The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-08-29
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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delphia. IN the 18th, stated that out
of the crew of 81 men on board the Brit.
ish bark Flora p. Stafford, which was
burned at sea on June 8, while on a
voyage from Newcastle, n. S. W., for
Manila, the mate and five sailors are
u~naccounted for, and the general i'm
preston is hal they have persisted.
The electric lighting companies OF
st. Louis promise to have all lights re-
stored in the tornado district by the
25th.
FIRE at Lancaster. KY, on the 18th,
destroyed all the buildings on the east
side of the public square, including
the post office. Loss, $50, 900, two
thirds of which is covered by insur-
ance.
A DISPATCH from Athens, on the
10th, said that insurgents in Macedo-
mia had burned two villages in the
kosoni district and massacred eighty
persons.
AMONG the passengers on the steamer
st. Paul, which sailed from New York,
on the 18th, for Europe, were Senator
elect Joseph B.. Foraker and Postmas-
ter-General Wilson.
The democratic state convention as
sembled in Pueblo, Col, on the 10Th.
There vas a large attendance. George
Thomas, who had been looked upon as
the probable candidate for governor,
created a sensation by sending a
formal letter to the chairman posi-
lively declining to accept any nomina-
ton from the convention.
MAJ. MCKINLEY denied himself to
all callers, on the 10Th. and devoted
the hours to the work of reading the
proof of that part of his letter of ac-
ceptance which had been put into type.
Almost one-half the letter had been
revised.
On the 10Th a deputy state bank COM
missioner posted d notice on the closed
doors of the Argentine Ckas.) bank,
announcing that he had taken possess
sion and that application for 4 receiver
would be made.
A boiler explosion took
place in Rockland park, Rochester, n.
I.,On the 18th, where a new sewer was
being constructed. Contractor VIM.
Fuller was blown 100 feet and prob
ably fatally injured. John Holiday
and John A. Metzger were terribly
hurt. and 20 others were slightly in
jured.
A FRAUD order was, on the Goth, is
sued by the post office department
against the Creditors Beneficial asso-
citation of Rockford, H.
THE treasury gold reserve declined,
on the Goth, to SOB, 932, I'll. The days
Withdrawals were S129, 700 and for the
month they aggregated 81, 100000.
PROF. NJ. A. GREEN, NJ. A, professor
of geology of the University of Oxford,
died in London on the Goth.
FIRE of an unknown origin, on the
night of the 10Th, destroyed the resi-
dence of John Felbach in Watertown,
S. ID. Mr.. Felbach and two daugh-
tiers, Title, aged 10, and Hattie, aged
Is, were burned to death. The mother
and another daughter escaped.
THE Tomhicken Powder Co.'S mills
at Derringer, Pa, exploded, on the
Goth, killing E. J. Whitebroad and in
Jul ing ClCI 'ilCll. ollNCI INooS anu
John Kisbach. The mills were com
pletely wrecked, and the country sur
rounding was alarmed by the shock.
A HEAD-oN collision occurred, on the
Goth, OF the Detroit, Lansing & North
ern railroad, near Fowlerville, Mich,
between two passenger trains. Both
engines were ditched and one fireman
vas seriously injured. Several cars
vert derailed. The accident was
caused by the west-bound train fail
ing to make a siding to let the east
bound train pass.
The funeral of Sir John Millais,
president of the Royal academy, who
died in London on August 13, took
place in St. Paul's cathedral on the
Goth.
RAY SEwELL, who for a month had
been confined in the Meade county Jail
at Sturgis, S. d., IN the charge Of cat
tie rustling, made a desperate effort to
escape, on the Goth, and was killed in
an encounter with Fred Willard, a
butcher of that town.
JACOB L. LUsE, 4 well-known farmer,
committed suicide by hanging at his
home, near Marksboro, y. j., on the
Goth. The farm hands returning from
the field found him hanging from a
beam in the hay now His mind was
probably unbalanced by the silver agi-
~tation, which had given him great con-
Germ.
RANSOM w. DUNHAM, of Chicago, who
was visiting friends at Springfield,
Mass, died suddenly of apoplexy on
the night of the 10Th. aged So years.
Mr.. Durham was an ex-cougressman,
having served in the national house in
1ss4-5. He was also ex-president of
the Chicago board of trade.
The Jerusalem Celebration society.
whose object is a pilgrimage of Amer
lean Sunday-school children to the
Holy Land In 1900, has been launched.
The protector is Rev. Frederick Bliss,
of Chicago. Mr.. Bliss was the origi-
nator of the Youths congress of the
Columbian exposition.
HARRY y. WING, book-keeper at the
State savings bank, Butte Mont,
was arrested, on the night of the
Goth, on che charge of embezzling
funds from the bank to the amount
of S5,4Os. Wing is a young man
with Il wife and child, having been in
the employ of the bank a Eumber of
years.
THE Goth was the hottest day ever