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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
F;rTY-sixTH

In the senate. on the 18th. Mr.. Teller
tCo...) and Mr.. Turner Wash-) made elao-
crate speeches against the holding Of the
radically diNerent premises and both
basing their arguments on constitutional
grounds......In the house the District of
COS. s7S, was taken up. and under the lati-
tude allowed in its discussion many
speeches on divers subjects were deliv-
cred. A resolution setting aside alternate
bills reported by the claims and war
claims committees was adopted, n sew
eral minor bills were passed.
In the senate, on the 18th, the bill ap.
Yrop;iatins s., 095. 900 for the benefit "
the people Of Puerto Rica being under
consideration, Mr.. Jones ldem., Ark o.
tered as a substitute a bill to return the
duties to those who had paid them an
providing for absolute free trade betEeen
the United States and Puerto Rico. The
bill had not been disposed of when the
Quay case was called up. MT: Wellingtor:
ment against the seating OF MI. Quay,
and the remainder of h session was
consumed in a running discussion of the
the house the District Of Columbia ap-
preparation bill, carrying s6.69S, 37s. was
passed, and also a bill granting the aban-
doned Fort Hays military reservation 10
ton and normal school purposes.
In the senate, on the 18th, the Puerto
Rican relief appropriation bill. carrying
s., 0s5, 600, to be expended by the president
ION public education, public works and
other governmental and public purposes
was passed. An order was made to take
up the case of former n Quay on
April 3, and discuss 1t until disposed off,.
In the house, II being the first private
bill day under the new rule, six bills of
no general interest were passed NO oth2r
business Of Importance was transacted.
In the senate, on the 18th, Senator Cock
rell introduced a bill to increase the limit
of cost for the purchase of a site and the
erection of a public building at Joplin.
Mo-. to sos, 600; also a memorial of the
eastern or emigrant Cherokees, praying
for the payment to them per capita OF
article of the treaty of 1876, and found due
them by the award of the legislative de-
partment of the United States as author
lied by act of ongress of March 3, 1899.
1.-The house spent the greater portion
Of the session in p~ronouncing eulogies
upor. the late Monroe l.. Hayward, SEN
ator-elect from Nebraska. who died be-
fore taking the oath of Office.
In the senate, on the 18th, the legis-
latIve, executive and judicial appropriI-
tiCn bill, carrying more than SIS, COO. OO.
was passed without debate. The measure
pr DIVIDING for the appointment of a COM
mittee to adjudicate Inc settle claims al
the people of the United States growing
out of the war with Spain, was also
passed without opposition. In the house
the majority refused to concur in the SER
ate amendments to the Puerto Rican re-
lief bill. The most of the session was de
voted to District of Columbia business.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
4 PAlCTY Of WAR NEWS.
For All the News There is Current
England Night as Well
Be at Peace.
GEN. LORD KITCHENER IS At pRlEsKA.
Considerable ~Interes Ia Manifested
~ to h Probable Fate of johann
nesburG. In h Light of BOer
Observation-Disclosures VIII Issue
q Proclamation.

