The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-11-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.
COMPLIED from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IN the united states, against l0S last
year, and is in Canada, against % last
year."
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive OF
the $50, OO0, 900 gold reserve in the di-
vision of redemption, issued on the
9th, showed: Available cash balance,
S139,Os1 ,o92; gold, $94, 160,361.
Later details off the loss of the
steam collier City of Vienna, which
sank in the English channel Thursday,
while bound from Swansea to Rotter-
dam, after a collision with an I'M
known vessel, show that 10 of her
crew were drowned.
Gordon Culver, chief clerk for
Superintendent S. NJ. Braden of the
Northwestern road at Mason City, Ia,
shot his right arm off ear the Shout
der, on the 18th, while on a hunting
trip at Worthington, MINI. In pull
ing his gun out of the boat it was
prematurely discharged.
An open switch caused the north
bound Missouri Pacific train to take
a siding in the yards at Leavenworth,
Kas., on the 18th, and to collide with
a switch engine. The application of
the air brakes checked the speed, but
several passengers were injured.
Eight persons were killed and Is
wounded in a collision between a
Paris suburban train and an express
at Choisey LIE Roi, on the 18th. The
wreck was complete and the line was
blockaded for hours.
Thomas Owens, city attorney of
Muskogee. L. T., shot and MORALLY
wounded Noah Watts. on the 18th, two
bullets taking effect in the breast.
Both are young men. Owens claims
self-defense.
Spanish government troops have
captured a band of so Carlists near
Villa Franco del Panades, 25 miles
west of Barcelona. They also seized
a quantity of arms and ammunition.
A Missouri Pacific east-bound pas
senger train a into an open switch
at Sugar City, Col, On the 18th, crash
ing into an engine and caboose of a
work train On a siding. The engi-
neers and firemen of both trains and
several passengers were injured.
The returns of the election in Mis-
souri,, still incomplete, as to a few
counties, up to the morning of the
18th, show a plurality for the Bryan
electors of 1889, and for Dockery,
for governor, of 20, 1O2. The full Off
cial count will not materially change
these figures.
The funeral of Prince Christian Vic
tor, a grandson of Queen Victoria,
who died of enteric fever, took place
at Pretoria on the 18th. Minute guns
were fred during the funeral. The
route from the Yeomanry hospital
was lined with a guard of honor.
Rev. DIR. Parkhurst, of New York,
is interesting capitalists in the estab-
lishment of a newspaper-an ideal
journal that no party can buy and no
interest misunderstanding all the
great news of the world, and telling
the whole truth regardless of friends
Or foes.
The car sheds and electric plant of
the Norfolk Railway and Lightning
Co., in Huntersville, a suburb of Nor
fork, Va, were totally destroyed by
fire on the 18th. Fifty-two ears and
the electrical machinery were de-
stroyed. The loss was $15O,OOO; COW
cred by insurance.
The coast-defense monitor Arkan-
sas was successfully launched at New
port News, Va, on the 10th. Gov.
Jones of Arkansas was among the in
vited guests, and the vessel was chris
tened by Miss Bobbie Newton Jones,
laughter of the governor.
By the laundering of the little side
wheel steamer City of Monticello. in
the Bay of Fundy, off Yarmouth
Nova Scotia) light, on the 10th, 40
persons-all on board but four-per-
ished. Twenty-Five bodies have been
recovered.
AS the result of an official investi-
cation it has been discovered that il
legal warrants for more than $194,O 0
have been issued in the Cherokee ma
ton. The fraudulent warrants were
made out on blanks stolen from the
auditors office.
Ii Hung Chang and Prince Ching
are quoted as saying that the de-
mands of the powers for the punish
ment of Prince Tuan and the with
drawal from power of the empress
dowager are too h~umiliating to be &C
:epted by the Chinese.
Oscar Weincke, 40 years old, who
for IL years has been in the employ
of Whitall, Tatum & Co., at 46 Bar
clay street, New York city, as assist
ant cashier, has disappeared, and
from the strenuous efforts of detec-
tives to find him it is assumed there is
q d~efalcation.
Robert Bostock, purchasing agent
for a lumber company in the neigh
borhood of Matewan, W. Va, re-
turned to his home in Pike county,
KY, on the night of the 10th, and,
finding Rev. John Holden, of Matewan,
making a pastoral call" on Mrs. Bos-
took, put a Winchester bullet in
his anatomy. Holden will probably
die.
BARLEY King" Henry J. O'NeiIl,
who gained fame through his daring
specuiations in barley in all the cereal
markets of tho world yyaS S;Scborood