The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-13
CURRENT TOPICS,
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

hCAI JIG L dllSdueS u Tie IuuSOu lTOLl
being used by INSCRIPTIONS quarrymen.
AS THE result of a wager, Prof. Ar
thur st. Andressey and Miss Louise
Charlotte Wlborg were married, on the
night of the 4th, in the den containing
the monster lions Caesar and Cleopatra,
at the Boston zoo. An immense crowd
witnessed the ceremony, and cheered
the couple as they emerged from the
den.
DR.. W. w. SHEFFIELD, a prominent
dentist, died at New London, Conn, on
the 4th, aged 40 years. DIR. Sheffield
was one of the best-known dentists in
the United States, having acquired
considerable prominence by his tooth
browning patents.
THE president has ordered a court
martial to try Capt. Lowering. whose
undenied brutality towards Private
Hammond has been exploited in the
press. The court will SIT at Fort Sheri-
dan, Chicago. November %, under the
presidency of Brighten. j. T, Wade.
IN a book on the Cuban war just pub
lished in Havana, Gen. Weyler writes
the introduction. In d place he
says: The system of warfare carried
On by me during this campaign is not
a new me-. 1t is the same as pursued
by the Americans of the north when
they fought their brethren of the
SOUTH
Col. HENRY Z. RUSSELL, of Chicago,
vice-president and general manager of
the Union Drop Forge Co., died sud
denly of heart disease, while at lunch
con on the 9Th. Col. Russell was 81
years of age. He leaves a widow.
Mrs. ANGELINA MENDENHALL. aged
81, died at her residence in ~lndianapo-
lis, Ind, on the 5th, and was buried,
later in the day, in the same coffin
with her husband, aged 81. who had
died As hours before. For Is years
Mrs. Mendenhall had said hat she
would not be present in life at her hus-
bands funeral, even if he died first, for
she would join him a few hours after
his death.
Mrs. CELIA WALLACE, who resides at
the Auditorium, Chicago, and is a child
less widow, has taken a fancy to
Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros, the Gu
ban refugee, and has offered to adopt
the Cuban maid and make her an heir
to a fortune estimated by friends of
Mrs. Wallace at $500, 600.
OF the AZ persons who landed with
Gen. Maceo neal Baracoa, Cuba. near
ly two and a half years ago. only three
survive, the others, including Gen.
No. h. Ill -I-. - a., L,&@1~
fields or in the hospitals OF in prisons
in Cuba.
TEMPLE EMANUEL, the Jewish syna-
gogue at the corner of Twenty-fourth
and Curtis streets, Denver, Col, was
totally destroyed by fire on the 5th;
loss, S35, 900.
ABOUT 1000 head of cattle arrived in
Havana, on the 5th, from the United
States.
THOMAS NULLY, aged 81 years, broth
er and confessed murderer of the vic
tins of the Rawdon (Que.) tragedy
three sisters and a brother-was taken
to toilette Jail On the 18th.
The residence of George Tullock,
about three miles from Halifax, n. s.,
was burned to the ground on the
night of the 9th. Miss Mary Walker,
a sister OF Mrs. Tullock, and Il four
year-old child of the Tullocks were
burned to death.
NINETEEN men were drowned by the
sinking of the steamer Idaho, which
was lost on Lake Erie, above Long
Point, on the 9th.
The first annual report of Commits
sioner of Pensions Ii. Clay Evans to
the secretary of the interior was made
public on the 5th. 1t fails to show the
~diminution in the number of pensions
anticipated by former commissioners,
but discloses a net gain of 1876, the
total number on June 80, 1897, being
81 GOA.
MARK TwAIN's publishers, at Hart
ford, Conn, have received a cablegram
from the author, in which he denies
the report that he recently wrote a
letter to a personal friend in this
country stating that he had made
So. 600 in the last two years and had
paid his debts in full.
GREAT BRITAIN has declined to take
part IN the Florida fisheries confer
ence though greatly interested in the
objects of the conference"
No. 2 PASSENGER train on the Santa
Fe Pacific railroad was held up at
Grants station. n. NJ. onthe night of the
9th, by a gang supposed to be cowboys
familiar with the location. The ex-
press car was broken open with dyna-
mite, as was one of the safes, and sew
eral packages were taken. After the
robbers hadleft. the frightened fireman
backed the express car and locomotive
until they collided with the other
cars of the train, which were wrecked
and burned.
The long expected floating dry dock,
built in England and spacious enough
to accommodate large iron-clads, ar
rived at Havana on the 9TH. 1t
crossed the Atlantic without damage.
FIFTY years ago, on the 9TH, Henry
Ward Beecher was installed as pastor
of Plymouth church, Brooklyn. Ami
verysary services in memory of the dis
tinguished preacher were held. DR..
Charles Berry, of Queen City chapel,
Wolverhampton, England, occupied the
pulpit. ]