LONDON, March 20, $50 p. m.-For all
the news that reached here yesterday
and to-day. Great Britain might al
most as well be at peace. 1t ia reason
able to believe that the relief Of Maze.
king may be heard of ut any hour.
The Fate of JOhannesburg.
Considerable interest is attached to
the state of Johannesburg. Comment
ing on the reported consultation be-
tween Secretary Hay and the German
ambassador at Washington, DIR Won
Holleben, as to a proposition that both
belligerents be urged to leave johann
nesburg alone, the Pail Mall Gazette
says:
This time DR.. Leyds has, as we
may without improperly assume, put
in circulation the tale to the effect
that the German ambassador at Wash
ington and the American consul at
Pretoria are connecting a little
scheme of German Intervention. That
is really a glorious yarn, and one
which shows to what desperate
straits the enemies of this country are
reduced. Just imagine n government
which has formally declined all out
side Intervention permitting Ger
many to dictate the course of Lord
Roberts march to Pretoria. The Ger
man foreign office knows better than
to invite the snub it would inevitably
receive if it ventured to whisper so
preposterous a proposal in Downing
street."
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the senate. on the Goth, discussion
OF the Puerto Rican government and
tariff bill was resumed, Mr.. Morgan
(hla.) making the principal argument
in favor of retention of both Puerto
EIco and the Philippines, and claim
ing that the Puerto Ricans are citi-
els of the United States....In the
house the committee on military af-
fairs reported back the SulZer resolu-
ton of inquiry with a recommended
tiCn that it lie on the table. The re-
port was accompanied by a commuEi-
cation from Adjt.-Gen. Corbin stating
that the information in possession Of
tn, department in like cases had al
ways been held sconfidential, but stat
ing incidentally that Great Britain was
erecting no works which threatened
our rights. The resolution was laid
on the table. The house then entered
upon the consideration of the Loud
bill to restrict the character of publ
cations entitled to pound rates as Sec
ond class mail matter.
The contract for the government
work at San Pedro Cali harbor was
annulled, on the Goth. OH account of
the failure of the contractors to meet
the agreement to dump 1000 tons of
rock per day on the breakwater. Bids
to complete the work will be adver-
tised for at once.
The Philadelphia conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, on the
2Oth. adopted a paper in support Of
the expansion policy of the present
national administrator and a call for
volunteers to go to the Philippines for
evangelical work.
III anticipation of the probable in
crease of the capital stock the direc-
tors of the Hartford Life Insurance
cent. The dividend is wholly from
the surplus belonging to the stock
holders.
Goy.-Gen. Davis is in constant re-
ceipt of kilograms from the various
towns of Puerto Rico, begging him to
use his influence with the United
States congress for a speedy settle
E:ent Of tho questions now in contro-
versy.
The examination of the books of
Farnk f. Bundy, the %defaulting city
chamberlain of Elmira, n. Y, on the
Goth, showed 4 deficit of $4,000 in one
tax roll. 1t is expected now hat the
total shortage will reach at least $780,
OOo.
The Oceanic, sailing from New York,
for Europe, OF the 21st, took out 302,-
600 ounces of silver,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

Al Ardmore, L. T., on the l9th, Unit
cd States Judge Hosea Townsend IS
sueo an order committing Thomas 7.
Sanders, formerly OF Mynnewood. 7.
T., to Jail for contempt of the referee
in bankruptcy. TheIcourt ~instruc:s
that he shall remain in Jail until he
can account for missing goods valued
at $1,000.
Consul Halstead, at Birmingham,
England, has reported to the state de-
partment the formation of a bleaching
trust in that city, with a capitalization
Of $50, O0O, 900 or 100000, 900, with the
avowed object of preventing individual
concerns INDUCING in sharp practices,
cutting prices. discount, etc.
Five deaths have recently occurred
ia Adelaide, South Australia. from
what is suspected to be the bubonic
plague.
Arthur p. Greedy, assistant commits.
sioner of patents, resigned his posi-
ton, on the 10th, to embark in private
business.
The United States auxiliary cruiser
Dixie arrived at Algiers oil the 10Th
From Algiers she will go to Naples.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
NATIONAL MEMORIAL PARK
Dill For the Establishment of q Ma
tiOnal Military Park ON En-
sangufped Ground.

Washington, March 21.-Represen-
tati,e Hay, of Virginia, fled the re-
port of the house committee on mill
taly affairs on the bill establishing n
national battlefield memorial park Of
5000 acres on the sites of the battles
o. fredericksburg, Charlottesville,
tie Wilderness and Spottsylvanja
Court House. The report states that
more men were here engaged than in
any battle in the worlds history, az
glegating at least 500, 900, with losses
in killed and wounded on both sides
amounting to 129.s3s. The intrench-
ments over the entire field are said TO.
be in q remarkable state of preserva-
tioI. At Fredericksburg, also, is the
home of the mother of Washington
still intact, and a monument erected
by the Daughters of the AmericaF9ef-
o,ntion Here, too, Capt. John Hmith
anchored his little bark dHougks
the Indians in zoos, and within sight
of the city were born Washington.
Monroe, jefferson, Madison, the Lees
of both the revolution and the civil
wars; and Zachary Taylor.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
THE LULL IN OPERATIONS
It L. Not, However, Without Its Iaterest-
Ing Incidents.

