The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-27

Six sailors of the schooner Robert
Lewis arrived at Victoria, b. c., report
to the United States consul there that
they were kidnapped by members of the
Sailors union at Port Gamble and
shipped ON the Robert Lewis against
their will
The international fire brigade con-
gress is in session at Havre.
A FRENCH accountant, filling an inn
portant government position. has been
arrested for dealing in forged stamps
SICILIAN brigands killed a captive
wine merchant, whom they were hold.
ing for ransom, when they were pur-
sued by gendarmes.
. CANApA's sheep trade with Great
Britain has been failure this season.
THE annual report of the English
customs receipts show that the revenue
from tobacco for the past financial year
has been the biggest on record. The
chief increase Is in the use of the dry
western tobacco from America
THE daily price currents show an
enormous shrinkage in the price Of
cotton.
THE sultan of Morocco has promised
amnesty to all the rebelling Arabs if
they will deliver dead or alive their
leader, Hamman.
STORM has added to the horrors of
cholera at Mini Novgorod, the hospital
being crushed and many patients killed.
ELEVEN men were burned to death in
a fire in lodging house at Tredegar,
Wales
A DECREE is about to be promulgated,
removing all restrictions on the exporta-
tion of cereals from the Russian empire
THE duke of Manchester, notoriously
known at one time as Lord Vaudeville,
died on the 18th.
ORDERS have been issued in Germany
declaring that inasmuch as examina-
ton proves that American bacon con-
tains trichine such imports must not
be placed upon sale unless examined by
the authorities.
THE British parliament has been pro-
rogued until December 4.
The four-masted ship Ashland, from
the Cape of Good Hope for Newcastle,
Australia, is supposed to have gone
down with all on board. She had a
crew of thirty-three men and is six
weeks overdue
THE southern part of Wales has been
severely shaken by five shocks of earth
quake.
GOVERNMENT authorities of Greece
have refused to send a vessel to Genoa
to participate in the Columbus fetes-
EMPEROR WILLIAM reviewed the Ger
man troops with the mercury marking
81 degrees in the shade. He made a de-
nial of rumors of an approaching war.
CHINESE are being smuggled into the
United States over the Mexican frontier
in large numbers.
A STEAMER plying upon the Volga
and its tributaries was wrecked at
ni-Novgorod during a heavy storm.
Many of the passengers and crew
jumped overheard and attempted to
reach the shore by swimming, but thirty
were drowned
The house of DIR. Bartlett, an Amer
lean missionary, was burned by fanatics
in Asia Minor and the lives of the in
mates threatened. The minister at
Constantinople was ordered to demand
reparation and two cruisers were or
iered to the vicinity.
JOHN JAFFERAY, of the birmingham
Post, and Edward Lawson, of the Lon
don Telegraph, have been created bar
Dnets-
CLEARING house returns for the week
ended August 10 showed an average in
,rease of 05 compared with the corre-
sponding week of last year. In New
York there was decrease of SIS.
THE Canadian Pacific has obtained
possession of the new line which is be-
ng built along the Canadian side of the
Niagara river.
CAPT. ANDREW who started across the
Atlantic July 20, was sighted August 5,
oy a vessel which has arrived at Corun-
Ia, Spain.
The intense heat has caused several
Tres to start in Switzerland. A village
md forest have burned
PRESIDENT DIAz has declared forfeit
ID the government contract with
PITCHER for the improvement of the
,arbor Of Coatsecoalcos- The contract
,r failed to deposit the guarantee re-
Iuired.
THREE French officers and lady have
,een arrested as spies at Myslowitz,
silesia-