The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-11
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

gone to Berber. Gen.. Herbert klch
ener the British commander-in-chief
will follow immediately"
EX-CoNGREssMAN LEW HANBACK,
aged So years, died at his home in Ar
m%ourdale, Kas., IN the 9th, from
typho-malaria fever. He had beer
i'll but two weeks. He served through
the war with distinction as a Unio1
soldier, and had held many public of
fees.
The post Office department is avail
ing itself of every satisfactory oppor
tunity to dispatch mails to the various
points in Alaska. In accordance with
this policy, Assistant Postmaster
General Shallenberger, on the Sd,
wired authority for forwarding mails
on the steamer Farrellon, sailing thai
day from Seattle for Dyea and inter
mediate points.
DURING the military maneuvers in
the vicinity of Weimar, Germany, on
the Sd, a pontoon bridge collapsed
while the Ninety-fourth Thuringian
regiment of infantry was passing over
it. A number of soldiers and some of
the trumpeters were either drowned or
hit by the timbers of the bridge and
killed.
The United States ~subtreasury trans
ferred 500, 900 in small bills to Kansas
City, on the Sd, for which it received
gold in exchange, and SIS, 900 in silver
dollars to Texas and Alabama. Bank
~ o1Sn rannrt haorr Shinnonn &c of ~
rency direct to the west and southwest
by registered mail and otherwise, but
not much to the south.
WILLIS N ROBERT STEELE, cousins,
living at Brushy Fork, Ind, became
involved in a fight, on the Sd, owe an
old feud, when Willis drew a revolver
and shot Roberti in the abdomen, which
caused death in two hours. Willis
gave himself up, claiming self-de-
Tense.
RICHARD MACKIsoN, an old prospec-
tor. exhibited a gold nugget, the size
of a walnut, at Henryville, Ind, on the
Sd, which he said he had found 81 The
Knobs. He would not reveal where he
found it, proposing to search further.
RIFAAT BEY, until recently councillor
of the Turkish embassy in London,
has been appointed Turkish minister
at Washington to succeed Mustapha
Tachsin Bey.
II. RUSSELL WARD, of Santa Monica,
CAL, who became notorious a short
time ago through his elopement
with Mrs. Bradbury, met his death
near Wheatland, Ia, on the Sd, by
falling or jumping from the east
bound overland limited on the North
western railway.
On the I'd Captain-General Weyler
received from Spain 81, OOO, 900 in silver,
to be used in defraying the expenses of
the war in Cuba.
TIE United States consul at Odessa,
Russia, reported to the state depart
ment, on the Sd, that the wheat crop
this year in Russia is a poor one. The
yield in many places will not be more
than foul bushels to the acre.
AN excursion train on the Maine
Central railroad was wrecked, on the
5th, 30 miles west of Etna station, Me.
One person was killed and 30 wounded.
The train was carrying excursionist5
from Dover and FoXcraft to the Etna
The breaking of a
fange derailed and overturned a car
containing 65 passengers.
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 5th, said: Expectations are high
in coal mining circles over the prob
able resumption of work in all the
mines throughout the country"
LIEUT.. G. DIBY BARKER, governor of
Bermuda, arrived at New York, on the
5th, on the steamship Orinoco, accom-
by his aide-de-canp, Capt.
Platt. Gen. Barker and wife intend to
make a tour of the United States and
Canada.
A DISPATCH from Havana, dated the
9Th, said: During the month of Au-
gust 500 persons died in Guinas from
epidemic diseases. The mortality is
due to yellow fever, malaria and dysen-
Many deaths occur on steamers
EN- route to Spain. The bodies of those
who die en- route are thrown over
board. Three deaths occurred on one
Of these steamers recently before she
left port"
AN iron ore train on the Pittsburgh
& Western railroad was wrecked two
miles east of Ravenna, O.. on the 5th.
Hawley A. Thomas, of Ra-
VIENNA, was instantly killed; Michael
Seibo, a tramp, was fatally injured,
and several other tramps were badly,
Init NOT fatally injured.
ME-. III. CLAY EVANS, the commits
sioner of pensions, is i'll at his hotel in
Washington city. Col. Evans has ueen
under a great strain for almost a year.
HARRY c. ALBAUGH, who was a clerk
in the Second national bank of Altoo-
IA, Pa, when it was looted by Cashier
Gardner three years ago, and who was
arrested at the time for having changed
in his books at the cashiers
iictation. committed suicide. on the
;th, by shooting himself. This is the
second suicide as the result of the fail
ire of this bank.
Miss MABEL MORRILL,. aged % years,
If East Cambridge, Mass. while riding
bicycle, fell into an excavation a nd
ras killed.