The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1901-01-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
COMPLIED from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

about February >.
4 certificate of Incorporation was
filed at Dover. Del, OIL the 2ith. for
the Midland Canal Co.. of Fargo, y. d.
Capital $1,OOO.OOO.
The corn crop Of 1900 was one of
the foul largest ever gathered. while
the oat crop has only nee been eX-
ceeded.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
the districts of Beaufort West and
Carnarvon, Cape Colony.
In a accident at Flint.
Mich. on the 27th. DR.. H. ". Rowland
was killed and G. II. Quigley, a prom
inent business man. fatally injured.
Moses Colt Taylor. professor of
American history in Cornell universe
ty, died at Ithaca. y. T.. on the 2Sth,
after an illness of three weeks.
Ell Liberal. an official government
newspaper. declares that much lrichi-
rae has been discovered in pork sold
in the N~icaraguan markets.
Mai. Alexandra Alberto da Rocha
Serpa Pinto. the African explorer,
died in Lisbon on the 2Sth. He IA
born April so, 1916.
The summer meeting of the Ameri-
can Mathematical society will be held
next August at Cornell university.
United States Charge Beaupre, at
Bogota, informs the state department
that Carlos Martinez Silva, Colombian
minister for foreign affairs, has been
appointed minister to the United
States.
1t is officially announced that Fred
erick August, grand duke of Olden-
burg. is suffering from overwork.
The Swedish ministry of war has
decided to supply the army with snow
shoes.
The Holland society of New York
received a cablegram from the Hague.
on the 2Sth, saying that Queen Will
helmina's marriage has been set for
September next.
Lord William Leslie de la Poor Beres-
ford. V. c.. popularity nicknamed
Fighting Bill" in the British army,
died in London, at midnight OF the
2Sth. aged IS years. He saw active
service in Afghanis;a an, Burmah, India
and Zululand, and was a sportsman
of the first rank.
j. NJ. Johnson, of Fairlawn, q sub
urb of Akron. o., on the 2Sth. shipped
to Cleveland. IL be broken for Presi-
dent Mckinley. a handsome team of
bays. to be driven to the presidents
carriage in the inaugural procession.
They cost the chief executive $1,000
each.
Keepers of IA dives and gambling
houses were indicted by the Chicago
grand jury. on the 2Sth, as the result
of the inquiry into crime and vice in
the city. The work will be continued.
OF the IA indictments four were
against alleged keepers of gambling
houses and ten against proprietors OF
basement and other resorts.
HANNA Divinity hall. on the Wit
tenberg college grounds, at Spring
field. O., was burned to the ground
IN the night of the 2Sth. 1t was oc-
cupied by the theological seminary,
and was the gift of DR.. NJ. V. Ham
ma, of Washington, ID. c. The loss
on the building will be about $4,000;
covered by insurance.
John Henry Rogers, a pioneer set
tier and merchant, died at Sycamore,
ILL.,. on the 2Sth, aged 65. He settled
in Sycamore in 1855, when he opened
a dry goods store that has been con-
Quoted ever since by him. He was
one of DeKalb county's wealthiest
and most prominent citizens.
During the past year there have
been issued 24.66O original patents by
the patent Office, an increase of l.
364 over the previous year. A total of
1,75s design patents were issued,
which is a decrease of 3s1 over 1899.
| There was a decrease of eleven reis-
sues, the exact number for the year
being 81.
A wild sensation has been caused i'll
| New Westminster, h. C., by the dis
covery of $3.50 in coarse gold as big
as f1axseed in the craw of a wild
| goose, which was killed at Pitt Lake,
IS miles from Westminster. Prospec-
tors r hunting for the placers.
An accounting made, on the 2Sth, to
the probate court, at Chicago, shows
that the Pullman estate is now valued
at $4,000. 900. as against SO, o ,00C al
the time 1t was turned owe to the
executors. The tremendous increase
is largely due, it is said, to the in
crease in the value of stocks. bonds
and similar property.
Serious charges have been made
against Supr. c. S. Mckeown. of the
county insane asylum. at La Crosse
Wis, by three former employees o
the institution. 1t is charged hat Nc
Kown has abused patients. strucl
them and fed them on unwholesom.
food.
Two German tourists, Herren Lame
and kindiinger, assembled Noun
Schwartzenbergen without guides, ac
ccrding to d dispatch to the London
Daily Express from Vienna. ana, fall
ing into an abyss, were killed.