The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-10-22
TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

said to be implicated.
The American Lamp Chimney Co.,
composed of eastern and local capital
amounting to S7jO,OOO, has been or
gained / II Toledo, o., to start a lamp
chimney factory. L. d. Libbey is
president of the new organization.
Others factories will be put up as bus
mess progresses.
The steamer Aztec arrived at San
Francisco, or the 18th, from Hong
Kong and Yokohama, via Honolulu.
The steamer landed 1913 japanese la
borers at Honolulu, and her purser
says that 1000 more are en- route, and
will arrive there shortly.
The total registration in Greater
c5r@ York for the first two days was
$685. For Manhattan and the
Bronx and Brooklyn the registration
was 1,O33 larger than on the first two
days of last year.
Viola Grignon, wife of Ned Grignon,
a wealthy Iukoner, died in Seattle,
Wash. on the 10th. Mrs. Grignon was
the first white woman in the klon-
dixie.
The duchess of Devonshire. wife of
the lord president of the council of
British ministers, while on board a
French train bound for Calais lost a
satchel containing jewelry worth $780,
0G0. Her grace left the train at
Amiens and returned to Paris to re-
port her loss to the police. 1t is be-
lieved the satchel was stolen. but there
is no clew to the thief.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, republican
candidate for governor of New York,
started out on his campaign in the
state on the 18th. In his party are
Gen. Stewart l.. Woodford. eX-minis-
ter to Spain. and six members of the
First ; Hited States volunteer cavalry,
OF which organization the candidate
WAS the commander when the war
closed.
The thoroughbred stallion Meddler
was sold to W. c. Whitney, in New
York. on the nth, for $4,000.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 18th,
showed: Available cash balance,
$"04. 9f5.399; gold reserve. $~243.2lS.5eS.
\ dispatch from Madrid says: Nd
home to Cadiz, has been informed that
his presence here is necessary"
\ collision occurred on the Great
Contra railroad near Barthncy. Eng
land, OF the 18th. Six persons were
and % injured.
The British ship Blenwell. Capt.
Johnson, from New York, September
~. for London, was destroyed by a
sudden fire off Margate, England. on
She 18th. Nine of her crew. the cap
tain and his wife and children, per-
iShed.
The treasury department has made
final award of the new war loan.
Subscribers for the sum of 1880 will
receive a percentage of that sum,
amounting to $1,000; subscribers for
or less will be awarded the full
amount of their subscriptions.
Advices from Madrid point to effer-
vescence inmilitary circles there. Mem
bers of the military club openly and
severely criticise the government for
concluding what they term a 'humili-
peace" and some of them even
suggest the establishment of a mill |
tary dictatorship under the present
dynasty.
During n reception at the First reg
iment armOry nj Chicago. on the nth,
a number of young women and one or
two not so young. tried to kiss Presi-
dent Mckinley, but although there
The ambitious ones succeeded. 4 num-
Der of men and women kissed the
presidents hand, however.
Habeas corpus proceedings insti-
in behalf of Mrs. Cordelia Bot
kin with the hope of preventing her
in the superior court at San
on the 18th. Decision was
-eserved.
Porto Rico has been taken into the
American Union. Gen. Brooke has
powers and will have sole
,harge of the government of the island
lntu some other arrangements are
made. 1t is possible that when the
president returns to Washington, he
nay designate n military governor of
he island to act in that capacity I'M
Ill congress can provide for a terri
.orial civil government.
Reports from japanese sources are
n circulation to the effect that Sir
-laude Macdonald. British minister at
'ekin. has informed the Chinese gov
that sovereignty appertains
solely to the emperor, who has been
abducted and deposed, and
hat he must be restored to his posi-
ion.
Havana. Cuba, was visited by a
on the night of the 18th,
hat set afoat all the streets in the
over portion of the city. Cathedral
.Quare was under three feet of water
md the streets in the neighborhood
we're so deep that horses and pedes-
rians were frequently carried off
heir feet.
President Mckinley, arrayed in cap
md gown, was presented with n di-
,loma and formally invested with The
of Doctor of Laws at the Uai-
,ore;+,- Of CbipanO on tho 18th in tho