The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-30
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destruction in its path, a hurricane
from the West Indies swept up the At
lantic coast on the 25th, and created
havoc among coasting vessels. The
shores of New Jersey and Long Island
were strewn with wreckage.
IL view of the outbreak of yellow
fever at Memphis, Tenn. and Birming-
ham, Ala, the Mississippi board of
health, on the 25th, notified its eXecu-
tive officer at Vicks burg that no refu-
gees must be allowed to return from
the north before November ].
OVER 800, 900 of alleged fraudulent
warrants on the United States treas
ury, on the account of the Creek Indian
nation, in Indian territory, have been
discovered by the government authori-
ties.
A DISPATCH from Havana, received in
Madrid on the 25th, said there were
40, 900 soldiers on the sick list, and that
the financial condition on the island
was frightful, commerce being COM
pletely raralyzed.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY, OF the 25th,
positively decided to request the court
to defer the sale of the Union Pacific
railroad at least until December IS, to
give congress n last chance to act in
the matter.
SILAs GRAY. who had served IA years
of a life sentence for a murder which
it develops was done by another. was
released from the penitentiary at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the Goth, and left for
his home in Indiana county.
On board the Nigilancia from Tam
pico, which arrived at New York on
the Goth, was Niscount Sante Thyrso,
late Portuguese minister to Mexico,
who has been promoted to minister to
the United States.
E. A. HITCHCoCK. of st. Louis, United
States minister to st. Petersburg, took
passage on the American liner St.
Paul, which sailed for Europe on the
9th. He was accompanied by his
wife and daughter.
Iris understood in Ottawa, Ont. that
Sir Wilfred Laurier wilLvisit Washing
ton with Sir Louis Davies to attend
the sealing conference.
YEARS of fraud, abuse of power and
loss of money to the city of Chicago in
its water department., have finally
been recognized by the mayor and al
Germen, and a water commission. COM
posed of Commissioner McGann. Super
intendcnt Of the Water Office Lang,
three aldermen and two real estate
men has been appointed. a thorough
revision of the present water rates is
contemplated.
Mrs. BoOTH-TUCKER,O of the Salvation
army, arrived at Minneapolis, Mimi,
on the 10Th, from Ishpeming, Mich,
and was greeted by several hundred
officers and privates. At night, adj
dressing a mass-meeting at the First
Baptist church, she tainted and had
to be carried from the platform. Her
physicians did not anticipate serious
results, but ordered a season of rest.
REPLYING to the semi-official state
ment concerning the dangerous state
of affairs in west Africa, issued in
Paris, on the Goth, the British colonial
officials declare that there is no rea-
sonable fear of complications at Nikki.
provided the French government be
HAYES reasonably.
THE works of the Verify Plow Co.
at Brantford, Ont. were burned on
the Goth. Loss, S75, 0OO; insurance, $780,.
900.
THE supreme court of Iowa declare,
that, while no law compels bicyclists
to use a lantern or bell at night, wheel
men without them are guilty of con.
tributory negligence in case of acci.