The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-15
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JAMES 81. ALDRICH, the defaulting ex-
cashier and paymaster of the Kansas
City, Fort Scott & Memphis railway
and its branches, appeared in the Grim
inal court at Kansas City, Mo-. on the
5th, pleaded guilty to the charge OF
embezzlement, and was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
THE beautiful residence at Winwah
Park, ear New Rochelle, N. Y, of
President Green of the Columbia Navi-
CATION Co., was burned, on the 5th,
causing a loss Of $500, 900, including
many valuable pictures.
For the first time in ten years there
are open saloons in Topeka, Kas., and
as a result something of a rebellion
has been started against the present
state administration.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued Oh the 5th, showed:
Available cash balance, $3.50, 755, Sa9;
gold reserve, S14S, AT, 412.
|; JOHN P. KUNzE, 1.-The Little German"
of Cronin trial fame, was convicted in
Judge Payne's court in Chicago, on the
5th, of operating a confidence game.
The jury fixed his punishment at i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary. He
will be given an indeterminate sem
tence.
WHILE moving a pile of rubbish on
George Haugburn's farm, near Cando,
n. D., on the 9th, the dead body of
Nm. Bryan was discovered. The top
of his head was crushed, indicating
murder. Mr.. Bryan claimed to be a
second cousin of VIM. J.. Bryan, and
was undoubtedly murdered for his
money.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Athens as
serts that the losses of the Greeks in
the fighting at Velestino and Pharsa-
los, or the 5th, We're certainly 1000
killed and wounded, while the Turks
lost fully 5000 killed and wounded.
On the 9th the liquidating trustees of
the Standard Oil trusts declared a
quarterly dividend of Sc cents and an
extra dividend of Z per cent. payable
June Is.
ELEVEN men were drowned, on the
9th, through an inflow of water into
the Kelloe colliery, at Durham, En-
gland.
THE Turks occupied Pharsalos on
the 9th.
CHRISTOPHER NICKELs, a laborer, liv-
ing in West indianapolis, Ind, on the
7th, made a murderous assault on his
wife, from whom he had been separa-
ted. then fled to the banks of Eagle
creek, took a dose of Rough on Rats,
and lived only long enough to tell the
police who found him there what he
had done.
G. S. JOHNSON, of Alaska, will be the
next governor of hat district. He was
sent from Nebraska to Alaska during
Harrison's administration to fill the
position of United States attorney for
Alaska and is very popular.
The conference committee of the
senate and house reached a decision, on
the 18th, on the Indian appropriation
bill on the basis OF. provision for the
leasing of the ~gilsonite lands instead Of
the purchase of them.
CHARLES BUTTON, a capitalist, for
merly of the wholesale drug firm of
& Button, Milwaukee, dropped
dead while entering his carriage on
the 18th.
RUFUS P. VAssAR, grandson of the
of Vassar college, was arrested
in San Francisco, on the 7th, charged
ENLIGHTENMENT.
Both houses of the Iowa legislature
have passed a resolution making the
wild rose the official flower of that
state.
Gov. BLACK of New York gave a
hearing to the a~nti-scalper bill on the
eth. 1t is understood he will sign the