The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-02-22

ADVICES from Corea, on the 18th,
said that the Corean rebels had over.
powered and killed a small party OF
japanese soldiers who were guarding
the telegraphic lines.
JACKSON and Walling, the alleged
murderers of Pearl Bryan, were in
dicted by the grand jury at Newport,
KY, on the 18th.
A TELEGRAM received at st. Peters
burg, on the 18th, from Irkutsk, Sibe-
ria, says that a Siberian trader named
kouchnareff, who is the agent of DIR.
Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian eX-
plorer, has received information to the
effect that DIR. Nansen has reached the
north pole. has found land there. and
is now returning towards civilization.
U. c. LEEDY, the st. Joseph & Grand
Island operator at H~ollenberg, Kas.,
reported t o the general offices at st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, on the 18th, hat great ex-
element prevailed yer the discovery
of gold in a creek bed near there.
Samples of the gold nave been assayed
by Prof. Bartlett, of Des Moines, who
says it will run $50 to the ton.
A NEEDLE factory, the first in the
United States, is soon to be started in
Chicago, the needles to be made by a
machine, the first of its kind, invented
by Eugene Fontaine, of Detroit. Re
peated tests have demonstrated its
practicability, and it will turn out 2,5OC
needles an hour.
BIsHoP-ELECT e. Mort WILLIAMS, Of
the Marquette Episcopal diocese, is
quite i'll in Denver, Col. He is said tc
be suffering from ervou prostration.
induced by che trouble and worry occa.
stoned by the efforts of some of the
members of the diocese to defeat his
conservation.
ETIENNE CHATHAM, n pensioner OF
the war of lS12. died at Cornwall, Ont,
on the 18th, at the age OF 100 years.
His widow is % years of age. He had
been married 20 years, and leaves 2T5
living descendants.
ABOUT a thousand unemployed Poles
| gathered at the sub-office of the street
department n Buffalo, y. V, on the
18th. and demanded work, threatening
trouble if it was not given them. The
police We're sen for, and the crOwd
was dispersed. Some of them appeared
later at police headquarters and stated
that their families We're starving.
Mrs. SOPHIA Written, a t~rapezist,
professionally known as Lola Sylvester,
died at the Massachusetts General hos
pital in Boston. on the night OF the
18th, from injuries received by Il fall
from the dome of keith's theater. Mrs.
Written was born in England 81 years
ago. and had been in the trapeze bust
ness for 16 years.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY HERBERT
was before the house naval committee
for % hours, on the 18th, in rela-
ton to the proposed increase in the
navy. He renewed the recommended
ton made in his last annual report for
two new battleships and 12 torpedo
boats.
GEORGE PALMER, of Wakarusa, Ind,
disagreed with his wife as to whether
a gun which was lying on a cupboard
was loaded. Mrs. Palmer declared that
it was not. and in attempting to take
it down the gun vas discharged, the
contents tearing her husbands head
from his body.
AT the regular weekly meeting, Oh
the 18th, the members of the Vene-
zuelan commission expressed them
selves highly gratified with the assur-
ance that Great Britain would submit
its evidence for consideration.
THE keel of a large racing yacht wa
laid in the shipyard of Henderson
Tg-nc Of Glasgow ON tho 18th The
yacht is to be constructed after the
plans of Mr.. &. S. Watson, the de.
signer of Valkyrie III.