The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-10-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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upon the latter's retirement in the
near future.
William Zeigler, a w~ell-known anc
wealthy citizen of New York, has an
nounced that he will purchase two
vessels, fully equip and man them, ano
send them in quest of the north pole
during the summer of 1901.
Albert r. Green, of the general land
office, has been selected as chief OF
the new division of forestry of the
interior department authorized by
the last congress.
1t is asserted in Rome that Arch
bishop Martineili will be raised to the
cardinalate at the next consistory.
The Modern Brotherhood of Ameri-
ca will hold its next convention at
Sioux Falls, S. d., in 1901.
Failures for the week ended on the
18th, as reported by r. G. Dun & Co.,
were 233 in the United States, against
1874 last year, and 80 in Canada, against
q last year.
A Shanghai dispatch, dated the 18th,
saws the Chinese Customs bank has
RENTED 300, 900 taels to the imperial
treasury, and is preparing to send
more.
The Presbyterian synod of North
Dakota elected Andrew Christy
| Brown, DID,, of Omaha, synodical
missionary for North Dakota.
Sir Alfred Miner, the British high
commissioner at Cape Town, has gone
to Bloemfontein.
liner Oceanic, Capt. Cameron, were
lowering an anchor, at Liverpool, on
the 14th, the chain broke, tearing off
the left leg of one of the carpenters
and fracturing the right. He died
soon afterwards. Another man had
his left leg fractured.
The mosquito feet of five small
gunboats belonging to the United
States navy, left Cramps ship yards,
Philadelphia, on the 18th, for Cuba,
with Felix H.. Hunicke, chief of the
revenue cutter service, in command.
While digging a sink hole in the
ear of a residence in Omaha, Neb.,
on the 18th, sewer gas overcame three
workmen, and two of them were suf-
located before they could be rescued.
Some Chinese soldiers desecrated
the cemeteries for foreigners at Nam
Shih-Tu, near Canton, and the vice
roy had the offenders decapitated and
dismissed their commander.
Observation-Disclosures William H.
Beecher, naval attaehe of the United
States embassy in Berlin, is suffering
from pneumonia.
Maj. Francis S. Lodge, paymaster of
the division of Cuba, is down with
yellow fever.
Eight former professors of the Uni
versity of Havana have been granted
pensions of $1,000 per annum each
during the term of the military oc-
cupation.
Capt. DevereauX Shields, who, with
81 men of Company F, Twenty-ninth
volunteer infantry, was captured by
the insurgents last month, in the
Island of Martinique, was recovered,
on the 18th, by the American rescue
force with all the members of his
party.
Jimmy Adams left Berkely Springs,
W. Va. three years ago, on a freight
train, with nothing. On the 18th he
returned in a private car, hauled by
a leased locomotive, and brought with
him nearly 100000 in gold and papers
representing Klondike mining posses
sions worth 5000, 600 and prospective
ly worth ten times as much.
From ocean to ocean and from the
great lakes to the gulf, in every city,
town and village in the country, dem
ocratic meetings will be held October
%, and will be addressed by the ablest
speakers that the scope of this gil
gantic plan will permit.
Mrs. Anna Hart, the woman upon
whom William Schneider lavished the
greater part of the s109, 900 which he
stole from the Elizabethport On. j.
bank, has eluded the vigilance of the |
New York detectives, who were
watching her, and fed to parts I'M
known.
The miners convention, at Scran
ton, Pa, agreed to accept the ten per
cent. advance provided it was coupled
with other concessions. The operators
not yet been heard from, conse-
iuertly the strike is still on.
There is considerable ~dissension in
the ranks of the national party in
Cuba. AT a recent meeting many of
the most prominent members of the
party were denounced as traitors.
President Rodriguez has resigned
from the committee appointed to eff
feet a reorganization of the party.
Charles Evanston, alias Charles Rus
sell, arrested at Lincoln. Neb., on the
charge of robbing the Union bank, of
3ichland, Mich, of $4,000 in cash and
$4,000 in securities, has made a confess
sion of connection with the robbery,
occurred two years ago.
The Kansas State Millers' associa-
ton was called to meet at Topeka, on
the 10th, to denounce the Minneapolis
for d~iscrediting Kansas wheat.
The Minneapolis millers advertised
the fact that they did not use
wheat in the manufacture of
-four.
While W officers were at the door