The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-12-25

6RAND F',sKs, N. D., suffered from ,

$500. ssKs, N. D., suffered from q
i've fire, with losses aggregat-
=: dearly 81, 900, OO0, on the 18th. Three
Ives are supposed to have been lost
THE Cuban autonomy programme is
the will, not of the Spanish people, but
of Senior Sagasta, which has not had
the approval of the c~ortes, and which
Sagasta is afraid will not be Endorsed,
butreiected by that body when it comes
up for legislation.
POLICEMAN WILLIAM RUSSELL, of Chi
cago, shot and killed a robber on the
night of the 18th, and half an hour
later he was called up by telephone
and promoted by Chief Ripley to a SER
geantcy.
JOHN j. HANRAHAN and Patrick Fer
ris, election judges in the Seventeenth
ward Of Chicago, were convicted, on
the 18th, of classifying election returns
at the last aldermanic election.
SAMUEL S. DUNHAM, special agent OF
the department of labor in Alaska, who
started for the Klondike region several
months ago, Is missing, and the fear is
entertained that he has been lost in the
northern wilds.
IN an explosion aboard the British
steamer Southern Cross, from Buenos
Ayres for Liverpool, which arrived at
Madeira, on the 18th. several persons
were killed or wounded.
On the 18th the associated banks of
New York held Sis. 726. $50 in excess
of the requirement of the 25-per-cent.
rule.
EXPERIENCED men dragged the Sus-
quehanna river at Harrisburg, Pa, all
day, on the 10Th, for the body of Rev.
S. 3. Spearriel, who, it was. thought,
| either committed suicide or was muir
dered and thrown into the river.
They found nothing whatever, owing
to the murky condition of the high
water.
The great jewelry establishment of
Mermod & Jaccard. of st. Louis, was
completely destroyed by fire, on the
10th, causing a loss v~ariously estimated
at from $3.50, 900 to $500, 900, and said to
have been fully covered by insurance.
SIR FRANK LOCKWOOD, liberal men,
| Der of the British parliament for York
city since 1885, died in London on the
| 10th.
AS A result of an explosion of crude
| oil vapor in one of the boilers at the
works of the Kansas City (Mo.) Gas
Co., on the Goth, Frank Connor was so
badly burned that he will probably
die. James Murphy, fireman. and
James Miller, a steam filter, were also
| seriously burned. Both will recover.
THE reported robbery of some SIS, 00C
in Mexican money from the steamer
City of Washington during her last
trip from Vera Cruz to New York wa
confirmed on the 21th. The City of
Washington belongs to the New York
| & Cuba Mail Steamship Co.
PETER y. MCMAHON, of Albany, N.
Y, crazed by cigarette smoking, COM
mitted suicide at Syracuse on the Goth.
Mcmahon stood in front of a mirror
and fired a bullet through his heart.
lie was about 20 years old.
ONE person was probably fatally
hurt and six others were more or less
injured in the outskirts of Philadel-
| phia, on the Goth, in a collision on the
Roxborough, Wissahickon s. Mana.
| yunk electric road.
THE joint convention of miners and
| operators met in Pittsburgh, Pa, Oh
the 21st, to fix a mining rate for the
year 1898. There was a large attend
ance.
The three windowgiass factories at
| Alexandria, Ind, will resume opera.
tions January l, giving employment &c
1900 men.
The funeral of Washington Hesing.
| of Chicago, took place on the 22d.