The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-18
UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR Cor.

UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR Col.
JOHN HAY and Mrs. Hay dined with
Queen Victoria at Windsor castle on
the evening, of che 10th. and spent the
night at the cassie.
The national board of trade, which
numbers among its members the prin-
cipal boards of trade and kindred COM
mercial bodies of the country, met in
Washington, on the 18th, to organize
for its regular session, which opened on
the i4th. A number of important
matters we're brought up for consid-
Grafton.
PATRICK McKENNA, an aged man,
and his son John, aged Sc. of Cleveland,
o., quarreled, on the 18th, while at the
supper table. The father threw a
knife at the son and the latter struck
the old man with a chair, inficting
injuries which caused death within a
few minutes. The son was arrested.
AS A condition preliminary to the
removal of the boycott against the
Armour Packing Co., of Kansas City
Mo-, the three labor unions involved,
on the 18th, demanded an indemnity OF
$50, 600 to be paid to the union men who
had been locked out. Other labor
unions r~epudiate the demand.
SENATOR FAIRBANKS, on the 18th, in
troduced a bill in the United States
Senate to facilitate the enforcement of
the immigration and contract labor
laws.
Mrs. JENNIE JUNE CROLEY was ap-
pointed, on the 18th, an inspector of
public schools by Mayor Strong of
New York for the term of five years.
The senate committee on Indian af.
fairs, IN the 18th, reported f~avorably
IN a bill providing tor a congress OF
Indian tribes, to be held at Omaha dur.
ing the coming Trans Mississippi ex
position.
JACK EAsToS. 4 baseball player, was
arrested at Martins Ferry, o., on the
18th. on the charge of numbering a
man named Pitcher. at Nassau, Rens.
selaer county, y. Y, last September.
A reward of $3.50 had been offered for
his arrest.
S. n. TUCKER, a Wells-Fargo officer,
assisted by a posse of deputy United
States marshals under Capriano Baca.
on the night of the 18th, captured the
entire gang of train robbers who, on
the 9th, held up the Southern Pacific
at STEMS pass, Grant county, n. NJ, in
the fight incident to which one of the
robbers was killed.
The steamboat Stella Wilds sank %
miles below Natchez, Miss. on the
18th. The passengers, crew and cargo
were taken off by the steamer Lulu
Prince. The Wilds was valued at SI2,-
900; fully insured. She will be raised.
The bankruptcy bill, framed on the
lines of the Henderson-Culbcrson bill,
which passed the house at the last
session, involving both voluntary and
involuntary bankruptcy, was reported
to the full Judiciary committee on the
14th.
The entire Chilian cabinet resigned
on the 18th. The event caused a sensa-
ton
On the 18th Commander of the Saliva
ton army, BOoth-Tucker, and wife a.
rived in St. Louis from Chicago and
vent to the West End hotel. On the
18th the commander and his wife for
mally opened the Rescue home of the
st. Louis Salvation Army posts.
The Michigan Copper Mining Co.,
limited. filed articles of incorporation
at Marquette, Mich, N the 18th. Its
capital stock is S., 800, 900. The COM
pany is to operate the ridge mine Or
Ontonagon range.
The senate committee on public
lands, on the 14th. appointed Senators
Carter, Mcbride and McEnery, a sub
Alaska.