The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-01-02

4UEN1IElV0 "Ch vi "a Nofo
detachment at West Point, n. Y, were
reported. on the ed, very sick with
ptomaine poisoning, due to eating
canned head cheese. Four of the cases
were regarded as critical
THE competition between the Amer.
lean Sugar Refining Co. and the firm
of Arbuckle Bros, coffee merchants,
is on in earnest. A second reduction
of one-half cent a pound in the whole
sale price of roasted coffee was made
on the 22d.
1T is intimated that the steamer
Three Friends, which has not been
heard from since she left F~ernandina'
Fla, with her cargo for Cuba, had
other expeditions in view before re-.
turning to port to be seized.
THE New England society of New
York city celebrated, or the ED, the
n~inety-frst anniversary of the exist
ence and the two hundred and seventy
sixth anniversary of the landing of the
Pilgrim Fathers with q banquet at the
Waldorf.
The death of Franklin A. Robey.
near Hill Top, Charles county, Md, re-
moves the last white survivor of those
who helped John Wilkes Booth to es-
cape from Maryland after the assassi-
nation of President Lincoln by Booth.
THERE is much excitement at Dead
wood, S. D., over the great strike at
Ragged Top, in the Dacey shaft mine.
The bed of ore continues to show evil
dences of fabulous wealth, going over
$50 to the ton
GEN. HARRISON, on the ed, received
a package from Chicago containing the
watch hat formerly belonged to his
wife, and which, among other things,
was stolen from his house in Indian
apolis by burglars.
HELEN COLE, 1~7-year-old daughter OF
wealthy parents, at Geneva, Ia, was
sentenced, on the 22d, to six months
imprisonment at Anamosa for bur-
glary. She stated that she was trying
to get money enough to get a bicycle.
The Empire Glycerine Co.'S maya
zine, near Montpelier, Ind, in which
was stored several hundred quarts of
nitroglycerine, exploded, on the 23d,
at 7:l5 a. m. The shock was felt in
every town within so miles of the place
Harry Adams and George Hickok were
at the magazine at the time of the eX-
plosion, and both were blown to atoms.
The residence of Earl Russell, at
Maideuhead, on the Thames, was
burned to the ground on the 23d.
The fire was undoubtedly of iDcendiary
origin, as Earl Russell had recently re-
ceived several m%enacing letters, some
of them threatening him with per-
sonal injury and others threatening
the burning of his property.
NELSON NORRIS, the millionaire
packer, and j. C. Bohart, a livestock
commission man at the Union stock
yards in Chicago, were gored by a steer
while passing through a cattle pen at
the yards on the 23d. Mr.. Bohart had
a shoulder dislocated, but Mr.. Morris
escaped with slight bruises.
The gunboat Annapolis was sue.
cessfully launched at the Crescent
shipyard at Elizabethport, n. j., on
the 2ad. Miss Georgiana Porter,
granddaughter of the late Admiral
Porter, christened the new addition
to the navy.
The officers of the Belgic, lately ar
rived at San Francisco from Yokoha-
ma, report that the smallpox epidemic
is raging in Kobe and Toxic, japan.
On Christmas day Queen Regent
Christina of Spain signed a decree or
dering the operation of certain re-
forms in the island of Porto Rico.
ADMIRAL BERANGER, Spanish minis.
ter of marine, denies that his govern.
ment is purchasing war ships.