The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16

WILLIS A. TRASH, the fugitive teller
of the First national bank of Walling.
ford, Conn, vas arrested at Halifax,
y. s.. on the 18th. Trask's embezzle-
ments are said to amount to $50, 900.
SENoRITA EvASGELISA CossIo Y CHS
NERos, the Cuban girl who recently es-
capped from Casa de Recojidas, in Ha.
vana. arrived in New York city On the
11th.. American friends accompanied
her by train from New Orleans.
Miss FLORENCE HELM, who was for
two terms postmistress at Elizabeth
town, KY, and who is said to have been
the daughter of ex-Gov. Helm of Ken
lucky. died in New York, on the 18th.
from the effects of morphine taken
with suicidal intent.
Gov. MCLAURIN of Mississippi has
appointed Senator-elect fernando De
Soto Money United States senator to
fill the vacancy caused by the death OF
j. Il. George, whose term expires in
1899.
Through her counsel, Emanuel NJ.
Friend, Mrs. Augusta Mack has sent
word to District Attorney Youngs, of
Queens county, n. V, that she is ready
to tel all she knows about the murder
of ~Guldensuppe if allowed to plead
guilty to mauslaughter.
The son of the duke and duchess OF
Marlborough, born September is, will
be baptized on the 18th, at the chapel
royal, st. James. The prince of Wales
will act as sponsor. and the princess of
Wales will attend the ceremony il she
is in London.
On the 18th the president appointed
Rafael Madrigal, of Maryland, United
States consul at C~artagena, Colombia.
A SHEPHERD named Vacher has been
arrested at Belley, France, charged
with committing IL series of sO-called
Jack-the-Ripper murders. He has con-
fessed to killing three shepherds, three
girls and two old ome
The sOuth-bound cannon ball train
Oh the International * Great Northern
railroad, vas held up, on the 18th, in
daylight and within II miles of the
city of Austin, Tex. by four train rob-
bers, who relieved all the passengers of
the money they carried, but failed to
gain access to the express company's
safe. They then ]uncoupled the loco
motive and ran four miles down the
track, where they took to the woods.
During the robbery the conductor and
one passenger were wounded, and
another passenger had his shirt collar
shot away.
The Denver Coll police board has
determined to investigate the charge,
made by Chief-of-POlice Ripley of Chi
cago, that Samuel Straehler, who is said
to be Il handler and protector of pick
pockets, is living in hal city under
police department.
HERBERT CROW, a young business
man of Hastings, Neb., was fatally
stabbed, by a young woman with a
hatpin. The steel entered the mans
side and broke off. The victim refused
ito give the name Of the girlor the cause
for the attack.
SINCLAIR Mccoy, a New York drum
mer, who shot himself at the Southern
hotel in St. Louis, September Is, died,
on the 18th, ut the MuIlanphy hospital
while an operation was being per-
formed for the removal of the bullet
from his brain.
News received from Long Valley,
Idaho, on the 18th. reported a battle
between the settlers and the sheep
herders there, in which three men were
killed and one dangerously wounded.
RESOLUTIONS favoring equal repre-
sentation of laymen and preachers in
conferences were adopted by the an
nual Rock River Qll.) conference q
the Methodist church on the 18th.