The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

year, and 30 in Canada, against 16
last year"
Prof. Theodore Mommsen, the emf
nent German jurist and historian, has
an article in The Nation, urging the
abolition of the celebration of Sedan
day.
An Organization having for its OBJ
ject the control of every electric plant
and system in Wisconsin has been in
c~orporated by Milwaukee capitalists.
A special dispatch from Pretoria, on
the Gath, said that Lieut.. Cordua,
found gently of conspiring to kid
nap Gen. Roberts and other officers,
had been shot.
Mrs. o. L. Moore, ex-department
president of the W. r. c. of Kansas, is
being doomed for national president
of that organization. She was in
dorsed at the recent Kansas state
convention of the W. II. c., and the
candidates to the Chicago encamp-
ment will work for her election.
Charles A. Bullen, vice-president of
the Bullen Bridge Co., of Pueblo, Col,
died of heart disease at Glendive.
Mont, on the Goth. Mr.. Bullen was
one of the best-known bridge contrac-
tors in the west, and did considera-
BILE work in Alaska about a year ago.
Hailstones as large as walnuts fell
at Larned, Has, for half an hour, on
the night of the 25th, beating fruit
and leaves off the trees and killing
many birds and small animals. The
ground was covered with a sheet of
ice.
Orders were received at Dunbar,
Pa, on the Goth, from the officials of
the Cambria Steel Co., at Johnstown,
to shut down all their works at Dun
bar for an indefinite period.
DR.. Ernest Schmidt, for 80 years
head of the consulting staff of the
Alexian Brothers hospital, in Chicago.
died in that city, on the Goth, of
Bright's disease.
Advices received from Colon, Colom-
bia, on the Goth, reported fighting
near C~artagena, where the rebels had
been holding out in the hope of gain
'"O SOhAS NiS II iillNib
from the new conservative party.
The Philippine commission is thor
oughly Investigating and adjusting
civil affairs. 1t holds daily sessions
at Manila. Interest in the work of
the commission is rapidly increasing,
both Filipinos and foreigners anx-
iously awaiting the ablishment of
civil government.
Lord Roberts has arrived at Bel
fast, a few miles west of Machado-
dorp, whore he met Sir Redvers Bull
Ter, Gen. French and Gen. Pole-Carc,v.
Everything is in readiness for the adj
vance on the Boer position at Macha-
dodorp, and a big battle is expected.
The battleship Alabama arrived in
President roads, Boston barbor, on
the Goth, from New York. During the
run the battleship made great time
under forced draft, averaging be-
tween 16 and Il knots an hour for
six and a half consecutive hours.
Notwithstanding the alarmist dis
patches from Che Foo, OF the 25th.
Russia. Germany and Japan nave not
declared war on China. either sep
arately or in concert. This statement
is made on authority of the highest
character. What those nations may
do within the next fortnight, is a
question which no one in Washington
is prepared to answer.
Mrs. Nettie II. Craven, who for years
has waged an incessant contest to
prove herself the contract wife of the
late James g.. Fair, may not survive
her trial for perjury in the Fair will
case at San Francisco. She is a suf-
fcrer from heart disease.
Of the $1,000 enumeration districts
in the United States. the ensus Of
Zee had counted in round numbers,
up to the 27th, 1900, and finds their
population to be 25,000,000. This
would mea on the law of averages |
a total of about 77,000.00O.
Armour & Co. have received an or
der from the Russian government for
5000, 900 pounds of beef on the hoof"
TO feed the soldiers of the car il
China. 1t is the largest order of the
kind in the history of the Chicago
meat trade.
Fire, on the night of the Goth, par
tally destroyed the plant of the
Evansville Chemical and Spirit Co., at
Howell, Ind. Loss, $4,000; partially |
covered by insurance. The fire was
caused by spontaneous combustion.
The plant is the only one of its kind
in the west.
The German papers continue their
crusade against Lord Roberts. They
call his cautious strategy the strategy
of a coward, and say that he is try
ing now to subdue the spirit of the
Beers by the executioner, as he could
not do it with all the money and all
the armies of the British empire.
Conspicuous %gallantry was dis
played by Capt. Gaussen, of the Ben
gal cavalry" says the Shanghai cor
respondent Of the London Standard,
"while under heavy fire at Tien Tsin.
The captain stopped and picked up q
wounded American trooper, lifted
him into the saddle and rode off in
safety"
The thirty-fourth annual encamp-
ment of the Grand Army OF the Re-
public was formally opened in Chica-
go, on the Goth, by a monster meeting
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