The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-25
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS q BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

is marked by demolished buildings and
fallen telegraph poles. Considerable
damage was done to growing crops.
Several people were slightly injured.
A TERRIFIC wind storm passed over
the state fair grounds st Indianapolis,
Ind, on the 10th, blowing down trees.
overturning tents and killing two per
sons, one q baby in its mothers arms.
One horse was killed by a falling tree.
and the storm spread general conster-
nation and created q panic in the
grand stand.
A TELEGRAM has been received at the
state department confirming the press
reports of the capture by insurgents of
the government position at Quezalten-
ango. Guatemala
RRPoRTs received in Caracas from all
the departments of Venezuela confirm
the election of Senior Andrade, liberal,
as president The vote was almost
unanimous for him. aud the liberals
largely increased their majority in con-
gress. President Crespo denies that
the government interfered in the cleo
ton. as has been charged.
ANuLFo ARROYO, who. on the 10th,
assaulted President Diaz of Mexico. was
lynched at night by q mob of common
people. About twenty of the lynchers
were arrested.
THE post Office inspectors at Denver,
Col. believe that they have unearthed
q scheme to defraud the government
Postal cards, supposed to be counter
felt. have been found in the Denver
mails. and arrests are likely to follow.
1t is said that the cards have been sold
in large quantities
AFTER rs years of vain search in
which one man lost his reason, anoth-
er his life, and half a dozen their for
tunes, the long missed silver mines of
Clark river, in Kentucky, are said to
have been located. As q consequence
the people in that part of the country
are searching for riches.
IT is stated that the grain dealers Of
Manitoba have formed q combine by
which the dealers, mi.lers and grain
syndicates will keep down the price of
wheat It is also asserted that the
banks have joined in and agreed not to
assist any buyer who does not join the
syndicate.
An engineer on the Seattle & Inter
national railroad recently sent two
~prospectors into the Mount Baker re-
gion, in Washington, to get samples of
ore. When he reached Sumas, on the
10th, he received samples and had
them assayed. They So. 300 to the
ton, and he deserted his engine and
took TO the woods
and North Carolina, covering an area of
perhaps 400 square miles, was reported
aire, from one end to the other, on the
18th, the result of an unprecedented
drought and excessively hot weather.
THE records of the coroner's Office
of C)ok county, ILL.,, show an unusual
number of suicides during the week
endingon the 18th. No less than II
persons ended their lives by various
means Hanging and drinking car
bolic acid were the methods most fire.
quently resorted to.
The cantons of Glarus and Grisons,
Switzerland, were visited. on the 18th,
by q severe earthquake shock, con
panied by heavy rumbling. The dis
turbance was so distinct that it was
everywhere noticeable, and in many
places great blocks of rock fell from
the mountains.
FERRoUH Beg, councillor of the Turk
ish embassy at st. Petersburg. has been
Turkish minister to the
United States, in succession of Nous
tapha Tachsin Bey.
WHEAT clearances at Chicago for the
week ended on the 18th, were 6,37e, 900
bushels, the largest this year.
A SEVER earthquake shock occurred
at Tashkaent. on the night OF the 18th,
and the disturbance was felt through
out the whole of Turkestan. Several
of antiquity were dam.
aged.
A COMPANY of Spanish infantry has
been sent to Morelia. province of Cas-
talon de Ia Plana, as il is feared in
Madrid that a Carlist uprising is to
take place there.
1t is estimated that the business re-
vival has added at least s1h, 900, 900 to
TIE value of the Gould securities.
The duchess Of Marlborough, for.
merly Miss Consuela Vanderbilt, of
New York, gave birth, on the 18th. to
son at the Spencer House, the ducal
London residence.
TIE wife of Hon. Norman ]. Coiman
died in St Louis on the 18th. Mr.. Coll
man. it will be remembered, was the
first secretary of agriculture, and Mrk
Colman WASH woman Of many virtues.
SEVEN New York miilionaires, among
whom was John Jacob Astor. dropped
into St Louis in q bunch on the 90th.
The stock of the 1llinois Central re-
Gently took . boom, and the presence
Of the solid sevenn in St Louis was
the base for rumors that important de-
velopments would soon see daylight
APACHE KD, murderer, sheep thief,
cattle and horse-thief, and probably
the worst Indian that ever lived in the
has been gathered to his
red-skinned fathers This event oc-
CURED In southern Californis last July.
GKoRaE WALDRoS, who claimed to be
. survivor Of the charge At Balaklsva,
died AZ Montreal from 3 blow delivered
by his wife, who used = cane.
TEE town Of Bairs, Santiago de Cuba
province. has BEEN bonbarded with
two dynamite ca2non and utterly de-
stroyed by Gen. Cslixto Garcia