The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-07-11
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

on the Goth, against the players of the
Fort Wayne and Saginaw baseball
| clubs, charging them with engaging
| in game of baseball on Sunday in vi
olation of the Indiana state law. The
complaining witness was Rev. j. 5.
Ainsile, of the Congregational church.
| Rev Mr.. Ainslie is backed by the Min
isterial association.
A NOTICE was posted in the Pember-
ton mills. at Lawrence, Mass, on the
| 3Oth, informing 200 operatives that the
plant would shut down on Friday, July
3, and remain closed until September
| s. Agent +. Clark explained that 1t
was intended to make important re-
| pairs, and advantage is taken of the
times to do this.
AT Newport, Ky, on the Goth, Judge
Helm overruled the motion for a new
trial for Alonzo Walling, convicted as
an accomplice of Scott jackson, in the
murder of Pearl Bryan. The appeals
of Walling and jackson can not be
heard by the appellate court at Frank
fort before the September term.
| JOHN MCGINNER and John OBrien,
both men of many aliases and both no.
torious bank robbers. were captured in
Vancouver, Il. c.. on the 2Sth, by q
| Portland (Ore.) detective, and were
housed in the Clark county Jail. a
man giving his name as Fred Martin,
who was with the pair, was also ar
rested.
THREE unknown men near Meksu-
key, |. T, early on the morning of the
| goth, stole n work train engine, and
ran it to Choctaw City, where they
abandoned the engine and took to the
woods. The railroad company has
offered a reward for the capture of the
robbers.
APARTY of berry pickers consisting
of Alexander Anger, aged 40, his
cousin Gene LaForme and two nieces,
Liza and Annie Anger, three girls of
ten or twelve years, were struck by
train on the Massachusetts Central
road near Worcester, Mass, on the
| 3Oth. They saw the train coming and
ran for their lives, and had almost
reached place of safety when the
engine struck them. The Anger girls
were instantly killed, the LaFOrme
|
head was badly injured.
| WORK on the largest fire engine in
the world was completed, on the Both,
at the shops of a Cincinnati fire en-
CINE company. The boiler is 20 inches
long and 40 inches in diameter. The
two steam cylinders and two pumps
are each, respectively, 10 inches long
and 6 inches in diameter. The stroke
is 9 inches. At full speed the engine
capacity is 1900 gallons per minute.
1t was built for the Grand Rapids
} Mich fire department.
FRANK IVES, the champion billiard
, PLAYER of the world, has made Will,
in which he bequeaths his right arm to
his physician for dissection He does
this in order that men of science may
determine why he strikes billiard
Eall harder than any other man living
Corbett. Fitzsimmons, Sandow and
other athletes and strong men have
competed with him and he has not
been beaten yet.
THERE was no change in the situa
ton in the Twin Shaft mine at Pitts
ton, Pa, on the both. The rescuer'
continued to work hard in their en-
deavor to reach the entombed miners
and rapid progress was being made.
: by the overturning of a boat in Lake
Massapog, near Sharon, Mass, on the
GOTH, Choir-mastcr Bracket and foul
choir bows of St. Johns EpiScopa
church, Charlestown, Mass, who hat
gone there for a weeks recreation
were drowned. Two other boys wh'
were in the boat were saved.
IT is stated that Gen. Jacques Nico
las Leger has been appointed minis
y ter to the United States from Hayti t.
= succeed Mr.. Clement Hietjaens, re
signed. The new minister is expected
to arrive during July.
The treasury deficit for the fisca
year ended on the 30th foots up S25
. 500, 900; for the past three years tn
, deficit aggregates sla1, ,5OO.0On.
y FIpEL G. PERRA, a member of tn
d Cuban junta and chairman Of the Gu
ia ban Fair committee, called upon Ger
Il Tomaso Estrada Palma in New York
A OF the 3Oth. and handed him a chec
Il for S., 600, the first installment of tn
- proceeds Of the C1ban fair. This
n not all" said Mr.. Perra. ''As soon a
we settle up completely, l expect t
give you another check"
y A DELEGATION of citizens of Ne'
>. York and Brooklyn called on Gov. Mo-
y ton, on the 3Oth, and urged eXecutiy
a clenency in behalf of John Y. Mckan'
: the former Gravesend boss A pc
sonal letter from McKane to the go
=, ernor was presented by the delegation
% 1t urged that Mckane haI fully atone
II for his crime. and that outraged justiC
b had been satisfied.
Iris considered probable, at Haval
ma, that Gen. Bradley johnson, VII
a. has been acting as the correspOnder
"a of a New York newspaper, will hay
40 to leave Cuba on account of the repor'
. which he has sent to the United State
te regarding Cuban affairs.
,p BY an explosion of ammunition du
I;' ing a fire in the arsenal near Fol
"A Moselle, in the German province
70 Lorraine, on the night of the Both.
. men were killed and 100 others bad
injured