The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PRIMROSE day, the anniversary of the
death of Lord Beaconsfield, was OBJ
served in London, on the 10Th, with the
usual display of his favorite flower.
The decoration of the Beaconsfield
statue surpassed all records.
AT Marshalltown, Ia, there was 4
remarkable change in temperature on
the night of the 18th, the mercury
dropping from IS to &c in a few hours.
Ice formed half an inch thick.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, on the 10Th, showed:
Available cash balance, S225, 1888, COS;
gold reserve. S154,659, 546.
On the 10Th the senate agreed to vote
on the arbitration treaty OIL May 5 at 4
p. m.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, on the Goth, showed:
Available cash balance, S224, 069, 179;
gold reserve, S154, I'll, 364.
The White Squadron, under COM
mand of Rear-Admiral Bunce, arrived
at New York, on the Goth. from Fort
ress Monroe, to take part in the Grant
monument dedication. The squadron
includes the New York, flagship; the
bat1leships Maine and Texas, the cruis-
err Raleigh and the coast defense vessels
Amphitrite and Terror.
BURGLAR FRANK CoNNoRs and High
wayman Ben Johnson, desperate Grim
inals, seriously and perhaps fatally
wounded Jailer Charles Fay at the
Wyandotte county Jail in Kansas City,
Kas., on the Goth, while attempting to
escape.
Gov. ADAMS of Colorado, on the Goth,
vetoed the bill regulating the manu-
ture and sale of oleomargarine. The
veto message was sensational in the
extreme. as the governor included in
his message a letter from n Denver
lawyer to an oleomargarine manufac-
turer in Chicago, going to show that
the bill was passed by means of the
most open and bare-faced bribery.
SHERIFF BURR, of Los Angeles, Cal,
received & telegram from the sheriff of
Hennepin county, Mimi, OF the Goth,
requesting him to arrest Mrs. Laura
Austin on a charge of abducting her
own child, which was awarded to the
custody of her ex-husband by the SUI
perior court at Minneapolis.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans
held a meeting in the Hotel Marlbor-
ough, New York city, on the Goth, and
perfected arrangements for partici-
pating in the Grant parade on the 27th.
1t is expected that there will be about
500 sons in the parade, most of them
mounted.
THE Pennsylvania board of pardons,
on the Goth, recommended commuta-
ton of the death sentence imposed up
on James B. Gentry for the murder of
Actress Madge York to Imprisonment
for life. Gov. Hastings approved the
recommendation.
THE interior department has granted
permission to Chief Joseph, the Nez
Perces warrior, to accompany Col.
Cody in his Wild West show. Chief
Joseph is the famous Nez Perces chief
captured by Generals Miles and How
ard in 1877, after a pursuit of nearly
5000 miles toward the British frontier.
The barkectine City of Papeete,
which arrived at San Francisco, on the
SASC, liom 1dhiei' oiOuSn1 AS"S SoA
frming the report that Queen Namae
of Raiatea, one of the Society islands,
had been captured by the French and
sent into exile with her husband and
principal chiefs.
FRANK EVANS, the lightweight pugil-
list, died of conclusion of the brain, on
the ed, caused by a right-hand blow
on the chin delivered by Matt Semichy
in the fourteenth round of a fight be-
fore the San Jose Cal Athletic club.
Semichy was arrested for manslaugh,
ter