the village of Holley, n. Y, on
the night of the 9Th, two tramps tor
tured Joseph Colburn, aged IS, and his
wife, aged 20, in a terrible manner to
make them tell where their money was
concealed. They were finally beaten
into insensibility and the house robbed
of S42.
THE captain of a French steamer
which took refuge at Holyhead from
the fury of the gale on the sth, re-
ported having seen a large steamer
founder off the Bishop and Clerks, in
st. Georges channel on hat day.
II. NJ. HANNA, of Cleveland, o., own
er of the steam yacht Comanche, which
was alleged to have been sold to the
Cubans for a war vessel, denied the
story on the 9th.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, on the 9th,
positively denied the report that he
had purchased go acres of land near
Hampstead, L. l., which he intended to
occupy as a summer residence.