The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-01-25
TIE dispatsh boat Dolphin il do

1HE dfSpaLeh boat Dol phln Is do
ing good service in making an accu.
rate survey of the gulf OF Amat;que,
where some uncharted sand bars had
been touched during the past year by
American steamers running regularly
to Puerto Barrios, the Atlantic ter
minal of the Guatemala railway.
A DECISION was reached, on the 10th,
to hold the next national convention
of the w. c. I. L. at San Francisco.
Invitations were received from Seattle.
Portland, Ore: Portland, Me-; Kansas
City, Los Angeles. San Francisco. Chat
tanooga and Nashville. Mrs. B. Sturte-
want, of San Jose, the president of the
northern California district. will be
the hostess of the convention.
MISSES Minnie and Flora, aged IS
years, twin daughters of James Daven-
port, of Lafayette. Ind. died. on the
fever. During their lives they had
never been separated from each other
ove night.
Nat GOODWIN is going to make a
tour of Australia and India. Contracts
have been signed which bind him to
sal from San Francisco CT june p
hczt, al the conclusion of his engage
ment in that city.
THE secretary of the interior has
issued an order disbarring from prac-
tice before the department, for viola
ton of the pension laws, David B.
Davis, of Thorntown. Ind.
The Society of the Army of the
Tennessee has taken up the matter OF
the erection OF some sortof a monument
in Washington city to commemorate the
life and fame of Gen. u. 5. Grant.
THE correspondent of the London
Times at Adigrat expresses the opin-
ion that the fate of the Italian garri.
son at Fort Makalen is sealed unless
they are able to capture and retain a
well held by the A~byssinians.
No y will be appointed at present
to succeed Sir Charles Upper as Cana
dian high commissioners London. Sir
Charles HILBERT Upper was offered
the position but declined it.
THE Spanish cabinet, on the 18th,
unanimously decided to supersede Gen.
Martinez de CampOS and his lieutenant.
Gen. ArderiuS. Gen. Marin will assume
temporary command in Cuba. but it is
understood hat Gen. Polavieja. who
has a reputation for vindictive cruelty,
will be sent TO take supreme command.
y Pretoria dispatch of the 18th says
that the government and b%urghers will
resist any form of foreign protection
either upon the part Of Great Britain
n any other country. 1t was also
stated that DR.. Jameson and the other
prisoners with him would be released
Internationally.
TIE disagreement between the co.
pastors ofthc First Presbyterian church
at Washington. ID. C., Rev. DR.. r. De.
Witt Talmage and Rev. Adolos Allen.
has been settled by the church calling
for Mr.. Aliens resignation. DR.. Tai.
mage will now preach twice Sundays.
EX-PRESIDEET HARRISON authorizes
the announcement that he and Mrs,
Dimmick r engaged to De married,
and that the marriage will not take
place until after Lent.
EX-C0NGEESSMAN FEhYK LAWYER. OF
Chicago. died suddenly of heart disease
on the 18th. lie had spent the night
before at a ball given for the benefit
of the poor of his ward. in which he
vas a leading spirit. At the time of
his death he was Il member of the Chi.
cago common council.
THE London Graphic ~editOrially
asks: why not make the Monroe
doctrine the subject of Il formal treaty
between England and America? Such
a treaty would facilitate the settle
ment Of future Disputes