The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-08-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Complied from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| III shops were rlfleu OF their
contents and churches were wrecked,
rare works of art and costly ornaments
being wantonly destroyed, and furni-
ture piled up in the streets and burned.
The police were overwhelmed several
! times, but finally gained the mastery
and a large number of rioters were
jailed.
Miss Viola Horlocker, who is resting
under 5000 bond charged with hav-
ing attempted to take the life of Mrs.
Charles a. Morey. of Hastings, Neb.,
by sending her a box of poisoned
candy on April 10 last, is now in the
insane asylum at Jacksonville, Ill.
On the Goth DR.. George n. Krieder,
the attending physician, said that Gov.
Tanner was suffering from malaria and
his fever was high. lie will probably
be unable to attend to the duties OF
his office for Il week.
Maj. Russell Il. Harrison. inspector
general at Santiago de Cuba. is crit
cally i'll with yellow fever. The disease
had progressed for three days before
t'ihS PIpi!oHii'tu .N'iio" lS'SA oh ~A'
goth.
The transport Garonne sailed from
Seattle, Wash, on the Goth. for Manila.
having on board 400 horses belonging
to the Third cavalry.
The schooner Hunter Savid%e cap
sized. on the 10Th. in Il squail off Point
au Barques, Lake Huron. Five of her
crew were drowned. She was com
manded by Capt. Sharpsteen, OF Al
pena. Mich.
The father of President Y. Z. Young
of the National Baseball league. died
at Amsterdam. y. V, on the 10th. agcu
81 years.
Isaac II. CorTdon. for many years
superintendent OF motive power and
machinery Of the Union Pacific road
died at his home in Omaha. Nr!.. on
the list. lie invented numerous ai,-
~EiIauccs for use on railroads. several
of which are in almost universal use
and from which he received lar~" roy
aiticS.
Congressman ". i. Stark and .iGit.-
Gen. Barry I,ft Omaha, Nch. 81 the
2ISt. for San Francisco. to escor thu
First Nebraska volunteers home on Il
special train at state expense. Il will
require $4,000 to bring the regiment
home. and 5000 in excess of Iiiai uIn
had already been provided.
The subscriptions received by the
Porto Hican relief committee of III"
Merchants Association OF New FORK
up to the DIST. amounted / >li.iGJ. In
addition. the committee had received
80 barrels Cf hard bread.
y dispatch from London. on the Isl,
said: There is now o the slightest
doubt at the colonial Office that var
is the only way to settle the contro-
versy between England and the ,rIaDs-
vaal republic"
Serious disturbances hay" taken
plac" IT GraGlitz, a town of I;oha.ui&.
due 10 racial differences between the
CZechS and Germans.
The first national convention OF the
Young Peoples Christian Temperance
union is called to meet in Chicago
September =. and -. This cIaimS t.
be the first temperance organization
TO Systematically unite the ability OF
women and the voting power Of men.
The American Sugar Refining Co.
OF the @1&t. announced Il reduction OF
Sic cents 4 pound in all its refined
grades except No. NNNN. The cat
WIZ met by the r%cfincrs.
The an~ti-Dreyfus press OF Paris is
rcsorting 10 all sorts OF subicrfugrS 10
cDUHteract the effect of recent dis
closures in favor of Dreyfus. Ia Ia
tric has the ~effrontery TO announce
that English papers paid EsterhaZy
$4,000 francs to declare himself the
of the brodereau.
Lieut.. Alfred Drew. Twelfth infan-
try. who WIS major OF the Third EcNas
volunteers during the war with pain.
was instantly killed during an a3:"ck
the Filipino insurgents in thu u
Of Angeles. Luzon, on the 10Th.
It WAS reported ut Madrid. on The
Goth. that a case OF the plagu" had
developed at ~Eiguero. Portugal. and
there was umo Of a death from the
at barcelona. 1t is feared that
the epidemic is spreading. Several
quarantine stations have been cstab-
iiSi'ed on the frontier.
FL IIcraldo. Of Havana. publishes a
sen to Mayor La Costc by the
editor and assistant editor. Ricardo |
Arnauto and Augustir C~ervartcs. OF
the recently suppressed i~;econ"cntra-
do. acknowledging that their conduct |
of that journal WAS criminal. and ask
ing 10 be given al opportunity to re-
Three of the nnwiy-organizcd volun-
tcer regiments have been ordered 70 !
San Francisco. where they will 90 into
camp at the Preside to await trans
portation to Manila. The other regi-
ments will follow them in rapid sue
A hcad-on collision between two t"ol-
ears. occurred. on the Goth. on the
Chestnut Hill & R0NhOr-
railway. in Plymouth township.
county. Pa. a few miles north
of Philadelphia. Thirty persons we're
three probably fatally.
L. Hart. of Missouri. arrived at Ard
more. /. T., on the Goth, for the pur-
pose of identifying the MAJ Spotwood, /
in tie United States Jail. be-
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