The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-07-25
CURRENT TOPICS.
III NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the country HIS DeGu liduc Dy Iic dS-
ricultural department. The object is
to devote the day, to be set apart once
a year, or to be combined with "Arbor
day" to instructions in the value of
native birds and the means of protect
ing them from wanton destruction.
IT is learned that the insurgent ex-
petition under Gen. Rafael Portuondo
effected a landing at Tamayo, Cuba.
This expedition carried to the insur-
gents a large quantity of ammunition
and dynamite, two n and 1900
uniforms. 1t is also reported that two
other expeditions have landed, one
near Baracos and another at the Barri-
qua beach.
THE report of the navigation bureau
shows that during the year ended June
80, 1896, 100 vessels, of $40. 900 gross tons,
were built in the United States and
officially numbered by the bureau of
navigation, compared with Csc vessels,
OF 2i9,OOO tons, for last year, an in
crease OF 1000 tons. Steam vessels
built numbered a22. of 1876. 600 ions,
compared with PSI, of -, 700 tons, for
the previous year.
AN extensive robbery was reported
to the Philadelphia police 81 the 18th.
At st. Joseph's hospital $4,000 in
money and jewelry were stolen from
Mr.. and Mrs. Moore, patients atthe in
stitution. VIM. II. Thompson, 4 pro-
fessional nurse at the hospital, sus-
pected of the robbery, has disappeared.
The steamer Colombia, of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Co, Capt. Clark, went
ashore, during Il thick fog on the 18th,
at Pigeon point, a rocky projection
about half way between San Francisco
and Santa Cruz, Cal. The latest ad-
vices from the scene of the accident
stated that the Colombia was in a
dangerous position.
BURGLARS visited st. Paul's Episco-
pal church at Cleveland, O., on the
18th, for the third time within a year.
The plate and other v~aluables, amount
ing to $500, were stolen.
a SINGLE road agent, unmasked and
under the light of a midday sun, col
lecteG toll from a half dozen travellers
along the north San Juan road in Cali
fornia, on the 14th, two of his victims
contributing considerable sums. When
he had secured enough to satisfy his
desire, he disappeared, and search was
made for him in vain.
CHARLES RoLOFF, secretary of war
of the Cuban rebel government, was
in New York city on the 18th. He
was travelling under an assumed
name, and expected to remain only a
few days, returning to Key West, Fla,
to attend to some business with which
he had been intrusted by his govern
ment.
a DISPATCH to Lloyd's, on the 18th,
said that the British steamer Curfew,
Capt. Learmouth, bound from Akyab,
for Nantes. had been wrecked in the
Red sea. and all hands on board lost.
THE tug Active arrived at San Fran
cisco, on the 18th, with the passengers
of the Pacific mail steamship Colombia,
which grounded off Pigeon Pointlight-
house, between San Francisco and
San Diego, Cal. OF the 18th. The
ship was reported pounding herself to
pieces on the rocks.
THE United States cruiser Marion
uuCllOTSl III Tic IdTDOT Ill Idudlld Oh
the 18th. All were well on board.
The officers reported that a Cuban fill
clustering expedition was fitting out
at Greytown, Nicaragua.
Il HEAVY rain-storm. which was prac-
tically a cloudburst, at about eight
o'clock on the night of the 18th, did
great damage throughout Pittsburgh
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hat the loss will reach 81, 900, 900. The
weather bureau officials report LII
inches of rainfall during the so min
utes which the storm lasted, the most
of it falling within the first 20 minutes.
The Official Gazette IIGvana) print
ed, on the 18th, the full text of the i'm
portant decree providing for the Obli-
gatory registration within 80 days of
all foreigners in the island, reviving
for mat purpose the law of July 4,
1870, which, as far as foreigners are
concerned, has been long considered as
obsolete.
A CLoUDBURsT struck Macarthur, o.,
on the night of the 18th, accompanied
by lightning. Store houses were
Hooded six inches I'VE the floor. The
reservoir broke, two bridges WERE
washed away, and the roof of SissOn's
drugstore was blown off. The Elke
company's store and three dwelling
houses were struck by lightning.
The Columbus, Toledo & Hooking VAL
ley railroad was badly damaged.
TIE report that Gen. Jose Maceo has
been assassinated by white Cubans is
ridiculed by J. y. DeHuan, the Jack
sonyille (F1a.) delegate OF the Cuban
junta. Mr.. Huan has fitted out the
Three Friends for her filibustering eX-
petitions, and when the vessel re-
turned from Cuba, on the 18th. her cap
tain brought Mr.. Huan Il letter from
Jose Maceo. This letter was written
since the date on which it is said Maceo
was killed.
On the afternoon of the 18th Cincin-
natl and Covington and Newport, Ky, |
had a storm of wind, rain and light
ming of unusual severity. The wind
attained a speed of As miles an hour.
Business was practically suspended.
In Covington the roof of Ledger's to-
bacco warehouse was blown off and
S10,O 600 worth of tobacco ruined. The
West Covington opera house roof was
taken off, as also were the roofs of
several dwellings.
THE Minnesota populist state conven-
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