The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-09-12

THE American steamship Laurada,
said to be a Cuban filibuster, and err
r~oneously reported wrecked by treach-
cry off the Jamaica coast, cleared from
Port Antonio for Philadelphia On the
night of the I'd.
THE Utah commission, on the 1st,
submitted to the secretary of the in
terror its annual report, detailing its
work from July, 1895, to January l,
1896, the date Utah was admitted to
the Union as a state.
On the 1st Secretary of the Interior
David r. Francis babe farewell to
St. Louis and departed by the fast
mail train for Washington, there to
assume the duties of his new office in
the cabinet of President Cleveland.
THE PENNSYLVANIA board of pardons,
on the 4th, recommended a pardon in
the case of John Beardsley, ex-city
treasurer of Philadelphia, who was
sentenced on July l, 1891, to l. years
imprisonment for embezzlment of city
funds.
VERMONT held her state election on
the LIST. The entire republican state
ticket was elected by majorities rang
ing in the neighborhood of 10000, or
TO- 600 greater than any majority ever
recorded in the state. The ticket is
headed by Josiah Grout, of Derby, for
governor.
KATE FIELDS will has been found
and probated in Washington city.
Miss Field died some months ago in
Honolulu. The will directs that in
case of death her body be brought to
this country and cremated, the ashes
to be deposited at Mt. Auburn, Cam
bridge, Mass.
AMONG the distinguished callers on
Mai. and Mrs. Mckinley, at Canton,
O., on the 18th, were Mr.. and Mrs. K.
p. Bland, of Missouri. The time spent
at the Mckinley home by Mr.. and Mrs.
Bland was apparently very agreeable
to both the callers and to Maj. and
Mrs. Mckinley.
UEN. UOhN VI ALhED, VI 1llAhoAo,
was nominated by reclamation, on the
3D., as the candidate of the sound
money democratic convention at In
d~ianapolis, Ind, for president. Gen.
Simon B. Buckaer, of Kentucky, was
also unanimously chosen as yice-presi-
dental nominee.
THE eighteenth annual Toronto
(Ont.) industrial exhibition was inau-
gurated, on the list, the opening cere-
monies being performed by Hon. A.
S. Hardin, premier of Ontario. The
exhibition will last for two weeks and
promises to exceed in every respect all
former exhibitions.
ADv1CEs received by the Spanish
government from Manila, on the 4th,
stated that force of 500 Philippine
rebels had been defeated and routed
by the Spanish troops at Baccore.
Fourteen of the rebels were killed and
IL taken prisoners. The insurgents
were led by German settlers.
The treasury official statement, is
sued on the I'd, showed that for Au-
gust the deficit was $40, 139. $50 and for
the fiscal year to date S2a, los, 739. The
receipts for August were So, 562, 09G, or
S., 900, 900 less than for August, 1895.
The expenditures for August were
S35, 7OI, 676, or So, 600, 900 more than for
August, 1895.
Ii HUNG CHANG, his suite and the
r,,-,- ,apt rarraSnnfatIuo Mai
Gen. Ruger, arrived at Philadelphia
from New York over the Pennsylvania
railroad, on the Sd, on a special train
of six cars. He was met by 4 reception
committee of prominent citizens and
greeted by assembled thousands OIL
the sidewalks.
RETURNS from all but three cities
and towns in the state of Vermont
rive the following vote for governor:
Grout (rep.), 5S,270; jackson (dem.),
lasts; Battell (pop.), $50; Whittemore
tpro.), 523. CIRCUITS plurality, 3s, 800,
majority over all, 1929. The same
cities and towns in 1892 gave Fuller
(rep.) a majority over all of 1880.
THE two children of Assistant Post
master Danielly, of Chadron, Neb.,
aged respectively four years and four
teen months, were suffocated by a fire
In the family home on the Sd. They
were dead when found, the parents
narrowly escaping the same fate.
Physicians worked for hours with Mrs.
DanielIy before restoring her to con-
seriousness.
BY previous arrangement Earl L
Hung Chang, on the I'd, received
limited number of representatives, Of
the press in his apartments at the
Waldorf hotel, New York city. The
newspape men were presented to the
viceroy by Mr.. Edward b. Drew, com
missioner of royal taxes in China
The viceroy's medical adviser, DIR
Mark, acted as interpreter.
JUDGE THOMAS, assistant attorney
general of the post office department
G:cided, on the lst, that 1t is unlaw'
tui to send an ordinary letter by ex