The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-02-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IN KY
erals have completely outmaneuvered
the Beers. Gen. Cronje has evacuata-
his position at Magersfontein. and is
trekking eastward towards BIoemfor-
teir, with the British pursuing ara
skirmishing with the Beers rear
guard.
Gen. Butler began his fourth movs
foc the relief of Ladysmith on the 18th,
be- the censor held up the informa-
ton until the 1tSh, when his position
wa. at Hussar hill, south of the TIL
gel. Owing to the nature of the
country the advance is necessarily
SLOW, the difficulties being describ ii
as "incalculably great"
Two men afioat on an ice foe made
the trip from YOnkers 10 New York,
on the 18th, and were rescued off the
Fort Lee ferry. From half past seven
o'clock in the morning until half past
five in the evening they sat in an open
skiff, which had been nipped between
two big ice cakes and hoisted upon
one of them by the action of the tide.
The rapid accumulation of money
i'll the treasury during the present
month is increasing the anxiety of
the treasury officials that there will be
intense pressure fer currency in the
autumn unless something is done by
congress to increase the currency sup
ply or reduce the accumulation of
money in Washington and New York.
A dispatch from Monterey. Mexico,
says: IAN American syndicate. with a
capital Of $40. 00o.OGO, will Immediately
begin the construction of a great steel
plant in this city. The plans for the
mammoth concern have been COM
pleted. and the ground purchased for
locating the several buildings"
Leslie Eastburn, a 2~l-year-old boy,
slot Jasper Sutton. an aged and re-
spected citizen of Bloomfield, Ia, on
the 18th, three bullets penetrating the
abdomen and causing almost instant
death. Eastburn called at Sutton's
home to take his 1s-year-old daughter
Alice to church. The father ordered
him away and the tragedy followed.
ULcle Sam now has 81 vessels III
thcrized or under construction. Some
of the best of these ships are nearly
completed, and by the end of the year
% vessels will be commissioned. Ii
May the Kearsarge will be ready fo-
its crew; in June the Kentucky will
be completed. and the Alabama Will
have the finishing touches put upon it
in July.
Armed with a shotgun and ccom-
panied by his dog, Richard Cain left
Shelbyville. Ind, on the 18th, in search
of game, that his family might have
meat for supper, he being out of en-
plcyment. The next morning his dead
bod. was found. with his dog by his
side. He had evidently fallen down,
discharged his gun and blown his head
OF
The steamer Olympia brings news &c
Tacoma, WASH, that civil war is
raging at Shantung province, China.
The anti-foreign society known rs the
BOXERS" is determined that all for
eig1ers shall be driven out, including
Germans.
Mrs. Annie f. Lodge. mother of Sem
ator Henry Cabot Lodge, of MassacIiu-
sets, died at her home, in Boston, on
tn, 10Th. She was 20 years of age.
Jean Louis Legare, who surrendered
Sitting Bull and hundreds of Other
Siou.. to the United States government
in 1881 and 1882, has gone from the
10 Ottawa, Ont, to push,
the promised help of the Domili-
ion government, his claim for s13,4OO
aud interest from the time of its pre-
10 years ago.