The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-11-21

ALBERT s. MERRIAM, q wealthy lam.
herman, walked into the Commercial
club at Minneapolis, Minp., On the
18th, entered a small card room, and
shot himself through the head with a
revolver. Death was instantaneous.
UNDER charges of political treach-
cry, six members of the Cook county
Qll.) democratic central committee
were on the 18th, expelled. Nearly 60
members of the committee voted for
dismissal.
The Chicago English High and Man.
ual Training school at los West Mon
roe street, one of the largest public in
situations in that city, was partially
destroyed by fire on the l2th. Supt.
Robinson estimated the damage at
StO, 600. All of the machinery used in
the institution, valued at S35, 900, was
a complete loss. The blaze, it is sup
posed, originated from the furnace in
the foundry.
Police OFFICER PURvIs,o of Brooklyn,
while attempting to board a Grand
street trolley car, on the 18th, slipped
and fell under the wheels, receiving
injuries which caused his death a few
hours later. This brings the list OF
trolley victims in hat city up to 167.
THE treasury gold reserve at the
close of business on the 18th stood at
S12a, 1O1, 5s9, a net gain for the day of
S252, 900. The Withdrawals for the day
at New York were ST., 400.
KING OSCAR of Sweden may be called
into the Venezuelan arbitration, but
only in case of a disagreement of the
four arbitrator appointed in the first
instance, when he will nominal the
fifth.
IL an interview, on the 18th, Premier
Canovas del Castillo said that there
had been serious reverses in Cuba,
but hat these ought not to dis.
courage the national spirit. Within
the present month, he said, the
government was sending such REIN
forcements to Cuba and the Philippine
islands as should be able to put al end
to the wars in both countries in a short
time.
THOMAS BRAN, the first mate of the
~barkentine Herbert Fuller, was taken
before the United States circuit court
at Boston, on the 18th, charged with
the murder, IN the high seas, of Capt.
Nash of the Fuller, his wife Laura,
and the second mate of the vessel, Au-
gustus W. Bramberg. The cas was
confined one day pending a motion to
quash the Indictment.
The new Northern Pacific securities
will be issued about the middle of De-
cember. They are being received in
large amounts from the bank note
company and are being signed at the
rate of several million dollars a day
by the officers of the railroad COM
pany. Over 200, 600 signatures will be
required to complete the securities.
THE battleship Iowa passed up the
Delaware river, or the 18th, on her re-
turn from her builders trial trip. On
her smokestack was displayed 1921"
This signifed that she had exceeded
her guaranteed speed of 16 knots.
JOHN Y. FIsTER, secretary of the
New Jersey republican state commit
tee and editor of several of the Leslie
publications, died at his home in New
ark, n. j., on the l2th, of pneumonia.
On the 18th the navy department
made the final reserve payment on the
torpedo boat Ericsson, and she is nov
the property of the government.
GEORGE A. HANsCoM, late publisher
of the Lowell Daily Times and Eve.
ming Star, died at Northampton, Mass,
on the 12th, aged 60.
THE government is strengthening
coast defenses and putting abandoned
forts in shape for occupancy.
NAVIGATION at the port of st. Peters
burg closed for the season on the 18th.