The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-09-04
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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the Arctic regions the members of the
Jackson-Farnsworth expedition, who
had spent three winters at Cape Flora,
passed Aberdeen, on the eth, on her
return trip, and signalled that all were
well on board.
! SENIOR J. G. SOBERAL, the Spanish
naval attache at Washington, in COM
| pany with the Spanish consul at Fer
nandina, has been making a careful in
spection of the coast and harbors of
Florida. He was warned off the gov
ernment reservation at Key West.
The next official maps of the Cana
dian government will show a change
| in the spelling of ''Klondike.' The
new diggings and the river will be re-
| ferred to officially hereafter as ''Troan-
dix"
"A LETTER has been received in New
York from Quintin Banderas, the IA
nous negro war captain of the Cuban
army, announcing his arrival in Havana
province with II, 900 men.
SHORTLY after midnight, on the Goth,
cracksmen literally blew the vault of
the Exchange bank at Elmdale, Kas.,
to pieces. Nitroglycerine was used
three times and the explosions were
heard for miles. Citizens surrounded
| and fired into the bank, but the rob-
bers made their escape by a side door
with 81, 800 in money and S700 worth of
drafts.
The Paris Memorial Diplomatique as
serts that the ameer of Afghanistan
has ordered the faithful to hold them
selves in readiness for holy war, and
that meeting of mullahs has been
convened at Cabul to discuss the situa-
tion.
GEN. WoODFORD. minister to Madrid,
expected to start from Paris to San
Sebastian, on the S0th, to present to
the queen regent the proposition of the
state department for ending the war in
Cuba. The result of his mission is
awaited with much interest.
IT is estimated that in Oklahoma ter
ritory, during the year 1897, the stock,
grain, fruit. and all other products will
amount to 500, 600, 600. OF this the peo-
pie at home will consume 80 per cent,
leaving Sac, OOO, 900 of products for ex-
port.
SECRETARY GAGE and Attorney-Gen-
eral McKenna issued joint circular,
on the 3Oth, to collectors and customs
officers and United States attorneys
and marshals relative to the enforce
ment of the Chinese exclusion laws. 1t
is proposed to let the suspects pass on
to their destination, and arrest and try
them where they are supposed to be
known and can be identified II their
claims are genuine.
HERMAN w. VAN ZANDEN, private
secretary to Secretary Carlisle in the
last administration, and Dennis j.
Canty, formerly a clerk in the inter
state commerce commission, were ar
rested in Washington, on the 3Oth,
on warrants charging them with EN-
bezzlement of 81, SS7 from Wilking &
Co., a brokerage firm. They were
charged also with maintaining a gam
bling table.
A SPECIAL from Anaconda, Mont, on
the 3Oth, said: "A fierce forest fire is
raging a few miles west of here and
spreading with alarming rapidity to-
ward this city. The fire has already
burned over 10, 900 acres of timber. A
messenger from the burned district
saws that Georgetown and Silver Lake
are both in the track of the fire..
OPERATIONS were resumed at the At
lantic mills at Lawrence, Mass, on
the 3Oth, after a shutdown of four
weeks. This gives employment to
about 1900 hands. Work was also re-
sumed in the weaving department of
the Methuen company's mills at
Methuen, Mass, where nearly all of
the 45O operatives employed in those
mills are now at work.
The Catholic board of school COM
missioners of Montreal, Can, having
refused to comply with the order of
the provincial board of health to re-
fuse entrance to their schools to chill
dren without vaccination certificates,
the city will station officers at all the
Catholic schools to vaccinate the chill
dren.
The board of naval officers appointed
by the secretary of the navy to exam
inc facilities for the manufacture of
armor plate investigated the plant of
the Illinois Steel and Iron Co., at South
Chicago, on the 3Oth. Three days will
probably be spent in looking over the
various branches of the works.
AT the session of the Zionist con-
gress, held in Basle, Switzerland, on
the S0th, the delegates present unani-
mously adopted, with great enthusiasm,
the programme for re-establishing the
Hebrews in Palestine with publicly
recognized rights.
The Great Falls cotton manufacture
ing mills at Somersworth, n. H., re-
sumed operations on full time. on the
SOth, after having run 40 hours a week
since May.
THE czar will visit Paris at the end
of autumn.
The First state bank of Mcpherson,
Kas., of which Senator Royal Mat
thews is president, failed, on the S1st,
with liabilities amounting to $4,000.
The bank was placed in charge of
Bank Commissioner John w. Breiden-
thai