The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-11-24
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b. II. ADAMS, Publisher.
CAPE GIRARDEAU: : MISSOURI
A French syndicate, with a capita
of IL, 0O0, 600 roubles, will supply tn
capital for a Russian railway from
Avichala to Sakabo, in the Causasus.
Railroad tickets sold this year on &C
count of Thanksgiving, Christmas ant
New Years holidays will have Iongel
limits than have heretofore been al
lowed on this class of transportation
Martin l.. Irons, once leader o.
union labor organizations, and whc
directed the great Missouri Pacific
strike in the eighties, died, on thu
18th, at Bruceville. 90 miles south o.
Waco, Tex.
Charles A. Tyler, of New York city
the Oldest letter carried in the world
died on the 10th. He was about eighty
years old, and had been in the EN-
ploy of the post office department
about fifty years.
The tests of the new Pinch nava
gun just made have resulted in some
remarkable performances, emitting
the gun to rank ahead of any of the
12-inch guns thus far made in this
country Or abroad.
The United States cableship Burn.
side, carrying the full equipment OF
apparatus designed to establish tele'
graphic communication between Ma.
Mia and all the Philippine a%rchipela-
go, arrived, on the 10Th, en- route, at
Colombo, Ceylon.
The population of the state of Penn
sylvania, as officially announced by
the census bureau, is $500, lis, against
S ,014 in 1890. This is an increase
of 1,0i4.101 or 1913 per cent. The
population in 1850 was 4,2S2, s91, an in
crease of 975,123, or 22.7 per cent.
from 1850 to 1890.
Mr.. Choate, the United States am
bassador to England, on the 18th, dis
tributed prizes to students of the Me-
chanics' institute at Burnley. Re-
plying to an address from the mayor
and corporation of Burnley, he recip-
rocated the wish that Anglo-American
friendship might never be disturbed.
Contracts for over two hundred
thousand tons of steel and iron We're
taken during the week ended on the
18th, by Pittsburgh pa manufacture
ing concerns. They are for very kind
of finished material, and make the
best weeks business hat the iron and
steel firms have Gone since early IN
the year.
The population of the state of Ohio,
as officially announced by the census
bureau, on the 18th, is 4,157,545,
against 3,672,316 in 1890. These fig
ures show an increase since 1890 of
4S5,229, or 1872 per cent. The popula-
ton in 1880 was 3,19S,062, showing an
increase of 474,254, or las per cent.
from 1850 to 1890.
Memorial services for Marcus DAILY,
whose funeral took place in New
York, on the 18th, were held in nearly
all the churches throughout the state
of Montana, on that day, and business
of all descriptions was suspended, in
GLIDING the operations of all the
mines, smelters and mills of the ANAL
gamated Copper Co.
The Central Passenger association,
the 18th, announced n round-trip
of one fare plus two dollars from
points all over its territory to Chica-
go, for the international live stock
which begins in that city
December. The tickets will be on
sale for three days, and be good, re-
turning, till December 10.
Among the callers on the president,
on the 10th, was Prof. Albert Bush
nell Hart, head of the division of his
Tory anu DOllllcdl ScleIce at harvard
university. He was introduced by
Long, and his purpose was
to present plans of a committee
had been organized to obtain
and publish facts relative to the Phil
problem.
Chicago is to have a subway on ev-
cry other street in the business CEN
ter. The men interested in the prof.
have $50,OOO,OOO of capital guaran-
teed, and declare that they can raise
more money if it is needed to carry
out the plans. Engineers are at work
now OF the plans, and as soon as they
are completed the city council will be
asked for a 50-year grant.
President Mckinley, on the 18th, re-
the annual parade of the po-
lice and fire departments of the Dis
trict of Columbia. About eight hun
bred men in all were in line. The pa
rade included Is fire companies and
i've trucks and fuel and police patrol