The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-01-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Plans for the expenditure of $25,-
O00,000 in improving the physical con-
dition of the Baltimore q Ohio railroad
have been completed, and within the
next three years that vast amount Of
money will have been expended I'M
provement of roadbeds, bridges, tracks
and equipment will be made on all
Lres of the system.
Joe Melivich and Joseph Maxwell,
working in the Colsua-Parrott mine.
at Butte, Mont, were instantly killed,
on the 18th, by the explosion of n
blast that had hung fire. y round OF
holes had been fired, and the men had
returned to clear up the debris when a
missed hole went Off.
The health authorities of Adelaide,
South Australia, report two cases of
bubonic plague, n being fatal. The
victim was a runaway sailor from the
British bark Forma.
j. S. Harrison, a real estate man of
Kansas City, Mo-, and n brother of ex-
President Harrison, was kicked on the
head by a vicious horse at Beaumont,
Tex, on the 18th. He was knocked
senseless, and his skull was fractured.
His physicians hope for his recovery.
Inability to secure bituminous coal
in sufficient quantities is necessitating
the shutting down of some of the man.
ufacturing concerns in the Skuylkill
valley of Pennsylvania.
\ recent downpour of rain for three
days, together with a prevailing Chi
nook rain, melted the o and sud-
denly flooded several western Wash
ington valleys and a great portion of
Latah county, Idaho. Hundreds of
farms in Puyallup, Stuck and White
River valleys were inundated.
Influenza struck down, at London,
in the eighty-fourth year, the distin-
guished surgeon, DR.. Robert Collum.
Ccllum was the only doctor who ac-
companied Sir Charles Napier upon
setting out for the conquest of Scinde
in the cholera-stricken steamship Zen
obia from Bombay in 1912.
A Central News (London) bulletin,o on
the 14th, from Durham, contained the
brief statement that Gen. Warren left
Frere Camp, on the 18th, with n strong
flying column in cooperation with
| Gen. Buffers movements, n that it
was reported that the great battle had
begun, and hat fighting was proceed
ing at three points.
The proposed convention of gov
errors of the arid states, at Chicago,
4! which was to consider the irrigation
problem, January II, has been post
poned indefinitely by reason of the
apathy shown by the governors of the
states interested.
\. Blanchard, aged 65 years; his wife,
aged 43, and a boarder, William Money,
aged SIS, were burned to death in their
home in Merimac, n. H.. The cause of
the fire is unknown, but it is sup
posed to have started from a kerosene
explosion.
Gov. A. j. McLaurin of Mississippi
is seriously i'll of pneumonia. His ply
sicians say both lungs are affected. The
governor was recently elected United
States senator for the long term
Lieut.. Samuel Howard, United
States navy, the pilot and last of the
| officers and crew of the Monitor ur-
ing her memorable engagement with
| the confederate ironclad Merrimnc,
died at Washington, On the 14th, from
conclusion of the brain, the result of
a fall. He was 70 years of age.
A New York dispatch of the 18th
saws: THE outlook now seems to ia
vor easy monetary conditions in Wall
street. A reduction of $500. 900 in
leans last week-presumably due to
recent liquidation in securities-and a
gain of 5000, 900 in cash indicate that
locally the pinch is over"
Clarence T. Woolever, of Corning, n.
Y, has established a record. He has
| married his mother-in-law. The cere-
mony was performed in Wellsboro,
Pa, by Rev. DR.. E. c. Dodge. Woolever
is a New York Central trainman, and
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary +. Lind
say. kept house for him since his di-
vorce.
Representative Needham. of Cali
fornia, on the 18th, introduced a bill
for the inspection, under the direction
of the secretary of agriculture, of
trees, fruits, plants. buds. nursery
stock, etc, imported into the United
Stetes-