The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Advices from southern Luzon say
that a lieutenant and 60 men of the
Ninth United States cavalry attacked
a large body of insurgents recently
near G~uinobatan, Province of Albay.
After the battle As dead insurgents
were counted, together with many
wounded. Only one American was
wounded.
1.-The War of Women" theatrical
company, headed by Miss Hope Booth,
has disbanded in Milwaukee owing to
lack of sufficient receipts to pay the
members of the company. Several of
the company who reside in New York
city are in financial distress.
John Riley Chamberlain, a veteran
of the civil war and a graduate OF
Miami university at Oxford, O., died
in Cincinnati, on the 23d, aged 70. He
had been engaged in newspaper work
in Cincinnati for IS years.
w. E. Jones, who has been treas
urer and assistant secretary of the
Baltimore e Ohio Southwestern rail-
way and its predecessors for over
thirty years. died in Cincinnati, on
the ed, aged SO years.
Theo. d. Poole, United States mar
shall for the northern district of New
York; member of the Fifty-fourth
congress from 1894 to 1896 and a civil
war veteran, died of apoplexy at SYRIA
cuse on the cad.
The Canadian Pacific will open .
school in Winnipeg, Man., for the
teaching of shorthand and teIegraphy
to its junior employees to enable them
to qualify for more important posi-
| tions.
Emperor Nicholas and the Russian
ministers of finance, war and foreign
affairs, do not expect to leave Livadia.
where the car is conva'escing, before
the middle of January.
Hoshi Toru, japanese minister to
the United States, has resigned his
portfolio in consequence of the per-
sistent allegations of his implication
in financial scandals.
Assistant Secretary of Var Meikie-
john arrived in Lincoln, Neb., on the
24th, to assume personal management
of his canvass for a seat in the Unit
ed States senate.
The death of former Gov. Roger
Wolcott makes a vacancy in the cleo
toral college that is to cast the votes
of Massachusetts, for president of the
United States.
The government of Chile, which re.
Gently invited tenders for 400 freight
cars, has accepted the entire number
from American manufacturers.
Never in the history of the country
or the world did Christmas mean SO
much for the INDECENT and unfortu-
nate as it lid this year. In most Of
the large and many of the small cities
and towns of the United States the
example set by the Salvation army of
making Christmas merry for the
masses was followed by the big
hearted and charitable, and ems of
thousands of people for whom the
day had formerly only served, by con-
trast, to emphasize their wretched
condition, were enabled, on full
otolIdSLS, " ludUh uOu lOI tuC SulI6b
and Christmas.
The prince of luxembourg, president
OF the government temperance COM
mittee, at noon, on the 25th, declared
the peoples palace at St. Petersburg
open to the public. After the inau-
gural ceremonies, the prince and 20
of the higher army officials, including
the commanding generals, along with
high officials, noblemen and ladies',
dined side by side with peasants and
the families of workingmen.
A strike among the clerks of the
registry division of the Chicago gen.
eral post office, on the 25th, menaced,
for a time, the prompt delivery of
thousands of Christmas gifts. The
trouble was quickly adjusted by the
suspension of the leader of the
strikers.
Lord Curzon of Keddlestone, the
viceroy of India, in the course of a
speech at Calcutta. IN the 25th, said
that since the appearance of the bu-
bonic plague, III 1898, $4,000 deaths
from the disease have occurred in the
Mysore state.
Gov. Pingree, on the 25th, issued a
reqnisition on the governor of Cuba
for Charles Jepper Thompson. who is
wanted in Detroit for forgery. This
is said to be the first requisition on
Cuba ever issued.
Gov. Allen of Porto Rico celebrated
the holiday seaso by extending ex-
ecutive clemency to "a prisoners in
Porto Rican Jails. He pardoned II
murderers and homicides and seven
thieves.
At Great Falls, Mont, on the 25th,
Jacob Werten shot and fatally wound
ed his son John. Werten had treated
his wife badly, and the son inter-
fered to protect the mother.
The trial of Cornelius Alvord, Jr.,
defaulting cashier of the First ma
tional bank of New York city, began
on the Goth. The amount Of his de-
foloox;on moe S6o0 mn