The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-11-07
CoNsUL-GESERAL LEE informed q

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newspaper correspondent at Havana,
on the Goth, that he was returning to
the United States for a conference
with President Cleveland on affairs in
Cuba, and that he had postponed his
voyage from the previous date de-
termined upon on account of the mill
tary operations going forward in Pinar
del Rio.
A MEDAL of honor has been awarded
to James NJ. Burns, late sergeant Co.
b, First West Virginia volunteers (aow
captain in Seventeenth United States
infantry. At the battle of New Mar
ket, Va, June Is, 1864, under a heavy
fire from the enemy, he voluntarily as
sisted a wounded comrade from the
field of battle.
The Berlin correspondent of the
London Daily News says he is able to
confirm the statement made by the
Hamburger Nachrichten that a writ
ten neutrality treaty between Russia
and Germany did exist from 1854 to
1890.
WESTERN NEBRASKA was covered
with ten inches of snow on the Goth,
thinning out as it approached the east
ern part of the state. In some Sec
tions of the state a high wind accom-
panied the snow, assuming the pro-
portions of a blizzard.
LOUIS j. HANCHETT and Chauncey C.
Foster were expelled, on the 10Th, from
the business college at Chicago at
which they were students They are
the youths who threw eggs at William
j. Bryan, and who were released by
the police on Mr.. Bryan's request.
JOHN Il. LONG, a cattle dealer and q
prominent mason from Pleasantville,
Ia, committed suicide at Denver, Col,
left he requested that the police be
notified that he had been robbed of
three drafts of 81, 900 each.
THE residence of a farmer named
Robinson, living nea Woodville,a short
distance west of jackson, Mich, was
destroyed by fire on the Both. Mrs.
Roblnsc3 and a child were burned to
ably fatally burned.
The jury in the ca Sc of Michael
Brennan. charged with the murder of
John a. Strathy, late manager of the
branch Of the Bank Of Toronto in
Barrie, Ont, returned a verdict of
guilty. on the Goth. and he was sem
fenced to be hanged January 19.
By the explosion of a can of kero-
sene oil in Milwaukee, on the 3Oth, the
three-months-old babe of William
AItenbach, was burned to death, and
Mr.. and Mrs. A~ltenbach, the parents
of the child, were SO severely burned
that recovery is extremely doubtful.
JOHN D. STILES, an ex-member of
congress and the senior member of the
Lehigh county bar, died, On the Goth,
at Allentown, Pa. He was 70 year
old, and for half a century had been
prominent in Pennsylvania politics.
EDWARD j. IVORY, alias Bell, the al
legged Irish-American dynamiter, who
was arrested in Glasgow, September
II, was again arraigned in the Bow
Street (London) police court, on the
3Oth, and remanded for another week.
THE German steamer Cordelia, from
Guatemala, via Montevideo, was sunk
in the harbor at Hamburg. oil the 3Oth,
by a collision with the sailing vessel
Etna.
On the 3Oth the war department
awarded a medal of honor to Hillary
A. Dyer. Ninth Pennsylvania infantry,
Co. II, for bravery at the battle of An
tietam, Nd, September II, 1862.
GOLD bullion to the amount of $780,
900 was withdrawn from the Bank of
England, on the 3Oth, for shipment to
the United States.