The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1897-07-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

against the annexation of Hawaii by
another protest against the pending
tariff bill.
ACCORDING to Chicago brokers and
commission men, a glucose trust has
been formed. Its existence was sus-
pected two or three weeks ago, when
the price of the, long sweetenIng" took
an upward turn on a totally inactive
market.
LOUIS SYCKMILLER was instantly
killed and Albert Syckmiller, Charles
Faile and George Steinhelder were ia
tally injured by an Erie express near
Mansfield, O., on the 21st. The men
were waiting for freight train and
laid down to sleep on the track.
The proposition to close the New
York stock exchange on Saturday pre-
ceding the Fourth of July was voted
afirmatively by the members on the
22d.
JUNE % will live in the memory of
Englishmen and visitors to England
tacle presented by the parade escorting
Queen Victoria to St. Paul's cathedral
to render service in commemoration of
the siXtieth anniversary of her acces-
siou to the throne.
A DISPATCH from st. Petersburg,
dated June 81, says: The River Kur
has overhowed its banks near the rail-
road depot of Nawthig, in the Tifiis
district. Nineteen men, belonging to
the Mini Novgorod dragons, were
drowned.
FROM Chicago to Pittsburgh, Pa, in
hours and % minutes by rail is the
latest trecordbeating time of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Co.
c. II. ANDERSON, of the Arapahoe
Wheel club, Denver, COL, has lowered
the road record for 100 miles from 6:31
to 6:3O:3O. The former record was
made by A. L. Hachenberger last year.
ROMAN CATHOLIC priests in Chicago
observed the jubilee day of England's
queen by celebrating dead masses for
the spiritual repose of Irishmen whose
deaths were charged against English
misrule in the Emerald isle.
CAPT. BoYCoTT is dead. He was
about So years of age, and became IA
nous through being the first man SUBJ
jeeted to the boycott in Ireland, his
advice as to the treatment of others be-
ing first applied to himself.
PRINCE RUPERT of Bavaria, who would
be prince of Wales now and future king
of England and emperor of India if his
Stuart ancestors had conducted their
royal affairs more wisely than they did.
rode in the Victorian jubilee parade as
the representative of his mother, Prin-
cess Ludwig.
The Hungarian crop prospects are
very unpromising. The yield of wheat
and rye will be much below the aver
age.
WHAT have you got so many Amer
lean flags for?' asked Julian Ralph of
a Londoner on the day of the great
jubilee procession. "Oh," he replied,
Il fancy it must be because we are all
one people"
BELoTr CWis.) college has conferred
the degree of doctor OF law upon Ly-
man 7. Gage, secretary of the treasury,
in recognition of his high attainments
in literature and in the sciences of
finances and social and political eco
and his useful public service.
j. S. hartley, eX-treasurer of Ne
braska, on trial at Omaha charged
with embezzlement, was found guilty
on the ed.
REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES FRANKLIN
SPRAGUE, of Boston, violated all prece-
dent, on the 22d, and astonished the
and spectators in the gallery
by appearing in the senate chamber at
tired in regulation bicycle suit.
HARRY WALKER was arrested in
Kingston, n. Y, on the 22d, on charge |
Of robbing, with man named Laney, |
the jewelry store of VIM. Mcconnell, |
at Newark, n. j., on May 5, of 200 gold !
and jewelry valued at SIG, 900. /
A SAPNIsH fort on the outskirts of |
Santiago, Havana province, was cap !
tured by force under Col. Rodriguez
and burned. This fort was a !
plague to the Cubans, as it commanded /
l roadway that they used considerably.
AT the business session of the national |
in Philadelphia, on the 2Sd,
Brooklyn was unanimously selected
y the next place of meeting.