The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-07-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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Lees collegiate institute at Jackson,
Ky.
Among the passengers on the steam
eI .Athcnian. which arrived AT Victoria.
l.. C.. from the orient. on the 18th,
were Bishop Horne, who has been in
specting American missions in Japan.
and Mr.. Wolcott. of New York. who
has beer hunting in the Land of the
Rising sun.
The White Oak breaker ut Archi-
bald, Pa, was entirely destroyed by
fire on the 18th. 1t was owned by
the Delaware d Hudson Co., n its
destruction entailed a loss of nj least
$4,000. The fire was started by a To-
connective spark.
HlaZo PetrovicS. a relative of Prince
Nicholas of Montenegro. was arrested
in belgrade. Seryia. on the 18th. on
charge OF completely in the recent at
tempt to aSsaSSinate former King Mi
Ian of Servia.
The $50 OO. 900 bicycle trust. which
was all but completed. went to pieces
on the 18th. The eastern bankers
floating the concern Withdrew because
OF Il hitch in the final consolidation
Patrick Carney. a Clarke county Is.
d. farmer. reports that Il strange i'll
sect is doing damage to wheat in his
locality. He had 40 acres entirely de-
Strovcd. while Il few other farmers
also suffered losses. The insect seems
to sap the life from the plant. causing
ii Ia fall over and wilt.
On June II a great quantity of
~gunpowder exploded in Il @o-down nf
the military division at Shinkei-iei,
Japan. and over 800 houses surround
ing the place were destroyed and 80
! lives were lost.
Col. Charles II. Brown, assistant
chief of division of loans and currency
of the treasury department, died 1t
rittSfield. Mass. on the 10th.
4 heavy wind storm passed. over Min
ncaEcliS. Mimi. on the 10Th. accom-
panied ny lightning and rain. The
front of the Minneapolis ~ 81. Louis
ticket office. WAS blown in and many
trees were broken short of or TORN
NJ. and awnings and signs scattered in
all directions.
Twentv-S"ven business houses. the
pumping station of the watcrwCrk>.
the fire engine house and the city T:i!
ii Bainbridye. ia. were destroyed ny
Ere on the 10th. Loss. $4,000; ir>rIr-
ance. S25.O0O.
On the eth the city council of Co
lumbus. O.. by Il vote of - to ,. i'm
peached and removed from office .Jo-
seph W. DuSenbury. director of public
safety.
Lord Curzon. viceroy of India. will
start on Il tour of central India. on DC
tober 20, accompanied by Lady Curzon.
On the 18th the contributions to the
Dewey home fund. amounted to $40.
making S14.4S0 in all.
On the eth James MacGuire. cash
Ter of the National State bank of Eliza
beth. y. j.. WAS appointed receiver for
the MiddleseN County Bank of Perth
.tmboy. v. j.. recently wrecked by its
cashier. George W. Valentine.
The war department has chartered
the stGimer Siam TO carry 800 cavalry
horses to Manila.
On the Eth eN-Srcretary Foster left
Washington for his summer home on
Lake Ontario.
On the Eth the first and third bat-
Gallons of the Ninteenth infantry left
Camp Meade. for the Philippines. via
San Francisco. over the Pennsylvania
railroad. There were five trains.
The British steamer iIo!bein. Capt.
Sherlock. which arrived ut Liverpool
on the 10th. picked up Capt. William
\. Andrews. known as the Lone Navi-
gator" who left Atlantic City. Y. J.. on
June Is. in a little craft named The
DoTes." barely II feet in length. To at
tempt to cross the Atlantic. Capt. An
drcNS WAS found in an exhausted con-
dition.
\ tempest has been started by Il
Round Robin signed by quite Il num-
Der of press correspondents in the
Philippines criticising Gen. Otis e
sorship methods. which. il declares. hr
excision of their reports. makes them
a party to misrepresentation ofevents
and conditions there.
While all the world has been watch
ing the Transvaal complications. and
British forces are being rushed to
South Africa. England has collected at
St. Johns. y. f.. the largest feet that
has ever assembled under the British
flag on this side of the Atlantic since
the war of 1872.
&. J. Simonds. aged 80 years, who
recently started Il weekly newspaper,
which was suspended after three is
sues, in Camp Point, ILL.,, was arrested
at Quincy for passing three forged
checks. purporting to have been signed
by well-known residents of Quincy.
During a violent thunder storm that
passed over Christian county, KY. on
the evening of the 10th. lightning
struck a herd of thoroughbred short
horn cattle belonging to eX-Congress-
man John ID. Clardy, killing the regis
tered bull Bobby Byington," the fin
est animal of its kind in southern Ken
lucky. and several valuable heifers.
The population of Minneapolis,
MIMI. based on the new directory, is