The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SOME of the Spaniards desire a war
with the United States, hoping that it
will. embroil us in some way with other
European powers. 1t is well to be
prepared for any desperate freak on
the part of a bankrupt country that
has really nothing TO lose.
NJ. ERNEST BAZIN, the inventor of
the roller steamer, died in Paris on the
21st.
on the Goth, at 1850.
In the case of Chris. Merry, the Chi
Gag peddIer, charged with wife-mur-
der. the jury returned n verdict, on the
2lst, finding him guilty. Smith, his
alleged accomplish. was found not
guilty, but was Immediately rearrest-
ed on a bench warrant charging him
with being an accessory after the fact.
The jury was out all night.
MAYOR MCKIssoN of Cleveland, o., is
taking steps to contest the sea of Sem
ator Hanna in the United States SEN
ate. Mayor Mckisson will rely large
ly on the testimony adduced at the in
vestigation of the bribery charges.
Miss MARY DOUrHAT, u well-knOwn
society girl of Richmond, Va, who en-
tered the class for trained nurses at the
Johns Hopkins university in Baltimore,
Md, IS months ago, has abandoned her
studies rather than attend a leper, as
directed by the university authorities.
Mrs. WILLIAM M~CGILLIvRAY, of To-
ronto, Ont, who is over 80 years old,
has given birth to a baby girl. Her
husband, to whom she was married
seven years ago. is IS. Mrs. McGil-
livray has been married twice, and this
is her twen~ty-second child.
AT Spanish headquarters in Havana
persistent rumors were in circulation,
on the 2Ist, to the effect that Gen.
CaliXto Garcia, the famous insurgent
leader, was killed in u recent engage
ment with the Spanish troops.
THERE is a glut in the labor market
at Juneau, Dyea and Skaguay, with
the result hat wages are falling and
many men are now eating up their
supplies and earning nothing.
WILLIAM WALLACE, p years of age,
and Mrs. George Seaman. who is past
go, and snowy haired, have eloped from
Bellaire, o., and have gone west to
grow up with the country.
SENIOR AMILARE CAPRIANI, the Italian
socialist labor leader whose election
in July last, was annulled by the
Italian government, has been re-
elected deputy for Forli.
II was reported from Algiers, on the
Gath, that serious riOting and pillag-
ing had taken place at Mustapha, a
suburb of the city, on the 2%d. Ten
Jewish shops were looted and a num-
Der of policemen injured. Troops
were summoned, but order vas not re-
stored until two o'clock IN the morn
ing. Forty arrests were made.
AT Bombay, on the 23d, the eclipse
of the sun was accompanied by a rapid
fall of temperature. An earthly smell
pervaded the air, and the scene re-
sembled a landscape under a wintry
English sun. The duration of totality
was two minutes, with a marvellous
corona Of pale silver and blue.
The Luetgert jury in Chicago cele-
orated the beginning OF the ninth
week of the second trial, on the 23d, by
taking a sleigh ride. The trip lasted
from one to five o'clock.
Rev. L. De WITT TALMAGE, pastor of
the Sixth Presbyterian church in WASH
ington, d.. c., was married at Pitts
burgh, Pa. on the 22d, to Mrs. Eleanor
Collier, widow of Charles Collier, a
prominent lawyer and son of Judge F.
II. Collier, of the Allegheny county
pa bench.
GEN. Booth, head of the Salvation
army, has had a remarkable reception
in Halifax, n. 5. Large meetings well
coined him. 1t has been decided by the
general to form a military and naval
leasue and poor mau's metropole in
that city.