The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-09
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

take possession of the 10 or Is miles OF
streets in the town OF Pullman, under
a decision of Corporation Counsel
Thornton that the public has the same
right in, on and under those streets
that it has to the other public thor
oughfares in the city.
MIS-. JOHN A. TRUITT. OF st. Louis,
the mother of four children, has agreed
to transfer all right and title in her
husband to Mrs. Stephens, alias Nellie
st. Clair, in consideration of the sum
of 81. O00 cash in hand.
4 SPECIAL from Havana, on the 30th,
announced the resignation of Gen.
Weyler.
JOHN WEDDERBURS & Co., of Wash
ington city. have been disbarred from
practice before the interior department
as patent attorneys or agents, the firm
/ having been held to be guilty of" gross
fraud and unprofcssional conduct"
! A RICH gold strike has been made on
Potosi mountain, in the Snefies dis
trict in Colorado. by o. j. Davies and
| Thomas Downer. The vein is wide
and continuous, and runs thousands of
dollars to the on.
EARTHQUAKES are reported to nave
shaken many places on the northeast
coast of BOrneO. on the 1st, and a ne
island was thrown up near Mempakul.
The navy department officials have
| decided to undertake at an early date
the supplying of small caliber modern
| rifles to all the naval militia organize
tions of the country.
The Canadian Pacific express over
the southern division of the Boston &
Maine railroad met with an accident
at West Medford, Mass, on the 1st,
whereby 80 persons were more or less
injured, but none, it is believed, ia
tally.
ED AND GEORGE STAFFLEBACK were
convicted at Columbus, Kas., on the
1st, of the murder of Frank Galbraith.
and old Mrs. Staffieback was convicted
as an accessory. The boys received a
life sentence in the penitentiary, and
the old woman got 81 years.
TIE monthly treasury statement
shows that at the close of business
September 80, the public debt, less cash
in the treasury, was S1,012. 122, 7!3. an
increase since August 80 of S., 7S7, 592.
This increase is accounted for by a cor
responding decrease in the amount of
cash on hand.
The monthly statement of the gov
eminent receipts and expenditures dur
ing September shows the receipts to
have been S21, 9@3. 09s. and the expendi-
lures So, SOS, 915, an excess of expendi-
lures over receipts of So. 435, III.
AT the nominating convention of the
Democratic alliance of Greater New
York, held on the might of the 1st,
Henry George vas unanimously nom
mated for mayor. The nominating
speech was made by Charles Francis
Adams.
A VIENNA dispatch says: Samuel
Clemens Mark Twain is suffering
from govt, and IS confined to his bed
He is in good spirits, however, and pro-
poses to stay here one year for the
purpose of writing on Vienna sub
%jects."
A SPECIAL dispatch received in Lon
don from Madrid, on the I'd, said that
Capt.-Gen. Weyler had been recalled
from Cuba.
Oh the I'd the associated banks of
New York city held SIS, $50, 100 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
SENIOR SAGAsTA. the liberal leader,
was, on the I'd, intrusted by the queen
regent of Spain with the task of form
ing a new cabinet to succeed the
Azcarraga ministry.
The vintage of California this year
promises to reach 20, 600, 600 gallons, or
% per cent. more than last season.
About one-half the grape crop has al
ready been converted into wine. The
growers are now receiving an advance
of from s. to SO n ION for their grapes
Gus SMITzEB and George Reeb
charged with s~tage-robbery in Yellow
stone park, have been capturedin Mon
tan and taken to Cheyenne, Wyo., for
trial.
The war department is rushing work
on the Notifications in San Diego Cali
harbor with remarkable energy.
THE Orange Judd Farmer, in it's esti-
mates of the years wheat crop, says
that figures based on actual threshing
returns indicate a total yield of 5S9,-
O0G, 900 bushels, Of which 373.5SO. 900
bushels are winter and 2I5, no. 600
bushels spring wheat With the ex-
ception of Illinois and Missouri, the
winter wheat yield represents the full
capacity of the soil.
THIRTY-OSE new cases of yellow fever
developed, on the Sd, in New Orleans, !
IA in Edwards, foul in Mobile, 90 at
Biloxi and one in Scranton, Miss. There
were two deaths al New Orleans, two at
Biloxi and one at Edwards. The fever
has also appeared in Nittayuma, Miss.
-Four cases are reported.
SENOB SAGAsTA, who has peer called
to form a new Spanish ministry, says
that his government can not assent to
foreign interference, but that he aims
to carry out everything in the way of
reforms in Cuba the United States could
suggest |