The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-11-28
CURRENT TOPICS.
III NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

DEhI W. SE@LhE Va N~
quarterback of the Doane college foot
ball team from Crete, Neb., which
PLAYED with the Kansas university
eleven at Lawrence, On the 18th. was
injured in the last play made on the
field, tackling a Kansas runner, who
had the ball, and being thrown on his
head SO that conclusion of the brain
followed. He died before midnight.
The Manchester (England) Guardian
learns that the powers have agreed
to guarantee a new Turkish loan of
G5, OOO, 600 to assist the sultan in carry
ing out the promised reforms in Asia
Minor.
PASSED ASSISTANT ENGINEER ANDREW
MCALLIsTER, U. S. navy, has been re-
tired on account of disability incurred
in the service. He was attached to
the battle-ship Indiana, and was pros
trated from overwork on that ship
during the fleet maneuvers last sum-
mer.
GOVERNMENT officials in Washington
are strong in their belief that the fate
of Cuba hinges on the success or fail
ure of Weyler's expedition into the in
terror. The outcome of this expedition
will, it is believed, determine the
future relations between this country
and Spain.
RUMoRs were rife in jacksonville.
Fla, on the 10th, that there had been
fighting for three days in Pinar del
Rio, Cuba. j. a. Huana, agent of the
junta, said he had information that
there had been fighting, but had no
definite news as to the outcome.
The comptroller of the currency, on
the 10th, declared a fourth dividend of
five per cent. on account of the failed
Indianapolis national bank, of Indian
apolis, Ind, making a total of so per
cent, as claims aggregating S 1855, 995.
TIE supreme court of the United
States, after rendering decisions in Il
number of cases, adjourned, on the
10th, for the Thanksgiving recess Its
next session will be held on the 30th.
ADMIRAL SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM
RICHARDS, a lord of the British ad-
miralty, died suddenly, on the 10th,
in a hotel at Bath. He was 60 years
of age.
On the 18th the president appointed
w. s. Forman, of Illinois, commits
sioner of internal revenue, vice Joseph
II. Miller, resigned.
JOHN MIRKA, aged ~, was found in
his house at Cleveland, o., on the
morning of the 18th, unconscious from
fortunes inflicted on him some time
during the night by burglars. The
old mans hands and feet and portions
of his body had been roasted by lamp
flame applied by the burglars in an eff
fort to make him disclose the hiding
place of Il large sum of money which
he was supposed to possess.
SECRETARY TURNER of the G. A. r.
encampment committee at Buffalo,
n. V, has been notified by the Central
Railroad association, (which represents
all roads between Chicago and Buffalo,
that rate of one cent a mile, with a
3O-day limit, will be given for the Buff
alo encampment Eext year., and other
railroad traffic associations have been
asked to make the SAME rate.
BY an opinion handed down by the
United States circuit court of appeals.
at San Francisco, on the 18th, the
British ship Coquitlan, with $50 seal
skins, which was seized by the revenue
cutter Corwin in June, 1892, and or
dered forfeited to the government by
the district court of Alaska, has been
released.
Ii has been decided in Madrid to
send 10000 troops to the Philippine is
lands at once, in addition to the 6 1000
which were already under orders to
leave for Manila.
DURING the month of October there
were 1852 deaths in Havana, 272 of
which were caused by yellow fever and
14Oby smallpox, which is still unabated.
BY the stranding of the British
steamer Memphis in Dunlough bay, on
the south coast Of Ireland, on the 18th,
ten OF her crew were lost before the
coast guard could reach them with q
rocket apparatus.
The Norwegian bark Vegar, from
Progresso for Hamburg, put into Fall
mouth. on the 18th, her ere having
become afflicted with beri beri. The
captain died of the disease October 81,
the sailmaker ON November IL and the
carpenter November 16. Five of the
crew were sent to the hospital at Fal-
mouth.
SENATOR MARION BUTLER's paper,
the Caucasian, published at Raleigh,
n. c., did not appear or the 18th, as
the office was in the Sheriff'S hands.
The property was levied on under an
execution for a judgment CT Sl91 for
paper supplied. Several printers also
obtained judgments.
WILLIAM j. BRYAN is actively en-
gagged in the preparation of a work to
be published about January l. This
work will embody a thorough discus
sion of binetallism and its Importance
as an issue in the campaign of 1900.
CAPT. JOHN d. HART, whose alleged
connection with the steamship Lau-
rada, has made him conspicuous, was
indicted by the grand jury in the
United States district court at Phila-
delphia, on the 18th, for alleged aid
rendered to the insurgents in the
Cuban rebellion.
The Lucas county Children's home,
at Toledo, o., where 200 children are
cared for, was partially destroyed by
fire on the 18th. All the children es-
capped in safety, loss, Sl0,O 600.
FIRE, on the night of the 18th, in St
Georges church, Hanover Square,
Eondon DESTROYED tho tower If tho