The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-08-14
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

personal examination OF the conulIlons
of those islands.
THE crews of the 40 l~ife-saving sta
tons of the United States government,
stretching along the New Jersey coast
from Sandy Hook to Cape May, went
on duty, on the 1st, after being out OF
service since May 81.
An extensive robbery of art works
and other articles of great value took
place at the Vaud cannonal museum in
Lausanne, Switzerland, on the I'd.
The Chinese water course, COM
monty known as the West river, has
finally been opened to trade and COM
merce as far westward as Woo-Chang-
Flu, popularity known as Ny-Chan,
which has been made a treaty port.
REV. HENRY DAY, d. D., widely
known throughout the Baptist church
as preacher and editor. died, on the I'd,
of paralysis, at his home in Indianapo-
lis, Ind. He was born at Westield,
Mass, in 1878.
THE Hammond Edge Tool Co., at
Ogontz, a suburb of Philadelphia, re-
sumed operations, on the I'd, after a
shutdown of two months. About n
hundred hands are employed.
A SMALL tornado passed through the
northern part of Greene county, Ia, on
the I'd, sweeping away barns, houses
and stacks of grain. Several persons
are reported slightly injured.
Two MEN. known as Henry Duff and
j. II. Edgar, whom the police believe
to have been noted crooks, fought a
duel in a small room in a Denver Coll
lodging house on the I'd. Duff was
instantly killed and Edgar vas fatally
wounded.
BALL Bros, of Muncie, Ind, among
the largest fruit jar manufacturers in
the world, are preparing to introduce
machines for blowing fruit jars.
IT was announced, on the Sd, that
the rising of natives in Bechuanaland
had collapsed and that Chiefs Toto and
Lukajaulos, who had a thousand fol-
lowers. had surrendered to the British.
WORK was resumed, on the I'd, at
the bohemian branch of Wheaton &
Co.'S glass works, Melville, n. j.
In the race for the queens cup at
Cowes. Isle of Wight, on the Sd, the
prince of Wales yacht Britannia, with
his royal highness on board, eat EN-
peror Williams yacht Meteor on time
allowance.
EVERETT RUGGLEs, of Stockton, Cal,
has just discovered that the lady whom
he recently welded is an h~eiress. The
bride has been notified that she is en-
titled to a o~ne-seventh interest in q
$3.50. 900 estate in New York.
THE Rome (Ga.,) cotton factory has
obtained a government contract for
1900, 600 yards OF heavy duck for mail
sacks, the contract price of which is
$3.50, 900.
The steamer Noyo sailed from San
Francisco, on the 4th, with 140 pas
sengers for Dyea, Alaska OF the pas
sengers booked, ten are women, vino
will make the journey over the Chill
koot pass t. the Klondike gold fields.
The Chicago agent of the Travellers
Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn, has
received instructions from the home
office not to insure any person going to
the Klondike region. 1t is q risk that
the company does not desire to take.
The first importation of Mexican
CdIIlt hNC LlAC bllSASy low wac
made through the customhouse at
Nogales, Ariz., on the Sd. Six hun
dred and forty head of steers, the prop
erty of E. S. Newman, were brought in,
the duty being 81, 296. 95 over the duties
fixed by the Wilson law.
FIRE broke out in II. T. Bells store
at Lewisburg, w. Va, on the Sd, de-
stroying STATIONS hotel, two banks,
two drug stores and ten other build
ings. Loss about $40, 900: insurance,
SIS, 900. The fire was incendiary, and
the result of a second attempt within q
week.
ALL departments Of the Cleveland
co. rolling mill opened on the ID.
About 2. 600 men were given work.
Two PERSONS were instantly killed
and five were probably fatally injured
in the wreck of the Fast Flyer on the
Kansas Pacific railway, On the Sd, by
going through a small bridge which
spans Comanche creek, between Byers
and Strasburg, 40 miles east of Dem
yer. Col.
NELSON DINGLEY, father of Congress-
man Nelson Dingley, Jr., died at his
home in Lewiston, Me-, IN the Sd, aged
IS years. Death vas due to a stroke of
paralysis. Mr.. Dingley had been in
remarkable health up to the night of
the 3Oth, when he was stricken with
paralysis. He rallied, but a second
stroke followed, proving fatal
The king of Siam, accompanied by
the crown prince of Siam, Prince
Chowfa Maha V~ajiravudh, and by Lord
Harris, one of her majesty's lords in
waiting, made a surprise visit at mid
night to an east end (London) institu-
ton established for the shelter of the
homeless. His majesty was greatly in
terested in the 800 outcasts occupying
hunks in the building. and inquired
closely into all the details of managing
such institutions.
A STORM accompanied by a striking
electric display awakened Madison
wis people about 2 a. N. on the 4th.
Over 500 telephones were burned out