The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-29

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population in the central provinces O
Turkey, in which wv Christians hava
been killed.
Theo. d. Poole, United States mar
shall for the northern district of New
York; member of the Fifty-fourtl
congress from 1894 to 1896 and a civil
war veteran, died of apoplexy at SYRIA
cuse on the 23d.
John Riley Chamberlain, a veteran
of the civil war and a graduate o.
Miami university at Oxford. O., die(
in Cincinnati, on the 23d, aged 70. Ht
had been engaged in newspaper worl
in Cincinnati for IS years.
Prof. Carl Becker, the German his
torical painter, whose eightieth birth
day anniversary was celebrated on the
18th, and who was then the recipient
of congratulatory address from the
Berlin academy of arts, died, on the
Goth, of influenza
1t is reported in Wichita, Kas., that
Frank Rockefeller is negotiating fol
the purchase of 10000 acres of land
in Kiowa and Clark counties with a
view to stocking it with horses and
high grade cattle, sheep and hogs, es'
specially horses, for which he sees a
profitable future
We're Foster, who had been engaged
for so years in assisting the emigra.
ton of nearly twenty-thousand young
women from the congested districts
building or furnishing of over twenty.
two hundred national schools in every
part of Ireland, died in Belfast, on the
21st.
Advices from southern Luzon say
that q lieutenant and 60 men of the
Ninth United States cavalry attacked
a large body of insurgents recently
near Guinobatan, Province of Albay.
After the battle As dead insurgents
were counted, together with many
wounded. Only one American was
wounded.
j. G.. Stowe, consul general of the
United States to South Africa, with
headquarters at Cape Town, arrived
at New York, on his vacation, on the
new Red Star liner Vaderland on the
Goth. He had not been in America for
three years He left for Kansas City.
Mo-, On the 21st, to spend Christmas
with his family.
The British secretary of state fol
war, Mr.. St John Broderick, an.
nounced, on the 21st, that, in view of
the prolongation of the war in South
Africa, members of the imperial yeo-
many will be paid five shillings in.
stead of one shilling and two pence
per day. Militiamen are promised
priority of return over regulars.
Capt. B. F. Horn, one of the Oldest
Missouri river steamboat men, died at
his residence in Pierre, S.. D., on the
goth. Capt. Horn made his first trip
TO the head of navigation on the Mis-.
souri, in 1866, and has navigated the
river continuously since then, with
the exception of one year, when he
eerved as a pilot on the Yukon river.
AT the request of the secretary of
war, the house committee on insular
affairs, on The 18th, reported a bill in.
creasing the salary of the commission
er of education of Porto Rico from 49,.
600 to 1900. Prof. Brumbaugh relin-
quished a position paying $1,000 a
year, from a sense of public duty, to
sccept the Porto Rican commissioner
ship.
William W. Thomas, Jr-. United
States minister to Sweden and Nor
way, on the night of the 18th, ad.
dressed the English society in Stock
holm on scandinavian Colonization
In America ard it's Influence on Ameri-
can Civilization" The address was
well received. and = portrait of Pres
ident Mckinley, handsomely framed,
was presented to Mr.. Thomas.
Two newspaper reporters employed
on the Omaha (Neb.) WOrld-Herald,
on the 21st, located the house in which
the kidnapped youth Eddie Cudahy was
held prisoner for more than a day.
While exploring the premises with a
lighted lamp they had a narrow es-
cape from being shot by police officers
who had just arrived upon the scene
and mistook them for the child-roh.
bers.
DR.. ]. E. TODD, state geologist for
South Dakota, has issued a warning
to farmers or the possible exhaustion
of the artesian water supply. He
holds that the great basin underlying
most Of the state may he exhausted
by wastefulness. and recommends
smaller wells. checking the flow in
winter and when not needed and re-
striction of the number of wells in
stated areas by legislation.