The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-09-22


maintained at the Chinese legation
in Washington for several weeks, is te
be withdrawn as no longer necessary
The imports of wheat into Liver.
pool for the week ended on the 18th
were $4,000 quarters from Allan,
tic ports, and 5000 quarters from 9th,
er ports. The imports of corn from
Atlantic ports were 46,40O quarters.
A meeting of iron dealers from vari-
ous parts of Germany held at Cologne,
on the 10th, appointed a special COM
mittee to confer with the manufac-
turers with a view of counteracting
tho present pressure for lower prices
A special from Dawson says: Re
liable miners who have returned to
Dawson from the Tanana district,
after thoroughly prospecting and
panning on all the different developed
creeks, say that the ~diggings + no
good.
The trouble with the Pima Indians
in Arizona has been adjusted, and the
bucks who rebelled and threatened
violence if their children were forced
to attend the government school, have
subsidized. The ~ringleaders were ar
rested.
The London residence of Lord Sails
bury is being watched by Scotland
Yard detectives, owing to threats
which are now said to have been the
work of a practical joker. Lord Sails
bury left Schlucht in the Nosges
mountains, on the 18th, for England.
While working in the Hidden For
tune mine, owned by Otto Grant,,
north of Lead, S. d., Capt. Grant Todd,
of Lead, was accidentally struck in
the back of the neck by a mining
hammer. The blow shattered the
nerves in such a way that total blind
ness ensued.
A. F. Walker, chairman of the
board of directors of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, said, On
the 18th, hat the company's loss due
to the Galveston hurricane would not
exceed 100000. Mr.. Walker was ON
fident of the future of Galveston as a
shipping port.
The Chinese colony of New York
city is collecting supplies to send to
Galveston. The principal item to be
sent will be tea. 1t is said that this
is the first time that any set of Chi
namen in his country have joined to-
gether for the relief of sufferers from
q great catastrophe.
1t was announced in Paris, on the
18th, that President Loubet's decision
as arbitrator in the boundary dispute
between Colombia and Costa Rica, had
been communicated to the govern
ments of those two republics, but the
announcement did not state which
side NJ. Loubet favored.
The population of the city of To-
peka, Kas., as officially announced on
the 18th, is: 1900, 33,60S; 1890, 31,007.
These figures show an increase in pop
ulation of 2,6O1, or $50 per cent. from
1890 to 1900. The population in 1850
was 1882, showing an increase of 49,.
b55, or 100.67 per cent. from 1850 to
1890.
Secretary of War Root is confined
to his summer residence at Southamp.
ton, L. l., as the result of an operation
for the removal of a carbuncle, anG
will not be able to leave his roon
for ten days or two weeks. The sec.
tary is not confined to his bed, anc
appears in fine health. No bad results
are feared.
The population of Des Moines, la.
as officially announced on the 18th, is:
1900, e., 139; 1890, 5O,O93. These figure.
show, for the city as a whole, an in,
crease in population of 12,046, or 24.0!
per cent from 1890 to 1900. The pop
ulation in 1880 was 22,4OO; showing ar
increase of 26,6s5, or 1885 per cent
from 1850 to 1890.
President and Mrs. Mckinley ar.
rived in Canton, O., on the 18th, in q
special train from Somerset, Pa. They
expect to remain there for some time.
Both seemed to be in excellent health
and spirits, the president especially |
showing that he had kept up well I'M.
der the strain of weeks of almost in.
cessant hard work.
c. j. Sealey, a young a of Gal
g~eston, Tex, who is in La Junta, Col,
received a telegram from the mayor
of Galveston, on the 18th, informing |
him of the death of 81 of his relatives, |
among whom are his mother, two Sis
tiers and three brothers. The young
man said that he did not believe he
had n relative left on earth.
On the 18th the keeper of the life
saving station at the western extrem-
ity of Galveston island reached Gal
weston. He reported that the sta
tion is gone and that a frightful
scene of desolation exists. He says
that $50 bodies were buried there;
that the prairie and marshes are
strewn with the arcasse of animals
and reptiles, and that the stencil is
terrible.