The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-08-21
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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Copper river, Alaska, in the spring, a
section hat is peopled with a hostile
tribe of Indians, numbering about
1000, with no less than 200 braves. 1t
is considered a very hazardous under
taking.
A storm struck Paterson,
\. j., on the 10th. The rainfall was
the heaviest in % years, and much
damage was done by the cyclonic wind
which accompanied it. Trees were
uprooted in some places, signs and
fences carried away and trolley cars
were stopped.
The Morning Times, of Cripple
Creek, Col. has been sold by ]. P.
! Siley to Frank j. Arkia:i and Gail
Hoag, two well-known newspaper
men, both of whom have been for
years connected with the Rocky Noun
tain News. of Denver, Col.
WHILE flying a kite during a heavy
electr.ca storm, on the 10th, Walter
Vinson, a 12-year-old boy. who lived
in Chelsea place, Kansas City, Kas-,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
TIE inhabitants of Townsville, Ga,
are intensely excited over what appears
to be the existence of a volcano near
there. The crater is about % feet
square and several streams of blue
smoke issue from it.
DESPITE diplomatic denials Madrid
dispatches reaching Havana virtually
confirm the report that President Nc
Kinley and Secretary Sherman nav
given Spain until January l, next, to
end the war in Cuba.
| THE queen regent of Spain has de-
creed hat the military honors observed
in the case of the funeral of a marshal
shall be accorded the remains of the
late premier of Spain, Senior .CanoVas
! del Castillo.
OFFICIAL information reached Ha-
vana. on the 10th, of a decisive battle
! between Spanish troops and insurgent
/ forces in MatanzaS. According to this
information the Spanish troops were
routed, after a hard battle, with heavy
! losses.
j. NJ. TRANT, who killed James Fleet
wood about ten years ago, was assas-
| sinated in his home at Ryan, L. T.,
on the night of the 10th, by unknown
! persons. Traut was the terror of his
/ neighborhood and had many enemies.
VIM. LAMB PICKNELL, of Boston, the
celebrated artist, died in Marblehead,
! Mass, on the nighto the 9th. He was
As years of age.
Ex-KING MILAN of Servia is SO seri-
ously ill, in Vienna, that Some anxiety
is felt by his friends as to his eventual
recovery.
A SPECIAL dispatch, on the 18th,
from Paris, said hat Planas, another
leader of the Spanish anarchists, had
peel expelled from France, being COR
Quoted to Havre, from which port he
will come to America. Both Marmel
and Planas, the dispatch added, called
themselves Cuban patriots.
WIN. Z. QUINBY. of Detroit, lately
United States minister to the Neither
lands, arrived at New York, on the
10th, on board the steamer Western-
land from Antwerp.
II is said that the Philippine islands
insurgents are now following the Gu
bans tactics, surprising conveys and
detachments of Spanish troops, and
that up to date they have been gener-
ally successful in almost all the en-
counters, this being really the only
means by which the iberators have
acquired the large number of Reming-
ton and Mauser rifles and supply Of
ammunition they possess at present
The first tin plate manufactured in
America to be sen to Europe is, &C
cording to the local manufacturers,
thai started on the 18th, by the Ameri-
can Plate Co. of Elwood, Ind, on its
way to Italy. 1t was a carload coz
sisting of 500 boxes of the most expen-
sive tin plate made there. The com
pany made a similar shipment to En-
gland on the 18th.
UMPIRE TIM HURST, who threw q
beer glass at the spectators during n
game in Cincinnati and severely in
jured Fireman C~artyvelles, was fined
500 and costs in the police court in
that city on the 18th.
GEORGE j.. GOULD has brought suit
against Hiram Graham and his broth
er, Aaron Graham, for t~respassing on
his trouting preserves in the wiids OF
the C~atskills.
ALDERMAN WM. MANGLER, of Chica-
go. was, on the 11Al, sentenced by
Judge Dunno to pay a fine of 81, 900 and
serve 80 days in the county Jail for con-
tempt of court
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has
appointed the Grand Duke Nicholas
N~icholaievitch to the honorary col
onelcy of the Magdeburg hussars.
DAVID DIETRICH and his wife were
found murdered in their home, three
miles south of Bellefontaine, O., on
the 18th. The house had been ran
sacked throughout
The rumor is revived in London that
George l.. Watson is designing a new
yacht to replace the prince of Wales
cutter Britannia
JACOB S. CoXEY was, on the 11th,
nominated by reclamation for governor
Of Ohio on the populist state ticket.
A DISPATCH from Hong Kong says:
Owing to the fall in silver there is q
general depression in the import
trade"
TIE remains Of the late premier Of
Spain, Senior Canovas del Castillo, ar
rived at Madrid, on the 18th, from
Santa Agueda. They were net at the