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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-08
FLASH

BY means of a photograph, made with
a vibrating lens. scientists have calcu-
lated the time of a tightening flash. 1t
comes out one nineteenth of a second.
The calculation is based upon the multi
pie image in the photographs and the rate
of vibration Of the lens. The time APP
plies, of course, only to the particular
flash that was photographed.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-08
WEEPING STERILIZED TEARS

New York Evening Sun: ITS unfor-
tunate in work like mine to have tender
leelings,' said the hospital nurse; but
there are times when I simply can't help
crying. l spoke to one of the doctors
ABOUT 1t once and asked him if he thought
there was any great harm in my going
INTO the linen room to weep.
No' he replied, not if you weep ster-
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-08

edged by a deep flounce of white glace
covered by one of black chiffon. The
stole ends in front are of black and
white chiffon.
Pale gray MORE is the foundation Of
one of the most attractive of the French
models, which has dropping shoulders,
a rounding cut and a simple finish f
plated black chiffon with scarf ends.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-08
BLACK BABIES.

The children of the blacklist African
are born Whitish. In a month they be-
come pale yellow; in a year, brown; at 4,
dirty black, and at 6 or 7, glossy black.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-08
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POOR OLD SOCKS.

st. Louis Republic: '"That unfortunate
son of the forest. that wild ~Penobscot,
who played a brief but star engagement
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

During 1899 all federal contracts for
Indian supplies will be placed in Chi
cago.
Nellie Harlow. aged ten years, was
shot by Erin Allen, at Mount Vernon,
ILL.,, in the right breast with 4 rife.
Allen did not know it was loaded. 1t
has been impossible to locate the ball
and the girls condition is considered
very serious.
Miss Jennie Moore, daughter of the
late L. c. Moore and 4 prominent So
ciety belle of San Francisco, died. on
the 22d, from the effects of fire. While
she wa dressing for dinner the lace
curtains of the became ignited
from a jet. Miss Moore tried to extin-
guish the flames and her clothing
took fire.
John Deithloff shot his wife, al Chi.
cage, after a quarrel. He then shot
himself twice. Both died later at the
hospital. Deithloff and his wife had
not been living together for some
time. Deithloff frequently demanded
money from his wife. and her refusal
to supply him with funds is supposed
to have caused the crime.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
CURRENT TOPICS.
TIE NEWS IN E2IEF.
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Second SessiOn.)

tSecOn0 beSslOn.b
In the senate. on the 18th. the further
cupied much of the days session.: after
which the Nicaragua canal bill was taken
up and considered for three hours. After
much debate a substitute, presented by
Mr.. Morgan tAla.1, for the bono amend
ment offered by Mr.. Allison was adopted.
All other proposed amendment failed.
In the house bills were passed authorizing
the & Choctaw Railroad Co to
construct a railroad through the Choctaw
and nations in Indian terri
tory, and granting a site on Fort Supply
insane asylum. after which the house
went into committee of the whole on the
post office appropriation bill.
In the senate. on the Goth, a session of
five hours and a half was practically
barren of results. Consideration of the
Nicaraguan canal bill was resumed. but
its completion was blocked by ~filibuster-
i wss 6naI1v the blouse the post e office bill
nounced the appointment of Mr.. Payne
trcp., n. " as chairman Of the commit
tee on WAYS and means. in place of the
late Mr.. Dingley. which carried with it
the leadership of the majority on the
floor of the house.
In the senate, on the 21st, the Nicaragua
canal bill was further considered, and af-
ter many short speeches had been deli.-
cred and several amendments adopted.
the bill was passed. only six senators voting
against it. 1t was voted (33 to 21) to make
the anti-scalping bill the unfinished busi-
ness. The Indian appropriation bill was
then taken up. but its consideration was
not completed when the senate went into
executive session. and soon after adj
lourned;.:.-The house was not in session
on the 2lst.
In the senate. on the ed. discussion of
the policy of expansion occupied nearly
the whole of the open session, speeches
in support of the anti-expansion resolu-
ton OF Senator Vest being made By
Messrs. White tCal.) and Bacon (Ga.). the
latter declaring that n definite statement
of policy by the administration wouIu
quite simplify the III the
house. it being District of Columbia day.
the only action of general interest was
the passage of the bill extending to the
Hawaiian islands the navigation laws of
the United States.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the senate, on the oath. two nota-
bic speeches. one by Mr.. Lodge (Mass.)
and the other by Mr.. Clay (Ga.), were
delivered, in which both favored i'm
mediate ratification of the treaty of
peace, though differing radically as to
the policy of expansion....In the
house the debate on the army reorgan-
ization bill opened under an agree
ment by which general debate was to
run u hours. exclusive of three night
sessions. The days session was taken
up by numerous speeches on various
features of the subject.
According to adrices receivedat Lima
from the Desaguadro district, o. inter-
Alpine valley. in Bolivia and Peru, Il
fierce battle took place, on the 18th. at
Curl Bay, Is leagues from La Paz, the
nominal capital of Bolivia, between
the vanguard of the federalist troops.
or insurgents, occupying La Paz, and
the vanguard of the forces command
ed by President .Alonzo. The latter
were defeated with the loss of a col
onel and 43 men killed and go prison
erS.
q. 8. Bachelor. Just returned from
Dawson, says the mounted police es-
innate the output of gold this year
will be S50.OO0.00O. +. ii. Searle. an
other recent arrival says the tender
feet are sick and disheartened. and he
expects 10000 men to come out over
the trail this winter.
\ bill has been introduced in the
Maine Legislature by MI. Manley, of
Augusta. authorizing the incorporation
of the American Ice Co., to supply the
Atlantic seaboard cities, with a capital
stock of 500. OOO, 900. one-half of which
is preferred. and the other common
stock.
The inquiry ordered by the house of
representatives as to what members
were holding outside offices-origin-
ally intended TO determine the status
of Maj.-Gen. Wheeler and other men,
bers in the army-was begun, on the
cath. by the committee on Judiciary.
Mayor z. S. Hesser of Fort Scott,
Has. has been expelled from Grace
NJ. +. church by public announcement
because of his failure to make an eff
fort to close the saloons of the city.
His wife %thereupon withdrew.
VIM. NJ. Stewart was, on the oath. re-
elected United States senator from Ne
vada on joint ballot, receiving 9 votes
in the senate and Is in the assembly.
Canadian Pacific railway earnings
for the week ending on January 21st
were. $44s,OOO; same period last year,
$500. 900; increase, S52, 000.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
RECREATIONS OF THE NOTED.

