The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-07-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


ton for the purpose of acquiring
mineral lands will be elected as soon
ers' and kept off tie reservation unit
it is formally declared open to settle
ment by presidential proclamation.
Prof. Ferdinand Won Ritchoffen ha!
been appointed director of the newly
established Museum of Oceanography
at Berlin.
At the permanent automobile eX
position in Berlin, applications fol
space have been so numerous that ar
enlargement of the original are wa:
necessary.
When the British ship Hudson leave.
the port of Philadelphia, for Japan
within a few days, she will carry an OF
plant. the first ever shipped to thai
country.
Queen Victoria will present to the
municipality of Dublin. in memory OF
her recent visit, a gold loving cup
weighing 16O unces
The California and Hawaiian cele.
gates to the democratic national ron.
vention at Kansas City, Mo-, started
east from San Francisco on the 18th.
The delegates were escorted TO their
train by the Iroquois club of that city,
A large consignment of fruits and
wines had already been shipped to the
California headquarters in the conven.
ton city.
A landslide occurred at Hartsell Hill,
Is miles below Decatur, Ala, on the
Louisville & Nashville railroad. on the
Goth. 1t is known that three men. one
negro and two whites, were killed, and
it is thought several others shared the
same fate.
1t is estimated there are 10000 per-
at Cape Nome. Newcomers are
reported all at sea on account OF the
wholesale jumping Of claims, and
trouble is predicted.
r. G.. Dun & Co. reported, on the 29th:
Failures for the week have been 2O7
in the United States, against ISL last
year, and p in Canada, against % last
year."
Thomas Flannelly was hanged at
San Quentin, CAL. on the Goth, for the
murder of his father and Sheriff Nc
Evoy of San Mates county. He made
no statement from the scaffcld.
For the first time in nearly ten years
cotton, both spot and the July future,
sold at ten cents a pound in New York
on the Goth. In the three leading cot
ton markets of the world the fluffy
jumped at a lively rate. The en-
attendant upon the uplift to
the high figure was intense.
Benjamin E. Warfield, president of
theological seminary, will
not serve on the committee of revision,
TO which he was named by the last
general assembly of the Presbyterian
church held in st. Louis.
Gen. Estrella, a Filipino leader, was
captured by secret service officers at
Manila. The unconditional surrender
of Gen. Aquino at Angeles with CA
rifles is announced by Gen. Grant. who
adds that the officers and men of Gen.
Aquino's command have agreed to
surrender later.
Up to the Goth nothing was definite
v known concerning the whereabouts
Of the foreign ministers to Pekin. 1t
intimated that they are still in Pc
kin, perhaps sequestered in the i'm
perial palace to protect them from the
Chinese mobs.
The Nonsectarian College of Primary
and Secondary Education was opened
Manila, on the goth. in the presence
# Judge Taft, president of the civil
and his colleagues. Five
hundred pupils ware enrolled IS a
Eear-Admiral John W. Philip, com-
randant of the Brooklyn navy yard.
:as at the point Of death for several
hours early on the morning OF the 29th,
md at last accounts was still very i'll,
Young Cornelius Vanderbilt is an
INVENTOR. He has just succeeded in
making a successful application of the
,rincipal of the marine boiler to the
locomotive engine. which promises to
make the running of locomotives much
ess expensive.
An awful co%niagration visited the
locks of the North German Lloyd
Co., in Hoboken, y. j., on
he %0th. The docks. with all the val
liable freight piled thereon, were ccm-
destroyed: several of the
steamers OF the company and
more than a score of other craft were
destroyed or greatly damaged. causing
osses a~ggregating S1O,00o,oO0 The
,orror of the catastrophe, however,
vas found in a dreadful loss of life
90 persons being supposed to be
or burned to death, while
lun3reds of the rescued crowd all the |
hospitals in the vicinity of the fire.
horrible Beyond description,
witnessed during the confagra-
ion. |
The imports of specie for the week
'nded on the 30th were $15,136 gold
nd S1s2,1s4 silver. The exports were
1.171.11G, silver bars and coin, ard !
500 gold.