The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-03-24
AFTER the shore batteries at Rio had

thirty minutes, on the 18th, the latter
surrendered Internationally, Admiral
Da CANA Eaving rrrticuslt gone
aboard the F'renchman-Cf-war.
| CLUSG Ming SEE, treasurer of the
company OF Chinese merchants which
owned and operated the Chinese thea
ter and village on the Worlds fair
grounds, is locked up in Chicago,
charged with cmbczzling nearly SEQ, 900
of tine company's funds lie was arrest
ed by Chinese detective, Lem Dong,
who brought the alleged embezzler
back from China.
DISPATCHES received at Lisbon, on
the 18th, from Rio de Janeiro said that
Admiral Saldanha da Glms. with 500
cf the ilisiirgent sailors and marines,
was on board the Portuguese corvette
Mindello. 1t was added that the rcfu-
gees would be brought to Portugal by
the Mindello and by the Alfonso de
Albuquerque.
The ravagcs of yellow fever are
alarming everybody in Rio Janeiro.
The number of deaths amount to sixty
daily, All sorts of rumOrs are in circu-
latiOn. One of them is that the Aquida-
ban, one of the vessels seized by de
McllO when he sought to set up gov.
ernment on his own account, has been
found abandoned in southern waters.
Carr. FRANK BRowNEII, who shed
the first southern blood in the war ON
Virginia soil, shooting and killing
jackson who had the moment before
killed Col. Ellsworth, after the latter
had torn down the confederate flag
from Jaclison's hotel in Alexandria.
died in Washington on the 18th.
On the 18th the Bland seigniorage
silver coinage bill was passed by the
senate by n majority of thirteen, the
vote being: Ayes, a; nays, 81. The bill
was passed exactly as received from the
houst
ADvICEs from Miller, Is. D., on the
18th were to the effect that the country
WAS being swept by fearful prairie
fire, which had burned much timber.
two or three schoOlhOuscS and farm
buildings in several places.
CHEVALIER MOLARoNI. for twenty
years an official in the department Of
l't'ii' WI ~ hb pH tt"
10th, from The effects of injuries te-
ceived on the occasion of the explosion
of bomb in front of the chamber of
deputies on March :
The coroncr's jury in the case of the
lynching of the negro Richard Pur-
year, at Stroudsburgh. Pa, returned Il
verdict, on the 18th, finding that the
murderer ramr 80 l'is death ty icing
hung by parties not known to the jury. |
The Floyd brothers, on trial at Min |
ncapolis, Mimi, were each sentenced,
on the 18th, to five years Imprisonment |
in the penitcntiary for completely in |
the Minneapolis bank cmbczzlcment.
ERASMUS w PAYNE. who claimed 10
I've the oldest odd fellow in the slate
Of Michigan, dropT Ell dead at his home
IN Adairn on the 10th. lie was 81
Years old.
liY the explosion of boiler in the
province of Ycllatcrinoslav, Russia.
IN the 10th, fifteen men were killed
md many others badly injured.
IOHS WEST, the leader of 20 .u::ous
rang of burglars, was arrested in Sid
hey, o., on the 10th.
The rcichstag passed the Russo-Ger-
man commercial treaty on the 10th.
EARLY on the morning of the 10th
ire started in the stable of ii. a.
'oinglcStre, near the race track, south
II Leavcnworth, kas., and burned it to
he ground. Two valuable horses were
rcmated. One of them, Altitude, was
noted stallion with a fast record. lie
vas recently purchased for 5000.
There was an insurance of 81, 900, which
carly covers the loss.
\ TRAMP. whose name is unknown,
Tas found hanging from limb of
rec by piece of barbed fencing wire
n the outskirts of Wabash, Ind. on
he 10th. He had evidently walked up
he trunk of leaning tree, fastened
he wire to a limb, adjusted the moose
round his neck and jumped off. his
cath resulting from strangulation.
COMMODORE WILLIAM ID. WHITING, re-
lred, of the United States navy, was
epOrted, on the 10th, as lying at the .
"int of death at his home in New York ]
ity. Ills illness resulted from an acci-
cnt which befell him several weeks
go. Commodore Whiting is blind.