The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1900-05-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

The strawboard and paper box fac
tory of the Utility Paper Co.. cover.
ing five acres, at Hartford City, Ind,
was burned on the night of the 18th.
Loss. S1Q0,000; covered by insurance.
A lone highwayman entered the cor
ridor of the Coates hotel, one of the
leading hotels in Kansas City. Nc. at
11:30 p. H., on the Goth. and seizing
the strong boz from the cigar stand,
escaped. The box contained diamonds
valued at sl.5oo. $3.50 in gold.currency,
and silverand checks to the amount Of
500. A number of persons were pres
ent, but before they realized what had
happened the robber had escaped.
In July the Hamburg america I
Steamship Co. will establish an inde-
pendent service to the northern oorts
of Brazil.
Samuel Wyatt. young Euglishmar,
who had preached in Il number of Chi
oago mission churches, disappeared. on
the goth, leaving letters in which he
said he would kill himself. He said
Re was a brother of Rev. Paul Wyatt,
one of the queens chaplains, Chapel
Royal, Savoy.
Gardiner S. Williams, emeritus pro-
lessor of science and art of teaching
in Cornell university, died of paraly-
SIS. on the Goth, aged - years.
Up to the 21st the Mansion Hnuse
fund. in London, for the relief of the
victims of the Hull-Ottawa fire had
reached 6 10000.
Serious rioting occurred in Berlin.
on the 2pth, incident to the strike Of
the employees of the Transit company.
In one instance a moo, numbering fui-
ly 10000 people, was charged by tic
police and dispersed, after a score or
more had been wolnded. including
several women and children.
The most important news for the
moment, from South Africa, is the re-
ported willingness of the Beers to sue
for peace. As yet the offers of sub
mission come only from the Free
Staters, whose properties are covered
by the British occupation, but they
the accompanied by conditions which
the British decline 20 entertain.
Washington dispatches say that
President Mckinley is highly indig-
nant at the conduct of those involved
in the Cuban postal scandal. ami to be
that all concerned shall s,f-
fer punishment, regardless of who il
hurts.
i Cape Town dispatch says: "A tel
{ gram from Durham asserts confidently
that a plot has been disclosed at Pre-
toria, which has as an object to depose
Kruger and his executive council and
the Transvaal to Lord Rcb-
erts at an early day"
Commandant Piet De Wet, with 900
men, is Iaagered on his own farm, 35
miles north of Kroonstad, on the
banks of Rhenoster Spruit. He says
that he in rendering his submission on
that his men are allowed to
return 10 their homes.
Sheriff Mount of Tazewell county,
ILL.,, armed with requisition papers
from Gov. Tanner, started for Salt
Lake, Utah, on the Goth, to bring back
Samuel Moser, who murdered his wife
and children near fremont, H., oa
the 18th, and fled.
An audience. remarkable for its size. |
sympathy and enthusiasm, greeted
the Boer ENJOYS at the reception given |
in their honor, on the night of the
Goth. at the Grand opera house.,
under the auspices of the |
and citizens committee. |
The monument erected to the mem- |
Dry of Ccmrade L. S. Grant, by IL
tent subscriptions of members of the
and placed in the rotun-
ia of the capitol at Washington as Z
present to the nation, was unveiled,
On the 18th, in the presence of Mrs. L.
5. Grant. Mrs. Sartoris and Misc Sar.
toris. The latter pulled the cord that !.
the draping. !