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

HARRY R1TTENHoUsE, IL years OLD
committed suicide at Barberton. \. j.,
on the 2sth. His parents wanted him
to go to school. The boy refused to
go and hanged himself in the barn.
A NEW edict issued by Capt.-Gen.
Weyler %suspends for one year all jul
dicial proceedings against planters
with regard to their property, and
their creditors will not now be able to
secure payment of interest or be
permitted to sue in the Cuban courts
or to institute foreclosure proceedings
upon any mortgage they may hold.
As many Cuban plantations are mort
gagged to American creditors. Secre-
tary of State Olncy is expected to en-
ter a very forcible protest with the
Madrid government against the exc
cution of the decree.
WHILE Madison Square garden, New
York city, was filed, on the night of
the 27th, with soldiers and other per-
sons interested in the Cuban-Ameri-
can fair, a volley of stones thrown
against the side of the building shat
tered four windows. The attack was
made when the crowd was greatest by
four well-dressed Spaniards, who fed
and made their escape in a trolley car
when the Cuban guard, in uniform
and armed with machetes, rushed out
to capture them.
LAFAYETTE PARK. the pride of all
st. Louisans and a gem of rustic
beauty, was reduced by the great
storm of the 27th to the condition of
Il tangled jungle. Not a tree or build
ing was left within the entire inclos-
ure. while the beautiful residence
neighborhOod surrounding it was
equally a mark for the furies Of the
upper deep.
AT st. Joseph. Mo-. on the 18th, the
temperature dropped 50 degrees in an
hour. About five o'clock low clouds
appeared from the north and east, and
the temperature fell fast. BY evening
people Were shivering. There was nc
precipitation. Considerable wind ac-
companicd the appearance of the
storm.
THE only positive action taken by
the republican senatorial caucus. on
the Goth, was a vote by which it va
decided hat the bill to refund the
debts of the bond-aided Pacific rail-
roads should be postponed until the
next session. 1t was the unanimous
opinion hat adjournment would come
not later than June 5, and possibly
earlier.
No LESS than sixteen houses of wOr-
ship in the immediate nc;ghhorhood
of what was Lafayette park in st.
Louis. some of them costly and mag
nificent cdifices. were either demol-
ished or badly wrecked by the great
cyclone. 1t is estimated that more
than Il quarter of a million dollars will
be required to restore these churches
alone.
On the Goth, Judge Helm, of New
port. Ky. ovcrruled the motion for a
new trial for Scott jackson, con.
victed of the murder of Pearl Bryan.
and sentenced to be hanged June 80.
Subsequently the court granted a mo-
ton for a stay of execution for 90 days
to enable the defendant to take the
case before the court of appeals.
PLANS are maturing in st. Louis 10y
which, it is hoped, loans may be made
to persons who have lost their homes, !
the result of years of savings. These
loans. without interest for Il period of
years, would enable such at once tc
their dwellings.
THE treasury gold reserve at the
close of business on the 10Th, stood al
s-a .s. ~ /
day were $I.9l9. 100 in gold. and there
was deposited in gold by banks in ex.
change for currency 81, 900, 600.