The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-02-06

OK the Goth the house passed yer
the presidents veto, by more than 9
t~wo-thirds vote, the bill to restore
Jonathan Scott, of Oswego, Kas., a
veteran Of the Fifth Iowa cavalry, to
the pension roll, at the rate of $7s q
month.
CoNCLADT Bros Great Western pot
terry, at Peru. Ind, one of the largest
in the country, was burned on the
2eth; loss, $4,000.
AT Linton, Is miles east of Sullivan,
Ind, on the eth, Mrs. Robert Wilkey
left her two children, aged n and
our years, in the house while she
went out calling. The house caught
fire and was burned down, and both
the children persisted.
On the 2sth Comptroller Eckels of
the treasury addressed the house com.
mittee on banking and currency on
the several bills referred to him. He
said a great deal of the present de-
preston had been brought about by
overtrading, unwise credit and IN.
usual extravaganza, public and pri-
vate.
THE senate committee on commerce,
on the 2sth, agreed upon and reported
favorably to the senate Mr.. Caffery's
bill appropriating S25O,OOO to close the
revass in the Mississippi river at
Pass a Loutre. The committee ex-
pressed no opinion as to the liability
of the Eads heirs in the matter.
MURAvIEFF, the rewly-appointed
head of the Russian foreign Office, ar
rived in Paris on the ?sth. A large
crowd of persons assembled at the
station to await his coming, and
greeted him with cheers and cries of
"Viye Russie" as he made his appear
ance.
The body of Sir Isaac Pitman, the
inventor of the Pitman system of short
hand, who died in London recently,
was cremated at Woking on the 2sth.
A TELEGRAM from Port Eads, La,
says the steamer Albert Dumers ran
down and sunk the steam yacht Argo
on the 2sth. Two reporters of the
New Orleans Picayune, who were on
the Argo, are missing.
THE fishing schooner Hattie Rebecca
Carter, from Atlantic City, went ashore
two miles northeast of Sea Isle City,
N. j.. on the 2sth, during a thick snow
storm. Her crew of six men were
saved.
THE Italian war office has ordered
six battalions of troops to get in read
mess to start for Massowah.
AT Jackson, o., On the Goth, Alice
Hill, a blind woman, aged As, while
cropping her way across a room in the
house in which she lived, came in con-
tact with a stove. Her clothes were
set on fire and she was burned to
death. Her mother, aged 70, also
nearly blind, was fatally burned try
ing to save her daughter.
THE northbound train on the South
ern Pacific railroad, which left San
Francisco, on the 2Sth, for Portland,
Ore, was held up near Roseburg, Ore,
on the Goth, by two or three men.
Two small safes in the express car
were blown open and looted. The ex-
press car then took fire and the car
and contents were destroyed.
THE house committee on the library,
on the Goth, recommended favorably
the bill appropriating $50, 900 for the
erection of an equestrian statue in
Washington city to Maj.-Gen. Henry
w. Slocum.
THE business portion of Caledonia,
O., was burned at an early hour on the
29th.
AT Cleveland, O., on the goth, viii.
lard Cotton, As years old, shot and al
most instantly killed his wife, Claris-
sa, aged AZ, and then shot himself in
the head and died in half an hour.
The tragedy vas the outcome of . do
nestle quarrel.