The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-03-26
DR.. GEORGE CLINTON HUBBARD, ass 1T

DR.. GEORGE CLINTON HUBBARD, ass 1T
ant surgeon United States navy, COM
mitted suicide at st. Ellzabeth's insane
asylum, Washington, d. c., on the Goth,
by strangling himself with the cord of
his dressing gown. DR.. Hubbard was
% years old.
A DETERMINED effort is to be put
forth this spring by the Methodists of
Indiana to save De PAW university, at
Greencastle, which, through the failure
of the De PAW estate, is threatened
with financial embarrassment.
THE Sons of Veterans of Philadelphia
have organized a regiment of infantry,
1000 strong. Se~venty-four per cent. of
the members have served in the state
national guard and hold honorable dis
charges. They are ready for service if
needed.
The Bethlehem pa Iron Co. S ord
nance works are running night and
day, and Sundays, on guns, carriages
and armor for the government. The
plant is keeping over 1000 hands busy.
Coal diggers in Mercer, Lawrence
and Butler counties, Ohio, threaten a
strike, to commence April l. Several
thousand men will be involved.
The steamer Lain, sailing from New
York for Europe, on the 21st, took out
100000 n of silver.
GEN. BJ~ORNsTJERSA. the former
Swedish minister of war, died in Stock
holm on the 2Ist.
A. p,tfa Mont fhn IIn1A lDrGa n
three-story building. used as a board
ing and lodging house for men in the
employ of the Anaconda copper mine,
was entirely destroyed by fire early on
the morning of the 21st. Three hum
dred persons. were in the building. Of
these many were sent to the hospitals
injured, and 20 were, missing. anumber
of whom were thought to be dead in
the ruins.
Mr.. WILLIAM P~INKERTON. of the Pin
kerton's National Detective agency, de-
nOunc as grossly malicious and
tending to create an unjustitiable preju-
dice" the statements that employees of
the agency are ferreting out the secret
d~efenSes of Il government and fur
nlSlllIS lIlG lHlOIIldlIOIl W lllC OpdllSl.
AT Wellsville, O., while returning
home from church, on the night of the
10th. Oliver Reed asked Sarah Walton
to marry him. and upon her refusal he
drew a revolver and shot her through
the heart. He then turned the weapon
on himself and blew out his brains,
dying in Il short time.
I~-,, 1890 u,r,,,- +ln ,nu-
United States ambassador to Russia,
had an audience with the Gear, at St.
Petersburg, on the 21st, and presented
his credentials.
An explosion occurred. on the I'D, at
the works of the United States Smoke
less Powder Co., near San Rafael. Cal.
c. \. jerks. n of the head employees,
and a laborer named Jensen were
killed.
Mrs. MARC ARET SCOTT. sister of Gov
Bradley of Kentucky, died, on the I'D,
at Somerset, Ky. The governor did not
change his plans for attending the
launching of the battleship Kentucky.
TIE statement of the condition of the
treasury, issued on the 22d, showed:
Available cash balance, S225, 176, 922;
gold reserve. Sl71, 1880.
SENATOR HALE. of Maine, is reported
as saying on the 22d: The country is
on the verge of war. L fear nothing
can prevent hOstilities.'
II was reported in Key West, Fla.
on the 22d. that the officers of the
Maine in Havana had been ordered
home.
THE General Transatlantic Co. 5 mail
steamer Vile de Rome was wrecked
off Port Mahon, Balearic islands, in the
Mediterranean, on the ed.