The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-05-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

field far from any house. The chlld
was scarcely scratched. Another baby
WAS found where it had been bruised
t. death by the violence of the wind
| Neither had been identified or claimed
- hours after the storm.
The main part of the business por-
ton of san Francis, Mas. was de
Stroyed by fire OF the 18th. Thirteen
business buildings were burned. There
was no loss of life, but County Attorney
FinIay WAS badly burned.
.Adit.-Gen. Corbin says the Filipino
peace oycrtures will not bring about
any change OF plan in this country as
to forwarding ships. supplies and
troops to the Philippines.
The governor OF Sinaloa, Mexico. in
, oIGcr to give greater security to life
and property. has suspended the con
&t.tutional guarantees in eases of kid
naEping. patricidc, prcmediatcd muir
ucr and highway robbery. y similar
measure regarding persons guilty of
putting Instructions on railway tracks
wa: taken Il few years a@o with emf
mcr;ly satisfactory rcSufts. That class
of o.fcuScS died out. II is the Mexican
substitute Tor mob law and lynching
AM, works well in practice.
Three persons were killed. more
than 4 dozen badly injured and -
less seriously hurt as the result of Il
: wreck. on the 3Oth. on the Rochester
& H.. l..- ,.:I,l - Ip.-lln,,--.
Corners. ouc-haIf mile north of the
Rochester (N. " city line. when TWO
carr ON an excursion train filled with
p~#@Ayn~crs left the track while round
ing 4 curve at full speed, and "cre
completely wrecked.
vi I'll" saloons in the north part of
Tore Haute. Ind. were closed. on
Sunday, the 301h. for the first time in
wears. The closing was brought about
10y the clcrgymcn in that portion of
tcrs has been called to effect Sunday
observance throughout the city.
The committee arranging for the
United Commercial Travellers meeting
in Toledo, O.. May p, are planning to
take special action on trusts. which
ace cutting of the travelling statesmen.
Vigorous measures VIII be taken in
tie matter.
\ dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pa. on
the 30th, told of IL material advance in
ploycs.
One of the worst sand storms in
several years prevailed in central and
western Kansas on the 3Oth.
The comptroller of the currency, on
the list, declared Il dividend of 40 per
cent. IL favor of the creditors OF the
Fast national bank of New Lisbon. O..
The following customs and taxes
were collected at the ports named dur
i"g April: Manila. $457.O02; Iloilo,
$i5.5"I; Cehu. $3O.757; total Sj33,29
The latest returns ron the sena-
torial elections in Spain show 4 GOV
crrmental majority Of 10 over the
combined opposition parties.
There :yaS Il heavy snow storm. on
l'.e list. i'll PerthShire, Scotland. The
unreasonable weather killed a great
number of sheep and ;aluLs
On the Isl the Umited Statcssupreme
court adjourned until TIA" 18th. when
the court will meet to deliver opinions
and hear motions.
Secretary Gage has gone TO the Hot
Springs in Virginia for 4 two weeks
vacation. He was acccmpaniedb by Mrs.
Gage.
1t is estimated thar over $500 me-
chHuicS OF Cleveland. O.. are receiving
increased wages datin" from May L
Addison Johnson. of Port Chester. y.
Y. has succeeded O. V. Sage as war
den Of the Sing Sing prison.
A tivc-story brick huIiding On Dover
street. Boston. Mass, occupied by a
number of manufacturing firms, anJ
IN the ground floor Ivy the Boston fire
department for storage of extra APP
paratuS. was destroyed Icy fire. Loss,
SlO0. 600.
4 prairie lire b!r,lnE in the hay
fields along the northern tier Of curIn-
ties of Nebraska, ten miles from Coler-
idge. passed into The tr"k CT n tor-
rado and was swept with the speed of
the wind diagonallv across This conn
ty for 25 miles, destroying everything
in its path. The lives lost. SO far
as known, were those Of Mrs. Rolla
/ livingston and her t~ive-year-old boy.
The report of the Nicaragua canal
commission will be presented to the
president sometime this week. Rear
admiral Walker. Gen. Peter C.. Haines
and Prof. Haupt, the members of the
commission, have been hard at work
upon their report for six months. 1t
will be the most exhaustive govern
contribution to the mass of
bearing on the in~ter-oceanic
yet presented.
Sixty-two miners were killed in the
kt Shnar gold mine. III Germany. on
the Goth, by the thrush of water
caused by the collapse of a shaft.
men were at work in the
shaft at the time, and those who were
not killed were seriously wounded.