The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-04-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Complied from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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TIE statement of the condition of
the treasury issued on the 9th showed:
Available cash balance. S2S0,11l ,056;
gold reserve. 81 i~2.43i.022.
Thomas II. Wigs, son of State
Senator Joseph 8. Wigs, of Pike
county. Ind. O, the I'D, liter
ally cut to pieces Wesley Hurt, a young
mar who entered Wigs school room
with a pistol and told him one of them
must die.
Mrs. Marion 4. Williams. fatally in
jured in the Patterson block fire, in
Omaha. died, on the 23d. making the
third victim. All the other injured are
doing well.
Mrs. Rachael Esterbrookc. widow of
the celebrated pen manufacturer, died
at her home in Plaintield, " j., on the
oath. aged - years.
1t is learned on good authority from
Pekin that Ii Hung Chang is again
upon the point Of being restored 10
power.
y dispatch from Iiucnos .Ayrrs. says:
Henry W. Warren. of Denver, Col. the
Methodist bishop. continues to i'm
prove.
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Capt. James Mcqueen Forsyth, who
Il h''n recovering III '"' ""N"' ""S
Fl'al III ihI'aneiP'l'h i'"ii " S''',' "
less receive" ""ru' Oh 'ht ~o'h' "
us appointment d co'hIii"iu,
fr hAi'iiiior'' now III the hli'Pf'"'
We" oyer, .h'al'deh ioliie'
'apt. Aahric" u hraNeh"U"i' re
ortrh u! ten ''iS as ii'i''iiH
wounded IN the recent h%h'ihS, Wis
born III ana appointed 10 the iilii'ar!
academy from Minnesota lie was the
honor graduate OF the artiiicr! Sch"o'
OF 1896.
George HidweII. elder OF the idwel
brothers. and who, with Heor@" Mac
Donald. robbcd the liank OF England
OF $~l.000.U00 many years ago, died AT
Euttc. Mont, on the 10Th, of pneu-
mOnia, after an illness OF ten days.
His brother Austin died there ON
March =. Both brothers died pcnni-
less. and their bodies were buried by
the county.
Prince Ludwig Karl Lowcnstein. for
mcrly aide-de-camp on the staff of
Brighten. Miller at -Iloilo. somehow
got in front of firing line during the
fighting near Polo.on the Cortland was
shot in tn" side. dying almost instant
w. A German who accompanied him
was wounded.
A Manila dispatch. on tn. morning
of the eth. said the FiIipinos were
burning Malabon. and their forces
were fleeing in the direction OF MaIo-
los. They will probably make their last
stand ut the latter place.
The people of .Attica. Harper coun-
tv. Has. are moving their quarters to
an adjacent farm, where they will be
gin anew. This is done in or,!er to re-
lieve the citizens of an Indebtedness
of $50. 900 in bonds issued o boost Il
sugar mill. i'm boom times, that proved
a failure.
william Scott. a saloon passenger of
thc steamship Embria. committed sui
ride hy cutting his throat with Il brok-
on champa"ne bottle. durinr the yoy-
ace of that vessel from Li,crpooI 10
New York. Scott was 4 grain mcr-
chant OF Liverpool. The body was
buried at sea.
The Berlin correspondent of The
London Morning Post says: "In their
desire to effect Il friendly settlement
Of the Samoa difficulty. The German at
thoriticS have decided tn discontinue
their support Matanfa. horin@ hat
this viii Undue" the United States L"
recall Chief justice" thamr"r$.
Col. Harry &. E"hyrt OF The Twenty
second infanfrN WIS shot in the ablo-
while icadin" his men in an Hd-
vance on III" encmy'$ intrcnrhments
II M~aliuta. on the 2itii. and died he
fore he could receive Surgical atten-
The rapid advance of Ten. Mar.\r-
.hur'S division compelled III" Fiiipinos
o e~vncU1te Polo and retire northWard.
they set fire to the place as they left,
md when our troops arrived Their" was
little left ri the town. The Insurgents
cave a trai! OF fire in their wake every
where.
Fire destroyed the Armour curied