The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-11-17
Che Demnrrat.
Is. h. ADAMS. Publisher.


CAPE GIRARDEAU. : MISSOURI
King Victor Emanuel of Italy cele.
brated his birthday anniversary, on
the 18th, by signing a decree pardon
ing many prisoners.
Senior Cabrera Malo, Venezuelan
minister of the interior, was fired on
by an unknown man, on the 18th, re.
ceiving a slight wound.
Miss Mira Hirschey, daughter of the
late millionaire lumberman, Benz.
Hirschey, on the sth, purchased
ground at Muscatine, Ia, for the site
of a public hospital which she will
erect and donate to the city.
Cyrus G. Medley, aged 81, died uneX.
pectedly in the eastern Indiana hospi-
tai for insane at Richmond on the
18th. The deceased was a brother to
Charles F. Neeley, the Cuban post Of
fee agent now in Jail in New York.
An undated dispatch from Pretoria,
says Gen. De Wet has been wounded
in the leg in a fight with the troops
of Gen. Knox at Rensburg Drift. Ac-
cording to native reports, the Boer
commander narrowly escaped cap
ture.
A Montreal dispatch says that it is
likely Sir Wilfred Laurier will recon-
mend Sir Charles Upper, the retired
conservative, for a peerage, for his
work in bringing about the confedera-
ticn of Canada and the introduction
of free schools.
According to the annual report of
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Will
lam A. Jones, the total expenditure
by the government on accoun of the
Indian service from March 4, 1889, up
to and including July 80, 1900, has
been S36s, 35S,217.
The National Irrigation congress is
to meet in Chicago, on the 21st, for a
four days session. Some of the most
prominent men of the country have
been secured for addresses on irriga
ton and forestry, including a number
of western United States senators and
members of congress-.
Captain of the Port Young has
asked the government to refuse any
and all proposals looking to the re-
moval of the wreck of the United
States battleship Maine from the har-
Dor of Havana by explosives. The
work will probably be accomplished
by the aid of a cofferdam.
An exhibition of $50 photographs,
taken by American women amateurs.
was opened in St. Petersburgh, on the
18th, and proved a revelation to the
Russian photographers. The collec-
ton was loaned by Miss tombstone, its
owner. The photographs were first
sent to Moscow from Paris.
The government is making extensive
arrangements for the Cuban exhibit
in the forthcoming Pan-Americah ex-
position at Buffalo. Grounds have
been secured there, on which will be
erected typical Cuban colonial build
ings, and $4,000 will be appropriated
in furtherance of the plans.
The gymnasium of Notre Dame
university at South Bend, Ind, one of
the largest and best equipped college
gymnasiums in the world, was burned
on the 9Th. Loss, $4,000; fully in
sured. While the flames were doing
their work of destruction the direc-
tors held a meeting, and decided to
vebuild Immediately.
The reformer, Szki-Nu (the leading
man in the anti-dynastic party Or
gained by Sun Vat SEM, who was
sentenced to death in connection with
the recent yamen explosion at Can
ton, was repeatedly tortured. in order
to extort a confession from him, but
he refused to make a statement in re.
gard to the explosion.
Gen. Sir Redvers Butler, on the Dun
regan Castle, from Cape Town,
reached the quay at Southampton, on
the sth. He was greeted by Lord
Wolseley and his staff as well as by
an immense assembly of townspeople.
At night he attended the mayoral ban.
quet, the first of a long series of func'
lions planned in his honor.
"Mr. Charles T. Yerkes," says the
London Daily Express, "has a scheme
to radiate electric railways for long
distances north of London, and to
build low-rent dwellings for work
men in order to remedy overcrowd.
ing. He is also interested in the moot.
ed scheme of a ship canal between
southampton and London"
Prof. Pickering, OF Harvard univer,
sity, has begun the erection of an OBJ
servatory at Woodlawn, near Mande.
vile, Jamaica, for his colossal tele.