The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-01-23
AT e:15 a. m. On the 18th. tho tank

AT e:15 a. m. on the 18th. tho tauh
house of the Columbia Powder Co., 10
Gated in a hollow midway between the
boroughs of Sheusetown and Shane,
pin, Pa, blew up. Mr.. Stickney, the
proprietor of the works, and his two
daughters were killed. Mr.. P. Nc
Huxley was fatally and Walter Crane
very seriously injured.
THE national monetary conference,
which had been in session in Indian.
apolis, Ind, two days, on the 18th.
adopted a declaration of what legisla.
ton, in its opinion, is needed upon
the subject by a practically unanimous
vote. This declaration included a de.
mand for the maintenance of the gold
standard and the retirement of the
demand obligations of the government
The conference then adjourned sine
die.
THE Colorado Potato trust has gone
to pieces, and Texas consumers, who
take almost 1000, 600 bushels a year of
mountain tubers, can gloat owe the
prospect of Il potato war.
VA DoNhu II. EdDClot
of Missouri, to be secretary of the in
terror was called up in executive ses-
sion of the senate, on the 18th, and
after a short speech by Mr.. Vest dem,
MOI went over without action.
The Consolidated Candy Co., of HOS
Harrison street. Chicago. has been
barred from the use of the mails.
A QUANTITY of chemicals in the an.
thropological laboratory of the Field
Columbian museum in jackson park,
Chicago, exploded, on the 18th, and
caused q fire which was extinguished
with some difficulty. The damage is
estimated at sou.
II. A. FERGUSON, postmaster at Col.
orado Springs, Col, and p. p. Hoop,
money order clerk, were arrested, on
the 18th, having confessed to a shor
age of $1,000.
THE Paris newspapers express cot;
faction at the appointment OF Cor,
Muravieff as Russian minist' rof fo
eign affairs.
LONDON financiers gene ally ex,re.
the opinion that the T .,rnose of n
visit to Europe of Hor r "a WoIoot
United states sehaU' r. from Colorad,
Is merely 10 'eS' the sentiment i
monetary circles. upon the currenc
question.
RI. REV. W 81. BALL JOKES, bishop G
St. Davlds' IN the church of England
died at p -bergwili palace, Carmathar
Wales on the 18th. He was conse
crateA bishop in 1874.
g. STUART PATTERSON, the chairma.
OF the monetary conference, will an
nounce the names of the Is member
of the executive committee about tn
21st.
A sPECIAL cable from Valparaiso
Chill, says: "a telegram received her
via Montevideo, says hat the mai
steamer Corcovado, bound for Liver
pool, was shipwrecked off Cape Vii
gen, Straits of Magellan"
THE proposed anti-annexation OIL
ganization in Hawaii, headed by Brit
ish and German planters. came t
nothing. 1t proved impossible to Sc
cure any support from the Americans
who are said to be a unit for annexa
ton. A strong minority of Britisi
residents favor it in spite OF their owI
patriotic inclinations.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has directe,
that the portraits of Eli Whitney, tn
inventor of the cotton gin. and Cyru
W. Mccormick, inventor of the REAP
er, be not put upon the new silver Ger
tificates, as contemplated by Superin
tendent Johnson of the bureau of en-
craving and printing.
SIR TRAvERs TwIss, the eminen
English jurist-consult, died in Londol
OH the 18th.