The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-02-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Senator Depew introduced a DILL, ON
the 9th, granting to the public land
ste ties a percentage of the proceeds OF
the sales of public lands for the Al
enlargement of mining interests.
The steamer Prairie sailed, on the
oh, from Baltimore, for Newcastle.
England, with 4 crew for the cruiser
Albany and government exhibits for
the Paris exposition.
The body of Elisha Cone, n of the
oldest newspaper men in Fond du Lac,
| WIS, was found frozen in the river IN
that city on the 18th. Mr.. cone had
been missing for As hours. Up to the
time of his disappearance he was edl-
tor of the Fond du Lac Daily News. He
was a graduate of Yale college.
Al; Feeroun Bey, the Turkish minis
te- to the United States, arrived ut
New York on La Gascogne, on the 10th,
and left at once for Washington. Min
ister Feeroun was accompanied by his
wife and sist%er-in-law, who were
Dire ssed in Turkish fashion.
Benton G. Boone, attorney general Of
Missouri in 1884, and formerly a menu
ber OF the legislature, died at his home
in Clinton, Mo-, on the 18th, of heart
disease. He was born in 1898, in Gallo
way county, Mo.
The funeral of L. NJ. Fairbanks, ia
Their of Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana.
was held, on the 10th, at the family
residence in Springfield, o. The in
terment was in Ferncliff cemetery.
Nathaniel A. Boynton, the inventor
Of heating apparatus and president Of
The Boynton Furnace Co., of New York,
dieo. on the Eight of the 18th, aged
~ years.
The Mexican government now pro-
hibits the entrance of arms and am
munition into the state of Sonora, ow-
ing to the revolution now in progress
there. This order was issued because
il was reported that Americans were
Douriny into Sonora in the guise of
miners. while their real object was to
assist the rebellious Yaquis in gaining
their freedom.
Tie week ended February 10 wit
messed an increase of nearly three
million dollars in the gold held by the
United States treasury, reaching a to-
tai of 6,4Ss GAS.
The ambulance corps, 90 in num-
Der, recruited and equipped by tho
United Irish societies of Chicago, left
for New York, on the 18th, on its long
Journey to join the Boer army on the
battlefields of South Africa.
The recent jump in cotton is en-
planned by a ST. Louis cotton man us
due to the failure of the crop in India
England and the far east buyers cam:
to the American market for cotton
and the Americans popped up the
price. When the buyers had got al
they wanted, the price vent down
ami then the American mills bought
You Americans will do" said al
English buyer in ST. Louis, when he
got all he wanted, and awoke mex
morning and found the market lower
Rewards aggregating $4,000 hav'
been offered for the capture of Goe
bells assassin or assassins. The detec
tives are working on the theory that
conspiracy existed.
The Canadian government is equip
ping a large surveying party for an eN
animation of the immediate territol.
living between the Great Slave lake ant
HUDSON bay. This stretches from tn
Rockies to the Atlantic. 1t is ZOO
miles wide and is supposed to contain
rich mineral stores.
\ piii was introduced in the senate
OF the 18th, by Senator Foster, %
Washington. providing for the cor
struction of a government cable fror
the United States to the Philippines.
1t is expected that at a dinner to b
given at the Hotel Manhattan in New
York earlyn next month, JohnD. Rockc
teller will a further gift O
81. sec, COO to Chicago university. max
irg his total contribution to that inst
tuition ss,5OO,Ooo.