The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-11-03
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NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the ancient German emperors in the
Cathedral of Spires. The Hohenstauf.
lens and the rulers of the Salic 6A
nasty will rest in a fine, new crypt in
suitable sarcopahagi.
There is a strong movement on foot
in Lima, to establish, with Peruvian
capital, a line of steamships to ply
along the coast.
The United States cable ship Burn.
side. en- route from New York TO Ma.
Mia, arrived at Port Said on the Goth
Naieeb Arbeely, consul general to
Egypt during Gen. Grants first adj
ministration, was stricken with pa
ralysis at the barge Office in New York
or the 2Sth. For some years he has
been one of the immigrant inspectors
having in charge the oriental bureau
The sternwheel steamer Falls City
was partially destroyed by fire al
Louisville, KY, on the 2sth. Loss, ST.
900. The boat cost $4,000, belonged
to the Kentucky River Packet and
Towboat Co., and piled between Louis.
vile and Frankfort, Ky.
Winona, Mimi, and vicinity was Wis
tied, on the 2Sth, by the worst storm
in many years at this aso of the
year. Lightning did considerable uam'
age in the city, and the railroads suf.
fered much loss on account of wash
outs and high water.
Comte Cahen d'Anvers, a well.
known figure in Partisan society, was
killed, on the 2Sth. in an automobile
accident near Mezieres, France.
Rev. Henry Russell Pritchard, the
Oldest Christian minister in the Unit
ed States, died suddenly at Chester.
field. Ind, on the 2sth.
A total of twenty million dollars
worth of gold dust and bullion has
been received at Seattle, Wash, dur.
ing the present year.
A New York dispatch of the 2Sth
said that five clerks of a prominent
banking house had been discharged
since the Alvord expose because de-
tectives had discovered that the?
were a~ssociating with gamblers and
had an interest in a b~ook-making
| firm.
Twenty-Five thousand bushels OF
blue stem wheat was sold at Lewiston.
Idaho. on the eth for Chicago deliv-
cry. The first shipment was made
over the Northern Pacific railway.
Engineer Meachan of the Burling-
ton flyer turned to address his fire
man, Hubert Clark, 90 miles out OF
Lincoln, Neb., on the 2sth. but found
he had disappeared. Investigation dis
closed his headless body hanging out
the gangway. He had been decapitat-
ed, presumably. by a bridge.
Almost Immediately after Senior Sill
vela retired from the Spanish premier
ship, he sent a challege to fight a duel
to Senior Count Almenas. The quar-
rel arose from the counts notorious
attack on the generals returningfrom
Cuba and the Philippines after the
war.
Edward Parker Deacon, the mill
Iionaire who shot and killed NJ. Abel,
who was occupying Mrs. Deacon's
rooms, while that lady IA present. in
a Paris hotel, is a raving maniac at
the Waverly (Mass.) asylum for the
insane.
According to a dispatch from Cape
Town to the London Daily Mail, the
Eoers have $1,000 men in the field.
nearly half of wnom are in Orange
River Colony. These are divided into
commanders of some 300 each. but
are capable of combination for large
operations.
Prof. Witthaus' discovery of enough
mercury to cause death in the kidneys
snd intestines of William Marsh Rice.
the old millionaire whose sudden
death. in New York, more than a
month ago, led to so many sensation
al developments, is squirting the au-
thorities on to more vigorous action.
The homes of Fenton King and Mrs.
Burns, at Elwood. Ind. were severe
" wrecked, on the 2Sth, by the explo-
sion of dynamite, some one having
placed a stick neal the houses. The
members of the families narrowly es-
capped death.
Congressman Charles \. Boutelle.
who has been an inmate of the Nc
Lean Asylum for the Insane. at Wa
verify, Mass, since last spring, and
who was recently r. elected by the
people of his district in Maine. despite
his known condition. is said to be
hopelessly insane.
Torrey Carr, a son Of +. D. Carr and
brother of f.. ". Carr. of Seattle.
Wash, and Clark c. Carr, son of Gen.
Clark f. Carr, of G~alesburg, ILL.,, were
drowned in Lake Washington, near
Seattle, on the 2Sth, while duck hunt
ing from n canoe
Acting Secretary of Agriculture
Moore has detailed J. Il. Haywood, an
assistant in the chemistry division, to
make a complete examination of the
waters of the government reservation
at Hot Springs, Ark.
The Chinese minister at Paris, on
the 2sth. cabled to Emperor Kwang-
Hsu urging his majesty to return to
Pekin. pointing out that his so doing
would very greatly facilitate the
peace negotiations