The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-12-02
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

1oro Nrihuen fought another heav,
engagement with the Beers. on In,
| 18th. al Gras Pan. about ten mile.
from the field of his first engagement
rear Belmont. winning a decisive vic
tory, the Beers leaving the fieIs
strewr with dead and wounded. TIL,
British, also lost heavily. especially
the naval brigade. which. as usual. Wa.
in the thickcst of the fight.
Capt. Edwin V. IIoIcomb. superin.
tendent of the dining and sleeping cal
service of the Great Northern road
MIMI. on the Goth. from heart disease
Capt. Holcomb was well known in the
Mississippi river service in the early
days as captain and pilot. He waG
born in Cincinnati. in 1913.
Nearly half of the business portion
of Weston. o.. a town of loo inhahi-
tants. was burned on the Goth. Twelve
buildings. occupied by about 90 bust
ness firms, were destroyed. Loss esti.
mated at from $4,000 to 500. 900; in
surance, about half.
The State bank of Bluff City, Kas.
was blown up with dynamite ant!
robbed on the Goth. The robbers cs.
Gaping with $1,000 in gold besides some
silver and bills. This was the eighth
bank robbery i'll the state of Kansas
within three weeks.
Wallace Ross, the ex-oarsman, lied
a. Charing Cross hospital. London. on
the Goth. after a brief illness. He had
been at the Earlscourt exhibition and
was just preparing to return home.
He was buried at Fulham.
Ii Hung Changes appointment as
minister of is regarded in
Pekin as distinctly Il step in the right
direction and as likely to tend to i'm
prove greatly foreign commercial re-
~lations with China.
On the 2Gth the governor of Natal,
Sir Walter IIely-Hutchinson. in his ca
pacity of vice-admiral, proclaimed the
establishments of a prize court to deal
with prizes captured by British war
ships.
Sir Francis Wingate. in a battle
with the khaiifa's force neal. Gedid. in
the SOudan. captured 5000 men. women
ard children. Osman Digna. the prin-
cipal general of the khalifa, escaped.
Baron Paul ~Nietinghoff. a repre-
sentative of the Russian governments
in Chicago buying horses for the
army and for breeding purposes.
~. +. Delfino. NeneZuelanconsul gen.
eral in New York. will be replaced by
Gonzales Estyes.
The ]severest test to which wireless
t~elegraphy has yet been subjected was
made in Chicago. on the eth. when
the current was successfully sent
through the walls and closed doors of
a suite of seven rooms: and in other
cases through the walls of steel vaults
ami an ordinary Telegraph switch
beard in which 30 wires were connect
ed up and about forty dead wires Were
located.
1t was currently reported in Wall
street. on the 27th. that Frank \. VAN
derlip, assistant secretary of the treas
ury. had been offered the presidency
of the National Bank of Commerce If
New York city, the inference being
that he would take up his new duties
at the expiration of his present term
OF office.
State Superintendent Jackson of Ne
braska decided. on the 9th. that the
Bible may be read in the public schools
of that state. The matter was laid be-
fore him in z case from Gage county,
where one family in a district wanted
the teacher enjoined from using the
Bible. although all others favored It.
Owing to the attitude of the cham
Der of deputies. it is possible that the
Peruvian ministry may resign. Some
of the members We're desirious of re-
firing when the last remains of the
revolution were defeated and dispersed,
but the people would not agree II
this.
DR.. VIM. II. Brooks. director ofSmith
observatory, at Geneva, y. y. has been
awarded by the Paris academy of
Sciences the Grand Lalande prize ror
his numerous and brilliant ~astronical
discoveries. The prize is a gold medal
worth 800 francs. or its value in gold.
W. y. Weir. president of the defunct
bank of Villa Marie, of Montreal. Can,
was found guilty. on the 27th. of send
ing Il false and deceptive statement 10
the governor of the financial affairs of
the bank. The penalty was fixed ut
five years imprisonment.
Out of respect to the memory of the
late Nice-President. President Mc-Kin-
ley has cancelled all his social engage
mcnts for the present. The members
of the cabinet have done likewise. and
the administration will observe a pc
Rod of mourning.
On the I'd the last boat, the Albion,
left Cape Nome, from which time IN
til next June. the $500 people remain-
ing there will be cut off from the bal
ance of the world. Food was plenty,
but fuel scarce and dear.
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