The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-08-07
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

died, on the 10Th. in Jersey City, n. j.,
in her one hundred and first year.
She was born in Prussia. She saw
Napoleon march into Prussia, and
waved a red handkerchief at the great
emperor.
FATHER TON SHERMAN, son of Gen.
Vim. L. Sherman, has arrived in Seat
tie, WASH, from the east. He is bro
ken down in health and went to Seattle
for rec~uperatiOn.
THE pope is again directing special
attention to the question of interna-
tional arbitration, which he considers
a matter pertaining peculiarly to the
papacy.
The comptroller of the currency has
issued Il call on national banks for a
report on their condition at the close
of business Friday, July %.
ThE statement of the condition of
the treasury, on the Goth, showed:
Available cash balance, $2S9, 273, S+3;
gold reserve, S143, 7&6. 217.
The steamer City of Topeka arrived
at Seattle, Wash, from Alaska Gu the
26th. The Topeka brought no klon-
dixie passengers nor glittering gold,
but reported that the miners were
focking toward Dyea by the o
from Juneau and Sitka, and that both
places threaten to be depopulated.
AT Watson, w. Va, locks have been
put on all the gates and deputies called
for, which places every mine in the
county under the county's protection.
This is done by the operators SO the
county will be responsible if any of
their property is burned.
Col. j. FENToN SEYMOUR died in Dem
YER, Col, on the 27th. of Bright's dis
ease He wa born in New York state
in 1882, and went to Colorado in 1860.
In the early days Col. Seymour oper-
ated stage lines. Later he engaged in
mining.
THEODORE C. ScHINrz, a Chicago law
yer and real estate dealer, who recently
failed to the extent. it is said, of nearly
a million, was arrested, on the eth, or
a charge of alleged fraud in selling q
trust deed for So, 900. He was released
on bail.
OrTo WEBER, who was arrested
recently, charged with being an &C
complete with John Schlegel in the
sensational street murder of DIR. Lyman
A. Berger in Kansas City, Mo-, was
liberated. after his preliminary trial OF
the 27th.
THE British government has pur-
chased from the Maryland Steel Co., of
baltimore, $50, 900 tons of rails, that
company's bid being eS,675 less than
the lowest British bid.
THE st. James Gozette, commenting
upon Japan's protest in the Hawaiian
matter, says: According to European
usage it amounts to a threat to resist
the transfer of the archipelago by
force, and is equivalent to warning the
United States that they must give up
their views as to Hawaii or prepare for
war"
On the 9th the president announced,
among others, the following recess ap-
pointments: T. V. Powderly, commits
siouer-general of immigration; Robert
J. Aracewell, comptroller of the treas
ury, and Alexander l.. Morrison. col
lector Of internal revenue for the dis
trict OF New Mexico.
A DISPATCH received by the state de-
partment from the United States con-
sui at Mozambique, on the 2Sth, said
that the French steamer Alphee, which
cleared for Beira, May 81, for Mozam-
bique, had not been heard from and
that it was feared she had f%oundered at
sea. 1t is probable she had mails from
the United States on board.
The stock of the Glucose Sugar Re-
filming Co. has been placed in the list
of unlisted securities on the Chicago
stock exchange. The official announce
ment, issued on the 2Sth, stated that
the total issue is $40, 600, 900, of which
S26, 900, 900 are common and S14, OOO, 600
preferred shares.
Miss GRACE ALLEN, the Kansas school
teacher, on trial at Chandler, Okla,
was acquitted, on the 2sth, of the
charge Of poisoning Miss Phronia
Eckes, her rival, and the latter's moth
er. The verdict received the COM
mendation of the public.
BIDS were opened at the treasury de-
partment, on the 2Sth. for the founda-
ton work of the Chicago post Office
building. There were % bids. of which
that of Macarthur Bros. Co., of Chicago,
for S2OS, 45S was accepted.
The handsome Carrara marble bust
of President Mckinley that is TO be
placed in the state capitol at Column
bus, O., arrived at New York from
Naples ON the 2Sth.
A TRAIN was wrecked on the Central
Pacific road four miles west of Reno,
New, ON the 18th. Six Indians were
killed and nine injured. Quite a num-
Der of the train crew sustained inju-
rieS.
STATE COMMANDER DODGE has granted
the application for the organization Of
Q G. A. Z. post at Notre Dame, Ind,
the seat of Notre Dame university. The
membership of the post will be COM
posed wholly of Catholic priests
ADMIRAL WALKER, Capt. Carter and
Prof. Haupt, the new Nicaragua canal
commission, held q preliminary meet
ing in the engineers Office at the va
department on the Goth. Although
the5 have not received their commits
sions, they discussed a. some length
their future plans.