Mrs. Brown-Potter's amusements are
growing flowers and all kinds of out
door sports.
The prince of Monaco is an expert on
ocean lore, while Octave Thanet is
versatile-she goes in for rowing,
wheeling, driving, carpenter work,
photography and whist.
When Sarah Bernhardt is in town she
devotes herself to sculpture. painting
and cycling, and when in the country
fishing, boating and lawn tennis claim
her attention. Books are a pleasure to
her wherever xhe in
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

S. p. Lyon, of Louisville, KY, COM
| hotel.
The keel of the new cup defender
was cast at the HerreshOffs' works
Friday.
The next annual convention of the
United Mine Workers will be held at
indianapolis.
Annabel Jones, who was kidnapped
at Havana, ILL.,, was found with her
mother in Springfield.
Workmen on Goat island, San Fran
cisco bay, unearthed eight skeletons of
men of more than ordinary stature.
1t is reported that the new German
meat bill will not be so restrictive on
American meats as is the one now in
force.
j. j. Lowery, who owns an orchard
of 5000 peach trees in Pettis county,
Mo-, reports that the buds are all
killed.
The sale of the Edison Electric H.
Illuminating Co. of New York to the
Whitney syndicate has been COM
pleted.
Mrs. Milton Barlow, wife Of the old
time minstrel. secured a divorce in
New Jersey, on the ground of habitual
intemperance.
Mont Commodore, coiored, was
struck by a falling tree nea Smith
ton, Mo-. and his skull crushed. He
car not ecover.
y a containing 19 bales of cotton
was entirely destroyed by fire at Cad
do. /. 7. 1t was from Oklahoma, con-
signed to Gainesville, Tex.
A Washington dispatch says that,
as the result of recent happenings at
the capital. Secretary of War Alger
will be forced into retirement.
From Berlin if is reported that the
kaiser is determined to maintain the
Samoan treaty between the three pow
ers-Germany, England and the Unit
ed States.
Nine. Patti and Baron Cederstrom
will be wed at the diva's home in
Wales, next Wednesday, the 25th. The
fremen and policemen of the town,
Brecon, will parade.
An aged widow. Mary Feeley, was
found by neighbors bound hand and
foot to n chair in her lonely farm
house near Essex, Ill. She had been
robbed of $500 in gold.
& H. Neiswanger. an aged team
eter, was struck by a Missouri Pacific
switch engine at Independence, No..
and fatally injured. One leg was cut
of and his skull fractured
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
BLOODY ROW IN A SALOON.
Two OF the Wounded Men
VIII Die.

