The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-06
TIE Daughters Of the American Rev

The Daughters Of the American Rev
olution, in their congress in Washing
ton, on the cath, made plans for build
ing a hall 2O0x2Oo feet on theMonument
lot, and raised about s25, 600 to start
the work. A bill to give them the site
has passed the senate, and it is expected
to pass the house before the close of
the session.
An explosion occurred, on the oath,
in the extensive works devoted to the
manufacture of Nobel's explosive in
London. The explosion took place
while the men were washing nitro
glycerine. Six persons were killed.
THE damage to the st. Louis Mer
chants Exchange building by fire, On
the Gath, President Langenberg says,
will not exceed $4,000, which will be
repaired as rapidly as men and material
can make connections.
PRESTON B. DURLEY, manager of the
Des Moines Ga Daily News, died in
that city on the Gath.
Early in the session bills were passed
to fix and determine the number Of
justices of the supreme court of Okla
homa, who shall constitute a majority
of the bench; and to confer upon post
Office inspectors in the enforcement OF
the postal laws, the same powers as are
possessed by marshals and sheriffs in
the several states.
IT was announced in Athens, on the
18th, that the foreign consuls in the
island of Crete had placed the plains
and the Suda valley between Akrotori
and Canea under the protection of the
united fleets. The Christians at Salemo
were permitting the departure of Mos
lens and their families, and the foreign
war ships were taking the fugitives on
board.
SCOTT JACKSON, who, with Alonzo
Walling, will be hanged in Newport,
KY, March 90, for numbering Pearl
Bryan, is writing a confession, which,
it is reported, will soon be forthcoming.
He will sell it to the highest bidder,
and expects $4,000 for it. A Cincin-
natl newspaper is said to have already
offered S., 200.
A BILL comforting upon post office in
spectors the authority of marshals in
making arrests was passed by the house
of representatives on the 25th.
A VAST quantity of nitro-glycerine
stored between Gould station and New
Alexandria, O., on the Panhandle rail-
road, in the Gould oil field, explod-
ed, on the 18th, killing two men and
injuring a number of others. Both
men were blown to atoms, only a mans
toe being found. Houses were knocked
down and trees were torn up by the
explosion.
A GREEK firm doing business in Lon
don received a telegram from Athens,
on the Goth, saying that King George
of Greece had accepted the demand Of
the powers for the withdrawal of the
Greek troops and var ships from Crete.
Mrs. JENNIE D. BROWNE, widow Of
the late Erastus D. Browne, one of the
wealthiest women in Wyandotte coun-
ty, Kas., died at her home in Kansas
City, Kas, on the 25th, from lockjaw,
resulting from a most trivial injury.
HENRY NJ. KLINE, former teller Of
the Farmers national bank of Leba-
non, Pa, who had pleaded guilty.to the
embezzlement of about $40, 900 of the
banks funds, was, on the Goth, SEN
fenced, at Philadelphia, to five years
imprisonment.
FATHER HUDoN, ex-superior general
of the Jesuits of Canada, died at the
convent of the Immaculate Conception
in Montreal on the 10th. He was borD
in 1923.
SECRETARY OF STATE OLNEY received
cablegram from Consul-General Lee,
the Goth, announcing that Julio Sam
had been released from prison.