The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-10-31
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

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SUPT. RICHARD RUSH, in charge OF
the publication o. the naval war rec.
ords, says that during the past year
the second and third volumes of the
war records have been published. The
fourth volume is in the hands of the
printer, and it is hoped that two more
volumes will be ready for the press
during the current fiscal year.
The international Typographical
union by voting down a motion to the
effect that only printers, members OF
the union, shall be allowed to work as
repairers or machinists on the linotype
machines. left the matter precisely
where it vas before the annual session
of the Typographical union.
Two LUMBER-LADEN schooners which
were believed by their owners to have
been wrecked during the recent storm,
with their entire crews, numbering in
all 13 men, arrived at Philadelphia, on
the Goth, both with loss of deck loads
and sails and one with cabins flooded,
and kept ahoat only by the buoyancy
of her cargo.
HARRIET BLAINE BEALE, with her at
torney, appeared quietly before Judge
Whitehouse, of the supreme court of
Maine, at Augusta, on the Goth, and
asked for a divorce from her husband,
Truxton Beale. Mr.. Cornish made q
brief talk and the divorce was decreed.
In the case of Miss Celia Rose, on
trial at Mansfield, o.. for having caused
the death of her father, mother and
brother with POISON, the jury returned
a verdict acquitting the accused on
the ground of insanity. She will prob
ably be adjudged insane and sent to an
asylum.
A COMPARATIVE statement of the re-
ceipts from internal revenue, issued on
the Goth, shows the total receipts for
September were S12, OO9. 1870, a slight
gain over September, 1895. For three
months ended September 80, 1896, the
receipts amounted to S37, 794, sS7, a gain
of $50, 900.
LORD BBAssEY, the governor of Vic
toria, Australia, in a speech on i'm
perial federation, on the goth, said:
1T would be wise, if possible, to bring
America into a grand defensive league
OF the Anglo-Saxon races, which would
effectively secure the peace of the
world"
REV. CANON ANDERSON, principal of
the Montreal diocesan college, died on
the 21st.
JUSTIN S. MORRILL,, of STAFFORD, VT,
was reelected United States senator
from Vermount on the Goth. In the
senate no other name was presented,
and Senator Morrill, Received the en-
tire so votes. In the house he received
213 votes.
A DISPATCH was received at Juneau
Wis, on the Goth, from the coroner of
Fredericksburg, Va, stating that ".
T. Rambusch, the ~absconding banker,
had committed suicide there. The dis
patch asked what disposition should be
made of the body.
The big distributing reservoir of the
Oakland CAL Water Co. broke through
it's walls, on the Goth, and 2,OOO, 900
gallons of water were let loose with a
rush. A wall of water seven feet high
tore down Oakland avenue, but beyond
flooding the streets no great damage
was done.
A BERLIS dispatch says: The st. Pc
tersburg Viedomosti gives details of
the Van massacre, secured from fugi-
tives who have arrived at Eichmiadzin.
They declare that no A~rmenians are
left in the Van district.
Mrs. COLUMBUS DELANo, wife of the
late secretary of the interior, fell and
broke her hip at Columbus, O., on the
Goth. She is old and i'll, and the mis-
hap may prove fatal.
POSTMASTER MOSES YowELL, at Sid
ney, Ia, was removed, on the 21st, and
his daughter was appointed to the
place.
University Hall of History at Wash
ington was laid on the 21st.
WHILE endeavoring to locate a leak
in house No. 954 North Halstead street,
Chicago, on the 2lst., Charles Cailand
opened the door of the occupied
by George Nc Whorley. Instantly there
was q tremendous explosion, and Cal
land was thrown across the room, re-
ceiving injuries that may prove fatal.
Upon investigation McWhorley vas
found dead.
ALMOST the entire business portion
of the village of Lancaster, n. Y, was
burned on the 21st; total loss, $50, OCO,
partly covered by insurance.
JOHN HoLLINGHEAD, the Washington
county (Ala.) farmer who partici-
pated in the lynching of Christopher
Chamblis, several months ago, then
turned states evidence and convicted
several of the lynchers, who were re-
Gently sentenced to life imprisonment,
was assassinated in the roadway near
his home, on,the 21st, being shot from
ambush by a dozen men.
THE Union Sugar Refining Co.. of
Camden, n. j., fled articles of incor-
poration, on the 22d, with the secre-
tary of state. Capital stock, S2,O0O,-
600.
The Schnaubelt reported dead at
San Bernardino, Cal. on the ped, is not
the Chicago Haymarket bomb throw
err, but his brother, Henry Bernard
Schnaubelt.
DR. JOHN L. YOLToN and DR.. Rhoda
Galloway, two of the most prominent
members of the medical profession in
Bloomington, Ill, were married on
the 22d.
The plant of the Summit Refrigera-
tor Co. at Michigan City, Ind, was
burpai on tba ODD Loss Son OnO. ;,-