The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-06
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ALLthe meetings of cotton operatives,
throughout the north of England, on
the 2Sh, instructed their delegates
to inform the operators hat their men
would not consent to the proposed re-
duction in their wages. AS so per
cent. of the employers have combined
with the object of enforcing a reduc-
ton, the situation is most critical.
About go, 900 operatives are affected.
FRED Rico MORA and Ricardo de
Requesens, found guilty at New Or
leans of making false notes of the bank
of Costa Rica and the currency of the
Republic of Colombia, We're, on the
29th, sentenced to two years impris-
onment at Sing Sing, y. Y. and to
pay a fine of 81, 600.
FAILURES throughout the United
States during the week ended the 29th,
as reported by Il. G. Dun IL Co., were
PIG, against 27O for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were % against 10 last year.
The White Star liner Britannia, from
New York, arrived off the harbOr of
Queenstown at IL p. IN. of the 10Th. A
tender went ont, but was unable to get
alongside owing to the high seas pre-
vailing. The Britannia proceeded for
Liverpool, after a half hours delay,
without landing the Irish passengers
and mail.
The New York World opened a fund,
on the Goth. for the erection of a memo
rial t. Henry George. Jos. Pulitzer
subscribed $1,000: Mayor Strong of
New York. city $50; Mayor P. J. Glea-
son of Long Island City, $50, and
Charles S. Steckler, leader of the Man
haitian democracy, S25.
Miss REBECCA WIswELL- who, it is
thought, was the Oldest army nurse in
the country, died at her home in Ply
mouth, Mass, or the 29th, of heart
disease. Miss Wiswell was born in
Provincetown in 1906.
AN imperial order issued from Con-
stantinople, on the Goth, authorized the
Ottoman consuls in Greece to esum
their duties.
WALTER Z. HoUGHToN, a mail clerk.
aged 25, was arrested at Cheyenne,
Wyo., on the 29th, and confessed to
stealing the registered package con-
tanning S14, 900 which had been sent.
September %, by the Bank of the Re
public, Chicago, to the State national
bank at Butte, Mont.
UNDER a decision of the Kansas SUI
preme court inmates of the two SOL
diers' homes located in that state are
practically disfranchised. The state
constitution disables inmates of any
asylum maintained at public expense
from acquiring a residence for voting
purposes.
A MEETING of the delegates of the
Amalgamated Association of Cotton
Operatives, the strongest body in the
cotton trade, was held, on the S0th, at
Manchester. and confirmed the deci-
sion taken by the cotton operatives
throughout the north of England to
inform the employers that the pro-
posed reduction in wages would not
be accepted.
IT was reported in Key West, Fla.
on the 1st, that the Cuban filibustsr
rendezvous in the Bahamas had been
seized by the British government and
a quantity of arms captured and a few
men arretsed-
GEN. JAMES LoNGsTREET, of Georgia,
was appointed commissioner of rail
roads. by the president, on the Goth, to
succeed Gen. Wade Hampton. resigned.
THE representative of the HOoley-
Jameson syndicate, which has been
negotiating a loan of ZIG, 000, 900 $3.50,
TOO. OOO) to the Chinese government or
the proposed security of Chinese GUS
toms, t~elegraphed, on the .30th, from
Pekin that the government had finally
acceeded to the terms demanded by the
syndicate.
CHARLES BLUE JACKET, the head
chief of the Shawnee Indian tribe,
jacket, L T., after a long and eventful
life. He was over so years old, and
the last chief of his tribe. He vas the
foremost diplomat of his nation in
treating with the whites, and was uni
v~ersally esteemed
JOHN WATKA, the Creek Indian who
shot Jonas Deer, another member OF
his own tribe, was legally executed at
Chelsea, L L. on the 31st, for the
crime. The men were rivals for the
hand of the same girl and fought at a
dance, at which she was present, to
decide who should gain her. Watka
killed Deer and afterwards married
the Indian maiden.
BOYS celebrating Halloween IN Fort
Branch, Ind, started a fire which de-
stroyed Odd Fellows hall, the Fort
Branch Times office, six business
houses and several dwellings, includ-
ing the chief business buildings of the
town. Total loss. $50. 900.
The Spanish cruiser Alfonso Kill,
with Marshal Blanco, the new govern
or-general of Cuba, onboard, arrived at
Havana on the morning of the S1st.
Gen Blanco landed al 10 q. IN. and
assumed command. He exchanged
farewells with Gen. Weyler at L p. M,
and the latter sailed away on the
Montserrat for Spain.
The private bank of z. G. Baxter at
Burlington. Ont, was broken into. on
the 1st. and the vault and safe wrecked