The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-08-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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Element of 100 houses. The whole
place was wiped out. A schooner that
happened to be landing coal for the
use of mail steamers, took the resi-.
dents TO a place of safety.
When the Spanish cruiser Infanta
Isabel was about to leave San Sebas-
tian, Spain, for Archacon. on the Sd,
one of her boilers gave way. and the
escaping steam scalded 81 sailors, kill
ing one and seriously injuring six
others.
Fred Hines. 13 years old, has con-
fessed that he poisoned his father, who
is lying dangerously i'll at the county
hospital in Fresno. Cal. The boy said
that his father treated him cruelty and
had refused to allow him to drive his
team, and he concluded to kill him.
He and his younger brother bought
the POISON which Fred put in his ia
Tiers coffee.
The union mach:nists of Oil City,
Pa, who had been on strike for II
weeks. decided, on the 5th, to return
to work at the old scale of wages. and
without any concessions from the en-
.ployers.
King Alexander of Servia welded
Madame Draga Maschin. on the 5th.
the ceremony being performed with
great pomp at the cathedral in Bel
grade.
Four thousand cab drivers in Paris
went on strike, on the 5th, demanding
a lower rate for renting vehicles.
Luke Pryor. former United States
senator and representative in con-
gress, died at his home at Athens,
Ala, on the 5th.
Rt. Rev. Augustine Healy. Catholic
bishop of Maine, died suddenly at
Portland on the 5th.
Secretary of State John Hay is quite
ill at S%unapee, n. H., where he went
to take a rest. He is suffering from
exhaustion due to the arduous
labors imposed upon him of late.
Two masked men boarded the Union
Pacific 1t. Louis limited, neal Hugo.
Col, and robbed the passengers OF the
sleepers of money and v%aluables, COM
the conductor to hold the bag
to receive the plumber. William j.
Fay, a Californian, was shot and killed
by the robbers, after he had opened
fire OF them from his berth.
James and Cleveland Kelley. two
colored boys, have been put in Jail at
Ark, charged with burn
ing the big dry kiln of the Little Rocl,
Co. The boys confessed.
and say they set three fires at the
plant during the last year.
Robert W. Sinclair, aged So years, a
fruit commission INGREDIENT, and his
wife, Annie F.. aged 80 wears. were
both found dead with a lullet hole in
each CT their heads, in The yard in
front of their summer hcme. at Green
Tree station, nea Philadelphia. The
is ~enveloped in mystery.
Maj-Gen. Baden-Pnwell, the gallant
defender of Mafeking, is reported to
been wounded during Il recent
at r, %stenburg. Gen.
Christian De Wet is said to be COM
surrounded near Reitsberg.
Gen. Zebulon York died at lis home
Natchez. Miss, of paralysis. He was
his eighty-first year. Though 2 ma
tive of one of the New England states,
he enlisted in the confederate army
and served with distinction.
Edwin Russell Morse, a veteran
writer, cGitor and publish
pr, CT Illinois, died, on the sth. at
Bloomington. from.hemorrhage of the
lungs, resulting from an abscess. He
WAS horn in Pennington, Me-, so years
ago, and located in Bloomington near
~ twenty years ago.
The managers of the Southwestern
Soldiers and Sailors association have
decided to held the sixteenth annual
reunion. at Arkansas City. Kas.. during
the week of September 10. Among the
new attractions offered by the associa-
ton this year will be a flower parade.
md prizes will be offered for the best
vehicles.
President Mckinley has approved
inc provisional plan for the celebra-
ion. next December. of the centennial
IF the establishment of the seat of
government in the District of Column
Dia. submitted to him by President
of the board of commits
of the District of Columbia.
1t is plain that the Chinese are pre-
to make a desperate resistance.
The authorities are anxious that a
defeat shall be inflicted on
hem not far from Tien Tsin, as it
nay discourage them from making an
,ther stand, except behind the walls
If Pekin.
Chicago packers have beea asked by
he government to furnish 1000. 900 |
of meats within 30 days for
he army. This is said to be the larg-I
st requisition ever issued by the gov
.rnment of the United States.
The 10-fOot sloop Rainbow. owned |
" Cornelius Vanderbilt, won tie COM
nodore's cup for sloops of that GLASS,
n the 9th. in the New York Yacht
Tubs race. sailing over a 2l-mile
curse on Long Island sound