The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-10-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs. Alexander Davis, of st. Joseph
| No., dreamed that her husband had
died, and when he awoke, on the
morning of the eth. she told him OF
her dream. He heard the story
through, and then fell from the side
of the bed, where he Ia sitting, to
the floor. dead. The coroners jury
decided that death was due to heart
disease.
Capt. Frank West, of the Sixth cav
airy, acting superintendent of the Sc
QUOTA and General Grant national
parks. in California. has submitted
his annual report to the secretary OF
the interior. lie makes a strong plea
for the protection b. the government
of the giant Sequoia trees contained
in the reservation.
\ pension plan for old employees,
similar to the one adopted last Janu-
airy by the Pennsylvania road, east OF
Pittsburgh, will go into effect on the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburgh
on January l, 1901.
The comptroller Of the treasury has
rendered a decision 10 the effect that
the government is not liable for the
expenses of a wake" held prior to the
interment of a pensioner who leaves
no estate.
Ada Hess, the 19-year-old daughter
of Mrs. Mary Hess, of st. Louis, was
burned to death, on the eth, by the
o-,1, - ~ aoa1 Ill nan from uhinh
she was pouring oil on a fire.
The Red Boy mine, near Baker City.
Ore, has been sold to an English
syndicate. 1t is said the purchase
price was in excess of two million dol
lars.
\ plan is on foot to show in various
German cities, beginning with Berlin,
the German exhibits at the Paris eX-
position.
Seven thousand five hundred pounds
of dynamite in the powder magazine
at the Spruce mine, about half a mile
from Eveleth, Mimi, blew up on the
evening of the 18th. A large number of
persons were injured, and all glass
within a radius of two miles was shat
tered.
On leaving Trinity Dutch Reformed
church, in Chicago, on the 18th, Gov.
Roosevelt was assailed by a crowd of
newsboys, who exhausted their abun-
dant repertoire of vile epithets on the
republican vice-presidential candidate
in the presence of the departing wor-
shippers.
William ]. Bryan, on the 18th, rested
in the city of his birth and spent the
Sabbath with relatives at Salem, Ill.
He arrived about noon and dined at
the residence of Mrs. Mollie Webster,
his cousin. Thirty of his relatives
gathered at the residence and partook
of the dinner.
The tornado which ragged in the vi
cinity of Biwabik, Mimi, on the even
ing of the 9th, was the most violent
ever experienced in that section. The
storm cut a pathway $50 feet in width.
Nine persons were killed and a large
number injured.
1t is estimated, according to the
Pietermaritzburg correspondent of
the London Daily Mail, that from 1000
to 5000 Beers have retreated from
Pilgrims Rest. northeast of Lyden-
burg, with four long toms and % 9TH
err guns. Their artillery ammunition
is said to be running low.
Bourke Cochran, upon the advice of
physicians, has cancelled his speaking
dates and will consult n throat spe-
cialist. He can scarcely talk above n
whisper. 1t is probable that he will
not be able to make any more
speeches during the campaign.
Lovil Walker, a peddler of potato
peelers, who shot and killed David
Roebettom, during a quarrel over a
girl, was convicted at Lincoln, ILL.,,
and sentenced to IS years imprison-
ment.
A dispatch from Shanghai says 2oo,-
900 Chinese troops, armed with
modern weapons, are marching from
all provinces to join Tung Flu Hsiang
at Signan-Fu, where the Chinese
court is sojourning.
At a conference of strike leaders at
IldZlcloh, CO. vi tbS stis " Nv
termined to call a convention of min
ers, probably at Scranton, and allow
them to determine whether they will
accept the terms offered by the op-
orators.
In an edict issued al Tai-Yun the
emperor of China blames himself, the
Manchu princes and his ministers for
causing the rupture with friendly
powers by encouraging the Boxers
and outlaws of the empire and Doom
polling his fight from Pekin. The edict
was evidently inspired by the dowager
empress.
An extensive survey of the south
side of the Island of Cuba is to be
begun during the coming winter.
Twelve hundred union men are idle
at Seattle, Wash, work having stopped
on over thirty residence buildings and
six large brick business blocks under
process of construction, as the result
of a fight between the trades council
and builders exchange Of Seattle.