Chattanooga. Tenn, Jan. s0.-A-
bloody riot occurred last night in q.
negro saloon between the ~barkeepers
and walters and several negro soldiers
Of the Fifth United States volunteer
infantry now in camp at Chickamau-
ga. A quarrel arose between one of
the soldiers and a waiter over q matter
of change, when the soldier pulled o.
pistol and fred at the waiter. The
barkeeper and several others in the
saloon opened fire OF the soldiers, and
as a result Sergeant ]. L. Williams,
company clerk of company /, was shot
in the abdomen; John Reed, private,
Company F, was shot in the thigh and
through the chest, and Louis Brown.
the barkeeper, was shot twice through
the lungs, and will die. Sergeant
Williams wound is regarded as fatal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

Gen. Frederick W. Partridge died
at Sycamore, ILL.,, at the age of as
years. Gen. Partridge was in both the
Mexican and the civil war. He was
Sen on a secret mission by President
James X. Polk to Mexico. where he
was captured as a spy and imprisoned
at San Juan d'Ulloa. In the civil war he
was commissioned captain of Co. E.
One Hundred and Third Illinois. and
left the service a brevet brigadier gen.
eral.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

A Madrid paper published, on the
22d, an interview with an Englishman.
whose name is not given. but who is
described as prominent in British
public affairs" in which he is repre-
scented rs declaring that. although a
Spanish victory in the Hispano-Ameri-
can war would not have suited Eng
lands aims, she is now DESTROYS of an
alliance with Spain to forward her in
terests in Africa.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

The richly-dressed body of a young
woman, probably that of one of the
party lost in the wreck of the naphtha
launch Paul Jones, was found by Capt.
Il. NJ. Bickardo. at Boca Batone. Fla.
on the 23d, where the gulf stream
swings in close to the shore.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

Four of the new Finch breech-
loading rifed coast defense morta-s
which the Niles tool works, of Hamil-
ton. o., are making for the United
States government, have been shipped
to the government proving grounds st
Sandy Hook. y. j. The guns are IA
feet in length. weigh 10000 pounds.
and throw a 5OO-pound dynamite shell
ten miles.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

Rev. Dwight Hills, of Chicago. has
accepted the passionate of Plymouth
church, Brooklyn, to succeed DR.. Ly-
man Abbott. DR.. Abbott will take final
leave of his congregation in the latter
part of February.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

The extension of the anti-contract
labor laws to Hawaii is strongly urged
in Il report made by the house commit
tee on labor. 1t says thousands of
contract laborers, mainly japanese.
rave beer taken to the islands since
the raising of the United States flag
over them.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

John F. Lebaron. a wellknown civil
engineer of Cleveland, o., declares that
while engaged as an engineer on the
old Nicaragua canal. he discovered a
new and practical route for the inter-
oceanic connection.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

The commissioner Of internal reve-
nue. has decided that legacies paid out
of the proceeds of real estate directed
to be sold for the purpose are not sub
jected to the tax upon legacies arising
against personal property. In case the
debts and claims against the estate
exceed the appraised or clear value of
the personal property he says there
car be no legacy tax.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

Eighty-two members of the Aston bat
terry of New York city passed through
Omaha, Neb.. on the Goth, over the
burlington route. bound home from
Manila. They travelled in tourist
sleepers. with a baggage car carrying
their freight and rations. Their mas
cot, a fox terrier, was with them.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

The United States dispatch boat Iro-
Guois sailed from San Francisco for
Honolulu on the Goth. The vessel car
ried a number of special dispatches.
some for the battleship Oregon, due at
the islands. and some that are sup
posed to relate TO the sending of the
Oregon to Samoa.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

The war department has issued an
invitation for bids from responsible
shipping concerns of all nations for
the transportation of the Spanish pris-
oners in the Philippines from Manila
TO Spain.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

At Devonport. England. on the 23d,
the British first class battleship Col
lingwood. driven by strong currents,
collided with the British third class
cruiser Curocoa, driving a hole in the
cruiser below her water line. sweep
ing off her boats and damaging Z gun
sponsor. The Curacao was kept aHoat
by use of collision mats until locked.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

A million silver dollars would occupy.
in round numbers, 100 cubic feet.
Therefore. a room. or rather a box. si1
feet long. five feet wide and four feet
high. would accommodate them CON-
fortably.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

NJ. b. Groder, who was seriously in
jured at the dance of Stone Dyers, in
Galloway county. by being struck on
the head by a club in the hands of
Stone Dyers, died at his home near
Cedar City.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

Job A. Cooper. ex-governor of Col
orado. died suddenly. on the Goth. at
Denver. of heart failure. He had been
ailing for several days. but felt no
apprehension, and no physician was
called until a few hours before his
death. Mr.. Cooper was governor from
1889 to 1891, being elected as a repuh-
lican.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

Newton johnson, unmarried. was ar.
rested, charged with the murder of
George W. Anderson and Miss Annie
Waresback, in Camden county. He pro-
tests his innocence.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

