The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-05-13

NEWS IN BRIEF.
COMPLIED from Various Sources
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Further conferences are being held
in New York city for the purpose Of
completing details of the proposed
consolidation OF bicycle makers. Al
options have been obtained.
Severe seismic disturbances visited
the southern and eastern districts Of
P]eiuponErSu$ on the night of the 18th.
The town OF LigIGitZa was seriously
damaged, many houses being thrown
down.
Further conferences are being held
in New York city for the purpose Of
completing details OF the proposed
consolidation Of bicycle makers. All
cptions have been obtained.
Buried treasure in the shape OF II
$1,000 bonds. hearing uncIippcd cou-
ipuns. which adds several thousand
dullars TO their value, was found by
Thomas Lawson. Il ncgr" Iaborcr,
Will. ..igsing in the cellar Of Il Cincin-
mai, apartment store.
Three hundred and fifty miners, ac-
cuscd of participating in the late riot,
iaIr confined at WarhnCr, Idaho. under
guard Of United State, troops over
200 troops are in the Occur d'Al2He
| district. and al fear of further out
breaks is past.
The statement Of the condition Of the
treasury issued on the 9TH showed:
Available cash balance, :2G0,jlO,Ges;
gold reserve, $2f5.lIl,o6I.
G.n. ltumon Guerra, formerly Ncne-
zuclan minister of war and marine,
Y he started IL" revolution in Ncue-
lucia last February, has been finally
severely defeated by the government
troops, and has escaped into Colombia.
Gen. OTIS. On the 9Th. reported the
capture OF over 10000 bushels of rice
ard go tons of sugar at lialiiaG; also
%l.5C0.GOO worth OF stores NJ Nalolos
and much rice and corn belonging o
the enemy al other points.
Makers of steel fence wire tvho are
outside of the trust met in Chicago, on
the 9Th, for the purpose of forming It
coordination and erecting Il plant at
some point within the Indiana gas
belt.
The duke d'Arcos. the newly-Hp-
pointed Spanish minister to the United
States, started from Madrid. on the
9TH, for his new post at Washington,
by way of Paris.
The New York state board Of ahitra-
ton has decided 70 hold a public invcs-
tigation of the dock troublcS at Buffa-
70.
Ply the cnpsizinr of 4 boat OF Belvi-
t.crc point, Cal, on the eth, Frank }.
Grimm and Herbert q. Edwards Were
crowned. DR.. Allen and II. o. Hay
Gctelt. who were also in tine hoat at the
time Of the accident, We're saved
Ezra F. Merrill. aged "a. proprietor
of the chutes and tOboggan slides at
Concy Island and Il reputed million
airc. died. on the 18th, from the effects
e an accident he met with n few days
before. On one OF the slides.
The United States transport McClel-
Ian. Capt. NcrickIv. arrived at New
FORK. on the 7th, from San Juan,
Ponce and Santiago. with Il cabin pas
scngers and 1O2 discharged soldiers on
board.
N:cc-Prcsidcnt Hobart spent a COM
Portable day. on the Sth, and was re-
ported to be improving slowly.
\ dispatch from Belfast. on the 9TH.
said: y steamer. apparently an Allan
liner, has been sighted III Il disabled
condition eight miles rast of Glcnar!n.
about - miles north of Dcifast.
Mrs. VIM. c. Whitney. wife of the
folmer secretary OF the navy, died
shortly after l p. II. on the 9th.
The Topeka (llas.) Capital has start
Cd 4 popular subscription to purchase
a sword for Gen. Funston. Every
county, town and city in the state is
asked to contribute.
Capt. Sir Herbert S~carisbrick Nay
lor-Leyland. Bart, who had repre-
seDted the Southport division of south
west Lancashire in the house of com
mons in the labor interest since last
August, died at London Of laryngitis,
after a long illness.
Members of the cabinet and their
wives called at the White House, on
the eth, to make their farewells to the
president, previous to his departure
for Hot Springs, Va. Gen. Fred Grant
una MS VIE VERT dlSO among tne
callers.
Gov. Thomas Of Colorado has an
nounced that within n few days, ii
President Mckinley or the secretary
CT Wal continues to ignore his com
municatoins on the return of the
Colorado regiment from the Philip
rines. he will take steps, legal if nee
essarv. with a view to securing the
immediate recall of the troops.
DR.. William Lambert Russell died at
Barre. Mass, on the 9th. of mumps,
aged 80. He was the eldest Harvard
graduate.
The volume relating to %appropria-
tions, new offices. etc. required by law
to be prepared and published at the
end of each session of congress under
direction of the committee of appro-
priations of the senate and house has
been completed by the chief clerks Ct
those COMMITTEES. for the third session
OF the Ffty-fifth congress. y summary