The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-01-27
..PsRSoNAL AND GENERAL.

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"A committee of Danish farmers has
sent to the princess of Wales 10000
boXesi6f choice butter for the British
soldiers in South Africa. She has &C
cepted the gift in the name the
sick and wounded, and returhed a
complimentary message, which con-
cludes with the phrase: Especially
as ii is a present from my native u
try, Denmark"
Rev. DR.. Henry Sharpe, a prominent
Presbyterian clergyman, died at his
home in Philadelphia, on the 21st,
aged IS years. He was born at
Cadix, o.
The Baldwin locomotive works have
obtained another large order for en-
gines from France. The order, which
is for 80 large ten-wheeled passenger
engines, is from the Paris & Orleans
railway, and is the first order for loco
motives ever placed by that company
with an American firm.
A poll of the congress by the New
York Herald shows that the Hepburn
Morgan Nicaragua canal bill will be
passed at the present session. 1t is on
the legislative programme for early
consideration in both houses.
Just one month to the day after the
disappearance of George b. Eyre, a
wealthy club member, from his home
in Chester, Pa his body was found in
the Delaware river, nearly opposite
Chester, on the 21st, and furnished
abundant evidence hat young Eyre
he'd been the victim of foul play.
The grand opera house, the largest
auditorium in Washington, was packed
to the doors. Oh the night of the 21st,
with an enthusiastic audience, which
vigorously expressed its sympathy
with the Beers in their fight with
Great Britain The speakers included
81, erai members of congress.
rhe Topeka (Kas-l authorities have
ordcsed a pesthouse built at the fair
grounds. TO which the % smallpox
cases will be taken Authorities in
sist that the disease is Cuban chicken
pox, but physicians say it is a mild
type of smallpox.
Maj. johnson, with two companies
of the Forty-sixth regiment, and Maj.
Muir, with three companies of the
Thirty-eighth, have defeated 500 Fill
rinos at Taal, in the southern province
of Batangas, L.uzon- They captured
three cannon and many other arms.
The steamer Doric, which recently
arrived from the orient, landed 700
japanese at Honolulu. This complet-
ed n list of 1000 inside of four days.
The records of the Immigration bureau
at Honolulu show that since June Is
last. 1850 japanese have been landed
there.
ED" and George Meeks, who were
convicted at Fort Scott, Kas-, of par
ticipation in the murder of Leopold
Edlinger, in October last, were taken
from Jail by a mob, on the night of the
Goth, and hanged to trees in the Jail
yard.
Il battle ragged in Natal all day on
the Goth and again on the 21st. There
was little decided advantage on either
sue. Inc bIltlSu leli, uuutT ueu.
Wurren, broke the Boer right, while
Gen. Lyttleton kept the Beers at Pot
geiter's Drift busy.
. The officials of the post Office de-
partment are preparing to introduce
rural free delivery upon various star
routes, and the experiment will I've in
a~ugurated ut an early date, although
several months, and perhaps the pres
emit fiscal year, may elapse before it is
introduced upon a large scale.
In the executive session of the sem
ate, on the 22d, Senator Jones (Ark.)
gave notice that at the next executive
session he would call up his motion to
reconsider the vote by which the Sa-
moan treaty was ratified.
Andrew Carnegie offers to give $685.
600 to the Leavenworth (Kas.) public
library. on condition that the city fur
nish q site for the buillia g and agrees
to pay $4,000 to $1,000 n year for its
maintenance.