The failures for the week ended on
the Goth, as reported by r. 6. Dun &
Co, were 249 in the United States,
against 314 last year. and 30 in Canada,
against SO last year.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

The Carter bill relating to the gov
eminent of Alaska was favorably re-
ported to the house. on the 23d. by
Mr.. Frederick, of the house committee
on territories,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

News was received in Madrid. on
the 22d, from San Sebastian, of a Ter
rible fire at Egloibar-Deva, about ten
miles west of San Sebastian. in which
20 persons lost their lives.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

John NJ. McCutchon, Hugh Mccoy
and II. b. Garnett, newly-elected
judges of Lewis county, were given an
ovation at Monticello. OF the retiring
judges, who were all commended, j.
II. Bradshaw had served Is wears
without missing a term.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

The statement of the condition of
the treasury issued on the 23d showed:
Available cash balance. S291, PIT, 264;
gold reserve, $3.50, 1914, 764.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
Little Boys Fatal Play.

The three-year-old son of Monroe
Buckner, colored, of Smithton, Pettis
county. while alone at home, played
with the fire, and was burned to death.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

Large numbers of American troops
at Manila are said to be f~raternizing
with the natives, and many of them
are engaged to Filipino girls.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
b. H. ADAMS, Publisher.

The death rate in London for the
week ended on the 21st, was 100 a day
below the average, or 1,56s for the
eve DAYS.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
Tho Treasury Statement.

Washington, Jan. 20.-The state
ment of the condition of the treasury
rhows: Available cash balance, s291,.
163,174. God reserves, $23O.545,957-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
Fell Between Cars.

Mike CollOpy, a Missouri Pacific
brakeman who resided in Nevada, was
killed between H~arrisonville and Pleas
ant Hill by falling between two cars.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

There were II murder and man.
slaughter cases in Buffalo in 1898. q
number in excess of the record for Il
years.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

Herman Nattebrock has filed suit at
st. Louis against the Terminal Rail-
road association for $4,000 for the loss
If a leg.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
Fatal Fall Down Stairs,

DIR. W. c. Hiley, of Houstonia. Pettis
county, slipped and fell downstairs at
a hotel in Hughesville. sustaining ia
tai injuries.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

Candor in a man cuts of old friends
and holds off new ones.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
Got No Booty.

Burglars blew open the safes of D.
s. Flagg. lumber merchant, and the
Diamond Louisiana. M
booty. fhvs.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
Gen. Gentry Adjudeed Insane.

The Pettis county court has adj
judged Gen. Andrew J. Gentry insane.
and ordered him confined in the Ne
vada asylum.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
Little Hoy Fatally Burned.

While the three-year-old son Of
George {. Toel. of Maryville. was play
ing near 4 gasoline stove. his clothes
caught fire, burning him fatally.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

Elephants without tusks are numer~
ous in AbyAinia.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
Five Families Poisoned.

Five families were poisoned by
ptomaine in cheese, at East Joplin.
Physicians found that all of those
who were sick were afflicted with a
similar ailment, and had all eaten
cheese of a certain kind. Sixteen per-
sons have been made seriously i'll, and
some of them are in u critical condi-
ton.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

j. c. Wobbe, a farmer living near
New Conception. IL miles east of
Maryville. Nodaway county. was held
up and robbed of S133 at night
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
MISSOURI A NEWS,


Mrs. Amandn Sutton, aged So. wife
of William Sutton, president of the
Bear Creek Valley Fair and Agricul-
tural association, and one of the early
settlers of johnson county, at her
home southwest of Knobnoster.
jeremiah Yancey, a prominent farm
er of Cooper county, at his home near
Otterville.
Washington Mccormack, a promi-
nent farmer near Huntsville, of pneu-
monia, aged 50. He was born in Vir-
ginia, and moved to Missouri when
quite young.
Mrs. Ellen Lambert, highly respect
ed. at M%arceline, aged 9s.
William 2. Allcutt, a pioneer pack
er, and organizer of the Allcutt Pack
ing Co. OF Kansas City, of pneumonia.
aged 72.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
Named BY the Governor.

Gov. Stephens has appointed Louis
n. Hawkins circuit clerk and recorder
of deeds of Maries county, vice c. C.
Gcmp, resigned.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28

Donat Boegle, aged &c. the pioneer
retail shoe merchant of ST. Joseph,
died recently of pneumonia. He had
been in business since 1860. and had
amassed a large fortune. Boegle was
born in Germany. He came to Ameri-
ca when a boy, worked his way up the
Missouri river on a steamer in 1857,
and settled in St. Joseph.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-01-28
A Fourteen Ysar-Old Girl Burned.

Elvina Norton, aged IA, was black
ing the kitchen stove at her home in
st. Joseph. The brush took fire, ig-
hitting her clothing.