The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-13

CAPT.-GEN. BLANco has been disap-
pointed keenly in having discovered
that there are few genuine ~autonomists
in Cuba, the great majority of the MEM
bers of the autonomist party having
joined the ranks of the insurgents.
CHARLES PINKERTON, under sentence
of life Imprisonment for the murder of
his nephew and son-in-law. Charles
Piukerton, Jr., of Fulton, Mich. cut
his throat in the county Jail at La
Porte, Ind, on the eth. Death was al
most instantaneous.
SENIOR D~OMINGUEz, the lawyer who
is defending the Competitor prisoners
at Havana, is sanguine of securing at
least Ona Melton's release, and believes
that the liberation of ali the American
prisoners probably will follow o
The physicians in attendance upon
Gen. benjamin Butterworth, commits
sioner of patents, who is i'll with pneu-
monia at the Hollenden hotel, Cleve-
land, O., on the Sth. gave but:little en-
enlargement for his recovery.
w. ID. CORNISH, master in chancery,
appeared at the courthouse in Denver,
Col, on the Sth, at 10 a. M, the hour
originally set for the sale of the Den
yer Pacific railroad, and publicly an
nounced the postponemeut of the sale
until December 20.
JUDGE SANBoRN, in the United States
court at st. Paul, Mimi, on the Sth,
confirmed the sale of first mortgage
bonds of the Union Pacific railroad,
which were sold on the 1st, at Omaha.
Neb. The proceedings were confined
to the brief reading of the papers in
the case and the signing of the judges
name. The document was Immediate
ly dispatched to Omaha.
On the Sth the United States supreme
court affirmed the decision of the cir
cult court of the California circuit, re-
fusing a writ of habeas corpus to Viii
liam Henry Theodore Durrant, under
sentence of death for the murder of
Miss Blanche Lamont, in San Francis
co, in April, 1896.
HARRY PIERsoN, aged %, an oiler,
was crushed to death in the engine
room of SwifCs packing house at East
Lolllo. Ill. w IllN OFhs SAhE N"bSI ~
in the crank SHAFT, when he was oiling,
and whirled around until ne was Il
l~ifeless mass.
BENZ. NUM- and Roy Num-, father
and son, were each sentenced, at Glad
win, Mich, on the Sth. to life impriS-
in the state penitentiary at
jackson. Their crime was numbering
Wright.
EMANUEL FRIEND, counsel for Mrs.
Mack, accused of completely in the
Guldensuppe murder in New York. re-
ported, on the night of the 9th, that
client had made a confession and
would go on the stand, on the 10th,
and testify against Thorn, her alleged
accomplice.
A CRANK appeared at the White
House, on the 9th, and demanded to
see President Mckinley. He said the
president had not treated him right.
He tried to go up by the elevator, but
was taken in charge by officials AMI
placed in the police station.
The annual meeting of the general
of the Freedman's Aid and
Education society was con-
at the Hanson Place NJ. L.
church, Brooklyn, on the 9th.
The birthday of the prince of Wales
was celebrated in London, on the 9th,
with the usual flag hosting, bell ring
ing and artillery salutes. lie was born
Q, 1871.
A DISPATCH from Buenos Ayres says
that a general frost has severely in
jured the wheat and flax crops of the
republic.
The wheat crop of Italy is estimated
at about go per cent. of last years crop,
or Sc, $50, 700 bushels.