The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-11-21
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AOI Iltly nave a
quarter of the town of Citta di CASTILLO
has been flooded, bridges have been
swept away, several persons have been
drowned and large tracts of iand have
been desolated.
PREPARATIONS have begun in Wash
ington for the greatest inaugural fete,
upon the occasion of the installation
of President Mckinley, March 4 next,
that has ever taken place in the his
tory of the national capital. Local
republicans and gold democrats are
already at work making arrange
ments.
DIR. JARED d. WETMoRE, who had
been in jail at Grand Haven, Mich,
for three months, charged with COM
plicity in the murder of Enos Law
renee, at Holland, for which Ray
Coates is serving life Imprisonment
and Mrs. Lawrence a 20-year sentence,
was discharged, on the 10th, on Mrs.
Lawrence admitting that her testi-
mony against him was perjured.
AT Bonner Springs, Kas., Peter J..
Greenwald, a former preacher in the
Reformed church, was found hanging
from the ~rafters in his barn on the
9th. He had become Respondent over
business affairs. Greenwald was As
years old, and had a wife and eight
children.
The Lowell astronomical observa-
tory is to be removed from Flagstaff,
Ariz., to the City of Mexico.
BELLEFONTAINE, the famous local
option town in Ohio, which was re-
Gently compelled to discharge its po-
lice force, is now on the eve of giving
up its electric lights. The electric
light trustees have notified the city
council that they must have at least
So, 900 Immediately or shut the works
down.
A TRAMP discovered dynamite on the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern track
east of Washington, Ind, at one o'clock
on the morning of the 10th. He sig
nailed a passenger train with 300 peo-
pie aboard. The. train wreckers fired
at the tramp, shooting him through
the leg. The engineer saw the signal
and stopped his train just in time.
The train wreckers escaped.
On the 10th the secretary of the in
terror approved a schedule of allot-
ments of lands to 304 Chippewa In
dams in Minnesota.
WINDOW glass advanced 10 per cent
within three days, prior to the 18th,
and an additions! advance OF 10 to Is
per cent. is expected soon.
The new battleship Iowa went to
sea from Lewes. Del, on the 18th, on
her builders trial trip.
A TERRIBLE railway disaster oc-
Cured at Sokolka, in the Russian gov
eminent of Grodno, On the 18th. The
St. Petersburg and Warsaw express,
while running at n high rate oil speed,
collided with a freight train, COM
pletely wrecking the engine and all
the cars comprising the express, and
killing six persons and injuring il 9TH
ers, some of them fatally.
WALTER WALTERS, colored. was re-
turned to New York city, on the 10th,
from Providence, r. l., where he was
arrested while attempting to pawn
some of the jewelry stolen from the
residence Of Mrs. Z. c. Jones, of New
York city, on October 16. Walters
later confessed to the burglary of the
entire S.. 900 worth of jewelry, most of
which was recovered.
The treasury gold reserve, at the
close of business on the 18th, had in
creased 20 Sl22, 626, 452. The net gain
at New York for the day was S675, 900,
and the Withdrawals were 81, 100.
~ a. rt4l, O. NT.Aol-l1 f INlo.slo
issued a call for a southern states har-
Dor defense convention to assemble at
Tampa, Fla. January 20, 1897.
THE Spanish war office is preparing
to send 20, 200 more troops to Cuba.
TEE seventy-eighth annual meeting
of the general missionary committee
of the Methodist Episcopal church con-
vened in Detroit, Mich, on the 18th.
There was a full attendance.
ARTHUB PORTER, of Yukon, Okla,
formerly residing at Wichita, Kas.,
was kicked in the head by a mule, on
the 18th, while he was driving in Lin
coin county, Okla, and was instantly
killed.
FOURTEEN buildings in the business
portion of Traverse City, Mich, were
destroyed by fire, on the 18th, entail
ing a loss of S5O, 900; partially insured.
Ed Newberry, porter in the Front
Street hotel, was burned to death.
SOME ore brought down from the
coast north of Vancouver, B.. C., and
assayed for gold or silver has been
pronounced by the assayer at Van
couver to be cassiteria, or tin ore.
A C dispatch from Bombay
says that in IL districts of the Deccan
and Concan 1,250,oOU people r be-
lieved to be on the verge of starvation.
WALTER NJ. CASTLE, of San Francisco,
expected to sail from England for the
United States on the 14th. accompanied
by NJ RS. Castle, on board the American
line steamship st. Louis.
THE Penn Steel Casting Co., of Ches-
ter, Pa, has cast the ram for the bat
tle-ship Kearsarge. now being built at
Newport News, Va. This is believed
to be the largest casting of the kind
turned out in this country, weighing.
when ready for shipment. about 10000
pounds.