The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-30
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

posure.
ROBERT L. LINCOLN will succeed the
late George NJ. Pullman as president of
the Pullman Palace Car Co. The Pull
man family, who own a majority of
the stock, expressed a wish hat Mr..
Lincoln accept the place, and he gave
his consent.
WHILE Mrs. Joseph Howard, of Wash
ington county, Ind, was at Cincinnati
preparing to take the supposed re-
mains of her husband home for inter
ment, . letter arrived from the latter
saying that he was in Nashville. Two
weeks before he had mysteriously dis
appeared, and the remains of a muir
dered nan found in the Portland canal
were identified as those of Howard.
THE president gave a public recep-
ton on the I'D, at which a large num-
Der of callers paid their respects.
Among them was Hiss Cossio Cisneros,
the escaped Cuban girl. She was ac-
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. Karl
Decker and Mrs. John A. Logan. Mrs.
Logan introduced the party.
The controversy over the use of Vic
tor Hugo's Les Miserables' in the
girls high school of Philadelphia,
which has attracted general attention,
has been settled by the placing of an
abridged edition of the work on the
eligible list of French books for the
school.
SECRETARY OF WAR ALGER has sent
to Lieut.-Col. Randall, commander of
the United States troops at St. Mi
chael's. Alaska, an order directing him
to make use of the reindeer in Alaska
for the transportation of supplies and
the relief of sufferers.
BUFFALO and New York special No.
As, on the New York Central Il Hud-
son River railroad, due to arrive in
New York city at $50 4. IN. of the 24th,
| was thrown from the tract, into the
Hudson river, X miles below Garri-
| sons station. Twenty-eight lives were
lost. The retaining wall along the
river had been undermined By high
water in the river, and the track caved
under the weight of the train.
y GRANDSON of Gen. Phil Kearney
has been adjudged, by a supreme court
! commission Jersey City. y. j., n N habit
ual drunkard and will be sent to Il
sanitarium.
WILLARD WALKER, ~ years old, said
by the police to be an old offender. who
/ stated that his home was in Buffalo,
n. Y, and John L. Ellis, IA years old,
of New York city, were arraigned in
the jefferson Market police court, on
! fha Offl, ahn-raJ rvifh --0pl-Inrr o
'himfiam' game on men leaving for
Europe on cattle ships of the Anchor
line.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the cath
says: while not fully advised as to
Spain's reply to Secretary Sherman's
note, its general character is known to
President Mckinley. and it is not an
ticipated hat any friction will arise
between the two countries"
ADoLPH LIPMAN, the solicitor of the
Travellers Life Insurance Co., who
shot himself while seated at his desk
in the Bank of Commerce building in
New York, died, on the cath, at the
Hudson-street hospital. He had been
respondent on account of business set
backs and frequently threatened to
kill himself.
The attendance at the Nashville
Centennial exposition for the week
ended the Esd, was 1O7, 927, breaking
all previous records.
LORD DOUGLASS, of Hawick, son of
the marquis of Queensbury. was in the
recent New York Central wreck. He
was en- route from Toronto with Ed
ward Wilkinson, of London. When
the crash came and the coaches We're
thrown into the water, Lord Douglass,
assisted by Mr.. Wilkinson, managed,
after great difficulty, to get out of the
coach.
The instructions given to Marshal
Blanco, the new governor general of
Cuba, are conciliatory, and aim to Sc
ure the cooperation of all parties. 1t
is asserted hat the Cuban press will
''enjoy more liberty, subject to re-
strictions upon criticisms calculated to
affect military discipline"
AFTER u search for heirs etending
over a score of years, the vast estate of
Imblay Clarke, now appraised at S25,-
900, 600, seems about to come to its
rightful possessor, his daughter, living
in San Francisco, whom Clarke left in
the home for the friendless. Clarke
was a mine owner who died in Aus
tralla over 20 years ago.
EXACTLY ESQ dogs of high and low
degree, mostly the latter, the property
of w. Ii. Lewis, a Seattle lawyer, were
shipped to the Pacific coast from Chi
cago, recently, and will be sold to
Klondike miners. Lawyer Lewis hopes
to get from SIS to $50 apiece for the
CANNES, and should his fond hopes be
realized, he will take two more car
loads of the product of the Chicago dog
pound.
IT is officially announced that an out
break of the bubonic plague has oc-
Cured in the Jalandhar district of the
Punjab. The village of Khatkarhalan, /
the seat of the infection, has been cor
dOned In the hospitals of Poonah 2I4
cases of the plague are being treated, |
and physicians are attending to lis
cases of the plague in the Bombay hos
pitfalls.
AFRESCH tile-maker named Guillout, 1
his wife and four children committed |
suicide, on the 25th. by the use of |
charcoal fumes at Choisy lie Roy. Pow !
erty was the cause of their self-de- |
struction. |
CAPT. C. Z. STACEY was married in |