The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-10-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

teenth infantry, formerly attached II
the staff of Gen.. Bates, in the Philip
pines, who proceeded to China to joiI
his regiment, but broke down there
owing to the climate and hard work
is returning to the United States OF
the supply ship Celtic.
SeXIo Lopez, formerly secretary
and confidante of Gen. Aguinaldo, ar
rived at New York. on the 30th, on the
Campania. Lopez is said to have come
at the invitation of Fisk Warren. ana
he expects to explain to the people the
Filipinos' side of their fight with this
country.
Hon. S. y. Parent has accepted the
premiership of the province of Que.
bee. Can, to succeed the late Premier
Marchand.
Russia hasimitatedt the United States
and the withdrawal of its troops
from Pekin has already commenced.
The car has gone even a step further
than the United States. He has or
dered his minister to retire from the
Chinese capital, and NJ. De Giers ac-
cordingly left, on the 3Oth, for Tien
Tsin.
The motion for a new trial in the
case of James Howard was overruled
by Judge Cantrill at Frankfort, KY,
on the 29th, and Howard was sem
fenced to be hanged December z. 1t
was agreed that the attorneys should
be allowed to file their bill of excep-
tons to the appeal to the court of
appeals any time before the third
week in October.
Field Marshal Sir Garnet, Viscount
Wolseley. whose five years term as
comn.ander-in-chief of the British
army expired on the 1st, will be sue
ceeded by Lord Roberts, whose APP
piontment was gazetted on hat date.
Lord Wolseley will continue to Off
ciate until Lord Roberts return to
England, about November 1.
Orders from Washington directing
the withdrawal of the bulk of the
American troops were received, at
Tien Tsin, China, on the Both, and
preparations to comply were begun
Immediately. Gen. Chaffee is there di-
recting the movement.
For two years William Carter, of
Derby Conn, has remained in the
county Jail because he will not pay
q 81 tax. He said hat it was against
his principles to support the militia
and SO he refused to pay the nominal
tax levied for the support of that
body.
William Vernon Wolcott, the Bos-
ton millionaire, who was stricken
with apoplexy while en- route to In
dianapolis, on the goth, and who died.
the 3Oth, in that city, was found
to have, in his ~valise, s5OO,0OO in gov
eminent bonds and $4,000 in cash on
his person. He owned large interests
in Missouri zinc mines.
Rev. DR.. Gilbert II. Gregory passed
on the Goth, in the presence of
his congregation at the morning serv-
ice, in ST. Stephens NJ. E. Church, |
Marble Hill, at the upper end of Man.
Island, n. Y. He was 60 years
of age.
The post Office at Bowling Green,
KY, and robbed, early on the MORN
of the 30th, of between $4,000 and
5000 in money and stamps. The rob-
bers are supposed to be experts who
have been operating in that section
for some time.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt, whose father
eft him $500 0 900, announced at
Newport, Il. l., on the 30th, that he
quit society and, on the NOR
eft him s%5O,0O0,OOO announced at
IF the New York Central Railroad Co.
The Russian wa office announced,
IN the 1st, that dispatches from
and Kharbin said Gen.
rschitchagoff emf Col. Kopeiken, with
/ detachment of Cossacks, railroad
and volunteers to engage n
of Chinese who had occupied the
abroad at San Chakan. The Russians
Won two obstinate fights. Forty-three
lead Chinese were left in the trenches
lfter the second engagement.
The Austrian steamer Syria Lloyd
from Lorenzo Marquee, on the
st, having IN board 400 Transvaal
'efngees, part of them being Irish
americans. All of their expenses had
'een paid by the Transvaal govern
nent. Each man had received 80
and will be paid as.1O $3.50
N landing at any port which may be
lected by them.
Several hundred employees of the
leading Iron Co., of Danville. Pa, de-
ided, on the LIST, to accept the IS
'er cent. reduction in their wages,
which went into effect on September
and against which they struck.
he men agreed to resume work as
DON as the plant could be placed in
peration.
The Quincy (In.) Jail holds Fred
human, ex-alderman; George G..
'lunt, ex-Sunday-school superintend.
Mt. and Capt. Henry, ex-postmaste-,
Ii charged with embezzlement from
raternal societies.
Over nine hundred men of the TWEEN.
V-fourth and Twenty-ffth Infantry
sailed from San Francisco
Manila, on the 1st, on the trans-
ort Hancock.