The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-23
CURRENT TOPICS,
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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grand chancellor of Ohio of the knights
of Pythias.
The Spanish government decided at
its cabinet meeting, on the l+th, to &C.
cord a free pardon and amnesty to all
those unfortunate Cubans who are
languishing either in the ~penitentia-
ries of Spain itself or in the penal set
Elements of Cueta and Fernando Pc.
ONE Of the most destructive prairie
fires in the history of western Kansas
started near Spearville, on the morn
ing of the 18th, and swept through
Ford ard Hodgeman counties as far
north as Jetmore, destroying every
thing in its path.
The Congo troops under Lieut..
Henry, it was officially announced on
the 18th, gained a decisive victory
over the bands of mutinous Manyema
soldiers who revolted in February last
and murdered their officers and who
have since been raiding the country.
Lieut.. Henry's force encountered the
rebels near Lake Albert Nyanza, on
July Is, and killed 400 of them. The
survivors fed to the mountains, where
they are starving.
DURING the performance of Dang
ers of a Great City," in Robinson's
opera house, in Cincinnati, on the
evening of the 18th, the great central
truss of the building, so feet long and
80 feet wide fell into the par
quette, killing three persons, danger
ously wounding five, while % were so
seriously injured as to be sent to the
hospital. In addition to these, 25 or 80
were slightly injured, yet able to walk
home.
LOUIS RICHARDSON went to the house
of his divorced wife at Shelbyville,
Ind, on the 18th, and was refused ad-
mission. He attempted to break down
the door, when his l6-year-old son, Lou,
opened on the parent with a revolver.
Four shots were fired, and a bloody
trail showed they were effective.
GEORGE w. RENARD, of Lexington,
KY, has just returned from a four
years ~sojourn in the Klondike country
$40, 900 richer than when he went there.
He intends to return in the spring.
THERE was e cyclonic disturbance
over the southern part of Cuba on the
18th. The barometer fell considerably
and the wind attained great velocity.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 18th, showed:
Available cash balance, SILL, $3.50, SIS;
gold reserve, $50, 164, 1876.
COMMERCIAL bar silver was quoted at
5S24 cents per ounce in New York city
on the 18th. Mexican dollars were
quoted at Az cents.
The town of Iowa Hill, Cal, a min
ing camp Of about 500 inhabitants. was
completely destroyed by fire on the
night of tho 10th. Two men were
burned to death and several others
were injured.
The interstate civic-philanphropic
conference at Battle Creek, Mich,
closed, on the 18th, after six days ses-
sions, which were successful as to at
tendance and interest manifested.
The Fall River (Mass.) print cloth
market took another tumble, on the
10th, and reached the lowest point in
the history of the market in that city,
a small sale being made ut 28.
THEODORE A. DURRANT, the con-
victed murderer of Blanche Lamont,
whose fate depends upon the action
of the supreme court of tire United
States, is reporter to be breaking
down and in danger of entire collapse.
The town of Windsor, the seat Of
Hants county, 35 miles from Halifax,
n. s., was wiped out, on the 18th, by
fire. Few buildings in the town were
left standing and 5000 persons are
homeless. Windsor is situated on the
Dominion Atlantic railway, on the
western "a of the province. AS far
as known no lives were LOST.
THE Spanish coasting steamer Triton,
bound from Havana to Bahia Honda,
Cuba, sank between Dominica and
Mariel, and 80 lives were lost. Forty
two of those on board We're saved.
The annual report of w. S. Shallen-
berger, second assistant postmaster
general, made public on the 18th, gives
an interesting review of the principal
developments in the entire postal
transportation service of the United
States and connecting foreign mails.
CHARLES A. DANA, editor of the New
York Sun, died at his home in Glen
Cove, L. l., on the 18th.
The monument to Robert Louis
Stevenson was unveiled, on the 18th,
at Portsmouth square, San Francisco.
Addresses were delivered by Irving VI.
Scott and Bruce Porter, the artist.
Mayor Phelan accepted the monument
on behalf of the city.
MARSHAL BLANco left Spain for Cuba,
on the night of the 18th, to replace Gen.
Weyler. 1t is understood that he has
been given unusual power, and that his
main hope is to secure p~acifcation by
buying up the patriot leaders.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, the famous actor,
addressed the ~convicts in the Massa-
chusetts state prison, on the 18th, talk
ing the story of Rip Van Wrinkle as his
theme, from which he drew a lesson on
temperance that held his hearers SPELL
bound to its conclusion.
ALDERMAN j. A. ABERcoRN was shot
and perhaps fatally wounded by Geo. ,
Jensen in a saloon quarrel at Chicago
the 18th. Jensen, who is under ar
rest, says that the alderman attempted
to bite off his nose.
On the 10th the associated banks of
New York city held S14,61I, 500 in
excess of the requirements of the 25-
percent rule.
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