London, March 81, 4:5O a. m.--While
there is a lull in the military opera
tons, the present surroundings of the
war show interesting developments.
The colonial Office has telegraphed to
Cape Town the tex of the proclama.
ton concerning the destruction OF
property. This will not be published
in London until after it's PRONUNCIATION
in South Africa, but it is known it
will convey an intimation that any
warton destruction of British proper.
ty during the war will be regarded as
warranting a claim for compensation
and as justifying a levy upon private
property, should the resources of the
Transvaal republic prove inadequate.
The fact hat the proclamation is is
sued by the colonial office is regarded
as a significant indication hat the re-
publ;cs will be administered as crown
colonies.
In this connection it is understood
that the leaders of the opposition in
parliament now admit that no other
settlement is possible, since the repub-
lies insist upon their demand for abso-
lutte independence.
IN view of this the efforts of the
liberals will be confined to securing in
the settlement the best treatment for
the Dutch population including securi-
ty against their Acknowledgement.
Mr.. Steyn's reply to Lord Roberts
charge of the misuse of flags of truce
is commented upon as impertinent and
ridiculous, and Lord Roberts course
in closing a useless discussion is COM
menGed as wise.
The government has decided that
Ma;.-Gen. Frederick Darlington shall
command a colonial force of 5000, in-
GLIDING the $500 men Mr.. Chamber
lain asked from Australia, which viii
be stationed on the northern Trans
vaal border to prevent Boer retreat or
an iEcursion into Rhodesia.
No fresh news has been received
from Mafeking, but a Pretoria dis.
patch, dated Thursday, March Is, as
serts that Col. Plumer has not beer
able to advance south of Lobatsi.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
R NEWS NOTES.

Frank f. Bundy, city chamberlain
age of $4,000.
Squire NJ. NJ. Powell committed sui
eide at Pekin, II, by jumping into a
cistern and drowning himself.
King Martin, 4 negro, was hanged
at Kaufman, Tex, for criminal as
sault. The hanging was private.
Col. William j. Bryan celebrated
his fortieth birthday anniversary,
Saturday. A banquet in his honor
was held at Lincoln, Neb., at night.
Representative Lorimer, of Illinois,
has introduced a bill providing for Il
general increase of the salaries o.
mali carriers.
John Sanders, aged so years, a
farmer, who lived three miles south Ut
Benton, ILL.,, was found dead in bed
Friday morning.
Gen. Joe Wheeler intends to make a
fight for a seat in the house as soon as
his resignation from the volunteer
army is accepted.
Armour & Co., was incorporated Tn
der the laws of Illinois with a capital
of $50, 900 900. The state fee amounted
to a small fortune.
William Wallace Calder was hanged
at Lewiston, Mont, for the murder OF
F. McRae and his sheep herder. in Fer
gus county, over " year ago.
The state department has been noti-
fed that the Persian government will
send a minister to Washington. The
post has been vacant ten years.
The car house of the Dubuque (IL.l
Street Railway Co. was destroyed by
fire Friday. The loss is estimated 1T
$4,000, with $4,000 insurance.
DR.. Albert B. Strong, widely known
as a writer on surgical and medical
subjects, died Friday, in the state in
stitute for insane at Kankakee, III.
At the meeting of Yale corporation,
Friday, it was announced that a gift
of $15O,0OO had been received as m en-
duwncnt for the new school of for
estry.
By the the fall o. ''Iang- at The
Monongaheia furnace at Mckcrspurt,
Pa, one mal WIS crer1ated. two ia
tally burned and two others badly in
jured.
T. j. Wallace, of Cooper county, died
at his residence, near Bunceton, Mo-,
at the age Of 60 years. MI. Wallace
was n Of the largest land owners
and most prominent citizens of central
Missouri.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
A champion for Bulrsr.

London, March 21.-Winston Church,
I'D, in a dispatch from Pietermsritz-
burg, warmly resists the contention
that the relief of Ladysmith rose out
of Lord Roberts operations.
"On the contrary" he says, "the OPP
erations OF Lord Roberts were assisted
by the fact that Gen. Butler kept 49,
ono Beers occupied. 1t would be q
cruel and unworthy thing to deprive
the Natal army of their hard-won
laurels, and none would more yigor-
ously repudiate such q s~usgestlon
than Lord Roberts himself.r
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
KITCHENER TAKES PRIEsKA.
Mr.. Steyn Issues aCounter Proclnma-
tfon-More Beers SurrenderinE.

