The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-01-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

FEhSONAl AMI
The newspapers of Madrid publish
dispatches from the United States re-
porting that the Cuban agitation here
is growing, and declaring that certain
American newspapers are publishing
false news in order to excite public
opinion.
LARGE quantities of provisions, prin-
cipally lard, hams and bacon, will be
shipped from New York city to Cuba,
for entry before January l. On that
date Gen. Weyler's order raising the
tariff on imports five per cent. goes
into effect.
IT transpires that Miss Mary Lord
Drake, daughter Of the governor of
Iowa, and George Sturdivant, of Cen
terville, Ia, were secretly married at
Denver, Col, nearly two months ago.
Hon. JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER, the
eminent jurist and dean of the law
school of Washington and Lee uni
versity, is critically i'll at his home in
Lexington, Va. He is IL years of age.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN ROSWELL G. HoRR
died at Plainfeld, n. j., on the 18th,
after al illness of two weeks with
bronchitis and Bright's disease.
P. AELo and his wife, of Sheffield, O.,
natives of Finland, were awakened, at
three o'clock on the morning of the
10Th, by neighbors shouting that their
house was on fire. They escaped in
safety, but returned to rescue a grand
child, when the floor gave way and all
three were precipitated into the eel
lar, where they burned to death.
FIVE persons were burned to death
in their home, 5l4 East Fifty-eighth
street, New York city, on the night of
the Goth. The victims were Aaron
Goldsmith, As years old. and his wife
and three children. Goldsmith was a
wholesale liquor dealer.
The Madrid La Pas asserts that it
has been definitely proved that Japan
has landed men and munitions of war
upon the Philippine islands, and that
the Philippine rebels are commanded
by Japanese officers.
The Berliner bank (of Berlin) has
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$500, 900 marks to 20, OOO, 600 marks.
Mr.. w. S. CARROLL, United States
consul-general at Dresden, gave a
grand reception at his residence in
that city on the Goth.
THERE were 275 ships loading and
unloading at Hamburg on the Goth
and 2,777 men were employed in the
work.
On the 10Th the associated banks of
New York city held S33, "A, 725 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
A BALLOT taken by the striking Ham
burg lockers, on the 10Th, at five
different meetings resulted in 1896
votes being cast in favor of a continu-
ance of the strike and 3,671 against
the strike continuing.
PROPOSALS for the purchase of
81, $50, 600 first mortgage bonds of the
Central Pacific, Union Pacific and
Kansas Pacific railroads, nov consti-
tuting part of the sinking fund of the
Central Pacific railroad, were received
at the treasury department up to noon
of the 21st. Ten bids were received.
]. P. Morgan & Co., New York, Sent a
guarantee of a bid of at least par and
interest, for the whole amount or
none.
FREDA SCHAEFER, of st. Louis, aged
16, to shield her mother, confessed,
on the 2lst, hat she stole an umbrella
from the Famous department store,
and spent 4 night in the matron's room
at the Four Courts. The girl insisted
that she and not her mother stole the
umbrella. but the proprietors refused
to prosecute.
On the 21st Mr.. Danford, of Ohio,
introduced in the house a bill prepared
by the National Wool Growers asso-
citation providing for duties on wool.
Aduty of IL cents per pound is asked
for wool of the first class; eight cents
per pound for wool of the second class,
and other wool according to grade.
The senate committee on COM
merce, on the 21st, ordered a favora-
BILE report on the bill appropriating
S250,00O for the stoppage of the
crevasse in the mouth of the Missis-
sippi at Pas a Loutre. Messrs. Gallery
and Nelson were appointed a subcom-
mittee to draft the bill.
JOHN BURKAARDT and George Reiss,
bricklayers, employed on a building in
course of erection at the corner of
Green and Blocker streets, New York
city, were, on the ed, precipitated
from the sixth floor through the build
ing to the cellar by the collapse of a
scaffold. Burkhardt wGs killed and
Reiss fatally injured.
THE Bank of Minnesota, ct st. Paul.
closed its doors on the 22d. Lack of
ready money was the cause. Great eX-
element prevailed.
FRANK ASHLEY was found guilty at
Detroit, Mich, on the e2d, of the muir
der of James Magee, a well-knowI
local amateur athlete, on July 3 last.
The iury wns onf q hcut eiuhtaen hourS