The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

BY a decree transmitted to the state
department by United States Consul
Wiesike at Managua, the N~icaraguan
government has reduced the duty on
bicycles to 2 2-1OO cents per pound, or
about So. Is for a machine, as packed,
for that country. The old duty was
about ten cents per pound.
Two MEN held up the cashier of the
Yonkers On. " savings bank, on the
12th, and secured 81, 400, mostlyin bills,
and made good their escape.
The Illinois steel works at South Chi
cago resumed operations on the 18th.
About 100 rail f~inishers, whose striking
involved $500 men, were not re-em-
ployed. The finishers were not up
held by the officials of their union.
ACCORDING to advices brought by the
Oriental steamer Gaelic, which arrived
at San Francisco on the 18th, natives
in the vicinity of Ichang, China, are
dying by thousands of starvation.
JOSE GONZALES CARLOS, charged with
being an insurgent ~incendiary. was
shot at CabanaS fortress, Cuba, on the
eth.
A DISPATCH from Washington says:
The sweeping order of President Cleve-
land effecting a consolidation of pen
sion agencies will be revoked by Presi-
dent Mckinley, if present plans are
carried out.
AT Wilson, Ill, a small town on the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad, z
posse of twenty-five citizens fought a
pitched battle, on the night of the 18th,
with three robbers who had been
caught in the act of robbing a bank.
SENATOR CHANDLER, on the 18th, in
troduced his bills empowering the sec
rotary of the navy to take possession
of the armor plants of the Bethlehem
and the Carnegie companies, and hold
and operate them at will, provision for
ample compensation being made.
On the advice of her physician that
it was the devil in her, and it would
have to be whipped out" Mrs. Logan,
of indianapolis, Ind, beat her 19-year-
old daughter Nellie, who had been
subject to hysteria for four years, SO
badly that she had to be Sent to the
hospital.
SEVERAL thousand razor-back hogs,
imported into Iowa from Texas during
the past year, have died from what
was supposed to be hog cholera. A
poSt-morten examination of some of
them disclosed the fact that, instead
of cholera, a kidney worm killed the
hogs.
A DEED has been placed on file in
Kansas City, kas., conveying to Will
lam j. Isaac, of Kansas City, Mo-,
nearly one-half of the city of Argen-
tine, a manufacturing suburb. Over
one million dollars worth of property
Is involved.
A MYSTERIOUS Jail delivery occurred
in Memphis, Tenn, on the night of the
18th. J. II. Morris, alias j.. A. Thur
man. alias J. NJ. Thomas, under indict-
ment for forgery in Chicago, Louis
vile and Memphis, passed to liberty
through four doors, all of which were
found to be securely locked after the
escape was discovered.
In view of the very satisfactory tests
of American armor plate heretofore
sent to Russia, the Russian govern
ment has asked the Carnegie and Beth
lehem companies to submit proposals
for furnishing armor plate for two
large battleships.
The London Globe, st. James Ga
zette and Pail Mall Gazette all ridicule
the idea of the United States bimetal-
lie comm .ssioD, appointed by the presi-
dent, having any practical result.
IT is reported hat T. V. Powderly,
former general master workman of the
Knights of Labor, will be appointed
commissioner of immigration to sue
ceed Herman Stump, of Maryland.
The president has sent a message to
congress urging suitable provision Cor
adequate representation of the United
States at the Paris exposition.
The New York Central Railroad Co.
has arranged for the sale of 500. 900. 00G
of3h per cent. 1OO-year gold bonds, and
the New York & Harlem ior Sl2, 900, 900
of the sane class of bonds.
WHILE tapping a blast at the Rep1b-
lican iron works in Pittsburgh. Pa.
about three o'clock on the morning of
the 18th, the molten metal boiled over
into a pit of water, causing an explo-
sion. Five men were badly burned,
two of whom will probably die.
FATHER PHILIP BEREsFoRD, rector OF
St Joseph's Catholic parish. in Read
ing. Pa. was found dead in bed IN the
parsonage adjoining the church en- The
18th. Death was due to suIiCca.ion
from Illuminating gas. His age vas
about so years