The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-12-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The knechtel Co.'S plant at han
over, Ont, the largest furniture fac
tory in the Dominion of Canada, was
destroyed by fire On the Goth. The
fire spread to adjoining buildings,
causing a total loss of between $780,
600 and 100000.
Recorder Golf, of New York, on the
21st, sentenced Henry Zeimer, one of
the heads of a fraudulent divorce bu-
reau, to ten years in the states pris-
on, and James Holden, alias Frank
Wilson, a professional correspondent,
to three years in states prison.
Senator Hanna, chairman of the Re-
publican National committee, on the
21st, announced the appointment of
Gen. Francis Vinton Greene, of New
York, to be chief marshal of the in
augural parade, March 4 next.
The London Daily Mail has advices
that virtually all the districts of Cape
Colony in the vicinity of the Orange
river are in more or less open revolt,
and that there is likely to DE sharp
fighting on a rather large scale be-
fore the Boer invasion is crushed.
An ~11-year-old son of Valentine
Lehr, residing near Hecker, ILL.,, be-
came suddenly ill while in school on
the 21st, and n few hours later showed
every symptom of hydrophobia. He
was bitten, nine months ago, by a
dog.
Former Gov. Roger Wolcott, of
Massachusetts,, died in Boston, on the
21st, aged SO years. He was a de-
scendant of the Roger Wolcott who
was second in command in the expe-
dition of Sir William P%eppere.!,
against Cape Breton, in 1745.
Mrs. William P. Frye, wife of the
president pro tenn, of the senate, died
suddenly at the Hamilton hotel, Wash
ington, on the 21st. Mrs. Frye, a Iew
days before her death, suffered an
acute attack of Indigestion which cul-
minated in angina pectoris.
Smallpox is epidemic in the eastern
half of the United States. In Greater
New York there are not less than
1000 cases, while between the Missis-
sippi river and the Atlantic coast
there are at least $4,000 cases.
1t has just come to light that Jessie
I. Beckwith, daughter of Robert 7.
Lincoln, Of Chicago, is no longer The
wife Of Warren Beckwith, the former
baseball player of Mount Pleasant, Ia.
The sensational courtship, clopement
and marriage ended in divorce by rea-
son of n~on-support.
Brig.-Gen. George w. Davis, who
commanded the department of Porto
Rico up to the time of its discontin-
uance a few weeks ago, has been as
signed to duty as Inspector general
of the division of the Philippines, on
the staff of Gen. Macarthur.
At Thorndale, on the 10th, Gen.
French routed $500 Beers, with four
guns and a pompon. Thorndale is 10
miles northwest of Krugersdorp. The
British had IA wounded and the Beers
fed in disorder, with about fifty
killed.
A carriage containing two boys and
two girls, brothers and sisters. was
struck by q Wabash train at a coun-
try road crossing north of Gibson,
Ill, on the morning of the 21st, and
two of the occupants, q girl Of 81 and
. boy of Is, were instantly killed.
There is a boom in the anthracite
coal trade in Pennsylvania, and the
companies are unable to fill their or
ders as promptly as desired. The
stock IN hand is very light. and some
of the companies are not able to lay
up any for the reason thai, as fast
as II is mined, it is sent to points for
delivery.
w. E. Jones. who has been treas.
urer and assistant secretary of the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Rail-
way Co. and its predecessors for over
thirty years, died in Cincinnati, on
the 23d, aged So yenrs.
Emperor Nicholas and the Russian
ministers of finance, war and foreign
affairs, do not expect to leave Livadia,
where the czar is convalescing, before
the middle Of January.