The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-11-26
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

outside world has just been shown
in France. On a vote in the chamber
of deputies the Depuy ministry has
been sustained in its policy in favor
of granting justice to Dreyfus, al
though the same body a few weeks
ago turned out the Brisson ministry
for a similar attitude in the same case.
EX-Mayor P. 2. Mast, of Springfield,
O., died on the Goth, afteralingeringill-
ness of several months. His estate is
estimated at over a million and a half,
invested in manufacturing interests.
was father-in-law of F. Il. LOOMS,
United States minister to Venezuela.
The Maryland board of public works
has decided to sell all the interest of
the state IN the famous Chesapeake &
Ohio canal. This interest has cost the
state in one way or another about So
0 1000, but its present value is indie
terminate, as it is now in the hands Of
receivers.
Two freight trains on the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific collided at Mos
COW, Ia, on the 18th. One man was
killed and one injured. A w%recking
train which was about to start to the
scene from Wilton was run into by a
fast mail train. The fireman of the
mail train was badly hurt. and f6
men on the work train were injured,
some seriously.
In the gloom of smoke, storm and
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PENNSYLVANIA railroad, on the morning
of the 18Th. between Jersey City and
Harrison, a belated suburban train
dashed into a gang of workmen, kill
ing II and injuring four. Five others
lad remarkable escapes. All the VIC
Tins lived in Jersey City.
The dead body of j. b. G~ronninger,
a wealthy ranchman of Terry, Mont,
WAS found on the Big Four tracks at
Delaware. o.. on the 18th. There was
strong evidence hat the man was muir
dered and his body placed on the
track.
Herr II. II. Meier. founder of the
North German Lloyd Steamship Co.,
died in Bremen on the 18th. He was
50 years of age.
The transport Minnewaska, with the
First engineers and representatives of
the Red Cross on board, left Ponce, p.
r.. for home, on the 18th.
Two persons were injured, an en-
CINE and passenger coach destroyed
and a railroad station burned by a
,,. ooJls;,, @ha IG+h hn-
tween two local passenger trains on
the Camden & Amboy railroad at
Florence. N. J.
John Worrel Keely. inventor of the
Kelly motor, died at his residence in
Philadelphia. on the 18th, aged Il
years. Mr.. Keely had been sick only
Il week. He contracted a severe cold,
which developed into pneumonia.
The first pension claim of the Span
ish wal was granted on the 1Sth-$17
a month-to Francis G Gates, Second
United States artillery who vas struck
in n fight before Santiago on July ,,
by a shot from a machine gun, which
broke his upper jaw, tor his lips and
knocked six teeth out.
The European powers have been
considering carefully the Philippine
situation. All have, within the last
few days, decided hat Spain's pro-
tests and struggles are hopeless as
against the claims of the United
States.
A Paris dispatch of the 18th says:
Il &c Safa 70 COW that fhn naaan nnnfor-
enc will come to a speedy end, as the
Americans know their business and
have no alternate proposition to offer
and will listen to none from the other
side.
1t was reported at League Island
navy yard, on the 18th, that orders
had been received from Washington
directing the cruiser Topeka to leave
for Havana on the 18th.
AS soon as congress reassembles a
Legislative proposition to increase the
standing army of the United States to
100. 900 men will be introduced at the
instance of the secretary of war. 1t
is understood hat Il rough draft of
the proposed bill has already been pre-
pared under the direction of the sec
rotary of war.
There are now pending before the
pension office ia navy Exclusive of
the Maine) claims, and 1.947 war
claims, on account of the war with
Spain, and it is expected that this num-
Der will be largely augmented as soon
as the various volunteer organizations
are mustered out.
The Spanish government. it is semi
officially announced. intends to notify
the Cuban bCndholders that Spain will
not pay the Cuban debt, which will
not be mentioned in the peace treaty.
The government considers itself COM
pletely freed from these entanglements,
which fall upon the nation exercising
sovereignty and collecting taxes in
Cuba.
\ Chicago & Erie freight loco
motive boiler exploded near Lima.
o.. on the Goth. killing David Little,
the fireman, and probably fatally in
iuring Walter /. Hirtlelf, engineer;
Edward Quick, conductor, and Frank
Smith, brakeman. About twenty-five
cars were wrecked. and the track was
blocked.
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