The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-05
CURRENT TOPICS,
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

anticipated, II the American inter
ests in China are not in danger.
The steamer Cottage City arrived at
Victoria, Il. C., from Skaguay, Alaska.
OF the 2sth, with a large number of
passengers. They report that the Tu-
kon river is filed with slush ice, and
travel to Dawson suspended.
The statement of the condition of
the United States treasury. issued on
the 2Sth, showed: Available cash bal
nee 1901 ,4S4,37S; gold reserve, e4O,-
744.514.
The Minnesota Federation of Wom-
ems clubs closed its session at Vino
IA, Mimi, on the 2Sth.
The president, on the 2Sth. issued
his proclamation setting apart Thurs
day, November "a, as a day of national
Thanksgiving for all the blessings of
the year and prayer for the continued
prosperity of the people.
The Spanish government has recent
" forwarded to the order of Gen.
Blanco. at Havana, a sum equal to
about So. 200. 900. with which to pay all
debts due from the government of
Spain to the citizens of Cuba who have
remained loyal to the Spanish cause,
and for the purchase of supplies and
provisions for the army and debts con-
tracted by the civil government.
The United States, it is said at wash
ington, has decided to claim the entire
Philippine archipelago, and the Span
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this effect. The Spanish commission
ers will be informed the United States
will assume the Philippine debt of$40,-
0oO,O 900.
Col. George E. Waring, Jr, whose
name became prominent through CIV
ing New York city, for once, clean
streets. died at his home in that city,
on the morning of the Goth, of yellow
fever. contracted while serving, in Ha-
vana, as special commissioner of the
United States government to ascertain
the sanitary conditions of the Cuban
capital. Col. Warning was e. years OF
age.
NJ. Dupuy. who has been called to
form a new French ministry, was
premier during the Dreyfus trial, and
his appointment delights the anti
Dreyfusites, who see in it the indica-
er sympathy for the army than for
the discovery of the truth.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin was indicted,
on the 2Sth, by the grand jury of the
city and county of San Francisco for
the murder of Mrs. John =. Cunning
in Dover, Del, on August IL last, by
sending poisoned candy through the
mails.
An unusual complication developed
at New Albany, Ind. by the granting
of a pension to Louisa Strater, widow
of Nelson Strater. \ woman in Green
county. KY, has been drawing a pen
sion as the widow of Strater for six
years. The New Albany widow re-
ceived 500 back pay, and the other
will lose.
Mai. James +. Stuart, who returned
on the transport Manitoba from Porto
Rico, where he was for two months as
special commissioner of the postal de-
partment. states hat eight post offices,
most of them with Americans as post
masters. have been established, ana
mat the system is now in excellent
working order.
George A.. Steele & Co., of Portland,
Ore. have petitioned the United States
court to be declared ~bankrupts and to
be discharged from all Indebtedness.
The assets are given in the petition as
S15O.0OO and the liabilities $411, 900.
Mr.. Steele's failure is due to his eff
forts to support with his own fortune
the East Side electric railway, be-
tween Portland and Oregon City.
After the excursion to Jericho,
Djevad Pasha, former grand v~izier, re-
Gently Turkish governor of Crete, and
now attached to the person of En-
peror William as a special representa-
tive of the sRltan. Viii leave the i'm
perial suite. 1t is remarked that this
is due to some unpleasantEess.
Emperor William has sent his por-
trait in brilliants 10 Tewfik PaSha,
Turkish ambassador to Germany, who
was among the high Ottoman dig
nitaries that received the emperor and
empress recently in Constantinople.
\ great fire in Serina Cur, one of the
capitals of Cashmere, in the Vale of
Cashmere, on the 2Sth. destroyed all
public buildings and many residences.
One man was killed. The damage is
estimated at ten lakhs (%S5OO,OOO).
Fraulein Pocha. one of the two
nurses who attended the late Herr
Barisch, of Prof. Nethergale's patho-
logical laboratory, the first victim of
the outbreak of bubonic plague in Vi
emma, died on the Goth.
The country around Mentore, France,
was visited by a terrific hailstorm, on
the 3Oth. The hailstones were of i'm
mense size, and the olive and lemon
crops were completely destroyed.
The Massillon CO., Stoneware Co.
has volunteered to increase the wages
of its employees, restoring the 1914
per cent. cut of last winter. The force
of employees will also be increased so
per cent.