The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A from San Francisco says
Ex-Gen. Hubbard, of New York, is the
most prominently mentioned man as
the probable successor of Col. Croker
as first vice-presldent of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Co.
The famous ~Broadmoor Casino, the
500, 900 pleasure resort of Colorado
Springs, Col, was burned to the ground
on the 10Th.
E. FORD, a prominent business man
of Holyoke, Mass, died at his home, on
the 2Ist, as the result of a bicycle &C
cident. He collided with another
rider.
REV. DIR. TALMAGE has been forced
to sever his connection with the First
PRESBYTERIAN church of Washington
owing to ~dissension among its mem
beers. DIR. Sunderland is now in charge
of the church.
Miss JEAN INGELow, the distin-
guished poet and novelist, died in Lon
don on the night of the 10Th. She was
in her seventy-seventh year.
THE president signed the deficiency
| appropriation bill on the Goth.
The beginning of a litigation in
the extent of $3.50, 900 was marked in
surrogate's courts in Batavia, \. Y, on
the 10th, when objections were filed to
the probate over the will of William
Lampson, late of Leroy, who left the
bulk of his estate to Yale.
REPORTS from various parts of the
country tell of preparations on the part
of individuals and parties for a pill
grimage to the new gold fields of Alas
ka and British Northwest Territory.
Victoria, b. c.. is full of prospective
miners, waiting for transportation
northward.
NINE members of the crew of the
| steamer Goacho were drowned, on the
21st, in consequence of the sinking of
the vessel named, off the Isle of Wight,
as the result Of a collision with the
British steamer st. Fillans.
Four women and two men were
killed by an explosion in the loading de-
partment of the armory of the Win
chester Repeating Arms Co., at New
Haven. Conn, on the 21st. Five Others
were taken to the hospital badly in
jured.
The Constantinople correspondent OF
the London Post says the Turkish min
listers have accepted the frontier pro-
posals made by the European powers,
/ but the sultan has not yet ratified their
acceptance.
LAW and order have triumphed at
Leadvllle, Col, and all the great gam
bling halls are closed. The gamblers
admit that they nave been beaten, and
will go to the new Monte Carlo. near
Denver.
CHARLES HELBACH, Il well-known
slack and tight wire performer, of
Neenah, Wis, has decided to initiate
Blondin and walk a cable stretched
across Niagara Falls.
HORACE MoULToN, a pioneer kansan,
and for many yeas a capitalist and
politician by turn, was burned to
death, on the 2lst, at his home in kir-
win, Kas., by the explosion OF a lamp
which he was carrying.
SENIOR MoRET PRENDERGAsT's speech
at Saragossa on the Cuban question
and in de~nunciation Of the policy OF
the government has made a great SEN
sation in Madrid.
A DISPATCH from Bourges, capital OF
the department of Cher, France, on the
21st, said that the northwestern por-
ton of that department had been de.
stroyed by a hurricane.
ULRY GAIsFoRD, a Tacoma Wash.
barber, heart-broken by a wayward
wife, is months ago buried himself
from the world in Alaska, and to-day
is sole owner of a Klondike placer
valued at 81, OCO, 600, from which ne has
already taken over $50, 600.
WALL street was greatly excited to
learn the other day, that James 3.
Kean. famous as Jay Gould's principal
adversary in the olden days, had en-.
tered the market again and that the
market had paid him 81, 600, 600. within
80 DAYS, in return for the honor.