The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-01-09
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

VI We" 1Orh, mas ueultu Ile dpplICd-
ton of the Agudath Hakehiloth, a He
brew organization. for a certificate of
Incorporation, because it fixes the
time of holding business meetings on
Sunday, and the judge says: '"Thelaw
which scrupulously protects them in
the observance of their creed, gives
them no license to affront the religious
susceptibilities of others"
On the Goth the associated banks of
New York city held S34, 500, 900 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
TRAIN wreckers removed a rail from
the approach to a high bridge near
birmingham, Ala, causing a passen-
ger train, on the 27th, to plunge ITO
feet into the river below, and result
ing in instant death to 20 persons.
The wreckage, igniting from the fire
in the stoves, was burned to the wa
ter's edge, cremating many of the vic
tins.
WHITE GHOST, the Indian chief who
visited Washington with a delegation
Of his fellow tribesmen, asking for
5000, 600 interest OF alleged deferred
payments for land, saw the Great
Father on the 2Sth. Indian Commits
sioner Browning introduced the chief
to the president. White Ghost did not
stay long enough to make a speech,
but was exceedingly pleased to shake
hands with Mr.. Cleveland.
PREsIDENT-ELECT MCKINLEY has
p-caaised to go t New York for the
dedication of the Grant monument on
April -. lie will make an address.
Many representatives of foreign gov
ernments at Washington will be pres
ent to witness the ceremonies. Ii
Hung Chang will see that the Flowery
kingdom is represented.
PROF. EMANUEL SCHMID died in Co.
lumbus, O., on the 2Sth, from a para
lytic stroke. He had been professor
of Latin and Greek in the Lutheran
Capital university in Columbus since
1858, and was for the same period one
of the editors of the Kirchen Zeitung.
Prof. Schmid was born in Ann Arbor,
Mich, i'll 1875.
The ferryboat New brunswick. be-
longing to the Pennsylvania railroad,
was totally burned at Jersey City. n.
j., on the 2Sth. The New brunswick
was worth about SlOO, 900.
MASKED men, believed to be white
caps, shot William Whaley and his
wife to death in Sewer county, Tenn,
early on the morning of the goth.
Whaley was a professional prosecut-
ing witness, Il had been out of the
penitentiary only Il short time.
The Spanish steamer Carranza, Capt.
Martinez, foundered in the Bay of Bis
cay, off ~Santander, on the 2sth. Sine
carried a crew of % men, 81 of whom
were drowned.
AT Delaware, o., on the 2Sth, Lulu
Stultz, aged 10, in a fit of anger after
reproof from her parents, cut her
dying instantly.
THE highbinders' war is again rag
ing in hat portion of san Francisco
known as Chinatown.
The steamer Kaiser Wilhelm H.,
from Bremen, which arrived at New
York On the 29th, brought 800 Italian
men, women and children, destined for
the Sunnyside colony in Chieot county,
Ark, which was established by the
late Austin Corbin.
Gov. MORTON of New York has ap
pointed Col. Ashley W. Cole, Il former
New York city newspaper man, to be
his private secretary, and also to be
secretary of the state railroad commits
sion. The salary is $4,000 per year and
is one of the best in the state service.
EUGENE ToMPKINs, proprietor of the
Boston theater; Col. Mapleson, late i'm
presario of the Imperial opera COM
pany, and all who took part in the
Mapleson benefit at the theater Sun
day, the eth, have been summoned to
the superior court, charged with vio-
lating the Sunday concert law.
FIRE swept through the dynamo
building of the Newark IN. j. Electric
Light, Heat and Power Co, on the
night of the Goth, and Newark was
plunged in total darkness. The pow
erhouse was totally destroyed, and if,
as it is feared, none of the machinery
can be repaired, the loss will reach
SIS. 900.
Miss LOUISE EUGENE BoSAPARTE,
only daughter OF the late Col. Jerome
Napoleon B~onaparte, and Count de
Moltke-Huitieldt, of Denmark, were
married at st. Paul's Roman Catholic
church, Washington, on the 29th,
Cardinal Gibbons officiating.
CHIEF HAZEN OF the secret service
has issued a circular warning against
a new counterfeit SO national bank
note on the Union national bank of
Detroit, Mich. The note is the prod
uct of the same hand that produced
the recent counterfeit on the National
Bank of Commerce of New York. One
distinguishable feature is that the
back of the note is upside down.
The celebrated Thistle Shaft mine,
formerly known as the Feather Fork,
at G~ibsonville, Cal. which is owned
by a syndicate of Scotch capitalists
and valued at millions, is filling up
with water, and may have to be aban-
doned. The water vein was struck a
a short time ago, and the influx was SO
sudden that the miners narrowly es-
capped with their liveR