The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-04-11

IT was learned from several sources,
on the lst, that King Menelik and all
of his chiefs except the ras of Tigre,
had retreated, their provisions having
given out.
THE debt statement, issued on the
1st, showed a net increase in the pub
lie debt, less cash in the treasury, dur
ing March. of S., PA. $50. Total cash
in the treasury, SS74, 9GS, 957.
\ DISPATCH from Colon, on the I'd,
said the American schooner w. Whit
ford, of New York, had been seized by
the gunboat Cordova, six miles off
Manzanillo. The schooner was with
out cargo, but the captain of the gum
BOAT threatened to sink her, and put
ting an officer on board conveyed her
to Colon, accusing her of having con-
travened the customs law.
E. MANUEL NINGEI was arrested in
New York. on the night of the LIST, and
confined in Ludlow Street Jail in de-
fault of $40, 900 bail. In his arrest the
secret service agents of the federal
government believe that they have a
counterfeiter who has baf1ed all their
efforts for Il years.
THE Ohio senate passed the Fosdick
a~nti-theater hat bill, on the I'd, and it
is now a law.
Mrs. FREEMAN, the wife of a farmer
living east of Shoals, Ind, on the I'd.
saved a train from running through a
burning trestle by tagging it with her
pctticoat, in the absence of any other
available article.
THE law just enacted in Ohio pro.
vides that any manager permitting
any person to wear a hat or other head
gear in 4 theater, ~Obstructing the view,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall be fined SO.
The conference of the Dominion and
Manitoba commissioners at Winnipeg
on the school question was u~nproduct-
i've of results, the Manitoba people
standing firm for non-sectarian
schools.
A LIFE-sIZED statue of Thomas JEFF
~ferson, to cost S75, 900. is to be erected
in New York city. The monument is
to be typical of the life, achievements
and person of the great Virginian-
H. II. HOLMES, the condemned muir
derer of b. +. Pitezel, is setting his af-
fairs in order preparatory to his execu-
ton in Philadelphia May Z.
JOHN TURNER, who has been a recog-
nized leader in the anarchistic move
ment in England, has come to this
country to teach the doctrine.
A New YORK city dispatch says:
Brick" Pomeroy. the noted printer,
editor and promoter, is dying of dropsy
al Blythebourne, l.. /.
DURING the last quarter the total
number of vessels built and document
edin the United States was 124, of IS
10 tons, as compared with 12S vessels
of 1886 tons for the previous quar-
ter. Of these e. were sailing and SO
steam vessels.
REPRESENTATIVE BENNETT, of New
York, laid before the house
committee al their meeting, On the Sd,
a substitute for the various Hawaiian
cable bills already introduced, provid.
ing that the cable shall extend from
San Francisco to Honolulu, thence to
the Midway islands and to China and
Japan. The government is to pay a
subsidy of $1,000 600 for 20 years, for
which government business is to be
carried free of cost for ali time.
The house committee on buildings
and grounds, on the Sd, unanimously
ordered a favorable report to be made
on Representative Quigg's bill to build
a 81. 600, 900 customhouse in New York
city, IN the site of the present building.
The shaft of the monument to mark
the birthplace of George Washington
was placed in position, on the I'd, at
Wakefield, Westmoreland county, Va.