The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-05

CAPT. T. Z. RoEMER, who went 70
Cuba to fight fer the insurgents, re-
turned to st. Louis on the Goth. Capt.
Roemer secured a three months fur
Tough from the Cuban army, and with
4 few comrades eluded the Spaniards
along the coast and escaped from the
island. Capt. Roemer succeeded in
reaching New York. and went direct
to st. Louis.
The Canadian yacht Canada defeated
the challenger Vencedor at Toledo, O.,
on the Goth, and won the international
race, by &c seconds, time allowance,
after as pretty q contest as was ever
sailed on Lake Erie. 1t was a hard
race for the Yankee yacht to lose, for
she had the race well won, but lost by
an error. The course was five miles
straightaway to leeward and return
and repeat.
On the 9th Secretary Smith of the
interior department approved patents
for 9SS, 2O6 acres of land to the Union
Pacific Railroad Co. The lard is all in
Nebraska, being situated in the North
Platte, Grand Island, Bloomington
and McCoOk land districts. The pat
ents were issued in pursuance of the
resolution of Representative Mondell,
of Wyoming, which provided that
lands should be patented to bond-aided
roads which had been sold to bona fde
purchasers.
THE St. Resale hotel at Long
Branch, y. j., was destroyed by fire
at three o'clock on the morning of the
eth. Twenty guests were asleep in
the hotel when the fire was discovered
and many of them were forced to
make their escape in their night
clothes. Miss Alberta Underhill, a
guest, jumped from a window and
broke her left leg.
ACTING CAPT. FLOWERS of the small
pOx stricken steamer Earnwell died at
the Marine hospital at Lewcs, Del, on
the 2sth.
IT was reported in London, on the
2Sth. that the Brazilian minister to
Italy had left Rome and gone to Paris
in consequence of the strained rela-
tions between Italy and Brazil, which
had resulted in tie former govern
ment sending an uitimatum to Rio
Janeiro, demanding prompt and COM
plete satisfaction for the outrage COM
mittcd on Italian subjects in Brazil.
IT noon of the 2Sth the family of
Charles W. Green, travelling passenger
agent of the Big Four railroad, on
sisting Of Mrs. Green and three chill
dren, Il boy aged 10, Il girl aged 9, and
a little girl Of 6. were found dead in
their home in Kansas City, Mo-. The
mother is supposed to have shot the
children and then killed herself
druing Il TT of insanity.
CALVIN AND GEORGE DEL. brothers,
aged Is and Is years. were drOwnedin
the canal near Middletown, Pa, on
the 18th. They were swimming, and
Calvin was seized with a cramp.
George went to his assistance, and
both were drowned. The bodies were
recovered.
ALL the collieries under the Lehigh
Valley Coal Co.'S system were, on the
2Sth, ordered to work six DAYS a week
until further notice. This is the first
time in many years that the miners
there have mad a chance to work full
time.
DR.. GALLAGHER, the American dyna-
inter who 13 years ago was sentenced,
in England, to imprisonment for life,
was released from Portland prison on
the 2Sth. lie looked pale and thin,
ard his haSr was very gray.
THE visit of Ii Hung Chang to the
United States IS not of an official char
acter. He has 40 special mission from
his emperor, although he bears an au-
tograph letter from his royal higiness
tc President Cleveland.