The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-01-16

The annual celebration Of the ami
versary of the wedding of George
Washington WIS held at Sherry's. in
New York city, on the 9th. by the New
York chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
SANFORD GRANT, a scion of n OF
the oldest and wealthiest Scranton
pa families, has been sued for SlO,-
900 Tor kissing pretty Mrs. Emma May
Bradish twice-once on the cheek and
once on the lips--without her consent.
Ii is now estimated that 325, 600 per-
sons have fled from Bombay as a re-
suit of the spread of the bubonic
plague. They are scattering ~contagion
in the villages up the country.
CAELos EzETA, ex-president of Sal
vador, now eXiled in Oakland, Cal,
has declared his disapproval of the
Central American federation by which
Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua are
united. lie says the people of the re-
publicS were not consulted, and that
the union was accomplished without
their warrant or approval.
LIZZIE PFEIFFER, i Chicago telephone
operator, put her weeks pay in her
stocking, on the 9th, and started for
home. Footpads held her up at Fiji
ty-third street and demanded her
money. She denied having any. and
the robbers searched her and secured
the money.
The American national bank of Dem
yer, Col, which suspended April 81.
1875, has been permitted to reopen it's
doors for business as an active ma
tional banking institution, having
complied with all the necessary con.
ditions.
THE wedding OF Miss Edith Lyman
Collins, the ward of Hon. Chauncey NJ.
Depew. of New York, and Rechid Bey,
of the Turkish embassy at Rome, was
celebrated at Paris on the 9TH.
The Bank of Canton, at Canton,
Mimi, with a capital of $40, 900, and
the Citizens bank, of Lanesboro, a
small institution, both operated by
Field, Kelsey & Co., suspended bust
ness on the 9Th.
THE British ship Ulrica, Capt. John
son, which arrived, on the 4th, at
Queenstown from San Francisco, and
sailed later for Dublin, went ashore,o on
the 18th, On Copeland island, on the
northwest coast of Ireland, and be-
came Il total wreck. Her crew was
saved.
SIMON COOPER. 4 negro desperate,
who had killed five persons, was sur
rounded by a sheriff's posse in Sumter
county, ). C.. on the Sth, and killed.
Gov. Evans was asked for 4 cannon, as
Cooper kept up Il fusilade with his
Winchester rifle on the posse, but u
lucky shot finally brought him down.
lie was afterwards hanged and riddled
with bullets.
E~X-PENsION EXAMINER JAMES A.
JORDAN was sentenced in the United
States court at Grand Rapids, Mich,
the 6th, for defraUding the govern.
The penalty imposed was that
he pay a fine of $1,000 and return to
the department all Interpretations
of funds. lie paid the fine and was
released.
PART of the winter quarters, at
Bridgeport, Conn, of Barnum Il
Bailey's show vas burned on the night
of the 9TH. Wild and exciting scenes
took place in the menagerie. Ele-
plants, lions, tigers, bears and all
manners of fierce and strange breasts
were taken out Of the buildings in
A MISPLACED switch caused a wreck
on the Erie railway at Orang6vilIe, o.,
the Sth. Train No. 81 went into a
ditch, and ten ears were completely
wrecked. A steam snow pillow was
also demolished.