The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-08-28
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

to pieces beneath a Missouri Pacific
train at Howard station on the 10th.
1t was to all appearances a case of pre-
meditated suicide.
The presidents secretary, ]. Addi-
son Porter, on the 10th, made the fol-
lowing announcement: Ethan Allen
Hitchcock, of st. Louis, has accepted
the ministership to Russia, and will be
appointed Immediately.
NAVAL officers are considering the
question of constructing dry docks suf-
ficiently large to accommodate our
largest war vessels. The natter will
be submitted to congress at the next
session
The post Office department has pre-
pared advertisements for contracts for
all star and steamboat mail service in
all states west of the Mississippi. ex-
cept Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri.
These contracts, embracing about S, 700
routes, will run for four years, begin
ming July l, 1898. Bids will be opened
in the second assistant postmaster gen.
erals office December l.
The big wagon works of the Mitch
ell Lewis company, at Racine. Wis,
began working II hours per day on the
10th.
The Peruvian government has or
dered the banks of Peru to withdraw
from circulation, within 80 days, and
to stop the further emission of circular
checks, payable to bearer, which are
classed as being nothing or less
than bank notes i n disguise.
NOTICE of contest of the second will
of Charles Coudert, of New York, which
devised his property to his seven chill
dren, was filed, on the 18th, by the
widow, Mrs. Mary Coudert, whom a
former will made sole legatee.
The twenty-third annual convention
of the American Bankers association
met in Detroit, Mich, on the 18th.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN, formerly of the
Seventh United States cavalry, has
been granted a pension of S22 a month
and 81 200 back pay. His whereabouts
is unknown to his attorneys.
A MOVEMENT looking to the connec-
ton of Denver and the Black Hills re-
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said to be in progress in Wyoming.
As result of the decline in silver
the Lamartine mine at Idaho Springs,
Col, discharged its force of men work.
ing on the silver lodes on the nth.
In the two weeks ended on the 18th
from Florida, most of them from the
Kissimmee river ranges.
The Rock Island Railroad Co. has
requested the farmers of Grant and
Garfield counties, Okla, to reimburse
the company for so, 600 bushels of wheat
furnished for seed, in 1894, when there
was a crop failure.
In the Wisconsin assembly, on the
18th, both the express company and
sleeping car taxation bills were passed
over the governors veto.
The former government boat John
A. Dix, recently turned over to the
Louisiana naval reserve, sank in the
Mississippi at the foot of Jackson street,
New Orleans, on the 18th.
Mrs. MARCELINA VALDEZ and a girl
named Francesca.Mondragon were shot
in Guadalupe, n suburb of Conejos,
Col, on the 18th, by Pablo Gallegos-
Mrs. Valdez was wounded in the head
and the girl in the arm and thigh.
Both will probably recover. Gallegos
was a discarded lover of the girl. He
escaped.
The wheat pit of the New York pro-
duce exchange was wrought up to a
fine frenzy of buying activity, on the
18th, inspired by the European demand
and partly by the report of damaged
crops in the northwest, and the price of
wheat went capering upward till the
dollar mark vas reached and passed by
q fraction of a cent.
The employees of the Wells-Fargo Ex-
press Co. all over the United States are
in receipt of letters from the California
headquarters of the company, saying
that salaries reduced three years ago
would be advanced Immediately.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway Co. has acknowledged the
business of a claim made by the Kan
sas state board of railroad commission
ers of exorbitant freight rates on that
road, and agreed to substantial reduc-
tions, to take effect September<1.
w. B. L. DAVIS, aged GO, a wealthy
farmer, living neal Rocllmart, Ga.
was killed and his house wrecked, on
the 18th. by the explosion of II dyna-
mite cartridges he had placed under
the kitchen stove for drying.
On the 18th the directors of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad de-
clared a quarterly dividend of one per
cent.
The steamer Queen arrived from
Alaska, at Victoria, b. c., on the 18th,
bringing news of the struggles and
disasters of the Argonauts of '97. Up
ward of 1000 men were encamped at
Skaguay when she called there, while
camps of others equally unable to get
through extended at intervals of three
or four hours march.
The two counterfeit 81, 900 bonds re-
Gently received at the United States
treasury from Louisville, KY, are said
to be the cleverest specimens that ever
troubled the secret service people.
They were the work of B~rockway, the
king bee of the counterfeiters.
ALL that was needed. on the 18th. for
any man in Chicago to make $50, 900
was to have 1000, 900 bushels of wheat.
That much wheat could have been
bought the day before for SsS5, coo,
ond tho huvar onlv Deedad IN hold IL