The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Uompiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Hotel Pfister. The place of the next
meeting will not be chosen for several
months.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the $4,000 900 gold reserve in the
division of redemption. issued on the
21st. showed: Available cash balance,
S132. So, OIO: gold, S74,7ss,9s7.
There was another death from bu-
bonic plague and an additional case
of the disease reported in Glasgow
on the 2ist.
An article in n Los Angeles Cali
paper advocating the annexation of
Mexico t. the United States caused
the Herald of Mexico City to deny
that Americans in that country are
conspiring against the political in
tegrity of Mexico.
The amalgamated wage schedule at
S4.15 per ton. based On n o%ne-cent card
rate. was signed. on the 23d, by both
committees. Fires were ordered by
wire in the mills everywhere. All that
were ready started up on the oath.
A dispatch from Lorenzo Marquee,
on the 23d. said: THE British have
occupied Komatipoort without oppo-
sition."
Marshal Arseno Martinez de Cam
pos died, on the 23d, at Zaraus, near
San Sebastian, Spain.
Mr.. George Joachim Goschen, first
lord of the admiralty and member of
the house of commons for st.
Georges, Hanover Square, London,
that he will not seek re-
election to parliament.
The earl of Clarendon has been ap-
pointed lord chamberlain in success
sion to the earl of Hopetoun, recent
ly appointed governor general of the
Australian commonwealth.
Thirty-one new cases of yellow
fever were officially reported in Ha-
vana, from the 21st to the 23d, max
ing nearly one hundred patients under
treatment.
A tornado passed through Neode.
sha, Has, on the evening of the 23d,
wrccking two dwelling-houses, three
barns, and slightly damaging half Il
dozen others. Mrs. John Ford was
seriously injured, and her little son
was slightly hurt
The United States does not accede
to Germany's proposition for the
powers to punish Chinese leaders of
attacks on legations. Russia is told
that the United States legation will
remain in Pekin protected by a strong
guard. Minister Conger is empowered
inaugurate negotiations for peace.
The American squadron in Asiatic wa
ters will be reinforced by six war
vessels.
The Marseilles (France) Mission
board has received news of the mas
FantosalIi and Father Quirine. The
eyes of the bishop were gouged out
and he was impaled on spears. The
Chinese poured kerosene oil on Fa-
Their Quirine and, setting it on fire,
burned him to death.
kilograms from Lorenzo Marquee
assert that 1,5O0 Beers, including
Pienner and 10 leading
officers who had crossed the border,
surrendered. with their arms and am
to the Portuguese on the
All of them were placed in
durance.
Grand Portal. the principal scenic
attraction of the famous pictured
rocks on Lake Superior, has been de-
stroyed by a n~ortheaster. Grand Por-
tai was 100 feet high by 40 feet
broad on the water line. The cliff in
it was cut rose 80 feet above
the arch. and n great mass of rock
fell, crushing it in.
George D'Vys, the last surviving
member of the government relief eX-
petition which rescued DR.. Kane, the |
arctic explorer in 1855. died
at Worcester, Mass. on the 23d, of
pneumonia, after an illness of four
days.
The United States treasurer, dur
ing the week ended the 22d, sent out
nearly 81, 900 900, largely in silver, to
the western and southern sub-treas-
uiiCo " use III hioNihS tHC Soeeoh |
crop. He says that the amount re-
luired this year is much larger than
IN previous years, and indicates chat
the cotton planters are receiving bet
ter prices and have better crops.
The International Railway congress
is in session in Paris. 1t is being at
tended by many of the leading rail-
way officials of the world. All the i'm
portant railways of the United States
represented.
The partisans of Howard, on trial
1t Frankfort, KY, do not believe he
will be convicted, as no direct EVIL
1ence has been brought out showing
hat he was in the secretary of states
office at the time Goebel was shot.
The prosecution rests mainly on the
of Bowen Gaines and other
who testified that they saw
Howard running out of the state
house yard after the shooting.
Carl Melchers, an American painter,
whose special collection of paintings
S a feature of the Berlin art exhibit
ion this year, has sold almost all his
,anvases, thus rendering his project
ID Chicago exhibition out of the ques-
ion. Large prices were realized.
The German anthropelogical society
convened at Halle. on the oath, for its
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