Mr.. Steyn Issues q Counter Proclama.
tion-More Beers surrendering.
London, March 21.-The war Office.
has received the following dispatch
frorp Lord Roberts, dated Bloemfon-
tein, Tuesday, March 20:
kitchener occupied Prieska, yester-
day, unopposed. The rebels surrend-
cred their arms. The Transvaalers es-
capped across the river.
Mr.. Steyn is circulating a notice, by
means of a dispatch rider, in reply TO
my proclamation, to the effect that
any burgher who signs a declaration
that he will not fight against us again
will be treated as a traitor and shot.
THE ~Bloemfontein people are at
iording us every assistance in the mat
ter OF hospital accommodations. We
have consequently been able to ar
ra1,ee for 500 beds.
"Thirty-three prisoners were taken
at Prieska, 200 stands of arms and
sorre supplies and explosives.
1.-The Beers have begun to surrender
on the Basotuland frontier"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
A Typographical Survey.

An appropriation has been secured
from congress for Il Typographical sur
vey by the government of all counties
in the First congressional district.
When it is completed the government
viii. publish a Typographical map, Civ
ing the elevations. depressions and
cha racter of the soil, the character of
the minerals found, probable extent
OF each vein. and its quantities and esti-
mated value The work will be done
exclusively by government experts,
and therefore will not afford employ
ment to local applicants. The dis
trict embraces the following counties:
Adair. Clark, Knox, Lewis, Macon,
Marion, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland
and Shelby.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
The CuIpeppers i'd St. Louis.

Rev. j. W. Cuipepper. of Atlanta.
Ga. is holding revival services at the
First Methodist church, south. st.
Louis. His son, C'Bourk Culpepper, is
in charge of the music, using Il gospel
hymn book entitle Sweet Peppers"
The words OF many of the songs are
arranged to the air of familiar melo-
dies like "Old Black joe" MY Old
Kentucky Home" etc. The revival Is
n success.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
Something About Babies.

Mrs. Frank Price, Of Jefferson City,
is the mother of triplets-two boys
and n girl. Their combined weight ia
IA little over 81 pounds. OF curse JEFF.
ferson people will cease growing when
they learn that Mrs. Patrick Lavery,
of bridgeport, Conn, astonished her
husband with a boy weighing 24h
pounds.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

The state department has been noti-
fed that the Persian government is
about to send a minister to Washing
ton. For ten years this post has been
vacant, the incumbent having left in
dudgeon. owing to the merciless ridi-
cule heaped on him by the American
Photographer on account of his queer
name-Hadji Hassan COOL Khan, with
q half dozen additional syllables.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
Recent Denths.

Mrs. Hollyman, wife of John Holly
man, a manufacturer. at Hannibal.
Col. Charles Long, for 80 years a res
idcnt of Kansas City. recently. 1T the
age of %. He was N one time a mem-
ber of tile legislature.
L. S. Wright. aged 81, at Odessa, of
pneumonia.
L. j. Wallace, OF Cooper county. at
his resiIrece near Bunaeton. at the
age OF G3. Mr.. Wallace was one of the
largest land owners and most prom
inent citizens OF central Missouri.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

Mrs. Ida Greycraft, the iarges,
woman in Indiana, died suddenly at
her home in Russiaville, on the 18th,
aged 81 years. She was sitting at a
table with her husband, Joseph Grey
craft. playing dominoes, when she fell
from her chair dead. Her weight wa
about five hundred and fifty pounds.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

The president has amended the civil
service rules so as to provide that a
person who has been transferred from
a classified position to an unclassified
position in the insular possessions un-
Ter the control of the United States
n:ay return to the classified service at
any time.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

The delegation OF Creek Indians which
had been in Washington for some time
comforting with the Dawes commits.
sion, signed q new agreement, on the
18th, which will be transmitted to the
senate. They protested against q pro
vision eliminating the tribal courts be
ing inserted in the agreement, au1
hope to prevail upon the congressional
committees to permit these courts 10
remain.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

In official and diplomatic circles in
Washington a denial is authorized of
published reports that there have been
conferences with a view to the dis.
patch of additional war ships and
United States soldiers to China, and
that news of the gravest character had
been received from the United States
minister to China.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

The Berlin papers discuss the pro-
ceedings in the British parliament
with reference to the proclamation of
the English church in Dresden by Boer
sympathizers, expressing their regret
and attributing the act to street row.
lies, but denying Great Britain's right
20 complain.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
BY the Governor.

