The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-06

to the measure being based upon the
large amounts appropriated for con-
tinuing contracts. An attempt will be
made to pass the bill Over the veto.
On the 10Th the treasury department
began the payment of the sugar boun-
ties under the recent decision of the
supreme court. The claims now be-
ing paid are under the $3.50, 600 aDpro.
priation for accrued bounty due at the
time the bounty law was repealed.
There are $500 of this class of claims.
THE annual convention of the Ger
nan Presbyterian ministers, North
west, opened at Galena, H., on the
2sth. to continue four days. Sixty
ministers from Illinois, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Missouri and Minnesota were in
attendance. The opening sermon was
delivered by Rev. j. bentley, ID, of
St. Paul.
AFTER a jury at Binghamton. y. Y,
had brought in a verdict OF murder in
the first degree, on the 2Sth, against
Mrs. Eliza Thurston for poisoning her
husband, attorneys for the defense
caused a sensation by demanding a
new trial on the ground that several
OF the jurymen were drunk when the
verdict was rendered.
LATER news from the dreadful cy-
clone which swept through Michigan,
on the 25th. show that the loss of life
was absolutely appalling: the ac-
counts being accompanied in each
case. also, with long lists of the in
jured, many of whom must die of their
wounds. The property destroyed is
simply beyond estimate.
a DISPATCH from Augusta. ia, says:
The report sen out from Chicago
that the secretary of the Southern adj
visory board of the Southern States
Exposition Co. had proposed to the
Chicago management to postpone h
exposition in the interest OF the Ten
nessec Centennial was without author
itv and without knowledge or consent
of the Southern advisory board"
THE house committee on invalid pen
sions, on the Goth, unanimously voted to
authorize Chairman Pickler to report
a service pension bill providing a basis
pension of three dollars a month as a
reward for enlistment to every hon
orably discharged soldier and sailor.
In addition to the three dollars they
will receive a monthly pension equal
to one cent a day for every day served.
SECRETARY OLNEY was officially no.
titled. on the Goth. that contracts for
Cuban leaf tobacco entered into before
the publication of the order prohibit
ing its expectation will be respected,
and that citizens of the United States
proving themselves to be bona tiGe
owners of such tobacco prior to the
PRONUNCIATION of the order will be
permitted to export the same as here
tofOre.
TIE report written bv Mr.. Pickler,
Of South Dakota, accompanying the
service pension bill introduced in the
house on the Goth, places the number
of persons benefited by the bill at 200
600, the average time Of service at two
years. and the average monthly pension
therefor 5000. and alleges that the
total cost per AMMAN resulting from
this bill could not exceed sc. 900. COG.
THE citizens of st. Louis have so far
declined all tenders of outside as>iS-
tance in caring for the hundreds of
victims of the late storm. and Will
make an heroic effort to accomplish
the gigantic work unaided. Should
the demands of humanity. however,
prove too great Cor their rcsourccs.thev
will o hesitate 10 accept a portion
Of the help 50 freely ten dercd from
all parts of the country.
OK the night of the 24th and the af-
ternoon OF the 25th many localities
throughout the west and northwest
We're visited by cyclones, hail storms
and c~loud-bursts. which wrought de-
struction of property OF all kinds TO
al incaiculable amount. and resulted
in the death of many scores Of human
beings, the manning of ii still greater
number and the death by drowning of
innumerable domestic animals.
SINCE May 1 16 foundlings have been
picked up by the police in precincts
contiguous to Central park. New York
city. An Investigation has developed
the fact that nearly all the babies
were dressed alike. and it is be-
lieveI that the infants were ADAM
dnned 10y the same person. probably
the keeper of a baby farm in the
neighborhoot. The authorities of
Bellevue hospital have requested the
police to look into the matter and if
possible locate the farm.
THE city of st. Louis was visited. on |
the 18th, with by far the worst storIn
ever chronicled in this country. Both
in the amount of damage lone to prop
erty and in loss of life it stands
rpa,,,.lDi Ampntr the moro !