The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A DIVIDEND of $40 was declared, on
the I'd, by the Calumet and Hecla Min
ing Co., payable January l to stock of
record December 1. This makes $50
for the current fiscal year, which be-
gins May l, and $50 for the current
calendar year of operation.
JOHN E. FROST, land commissioner of
the Santa Fe, announces that the land
for the first Booth-Tucker company has
been contracted for, and hat the first
colony will be established in the spring,
in the vicinity OF Hoileys, Col.
SEVEN HUNDRED blast furnace en-
ployes at Sharon and Sharpsville. Pa,
have been given an advance in wages
of 10 and % per cent. The advance was
made without any solicitation on the
part of the men.
An official statement of the accounts
of the horse show, recently held in
Chicago, shows a deficit of S31, 900. The
amount is much larger than was gem
orally supposed.
AFTER t~orturing their victim into in
se~nsibility, masked robbers searched
the body of John Hartong, 4 farmer
near Akron, O.. aged 10, on the Sd, and
found belt containing $500, to pre-
serve which the old man, who is
wealthy, had endured great suffering.
ANOTHER regiment of infantry and
a squadron of dragons arrived at
Prague, the old Bohimian capital, on
the Sd, to reinforce the garrison there.
in view of the recent disturbances.
Ten thousand bags of dessicated
vegetables are being prepared in De-
troit, Mich, for shipment to the Klon-
dixie.
MARTIN THORN, convicted of the MUIR
der of VIM. Guldensuppe at Long Island
City, N. Y. was sentenced, on the Sd, to
be electrocuted in the week beginning
January 10, 1898. He received the sent
ence with a calm, imperturbable express
sion of c~ountenance.
EARLY OF the morning of the Sd an
unsuccessful attempt was made to rob
the western Office of the Lindell Rail-
road Co. in st. Louis An effort to drill
into the safe had not been completed
when the burglars were frightened
away.
The village of Black Earth about 20
miles west of Madison, Wis, was
shaken by a distinct shock of earth
quake, on the Sd, shortly after mid
night. Windows ratified and build
ing shook but no serious damange re-
suited. The shock lasted about a min
ute.
A DUEL was fought in Paris, on the
5th, between NJ. Millerand, the we'll
known socialist deputy and editor of
NJ. Joseph Reinach. conservative dep
uty and a well-linown journalist and
author, editor of the Republique Fran
caise. Both men fired twice. Neither
was hit, but their seconds declared
that honor was satisfied.
SEVEN THOUSAND persons gathered in
the Auditorium at Chicago. on the 5th,
to do honor to the memory of Henry
George. No admission fee was charged,
but many offered high prices for seats
and were unable to obtain them.
THE Madrid Ell Liberal, the official
organ of Spain, contends that there is
no ground to fear that the United
States will recognize the insurgents as
belligerents, or otherwise interfere in
the settlement of the Cuban difficulty,
''inasmuch as Spain has accorded her
colonies in the Antilles the maximum
of liberty that other powers accord to
their colonies"
A DISPATCH from Rome, on the 5th,
says: ''Torrential storms have pre-
vailed for three days over large parts
of Italy. In the Bay of Naples % mer-
there has been no loss of life, and sew
eral houses on the sea front have col
lapsed. Considerable damage has been
done here and in the district around
the city"
A WASHINGTON dispatch says hat
quiet Investigations have been in
progress Shich point strongly to the
fact that thousan DIS of dead pensioners
are carried on the rolls. Annually sew
eral millions of dollars are paid out by
the government on behalf of pension
ers long since in their graves. Fraud
is rampant in certain divisions of the
bureau. in spite of the precautions
adopted.
CHARLES DENNELER a gardener liv-
ing on the outskirts of Kansas City,
Mo-, shot his wife, on the 9th, as she
at the breakfast table surrounded
by her children and then shot himself.
Both were fatally wounded. Denneler
was drunk. He had threatened to kill
his wife on several occasions