The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-09-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Oompiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

una bintT places III norm t-ind-
1t was stated. on the 18th, that tho
Missouri Pacific and the Wabash
would meet the cut in packing-house
products 10 the southeast announced
by the burlington to take effect Oh
September l.. The burlington threat
ems to wipe ont the d]iffCrcntial alto
gether if the terminal lines make ANY
cut. \ lively war seems unavoidable,
All of the standing rigging on the
Americas cup defender Columbia was
set up. on the 18th. at Bristol, K. l.,
and the BOA was worked out of the
slip to her moorings IN the stream.
Since the beginning OF the Spanish
war there have been enlisted in the
regular army 90,611 men. This includes
those who were discharged after the
the regular army for service in the
Philippines. No less than 3IC,065 APP
piled and We're rejected.
Although according TO tn latest IT
ports, the plague at AstraEhan. Rus
STA. is not buboric. but mi!dcr and
pneumonia. the Roumanian govern
ment has issued an order closing tn
l;usso-i;oumanian frontier.
The South African republic volkS-
raad, on the 18th. by a vote Of Is to ?.
adopted the report of the majority Of
the dynamite commission. continuing
the monopoly.
EN-Gov. Samuel Merrill. Of Iowa.
who has resided in Los .Ang, les. Cal.
for some time. suffered a stroke OF
paralysis. on the 25tli, and was thought
to be dying.
Mulai-Abd-El-Aziz. the sultan of Mo
rocco. had a narrow escape during ::
recent thunderstorm. when an electric
bolt killed several persons. includin"
two court ushcrS who were standinr
within a few feet of his majesty. The
occasion was the birthday of the
prophet and the sultan was rcccivin~
tribal gifts in the quadrangle OF the
palace in the city of Morocco.
The thirteenth annual report of tn"
Denver d Rio Grande railroad shows
Il substantial increase of business dur
ing the year ended June 50. rs follows:
Income. $9.3S0.574; increase OYER pre-
vious year. $975.245.
\ case Of bubonic plague has de
veloped in The Oporto prison.
1t is reported that the Fremont. Elk
horn q Missouri Valley Railway Co.
will soon have Il standard-guage road
from DeadwouI to Lead. s. ID.
Gen. l;oca. president of the .Argen-
tine republic, will pay a visit TO the
United States on the occasion of the
Pan-American exposition.
\ report was current at Nyack. Y.
Y. on the morning of the 18th. that
the 81. Anne's convent. at Sparkhill.
y. Y. had been burned. and that of
the 80 inmates. largely children. Scv-
craf hundred We're missing.
The scarcity of men to harvest the
hroomcOrn in the vicinity of ArcoIa.
ILL.,, nccessitated the harvesting of the
crop in Il number of fields on Sunday.
In several places gangs of men were
cutting O + all day. on the 18th. and
in other fields the engines were busily
engaged threshing.
Two clipper ships. the Tillie L. Star
buck. built of iron. and the st. Fran
els, Il wooden vessel. both owned in
New York. LETT Philadelphia. on the
eth. tC race to San Francisco for
stakes 1"gregating $4,000. put up by
prominent Philadelphia men.
The Lima O'cruD College de .tGvo-
Gates, at 4 session held on the night
of the Goth, made MATHIS Labor and
Dclnangc-Drryfus' advocates at
Rcnnes- honorary members of the col
lo@e.
The historic old Clay mansion. in
bourbon county, Ky. was destroyed
by fire. All the contents. including
numerous pieces of valuable bric-a-
hrac, We're destroyed. Miss Lctitia
Clay and the other members of the
family residing in the house barely
escaped with their lives.
Ore of the most destructive fires
that has ever occurred at the Standard
Oh retineries broke out at Whiting,
rca Chicago. on the night OF the eth.
urouoq 5ql lg HEaI T. AZ p9snuo srw !
of one of the stills. The loss WAS over
$1O0,O DOC.
An immense copper belt extends
from White Horse rapids on the Yukon
river to a point on the Dalton trail. A
miles from Lynn canal. 1t is oven
fifty miles in extent and lies in British |
territory. The first outcroppings were
discovered, two years ago. by Henry |
Il mining expert.
Col. William j. Bryan and family
left Denver, Col, on the 2Sth. for Cali
where they will spend Il mouth
in the Yosemite valley.
Exports from the United States Ia
Cuba. Porto Rico. Hawaii and the
according to Il statement
just prepared by the treasury bureau
statistics, were larger in the fiscal
year jGJt ended than in any precedinc
year in the history of our commerce,
with those islands, even in the reciprCc-
ity years.
The governors of 81 states are an
nounced as having appointed delegates
to attend the conference on trusts by
the Civic Federation of Chicago and
called to meet in hat city September
to 16. The call states the obicr- 70
be purely educational and strictly nm