The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-08-14

DAN McTAGGARr, ex-state
from Montgomery county, Ia. and
prominent as q republican politician,
was shot and killed at McTaggart's
mill, near Liberty, Kas., on the 4th, by
Henry Sheesley, lessee of the mill.
PLANS have been perfected for a
railroad to the Grand Canyon OF the
Colorado, and construction is to begin
soon from a point OF the Santa Fe Pa
! cific at Flagstaff or Williams, Ariz.
DURING the burning of a grain
elevator in Chicago, on the 5th, a ter
rife explosion-whether of a boiler or
mill dust is not known-occurred, as q
result of which five persons are
known to have been killed, and a large
number of others severely injured by
flying debris. Several small fires were
started by burning embers scattered
for squares in all directions
THE London Evening News pub
fishes 4 letter from a Calcutta volun-
teer, reiterating the statement that
during the recent rioting there the ar
tillerv fired point blank at a mob of
5000 mill hands who were marching to
join the rioters with the result that
1,5OO of the natives were killed.
LETTERS received in New York city
recently from Japan state that a strong
anti American feeling still exists in
that country, and that Americans are
being ~boycotted on all sides by the
japanese.
IT is semi-oficially announced in
Yokohama that Japan has suggested
that Belgium be selected to act as ar
b~ltrator in the question in dispute be-
tween Hawaii and the Japanese gov
eminent.
RAINS fell, on the 4th, in Kansas,
Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and parts of
Missouri. The rainfall seemingly was
general throughout the corn belt, and
it came in time to save the crop.
The latest official estimate of the
population of the United States is H.
900, O6S, and the money in circulation is
placed at S22.53. per capita.
On the 5th, Hugh White. a coal
miner, on 4 banter, made the perilous
leap from the summit of the railroad
vi Ky ~ u ~ W III "1NSAs
100 feet. After the leap he swan $50
feet in his heavy clothing, climbed to
the top of the bridge again and repeat
ed the feat.
News has reached Seattle. Wash, of
the death. last April, of Charles A.
Blackstone, George Botcher and J. w.
Malinque, miners, who went to Alaska
-, TLnE pnl ,,-a,.. F-,1.n 10 lnnth in
trying to make their way back to
Seattle. They were last seen alive
March %.
TIE Michigan Salt association. COM
monty known rs the Salt trust, has de-
cided to invade the Kansas field, and
will construct Il manufacturing plant
at Hutchinson with a capacity of 1 200
barrels daily. The company has pur-
chased a tract of 40 acres adjoining the
city as a site for the works.
The glass workers and the manu-
facturers of the American Flint Glass
Workers union have settled the wage
scale for the coming season. The only
change in the scale is an advance of
six per cen on grinding ware.
AT San Francisco, on the 9th, Judge
Campbell held Theo. A. Figel tC
answer to seven charges of embezzle-
ment and two of forgery and fixed his
bail at $50, 600.
The sprinkling of railway tracks
with crude petroleum has been found
to effectively lay the dust, and is being
adopted by some of the eastern roads.
A DISPATCH from Key West, Fla, on
the 9Th, said: ''Casala and Mendaz,
two insurgents who surrendered. will
be shot in a few days by order of Gen.
Weyler."