The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-06-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

OU0. Ot the latter mou SlU.0OO.0 oO
is to be preferred stock, paying IL
per cent. quarterly dividends.
ON the 10th the steamer City of
Seattle passed Port Townsend. Wash.
bound for Tacoma. with POO klondik-
crs and $50o.O00 in gold dust and $780,
eco in drafts as the first instailment
of the spring cleanup.
United States Consul Johnson. at
Annoy. Fukien province, China. re-
ports that the bubnnic plague has
broken out there.
On the 10Th representatives of the
Carnegie and Bethlehem iron concerns
were at the navy department to make
firal arrangements for the delivery of
the 2.2.l tons of side armor for the
hattlrships .Alabama. Illinois and Wis
conSin. recently ordered by Secretary
Long.
4 workman named Monta@. living in
Mannheim. Germany. has succeeded in
manufacturing artificial coal FROM
earth and mineral substances.
On the arrival at iircSt. France. of
the StaN. which is CARRYING Capt. Drcy-
fuS home from French Guiana for a
new trial by court-martiaI. Il torpedo
boa destroyer Will meet the cruiser
and transfer Drcyfus to the shore.
Ex-senator Zen. {. Harding. of Ore
%on. died at Cottage Grove. Ore, on
the 18th. He WAS elected 10 FIJI
out the u~ucNrirrd term of Senator
Baker. d ceased. Mr.. Hardin" was
born in Pennsylvania in 1N;t.
In a collision off Fri"drichShavcn.
between the German steamer .lrtuShof
and n" british steamer Mauririus. 81
the 18th. the Artushof was sunk. ten of
her crew being Gruwaed.
! dispatch from Rn>aria. ~.Nr"ratina.
says: THE British steamers CaStilian
Prince. Capt. CoulI. from London. and
.\mphitrirr. Capt. MLluuey. from sun
d"riand. Tor Hucnos .\yrcs. have been
in collision. The taS1ilian Prime" ar
rived here in Il badly damaged cond;-
tion. The damage 10 the Nmphitrite
is ~uukmawm.
Lawrence Townsend. the new United
States minister 10 Belgium. Na> re-
cciN"d. on the 18th. ny Kin" L"opoId.
Norman Williams. 4 prominent law
yea of Chicago. died at Hampton. \
II on the 18th. Mrs. Merritt. wife -.
cen. Wesley Merritt, * his daughter
ana she. with the g"n, raj. was al the
brcSidc.
i:y the explosion of Il lamp in a."
house of Michael .IaSaa. in Allegheny
City. Pa. ON the 18th. SiN members ct
TN family were badly burncrt. VA -
wonths-old babe Will probably die.
Capt. Joseph l.. Co%hlan. of tie
United states cruiser Eaicigh. arrived
il Trrrc IIautr. Ind. an he 18th. ~
companied by his wife. whose hom"
was formerly in that city
The entry of DIR. ". :. Mcdowell.
the Chicago oarsman. :qr me Giamur,l
scuilS. at the Henley ,En%!andj "cgl--
Ia this year, was received too late 10
ne accepted.
The of Kansas have begun
cutting wheat. Til" quality is uar-
r:mly good and the yield exceeds ~
pcCtation.
There We're seven rroSirlt'olS from
heat in Chicago on the lyih.
The Building occHpied 10y Allen
l.rD$.. wholesale "rocrrs. at Omaha.
Nrh.. WIS damaged Si5,0no lay fire ON
the 18th. The blaze started on the
fifth floor and burned downward. de
struggling the f"UrGi: and fifth floors
and Their contents. The damage TO
the stock is estimated at Slo0.u"o. and
is covered by S'1O.uoo insurance.
Eleven tircmcn were injured hN the
explosion of Il powder magazine in
the building.
Tn" transport Sherman arrived ut
Manila. ON the 18th. with 2.uuu troops.
under command of Generals Grant and
H:trS. Seventeen hundred additional
are expected to arrive liz about
l. week.
II * "cpurtcd that the British row
crmmc.It has ordered steamships en-
gagcI III the South African trade TO
IrSciTd their contracts and hold them
selves in readiness to convey t-rop~ 20
the irans,aaI.
tIuHd%. it * said. has served notice
England that she must choose be
tl.p United States ard hcr Nor-ti