The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-01
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TIE NEWS III BRIEF.
PERSONAL ANp GENERAL

world, on the evening of the s5th. q
N. johnson. . fireman employed in tn
building. was burned TO death.
LIEUT.. PKARY is enthusiastic owe
his reception in England. and the gif
to him by Alfred C. Hsrmsworth. tn,
wealthy Engiishman. of the Wind
ward, . fine ship. which the explore
will use in his trip to the artic regions
next year. Mr.. Harmsworth also fur
nished funds for the expedition.
SEVENTEEN British warships are re
ported of Chemulpo. corea. southwes
of Seoul. supporting the British con
sups protest really amounting to al
ultimatum against the king practically
yielding the government Of Corea intt
the hands of the Russian minister.
TIE engagement is announced o,
Miss Margaret. Vancourtland Ogden
of New York, and Frank McNutt, O.
Richmond, Ind. Miss Ogden is said Il
be worth SO. 0oo. COG. The wedding i.
announced for January 4.
WASHINGTON advices a. that ex-
Queen Lilioukalsni, Of Hawaii, prompt
ed by jealousy OF her niece, Princess
Kaioulaini, will now favor annexation
to the United States, provided she is
given q pension.
The Canadian Pacific company has
completed arrangements for the con-
struction of six light draught stern
wheel steamers to ply on Alaskan wa
ters, in conjunction with two ocean
steamers which they have purchased
in Scotland. These vessels will be con-
structed in Toronto, the contracts hav-
ing been let to the Bertram & Poison
works.
THE Hamburger Nachrichten denies
that Prince Bismarck's govt is better.
and says he can not walk or sleep and
Ia unable to read or answer his friends
letters The former chancellor is de-
scribed as being very irate at the state
men hat his health is satisfactory.
The Turkish government, replying
to the representations of Greece, has
explained that the firing upon the
Greek gunboat Aetium, by the Turks at
Prevesa, recently, as the vessel was
leaving the gulf of Ambracia. was due
to a misunderstanding.
A BOMB. made Of gas piping and filed
with powder, was exploded at the Ger
man theater in Olmutz, Morayia. on
the 27th. Little damage was done, but
the incident caused great excitement
among the German residents.
PROF. ALExASDER MELVILLE BELL,
burg, Scotland, and the father of Ora
ham Bell, the inventor of the tele-
phone, will soon wed Mrs. Il. G.
Shelby. of Toronto. Ont.
Rev. ANDREW MONTGOMERY, better
known as .Unclen Andrew, who is
probably the Oldest born slave in the
United States, is on q visit to New
York city in behalf of the aged and
helpless Of his race.
FORMER Vice-President Levi P. Nor
ton has accepted the presidency of the
newly formed Fifth Avenue New
York; Trust Co.
II is officially announced that the
Russians have occupied Kin Chow,
China The result of this announce
men has been to create CONSERVATION
in Great Britain and throughout con-
tinental europe.
On Christmas day Mrs. Mckinley
sent q beautiful basket of flowers TO
Letitia Tyler Semple, now an inmate
of the home for old women.in Washing
ton. Mrs. Semple is the granddaugh-
ter Of President Tyler.
TIE Cook county Qll.) grand jury, on
the s7th. voted an indictment against
Charles n. Charnley. e~x-treasurer Of
the Presbyterian board of aid for col
leges and academies The bill accuses
Charnley of the em~bezzlement of $685.
600 of the funds Of the board.
LORD SALISBURY has written to
United States Ambassador Hay in re-
Spouse to Americas latest proposal that
Great Britain euter into an agreement
with the United States. Russia and Ja-
pan to stop sealing. Great Britain de-
clines to enter into such an agreement.
A DISPATCH from Edmonton. N. ".
T., records the death of Capt Alleyue,
leader Of an English party bound for
the Klondike. He succumbed to pneu-
monia.
OK the 18th s75 applications for pat
ents were received at the patent Office,
the highest ON record for any one day
in the history of the Office.
HENBY BARMoRE, founder Of the firm
of Barnhore & Co., piano manufacturers
Of New York, died in Nyack, n. z, on
the 2sth, aged Is years.
REPORTS received at the navy depart
indicate that the British govern
ment Is pushing the work of moderniz-
ing the great Notifications at the Rock
of Gibraltar with all speed, and that
not less than 5000 Spanish working
men pass daily over the lines 10 and
from their work on the Notifications.
THE receivers of the Superior Com
solidated Land and Coal Co. of Mil |
waukee petitioned Judge Jenkins, in !
the United States court. on the 2Sth, ,
for permission to borrow 500. oc9, the !
funds 70 be used in carrying on the
business Of the company. making inn
provementS etc.
FRED f. FINsTKR and Williaus Muir. |
inspectors at Port Huron, Mich
removed from their positions, on
the 2Sth, for violations of the civil serv-
Ice rules in soliciting campaign contri-
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