The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-16
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

c. Z. HASTINGS, a nephew OF Grover
Cleveland, has been arrested at Film
wood, Has, charged by State Agent
Yates of the Central Life Insurance Co.
with embezzling ST. 0 of the com
pany's money.
/. WILLIAM j.. SCANLOS, United States
consul at Port Antonio. Jamaica, died
of yellow fever on the 9th. He was APP
pointed from the District of Columbia,
and had been only a few weeks at his
post.
The eleventh annual convention of
the Illinois union of the Christian En-
deavor society was called to order at
Central music hall, Chicago, on the
Sth, by President o. w. Stewart, with
about 1900 delegates present, nearly
every district in the state being repre-
scented.
HON. HOKE SMITH, former secretary
of the interior, has been elected presi-
lent of the board of education of At
lanta, Ga, to succeed Judge Howard
Van Epps, resigned. Mr.. Smiths cleo
ton was unanimous.
On the Sth the president appointed
Ambrose W. Naulin collector of inter-
nal revenue for the sixth district of
Indiana, and David w. Henry collector
of internal revenue for the seventh
district of Indiana.
UNITED STATES CONSUL DAY at Annoy
has reported to the state department
that the bubonic plague. which had
ragged in that section of China for three
,,ar4Ie .; -ou rarorIal nc ho VI ~ II
its course.
The president, on the Sth, appointed
George Ii. Bridgeman, of New York,
minister to Bolivia
GUSTAV MILLER gave himself up to
the police of Rotterdam, Holland, con-
Tossing that he had murdered IA wives
in different parts of the world, and also
his parents and his child. He produced
a handful of human ears as CORRIDORS
ton of his story.
CONSUL LATHROP, at Briston, En-
gland, reports that the United States
supplies Great Britain with more than
one-half of her foodstuffs. He says
that the reason American bacon sells
so cheaply is hat our packers do not
take sufficient pains in its curing.
In the recent cable correspondence
between Capt.-Gen. Weyler and Pre-
mier Sagasta of Spain Weyler declared
hat he could not resign because he
was face to face with the enemy.
On the 9th the associated banks of
New York city held S13, ass, 500 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
WILLIAM CLARK, of Dubuque, Ia, is
growing his third set of teeth. He is
81 year of age. The dentists say this
is a phenomenon of which the book
records show but few instances.
The bank clearings for st. Louis, as
reported to Bradstreets' for five days
ended the Sth, were S25. 80; 800, Is
compared with SIS, 7O1,5S5 for the cor
responding period of last year.
CARL FABER, confidential man for
Oelrichs &c Co., importers, of New York
city, was arrested on landing from a
steamship at New York, on the sth,
charged with eInbezzling 500 from
the firm. He confessed.
The sale of the eastern division Of
the Kansas Pacific under foreclosure
will take place at Topeka, kas., No
vember ). The entire property with
lands, equipments, telegraph lines.
etc, is to be sold in one parcel. The
upset price is placed at S4, 500, 900. A
deposit of $500, 900 will be required five
days before the sale. On the follow
ing day the middle division of the road
will be sold at Salina, kas., under like
conditions, the upset price being S.
600, OOa.
The trial of the lighthouse tender
Manila, which had been undergoing
registration at the Astoria (Ore.) iron
works for the past five weeks, was
fairly successful, and the vessel was
accepted by the board of United States
officials. Without forced draught she
attained a speed slightly in excess of
IL knots, about one knot more than she
was capable of making before the re-
pairs were made.
ALLEN W. VAN DUsEN. art editor of
at Gowanda, N. Y, on the 9th.
DURING an ascent of Mount Ararat
Armenia, by members of the recent
geological congress, DR.. Stoeber, apro-
fessor of medicine. was frozen to death.
The inhabitants of Palma, Spain, the
birthplace of Gen. Weyler, are prepar-
ing to give him an ovation on his re-
turn from Cuba.
FIFTEEN miners arrived at Victoria,
b. c., on the 18th, from Klondike. They
brought with them 81, 600, 900 in gold.
ONE HUNDRED carpenters employed at
tEeTransmississippi exposition grounds
Omaha, Neb., struck work on the
18th. The men demand that the car
penters' union be recognized, and that
labor alone be employed in the
work.
A GREAT gold strike is reported near
the Revenue tunnel on Mount Sneffels
IN Ouray county, Col. Tests show as
high as 500. 900 to the ton. and 81, 900 |
has been taken out of a cubic foot of
TIE two hundredth anniversary of
the old Dutch church of Sleepy Hol-
low, made famous by Washington Irv-
and near which he is buried, was
in the famous old building
at Tarrvtoya. y. Y, on the 1911.