The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-18
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

bHC 1OIl,lI9 All1Cb nCob "a SnobASS
Col, caused by a collision between a
special Colorado stock train and q
Denver & Rio Grande passenger. After
the shock of the collision the wrecked
cars caught fire and many OF the
pinioned victims were incinerated.
OFFICIAL dispatches from Havana
confirm the report that Calixto Garcia
and Jesus Rabi, two of the i~nsurgent
generals, captured the town of Victoria
de Las Tunas, defended by seven forts.
The Spanish garrison, consisting of 300
men, were all taken prisoners.
A FOREIGNER, who is said to have
been Baron Max Won Schrader, a lieu
tenant in the German army, who had
been at Ostend, Flanders, during the
entire season, committed suicide on
the 9Th. The deceased is said to have
lost $500. 900 in gambling.
An attempt to bride Judge Watkins,
of the circuit court of Huntington
county, Ind, to grant a divorce, re-
suited in Martin Keplinger, a promi-
nent farmer, being hauled up before
the Judge and fined for contempt of
court
A SPECIAL from New Castle, Col,
says: The body of RObert Ostrander,
engineer of the Colorado Midland stock
train which collided with the Rio
Grande passenger, was found in the
debris OF the wreck. The head and
one arm were burned Off"
LATEST reports of the Santa Fe
wreck in Kansas place the list of cas-
ualties at il killed, l missing and Is
injured, at least W. fatally. Several
of the bodies of the victims were in
cinerated.
SINCE March last in the territory
tributary to Kansas City, Mo-, seven
postal clerks have been killed and
eight have been so badly hurt as to be
incapacitated for service.
EMPEROR WILLIAM personally COM
manded the attacking force in the
army maneuvers at Hamburg, on the
10Th, all the troops being engaged
against an imaginary army.
IT is announced hat II of the chiefs
of the Shoshones and Bannock Indians
of the Fort Hall reservation in Idaho,
have signed a treaty for the sale of
Is, 900 acres of the reservation for four
dollars per acre, or in round figures for
$50, OOO. This will open up the south
ern end of the reservation to public
settlement.
The British steamer Polyphemus,
from Yokohama for London, was dam
aged in a collision near Jebeltar, an
island of the Red ca, according to a
dispatch received from the island of
Perrin. Twenty-seven of the crew were
drowned.
On the 18th the associated banks of
New York city held S26. Cos, S25 in Y
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
CHIEF OF POLICE LLOYD of Oakland,
Cal, received a telegram, on the 18th,
announcing the death, at Juneau, of J.
C. Boatman, formerly private secretary
to Congressman Hilborn, of California,
and recently appointed fish commits
siOner of Alaska. He was a native of
Ohio and 46 years of age.
The New Orleans board of health, G1
the 18th, officially declared six of the
suspicious cases on st. Claude street to
be yellow fever. A couple of hours
afterward the board announced anoth-
err pronounced case of yellow fever at
Miro and Esplanade streets, also in the
lower part of the city, but a mile or
more from the infected square.
The Cuban junta of New York has
had coined LOCO, 900 ha1dsomely-de-
signed silver souvenirdcllars, for which
| fha .1omanH &c ca nranf from all CaR-
tions of the country the iunta Is unable
to supply it. Cornelius Vanderbilt and
John Jacob Astor. of New York, took
500, 600 of these dollars at face value.
The London Chronicle of the 18th
says: I'VE are enabled to state that
there is no ground for the suggestion
that the Bank of England contemplates
holding one-fifth of its reserve in sill
ver."
The important town of Consolation
del Sur, in Pinar del Rio province, was
attacked recently by Cuban insurgents,
ard the whole garrison, composed of
200 volunteers from Havana, slain by
the revolutionists. .
A LETTER from Juneau, Alaska, un-
der date Of September 6, tells of the
lynching of William G. Martin, of Mis-
souri,, for stealing food at Lake Ben
nett. The tragedy occurred on Sep
TENDER x.
An attempt to rob the Wells-Fargo
express train on the Chicago & Erie
road was frustrated near Foraker. o.,
on the 18th. Twelve tramps were dis
covered on the train. The train was
stopped and the men were ordered off,
but instead of going they made n rush
for one of the express cars. The mes
sengers opened fire and drove them off.
The steamer Humboldt arrived, on the
18th, at Seattle, Wash, from st. Mich
aels, bringing II passengers and about
SIS, 900 in gold. The, Humboldt also
brought the news that the side-wheel
steamer Eliza Anderson, from Seattle,
which was reported lost, was safe at
Dutch Harbor.
SPLENETIC fever has broken out
among the cattle in the vicinity of Nc
Kinney, Tex, and upward of $50 head
have died from it. A popularity of the
disease is hat it attacks only year
lings. Cattle men are much worried
over the malady.
JOSEPH KoPPEL, of st. Louis, looked
down the elevator shaft in the YER