The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-08-07
WORLDS and national surepintena-

WORLDS n national surepintend-
emit of the department of scientific
temperance instruction in the Woman's
Christian Temperance union, Mrs.
Mary Ii. Hunt. sailed, on the Goth. from
Boston Tor Brussels as fraternal dele
gate from the w. c. T. q. to the Anti
Alcohol congress to be held in that
city. She will return in September.
The Southwestern Passenger asso-
citation is apparently going to pieces.
The st. Louis & San Francisco has
withdrawn. The Rock Island and
Santa Fe, it is reported, are about to
do SO, and there will seemingly not be
enough lines left t, maintain the or
g%anization.
The great race between the steam
yachts Pathfinder and Enquireron Lake
Michigan ended, on the 18th, in victory
for the Buffalo boat. The Pathfinder
gave up the contest when off Wauke-
gan, ILL.,, and turned back for Chicago.
THE loss of the whaler Cape Horn
Pigeon in the Japan sea during a fu-
lou storm was announced on the Goth.
Capt. Scullam and the crew of IS were
saved. but 300 barrels of sperm oil
went down with the vessel.
MINISTER SANTO- TRIso, of Portugal,
has received no information concern
ing the alleged revolutionary troubles
in his country. He believes he would
have been notified of any serious put
break.
THE Belgian chamber of deputies
passed a bill, on the Goth, compelling
all foreigners who have had a years
residence in that country to enroll
themselves in the civic guard.
JOHN +. RYAN and John Graves, who
lured Lawyer Burt 5. Clark. of Brook
Iyn, to a fiat in New York city, on July
10. and then robbed him and tried to
force acid down his throat. were sem
fenced, on the Both, to IS years i'm
prisonment at hard labor.
WORKING behind closed doors, j. X.
Hardy, of Chicago, claims to have pro-
duced, at a cost of ten cents a pounds
Several bricks of the metal have been
purchased by jewelers., who declare it
good enough gold for them.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended on the 30th,
as reported by r. &. Dun & Co, were
236, against Isl for the corresponding
week of last year. For Canada the fail
ures were IS. against 40 last year.
TIE commercial treaty between
Great Britain and the German zoll-
v~erein, which has been in force since
May 81. 1864, was renowned, on the
3Oth, by Great Britain and ceases to be
operative 4 year hence.
JOHN ANDERSON and Hagens Nelson
were fatally injured by the tipping of
a derrick on a new building at Market
and Van Buren, streets, Chicago, on
the 30th. The men fell from the sixth
8tory to the street.
BY the premature explosion of q
dynamite blast on Beechwool boule-
ward, in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 3oth,
three men were dangerously hurt, one
of them probably fatally.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury. on the 30th, showed:
Available cash balance, S23S, 172, 500;
gold reserve, $143, SIS. 1863.
THE crops in a strip five miles wide
and 80 miles long in Rock county,
Mimi, were entirely destroyed by hail
on the night of the 29th.
THE japanese government has &C.
cepted the offer made by Hawaii to ar.
bitrate ma tiers in dispute between the
two countries.
A DISPATCH from Lisbon says the
situation at Oporto is alarming. Min
listers fear al attempt at revolution.
The governor of the town has been
dismissed and replaced by Augusta dc
Castillo, a naval officer.