The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-12-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The evidence adduced, at Berlin,
as to Frank Knaak's u~tterances
against the kaiser is so overwhelming
that a heavy sentence is certain.
Knaak is an American citizen who
imagined he could talk as freely in
Germany as he could in America.
Michael Emile Rollinger, Il native of
Austria, is under arrest in Chicago,
charged with the murder of his wife,
Theresa, whose charred body was
found in a clothes closet of her home,
and the police claim they have suf-
ficient evidence to prove that Rollin-
ger strangled his wife, poured kerosene
over the body and set fire to it.
Thomas Jones, living near Greer,
W. Va, attempted to light a fire with
crude oil, on the 18th. An explosion
occurred, wrecking the room, and the
dresses of his twin daughters. aged
six years, ignited. He was too severely
burned to assist them, and they were
so badly burned that both of them died
shortly afterwards.
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part of the town of Triton, Ga. in the
center of the peach belt, was burned,
on the night of the 18th. An oil lamp
in a boarding house exploded, causing
the fire. The masonic hall and ten
stores were destroyed and a hotel and
large lumber mill were damaged.
In a communication to the state de-
Fartment, United States Consul-Gen-
eral Holloway, at st. Petersburg. SAYS
that the Russian government has no
purpose of building a ship canal to
connect the Baltic sea with the Black
sea.
A dispatch from Utica, y. Y, IN
rounces the suicide of Leroy p. Mid
lam. the last democratic postmaster at
Marquette. Mich, from which city he
lately removed.
French Ambassador Jules Cambon
will sail from IIavre for New York. on
January =. to resume his duties at
Washington.
Capt. Borchgrevinks' expedition has
started from Hobart. Tasmania. for
the Antarctic regions.
On the 10Th Senator Hanna intro
duced in the senate and Representa-
tive Payne in the house a bill to grant
subsidies for American shipping.
If the reports received at st. Paul,
Mimi. from people who are familiar
with the Indians on the various reSer-
vations are true, there is every proba-
hilifT- IF ynnra trarh1o hnYaa, 4I1
Indians and government within a few
weeks.
The Spanish mail steamer Villa
Verde, with Marshal Ramon Blanco,
former captain general of Cuba
aboard. arrived at Alicante, Spain. on
the 10Th. from Havana. Marshal Blan-
co landed without incident, and evad-
ing the crowd which was awaiting
him, took the train for Madrid.
Capt.-Gen. Castellanos has vetoed
the contract for putting a sewage sys-
tenn in Havana, to cos S12, OO0. 900. The
contract was awarded to NJ. j. Dady,
of New York, by the municipal coun-
ell. All other snap contracts made at
the last hour will be annulled.
At the state department it is an
nounced positively that the question
of the compensation Of members of
the peace commission is entirely in
the hands of the president. and so far
as known he has not indicated to any
one what figure he proposed to fix as
proper remuneration.
Great Britain has given another in
stance of her friendship for the Unit
ed States by suppressing a filibuster-
ing expedition organized in Hong
Kong for Aguinaldo and his followers.
L. G. Randle. one of the most danger
ous of men with a weapon, and one of
the best known in Texas, was killed
outside of Branch's saloon, near the
city hall, in Dallas, Tex, on the even
ing of the 18th, by H. P. Erwin, of
Fcrney, Tex. An old grudge was the
cause.
The worst fire IN the history of Ter
re Haute, Ind, took place on the night
of the 10Th, causing a 1osAof fully ST.
000, 1000. The blaze started IN IN show
windows of the Ravens & GeddeS CONF
pany, wholesale and retail dealers in
dry goods and notions. Several per
sons were fatally and many seriously
injured.