The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.
COMPLIED from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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The steamer City of Seattle arrived
at Seattle, Wash, on the 18th, from
Skagway, with III passengers anC
$3.50, 900 in gold.
1t is reported from Norwich thai
the Standard Oil Co. is trying to OBJ
tain control of the Cheshire salt
trade.
Latest estimates of the property
losses by the great Texas storm. place
the aggregate amount at $40, 200, 900.
According to the correspondent OF
the London Daily Telegraph, Mr.
Kruger is virtually a prisoner in the
residence of the district governor at
Lourenzo MARQUEE. This is at the in
stance of the British consul, who pro.
tested against Mr.. Kruger using
Portuguese territory as a base for
directing his executive.
The German Methodist conference
of the St. Louis district, composed of
adjacent portions CT Iowa, Missouri
and Illinois, in session at Burlington.
Ia, on the 18th, decided to hold the
next conference in st. Louis.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances N the general fund, exclusive
OF the $~150,01O.000 gold reserve in the
division of redemption. on the 18th,
showed: Available cash balance,
Sl35.5G2,767; gold, $1,000, Gj4.
Walter NJ. Davis, assistant postmas-
ter of Kansas City, Mo-. has been re-
moved by the postmaster there. No
reason is assigned. but the action will
be confirmed by the postmaster gen.
eral.
Failures for the week ended the
18th, as reported by II. G.. Dun & Co..,
were 195 in the United States against
149 last year, and so in Canada against
81 last year.
Gen. James S. Martin, of Salem, ILL.,,
was. on the 18th, reelected, for the
twelfth time, commander at the
Southern Illinois Soldiers and Sailors
reunion.
The post office department is ar
ranging for an efficient mail service
for the army in China.
The National Association of Next
can Veterans will meet at Cleveland,
o., mex year.
The steamer Valencia arrived at Sc
attic, Wash, on the 18th, from Nome,
with a large passenger list and $780,
900 in gold consigned by trading COM
p~anies. The Valencia brings news
that n terrible gale ragged at Nome
from September l to 5, but that only
three persons r. known to have been
lost.
The comptroller of the currency, on
the 18th, declared a dividend of ten
per cent. in favor of the creditors of
the insolvent Union national bank of
Denver, Col.
At the meeting of the British priyy
council at Balmoral, on the 18th, it
decided that the dissolution of
parliament should take place Septem-
Der 25.
National headquarters of the gold
party were established, on
the nth, at indianapolis, Ind.
Five additional ease of bubonic
have been reported in Glas-
four of the stricken persons be-
ing members of one family.
Andrew Carnegie has promised the
.reenock (Scotland) town council the
sum of $4,000 for founding 4 public
library in Greenock.
British officials have issued an order
prohibiting the selling or renting of
any building within the limits of the |
concession in China.
Gen. Fukishima is arranging winter |
quarters at Tien Tsin for the Japan
troops.
On the 10th John B. Randolph, a
Hell-known art critic of New York
city, was killed by a fall down stairs
n his residence on West One Hun
bred and Twenty-first street. Mr..
for several years, had been
the purchasing art critic for the |
ioulds, H~untingtons, Mills and sew
eral other prominent families.
The emigration from Hamburg and
Bremen during the last eight months |
was 13S,41S, as compared with 1851
for the corresponding period Of last
year.
On the 10th John P. Shannon, Sill
oreIne dictator of the Knights of
Honor of the United States, died at
Elberton, Ga. He was a past grand
master mason.
On the 10th 4 mob drove Zion Elder
Ephraim Bassinger, of Bluffton, Ind,
md two converts out of Mansfield, O.,
They were subjected to cruel indigni-
ties as they were dragged to the de-
Dot, and afterwards placed upon Il
passing express train and sent out of
DR.. w. T. Blount, health officer of
who has made a personal in
says he is morally certain
hat the death list at Galveston will
lumber fully 5000, while the prop
y loss is as vet incalculable.
The new soldiers monument and
I'D cannon on the plot of the Grand
Army of the Republic in Union GEM
,tery, Lincoln, Ill, were unveiled and
publicly dedicated, on the 10th, in the
presence of a large assemblage. The
exercises were military in character
md highly patriotic.
Pekin dispatches confirm the report
hat in addition to Hsu-Tung, guar
Ian of the heir apparent, Yu Lu, vice.
of Chilli. and Wang Vi Yung,