The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-01-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


advantageous coigns and that the in
vesting force has not diminished il
strength or mobility. The reconnoit
ering force was compelled to retire.
A dispatch from Rensburg, Cape Col
ony, on the 1st, statedthat Gen. Frenc;
had routed a large force of Beers with
great loss to the latter and few casual
ties on the part of the British, and had
occupied Colesberg, entirely around
which the Beers position had extend.
ed for six miles.
The Transvaal government, accord.
ing to information supplied by Boer
sympathizers in London. threatens to
reduce the ration of British prisoners
if Great Britain stops the entry of food
by Delagoa Bay"
Hon. Fcrd w. Peck, commissioner
general of the United States to the
Paris exposition of 1900. has named
Sousa's band as the official American
band to play at the exposition. The
engagement will cove eight to ter,
weeks.
Mary Beck, ~ years old. was found
by one of her four children dead in
her rocking chair at her home in Fl
lcnwood. Kas, her throat cut and her
forehead bruised. One of the children
said he heard his mother say during
tie night that she had killed some one
and would HI. herself.
w. j. Milsap, a prominent stocknaD
was seized by two men when about tc
enter the Klein hotel at Walsenhurg,
Col, and robbed of $4,000. No trace
OF the criminals has been found. Mr..
Milsap was on his way to Mexico to
buy cattle.
Salem Mason, colored. who was born
near Richmond, Va, 1G6 years ago, and
WAS the eldest man in Tennessee, died
ut Nashville on the 2Sth. He was
purchased with other slaves for
the corporation of Nashville in 1924.
He spent % years of his life as an en-
ploye of the city.
The total catch of seals by Canadian
sealing vessels during the past season
was 1884 compared with Il total for
the preceding year of 2S,552.
Maj. Hammer, chief paymaster of the
department of The Missouri, received
Geographic orders from Washington,
On the 29th, to proceed to Manila for
duty. He expects to sail from Seattle,
WASH, January S. The major only
lacks two years of the retiring age,
and the order, for this reason. came as
a surprise, as heretofore officers of
that age have not generally been Or
dered to the Philippines.
Corporal Fair and Private .Jockens.
of he regular army, who shot and
killed Private Morgan, a deserter, were
at Papillion, Neb., on the
goth, o the charge of murder, before
Judge Edgar Howard. The defendants
plead O guilty, and the preliminary
was set for the I'd.
Smallpox has broken out among the
Indians on the south half of the Col
vile reservation in Washington.
4 manufacturer of cartridge belts i'm
Worcester. Mass, received an order
from the British government, on the
18th, for $4,000 double bandelier cart
ridge belts. The order was a rush one, |
and the belts will be shipped to South
in lots of several thousand each
as 20 as manufactured.
A Berlin dispatch says that Kaiser |
Wilhelm enacted the role of Santa |
incGgnito on Christmas eve, TAX
ing a long walk in Sansouci Park and
l'otsdam city, presenting every child |
or poor person whom ne met with .
shining silver or gold piece, according
10 their apparent needs.
One Nal was killed and IA persons |
injured by the Cheyenne flyer running
INTO a freigf.. train on the Union Pa
:ihc, at Bngnton, Col. on the goth.
The conductor of the flyer was crazed
by the accident.
A. Cape Town dispatch says: mo
gift could have been more
welcome to Tomm" Atkins than the
Jews of the coming of "Robs," while
he officers who have gradually real
zed that the war on the frontier of
ape Colony is largely an engineering
var and a war of organization, are
ylad to see SO brilliant an organizer as
kitchener
The use of the telephone in war has
,een watched with considerable inter
st by army officers. and Gen. Greely's
orps is probably the first in the world
O demonstrate that it can be operated
1t has been found of
,reat value. when detailed instructions
lad to be sent. and there was not time
o telegraph as fully as the officers in
harge thought the ease required.
Gov.-Gen. Davis of Puerto Rico and
lieut.. Battle, his aide-de-camp, sailed
or the United States, on the 3Oth on
he steamer Ponce. bound for Wash
ngton, orders having arrived, on the
Sth, for the genral to report at WASH
,gton for consultation with the secre-
", of a
The Seventy-fourth general assem-
y Of Chic met. on the list, and elected
ne republican caucus nominees by .
.riet party vo,e-