The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-10
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

was totally destroyed by nre tnat
started shortly before midnight on the
list. The loss was estimated to be $780,
OOO-SI0O, 900 on stock, $4,000 on tools
and machinery and $4,000 OF building.
At d meeting of the directors of the
Pacific Cable Co, in New York, on the
1St, plans were considered for estab-
fishing cable communication with the
Philippines, the Asiatic coast, Japan
and Australia, via Hawaii. Surveys
for a duplicate cable via Sitka and the
Aleutian islands were ordered.
The schooner Sophia Sutherland,
which left San Francisco Is months
ago with a party of treasure seekers
for the Solomon islands, mas returned
with a cargo OF cocoanuts. The men
We're deceived by the protector of the
enterprise, l.. L. SOrenson, VINO was
pat ashore on one of the islands.
The battleship Iowa was gotten into
the new dry dock at the New York
navy yard on the LIST. Her bottom vas
in fairly good condition.
The American MicroscOpical society
finished up its business at Syracuse,
n. y, on the list, devOting the after
noon to pleasure.
The bankruptcy, in London, of E. d..
McConky is announced, with liabilities
estimated at S350,OOO. lie was formerly
a railroad contractor in New YORK,
and failed in Baltimore during the year
1S77.
While attempting to rescue the sail
ors of an Italian bark, OFF Tybec, Ga,
] ,lrrr-inr tl,a form On fhA AIT ia,F
Morgan, United States engineer corps,
and six regular soldiers were drowned.
Nicholas j.. Shannon, one of the Chi
cago police officers who, on May l, 1sS6,
helped to quell the I~Iaymarket riot,
died in that city on the lst. The
cause of death was undoubtedly due to
many wounds he received from the
fragments of the bomb thrown by the
anarchists.
EX-Mayor Fritz Ii. Twitchell, one
of the most prominent citizens of Bath,
Me, Il member Of Gov. Powers couu-
Gil, and well known III business circles
in Maine and Massachusetts, is Il con-
fessed embezzler. The amount of the
embeZzlenent is placed at 500 900, but
1T may exceed thai amount.
Commissioner OF Pensions III. Clay
Evans has issued an order prohibiting
the sending of pension checks to gen
eral delivery" The intention of the
department is to nave all such checks
delivered at the Individual local ad-
dress of the pensioners.
The French people now believe that
Capt. Dreyfus will be brought home,
unless he is murdered beforehand
through the instrumentality of those
who dread his revelations. If he
reaches Franc" alive he may expect
restoration to his rank in the army, as
may also his champion, Col. Picquart.
Mrs. Sarah Shankenberger has been
arrested at Frankfort. Ind, charged
with murder in having Systematically
| poisoned her daughter-in-law. whose
husband was in the navy. on board
the cruiser Minneapolis. He arrived
| home on the list.
Gov. Tanner of Illinois. on the 1st,
refused TO send troops to Pana. on the
request of Sheriff COhurn. on the
! ground that he was opposed TO the I'M
portatiOn of outside labor into the state
which must depend upon the army of
the state for protection while at work.
The auxiliary cruisers St. Paul and
st. Louis, at Cramps ship yards, Phil
adelphia, were returned to the Inter
national Navigation Co. by the govern
ment on the I'd.
An imperial decree has been issued
summoning the Austrian reichsrath to
meet OF September &c.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the Cd,
showed: Available cash balance, $685.
54S. 912; gold reserve. S2l9, 3sO,37
Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay, of Kentucky,
has sued for Il divorce from his girl
wife, Dora Richardson Clay. In his
| petition he asks hat the defendant be
restored to her maiden name and given
ali proper relief, which is supposed to
mean that he intends to provide a lib
eral alimony.
The Bertram ship yards at Toronto,
Ont, have been destroyed by fire. The
steamer City of Toronto, in the final
stages of construction by the Bertram
company, was saved with great diff
Guilty. The loss is placed at about S7O,-
600.
An agitation is growing in Yoko-
hama, out of the purchase by the gov
eminent of four trunk railroads, and
reports are revived that the govern
ment intends TO raise a foreign loan of
$50, OOO, 900 in order to complete public
worns.
Failures for the week ended on the
Sd, as reported by r. G. Dun & Co,
were, for the United States, III, against
1911 for the corresponding week last
year; for Canada the failures were -.
against 25 for last year
The international conference at Que
bee, adjourned, on the ID, until Sep
TENDER 90.
Private Alex. LaDuke, Co. l, Second
Wisconsin volunteers, has been placed
in the federal prison at Leavenworth,
kas., to remain for life, for the MUIR
der of Private Thomas Stafford. OF the
Thirteenth United States infantry. in
a saloon row at Ponce. Porto Rico.