The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-01-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

NEwS from Washington indicates
that free" silver coinage has been
practiced to such an extent that mill
ions of spurious dollars are flooding
the country which can eve be de-
tected becausetheir weight and fine
ness are equal to those coined by the
government minis
JOHN 3. TANNER was inaugurated
Iigovernor of Illinois on the 18th. Fiji
ty thousand strangers are said to have
visited Springfield to witness the in
suguration ceremonies.
AT last the fatal chunk which divid-
ed the Missouri river and the famous
fishing resort, Lake Quinnebaugh, in
Nebraska, has dropped into the river,
and what was once a body Of inland
water next summer will be nothing
but a barren piece of land.
A of naval officers has COM
menced Investigations looking to the
rehabilitation of the Notifications on
the Dry Tortugas, the key to the gulf
of Mexico, and the establishment of a
naval supply station there.
WHILE returning from church at
West Branch, Ia, on the 10th, Mary J..
Hawley,s an aged woman, and a pio-
neer of that community, suddenly
dropped dead on the sidewalk from
heart failure.
The conference of gold standard
democrats, held al the auditorium in
Chicago, on the 9th, declared for con-
tinued opposition to the tenets of the
free silver wing of the party and for
a continuance of the party organiza-
ton.
WITH more ceremony than ever be-
ore known on such an occasion in
jefferson City, and in the presence of
the largest and most brilliant assem-
blage ever gathered there, Lon v.
Stephens was, on the 18th, ~inaugurated
governor of Missouri.
The United States supreme court,
in an opinion by Justice Gray, on the
nth, held that an application for an
injunction against an executive officer
of the government was vacated by his
death or resignation.
The sum of S12O, 600, 600 is the total
AMOUNT of Spain's expenditures in
Cuba in the year, not yet ended, of
Capt.-Gen. Weyler's misgoyernment.
The final paper in the D~urrant muir
der case was filed, on the 18th, in the
office of the clerk of the supreme
court of California. No further legal
proceedings can be taken in this cele-
brated case until the supreme court
renders its opinion in decision of it.
WILL S. FANS, of st. Louis, has been
appointed architect to draw plans for
the new military prison at Fort Leav-
enworth, Kas. The new prison is to
cost 5000, 900.
LATE dispatches say that copious
rains rave fallen in most of the fam
ine-stricken districts of India, but a
great deal more rain is needed. The
bubonic plague is increasing at Kara
chi.
The Anglo-American general arbi-
tration treaty was signed in the dipio-
matte parlor of the state department,
in Washington, on the 18th, at 1920 p.
m, by Secretary Olney and Sir Julian
Pauncefote.
THE tariff hearings before the ways
and means committee were concluded
on the 18th, the schedule containing
''Sundries" and the Free List" being
considered.
THE United States steamship Mont
gomery, which sailed, On the 18th, for
Florida waters on flibustering duty,
returned to the Brooklyn navy yard, Oh
the 18th, having met with an accident
before she got clear of the harbor
which necessitated her going into The
dry dock immediately.