Gov. Stephens has appointed P. II.
Rea, of Marshall, a member of the
board of managers of the colony Tor
predetermined and epileptics at Mar
shall, vice George Robertson, of Mexi-
co, resigned.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
Missouri Farmers Going to Mexico.

y dispatch from Chihuahua, Mexico,
says: "A colony of 400 Missouri farm
ers is to be established in the valley
of the Concho river. in this state. The
promoters of the colonization scheme
Rave purchased 200. 900 acres of rich
valley land, and a few of the ~colonists
have already arrived. The remainder
of the families will reach here in time
t. put in this seasons crop"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

1t is learned that the purpose of the
government to acquire the Island of
St. Thomas, d. W. l., for a reasonable
consideration from Denmark, has not
oeen abandoned, notwithstanding the
statements attributed to the Danish
minister indicating a decision not to
part with the island.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

Representative Ray, of New York.
chairman of the house committee or
judiciary and at the head of a special
subcommittee on trusts, introduced q
joint resolution, on the 18th, propos.
ing an amendment to the constitution
giving congress the power to regulate
and repress ~monopolies and combiu:-
tons and to create and dissolve cor.
porations and dispose of their proper.
ty.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
Fatal Ending of a Feud.

A feud between Homer Bablett and
jeff Bilderback, prominent farmers,
eliminated in an impromptu duel
neal Kneisly's Ford, in the southeast
crn fart of Henry county. Bablett
was killed.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
A Laudable Undertaking.

Berlin, March 21.--A committee, con-
sisting of ladies and gentlemen belong
ing to the highest classes, has been
formed for the benefit of wounded Ger
mans surviving the South African war
The president of the business board is
Countess Won Rrockdorf, first lady in
waiting to the empress.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

Rev. Sheldon, in the Topeka Capi'a.,
OH the 18th, in denouncing those Pe.-
pie who dodge the tar assessor, made
the statement hat an Atchison, 1G-
peka & Santa Fe baggageman in IT,
peka pays three times as much taxes
as one of the highest officials of the
road.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

The foreign mission board of the
Reformed Church in the United States,
at a meeting in Allentown. Pa, on
the 14th, elected Miss S. l.. Wiedner,
of Flatrock, o., teacher in the girls
school at Sendai, Japan. She will sail
in May. The election of other mis-
sionaries was postponed until April.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

Gen. Sir William Stephen Alexander
L.ockhart, commander-in-chief of the
British forces in India, died in Cal
rutta on the goth. He was born in
September, 1s41.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
n. ADAMS. Publisher.

March IS being the anniversary OF
went was celebrated in the usual NAH.
ner by the socialists and radicals OF
that city.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
Married Sixty-Two Years.

Nj. and Mrs. jacob A. Everson, OF
Maryville, celebrated the siNty-seccnd
anniversary of their marriage. Mr..
Everson is Sc and his wife so. Both
enjoy good health. Only two of their
nine children are living.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

In compliance with a joint resolu'
ton of congress, the secretary of the
Interior has entered into negotiations
for the purchase by the government
OF the lands occupied by the mammoth
tree grove and South Park grove of
big trees in California.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24
Goat Breeders Organize.

The rapidly-increasing interest in
the breeding and raising of Angora
goats in the southwest has resulted in
the formation of the American An
CORA Goat Breeders association which
will have its headquarters in Kansas
City.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

Prof. Chas. Young, of Princeton n.
J., that preparations are
now being made by him to observe the
total eclipse of the sun which will
take place on May 2s. The work will
be mainly spectroscopic, including
particularly a determination, both
visual and Photographic, of the posi-
ton of the corona line.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-24

Senator Penrose reported favorably,
III the 10th, from the commerce com
mitree, the hill to change the name OF
the steamer Paris of the American line
to Philadelphia.