The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-03
CURRENT TOPICS.
q NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

"iitCSh ii lcLIcE 10 the LONDON LINES
declaring that while a certain enforce
ment of difference is essential for the
maintenance of public security, yet a
really beneficent regard is due the
worst offenders, being demanded
alike by our common humanity and by
the precept and example of the Divine
founder of the Christian religion"
The entire plant of the Carnegie
Co.'S Edgar Thomson steel works at
Braddock, Pa, resumed operation, on
the 25th, after several weeas' idleness.
Both the old and new mills were en-
ployed making steel rails, giving en-
ployment to about 5000 workmen.
P. ]. lyman, the Irish i~nvincible I'M
der arrest in B~oulogne, France, reject
ed the suggestion of the United States
consul that he employ French law
yers, named by the consul, to defend
him, and informed the consul that he
relied upon the republic to do him
justice.
THE Toronto Ont Mail and Empire
says that the government has passed
an order in council providing for the
opening of canals on Sundays for the
purpose of facilitating traffic.
THE expected and officially predicted
Improvement in the condition of the
national treasury has not yet come to
pass. In fact, the condition is steadily
growing worse. The receipts for the
first ~ days of September We're SIG
656,3i4 against receipts in the same
! H.. A-4.,l-. tNA- r 90 DEA -
GOV. HASTINGS of Pennsylvania, on
the 2lst. pardoned John Bardsley,
formerly treasurer of Philadelphia.
who, on July ., 1891, was sentenced to
j. years in the eastern pcnitemtiary
for misappropriating over $500, 600 of
ciSv and state money while occupying
his official position.
WHAT is believed to be a genuine case
Of lcprosy was accidentally discovered
in the waitIng-room at Bellevue hos
pital, New York, on the 21st. The VIC
tim is George Fleming, 40 years old, Il
German baker.
SPEAKER REED, Senators Frye and
Hale, and congressman D.nGley, Mil
iken and Bouteilc will leave Maine to
take the stump for the republican
party in the middle and western states.
The London Times expresses the be-
lief that Russia and Japan have agreed
to a joint p~rOtectorate in Corea, Rus
STA. virtually taking the position there
that China had before the war.
JOHN COINS was sentenced at Frank
lin, Ind, on the 21st, to four years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary for lar
ceny. Coins offense was stealing five
chickens.
PRINCESS OLGA of Montenegro, niece
of Nicholas l., the reigning prince of
Montenegro, died on the 21st. She was
porn at Cettinje on March 10, 1859, and
vas not married.
y. A. CRAIG, city marshal of Table
Rock, Neb., was killed, on the 22d, by
one of two trampS whom he sought to
arrest as suspected post office burglars.
The deputy marshal tripped over the
body of his fallen chief and both
tramps escaped.
A PRIVATE telegram received in
Washington, on the I'D, by United
States Treasurer Morgan stated that
Calls Bey, husband of 2. T. Barnum's
"luo", uleu, Ou LnC -lSt, III NOuSLdu-
tinople.
The artillery department of the
Turkish war office has on exhibition
40 Armenian bombs from five to nine
inches in length, which the authori-
ties discovered in an Armenian bomb
factory in ConstantinOple.
THE official report of the trial trip
of the cruiser Brooklyn gives the YES
sells speed at 81. 9117k knots, which earns
for the Cramps, her builders, a pre-
MUM of $3.50, OOO.
THERE was Il we're frost, on the
morning of the 23d, all over north
Texas and Indian territory. The top
crop of cotton was injured.
GILBERT LOUIS DUPREEZ, the cele-
brated French tenor, died at PaSSy
on the ed. Tie was 50 years of age.
A HEAVY gale prevailed at Nan
tucket, Mass, on the I'D, and the
storm blew away one of the arms of
the ancient windmill, which had with
stood the gales of nearly two CEN
turtles.
QUEEN VICTORIA, on the cad, passed
the mark which signalized the longest
reign of any British sovereign. She
was the recipient of many ~congratula-
tory messages.
THE boiler of a cotton, ten-wheel
locomotive on the Big Four railroad
burst at Pekin, H., on the 22d, hurl-
ing the enormous engine more than
100 feet, partially demolishing a large
factory, killing the fireman and break
ing nearly all the glass within a quar-
ter of a mile of the scene of the re-
markable accident. Pieces of the
engine were picked up 1000 feet away.
The directors of the American Bell
Telephone Co. met in Boston, on the
ed, and declared the regular quarter
ly dividend of three per cent. This
makes 1913 per cent. declared SO far
this year
A FORCE of 81 Spanish troops started
for Calabrazar, eight miles from
Havana on the 2lst. The next morn
ing five of the 81 returned to Havana
and reported that their companions
had been killed by insurgents shortly
before reaching Calabrazar.
DELEGATES from is states to the
American Bankers association conven-
ton at st. Louis, speaking for the
members from their respective COM
monwealths, declared that the bust
ness depression now prevailing over
the country is due to the free silver
agitation.