The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-02-05

REV. MARTIN GEssNER, pastor of St.
Patrick's church at Elizabeth, y. j.,
IS said to have run away and hid in Il
convent to avoid receiving 4 purse con-
tanning s., 800 in gold in honor of his
twenty-fifth anniversary as priest.
On board the steamer Alexandra,
which arrived at New York from Lon
don, on the 31st, was Lieut.. Henry
Thomas Walsh, L. S. A. who has been
sent home in the care of Capt. Marshall
on account of alcoholic mania.
AT Butler. Ind, on the 3lst, Andrew
Casebeer. 90 years old, was granted i
divorce from his wife. Mary Jane Case
beer, but a few years younger than
himself. who now lives with Il daugh-
ter in Chicago.
TIE village of Randogne, in the
Swiss canton of Nalais, was burned to
the ground OF the 3Ist. \ woman and
two children persisted in the flames.
The disaster caused great distress.
The German ship Kaiser, which had
sailed from Liverpool for Savannah.
returned to port. on the 31st. with
headgear damaged from collision with
Il tug.
THE steamer La Bretagne, which ar
rived at New York, on the 3lst, from
France, brought 500, O00 in gold in
transit to Cuba.
y RICH strike of gold has just been
made ON the Boyle lease ON the Lucky
Gus property at Bull Hill, Col. The
ore IA encountered in the 1SO-fOot
level and assays s., COO to the ton. The
vein is Il siX-inch streak OF fourine-
stained quartz and showed free gold il
profuSe quantities.
y. b. SToRMER, on the Slst, confessed
to the murder Of Mrs. Rlthburn and
her daughter at Burlington, la. All
the revolving details of the most
atrocious crime that city ever knew
were taken down by the county attor-
ney, and subscribed to by the prisoner.
SUPT. J. \. SWEET, of Haskell insti-
tute. the Indian industrial school at
Lawrence, kas., has sent his resigna-
ton to the head of the department at
Washington. Mr.. Sweet resigns his
position to enter into business.
ADvICEs from Australia tell of appall-
ing climatic conditions in many Sec
tions of the country. The prostrutions
from heat are S o numerous that the
situation in large cities is simply alarm,
ing.
The international Paper Co., of Cor
NTH, Saratoga county, y. Y, a combi-
nation of all the big firms in the coun-
try, filed articles of incorporation, on
the 3lst. with a capital of SI5. 600, 900.
a CAR load of trained dogs from New
on the way to Alaska
reached Vancouver, Il. C., on the 31st.
The dogs will be taken TO Skaguay and
used in hauling miners outfits in the
valley.
The month of January closed with
nearly 81, 600, 900 on the right side Of
the government ledger. To be exact,
the receipts for the month exceed the
expenditures by S9h1, GSS, 50.
RoACH's shipyard at Chester, Pa,
concluded u contract, on the 1st. to
build for the Standard Oil Co. the larg-
est tank ship ever constructed in this
country. The ship will be 3G4 feet in
length. As feet beam and 81 feet deep
and will be built to carry oil in bulk.
THOMAS l.. THOMPSON, ex-United
minister to Brazil, committed
at Santa Rosa, Cal, on the LIST,
by cutting his throat. Dependency
IS supposed to nave been the cause.
The steamship Germania, sailing
from New York for Europe, on the I'd,
took out 960, 900 ounces of silver.
GERMANY, according to a special dis
from Shanghai, has demanded
that Port Arthur and Ta-Lien-Wan be
free ports.