The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-19
Apy1cEs received from MADAGASCAR.

ADvIcEs received from Madagasca,,
or the 9th, said that an American col.
onist named Lund had been accident.
ally shot and killed by a detachment
Of French troops who had been sent
to rescue him from the rebels who had
attacked him.
THE national republican committee
has selected the Glover building on F
street, Washington, near the treasury
department., as permanent head
quarters, and they will be established
after New Years.
GEN. THOMAS ESTRADA PALMA, head
of the Cuban junta, said to a repre-.
sentative of the United Associated
Presses in New York, on the 9th, that
he did not believe the report from Ha.
al stating that Gen. Maceo had been
killed. He declared it was a sensa-
tional piece of news sent out by the
Spaniards to counterfeit the effect OF
Mr.. Cleveland's message.
The jury in the case of ex-State
Senator w. C. Gear, of Ohio, at Column.
bus, on the 9th, returned a verdict Of
not guilty. The charge against Nj.
Gear was bribery.
Ell CORRESPONDENCE MnITAR of Mad.
rid says that Spain has forces more
than sufficient to punish any interior.
ence on the part of the United States
in the affairs of Spain.
The combination express and mail
car attached to train No. 103 of the II.
l;-o;e Caa+ro -al-4oI ,r,r l--ol %
the tracks at Trimble, Tenn, 90 miles
north of Memphis, on the 10th. Ten
pieces of baggage, six fine hunting
dogs and go mail pouches were con-
Sumed.
The banking firm of Jonathan Es-
terly & Co., of C~olumbiana, O., went
into the hands of 4 receiver on the
10th. The assets are placed at $780,
900, and the Indebtedness to deposftors
at about S165, 600. 1t is said the re.
ownership is merely to wind up the
business, which was established in
1875.
A DISPATCH from Vigo, on the 10th,
announced the loss of the German
steamship Salier, with Il crew
of 7s and over 200 passengers, on the
Coruna Carrobedo shoals.
ANDREW j. SPUTE, who was accused
of the murder of his wife and four
children several weeks ago in Smiths
lake, where they lost their lives while
boating, was fully indicated, on the
18th, by the unanimous refusal of the
grand jury at Denver, Col, to vote an
Indictment.
Mrs. SARAH B. COOPER, famed
throughout the entire United States
because of her untiring zeal in works
Of charity, and her daughter, Miss Hat
lie Cooper, were found dead in bed at
residence in San Francisco, on
,he morning of the 18th, both having
been asphyxiated by gas. All evil
who suffered from acute melancholia,
after her mother had fallen
andwith suicidal intent, turned
IN the gas.
FAILURES throughout the United
as reported by R. G. Dun &
Co., for the week ended on the 18th,
we're $50, as against 3SS for the cor
'eponding week last year; for Canada
he failures were 40, against 81 last
rear.
"a MODERATE measure" is the char
lcterization which leading republicans
# the house give to the new tariff bill
which it is proposed to frame this win.
er in ant cipation of an extra session
II congress.
GEORGE ERB, aged "a, a stonemason,
Who formerly lived at Mechanicsburg,
"a, called at police headquarters in
harrisburg, on the 18th, and confessed
lis participation in a murder at Fort
Ark, last March. He waa
ocked up.