The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-02-20
THE 700 emnlozes of the McBeth

THE 700 employees of the McBeth
lamp-chimney factory at Elwood, Ind,
walked out, OF the 10th, On account Of
a difference with the company.
The safe in the Clearfeld pal post
Office was blown open, early on the
morning Of the 10th, and 81, 700 worth
of,stamps and $500 in cash were stolen.
A hole was drilled through the top
of the safe, and the door was blown
off and landed across the room.
The board of trustees of Washing
ton and Lee university met in Lexing-
ton, Va, on the 18th, and unani-
mously elected Hon. Wm. L. Wilson,
postmaster general. president of the
university. 1t is said that a commit
tee from the board visited Mr.. Wilson
soon after the resignation of Presi-
self as being willing to accept the
position. He will enter upon the
duties as president July /.
SENATOR PETTIGREw ISL. n. d., on
the 18th, introduced a resolution,
which went over, directing the senate
committee on public lands to ~investi.
gate, by subcommittee or otherwise,
the issue of a patent in the Perrine
land grant in the state of Florida
This is the patent issued to President
Cleveland's iather-in-law.
LYMAN j. GAGE has severed his con-
n~ection with the First national bank
of Chicago, of which he had been presi.
dent, his resignation being rendered
to the board Of directors at a meeting
held on the 18th.
SPENCER ERWIN, a well-known stock
broker of Philadelphia, died at the
Hotel Aldine, where he resided, on the
18th. He had been Ill Of pneumonia.
Mr.. Erwin was senior member of the
firm of Spencer, Erwin & Co.
On the 18th Chauncey NJ. Depew was
unanimously elected chairman Of the
board of control of the Joint Traffic
association.
The Grecian government has formu.
lated a notification to the powers set.
ting forth that Greece cannot remain
a mere spectator Of the events which
are taking place in Crete, and hat the
ties of race and religion compel her
to intervene in behalf Of the oppressed
and outraged Christians in that is.
land.
Mrs. JANE L. STANFORD has sur.
prised the trustees of Stanford uni.
versity by announcing that she had
made a deed of gift to the university,
to take effect at her death, of the fine
Stanford mansion on Mob Hill, in San
Francisco, with all its furnishings,
paintings and other art works, the
whole valued at 81. OOO, 900. The house
is the finest ever built in California.
The price of steel rails advanced a
little at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th.
ranging between SIT and SIS.
COUNT Won WoLKENsTEIN TRosBERG,
brother of the Austrian ambassador to
France, committed suicide in Vienna,
the 18th, by shooting himself with
revolver.
A HEAVY snowstorm, interspersed
with hail and rain, prevailed all over
on the 12th. In the
regions the snow was ten
inches deep, and at Harrisburg there
was five inches on the level.
FIRE, on the 18th, caused a loss of
500, 900 in the building 172 and 174
Madison street Chicago; we'll covered
by insurance.
A BOILER in the coal mine of Lee &
in Weathersfield township,
near Youngstown, O., exploded, on
the 18th, killing Joseph Wilcox and
scalding Louis Kyle.
THE president, on the 18th, SEM to
the senate the nomination of Carroll
D. Wright, of Massachusetts, to be
commissioner of labor-a reappoint-