The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ONE of the new counterfeit 500 sill
yer certificates was handed in at the
New York sub-treasury, on the 18th,
from a New York bank which had re.
ceived it from a savings bank in Brook
lyn. The note was handled by three
t~ellers before its spu~riousness was de,
tected.
The steamer Umbria, sailing from
New York for Europe, on the 18th, took
out 600. 900 ounces of silver.
A CONCURRENT resolution was intro,
duced in the New York assembly, on
the 18th, proposing a woman suffrage
amendment to the state constitution.
The United States government is to
establish a carrier pigeon loft in At
lantic City, n. j., to be used in o n
nection with the naval service.
GEN. CHRIsroPHER Colon AUGER, U.
S. A., retired, died of old age at his
home in West Washington, d. C. on the
night of the 10th.
The United States gunboat Marietta
sailed from San Francisco, on the 10th,
for the west coast of South America.
She will remain in the neighborhood
of Panama for several months, possibly
longer.
JOEL PUTNAM. a retired shoe manu-
f~acturer, of Danvers, Mass, committed
suicide, on the 18th, by shooting.
THERE were outbreaks promoted by
students at Prague, on the 18th. to-
gether with Il socialist demonstration,
which the police dispersed.
GEN. WILLIAM BooTH, commander-in-
chief Of the Salvation army, and Bal
lington Booth met at the Windsor
hotel, New York. on the 10th, in the
presence of Rev. DR.. Josiah Strong and
Rev. Charles Cuthbert-llall. The in
terview was purely as between father
and son. Nothing transpired calculated
to lead to any amalgamation of the two
movements.
CONsUL-GENERAL LEES advices to the
state department are conservative, but
set forth the present situation clearly.
He does not recommend immediate in
PREVENTION. yet he does ottake a hope
full view of the ability of the Spanish
authorities to permanently restore pub
lie order.
SEVEN train loads, amounting to
4, $50 bales. of Texas cotton have ar
rived in Tacoma, Wash, for shipment
to China and Japan on the steamers of
of the Northern Pacific line.
POLICEMAN DELMAR S. GARDNER, of
New York city, who has sprung into
fame as heir to n $40. 900 fortune. is de-
termined not to let his head be turned
by this unexpected stroke of luck. lie
intends to retain his position aud in
vest the money.
The charges against Capt. Oberlin
NJ. Carter, of the regular army, now
being investigated by court-martial at
Savannah, Ga, are of the most start
ling kind. The total alleged defaica-
ton, according to the statement of the
war department, amounts to over S3,-
600, 900.
Mrs. LUCILLE LANE, the youngest
daughter of former Senator 10 S.
Blackburn, of Kentucky, shot herself
in a DOL at the Wellington hotel,
Washington, intiicting probably a fatal
wound. Members of the family claim
it was an accident.
LOGAN CARLISLE. chief clerk of the
treasury department during the last
administration, died sudden
ly, on the 10th, at the home of his IA
ther, John G. Carlisle, ex-secretary of
the treasury, in New York CITY.
The republican leaders of the house
reached an understanding to
make the present session of congress
as short as possible. They are putting
the appropriation bills with
unusual rapidity.
The firm of Macy & Pendleton, bank
ers and brokers Of New York city,
made an assignment, on the 18th, to
Harold 6. Cortis. The firm had three
offices in the city, and memberships in
the New York stock, produce, cotton
md coffee exchanges, and is composed
Of Chas. {. Macy and VIM. +. Pendleton.
RI. Hon. CHARLES PELHAM VLLIERs,
member of the British parliament from
South Wolverhampton, and known Is
The Father of the House of Commons,
sat continuously since 1885.
lied on the 10Th. !