The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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9th, and stood patiently waiting for the
whistle to blow. All expected to go to
work, but only as many as the work
warranted were taken in. In all about
400 out of the $50 strikers were en-
ployed.
Mrs. RICARDO RUIZ, widow of the man
alleged to have been murdered recently
in the dungeon of the G~uanabacoa Jail,
in Cuba, arrived at New York, on the
sth, from Havana. Mrs. Ruiz will go
to Washington to lay before the de-
partment of state her claims, as the
wife OF a murdered American citizen,
against the government of Spain.
A DISPATCH from Colon, on the Sth,
said a report had reached that place
from Panama that ex-Vice-President
Ezeta died in the latter city on hat
date.
HoS. THOMAS F. BAYARD, United
States ambassador, and Mrs. Bayard
are arranging to make a tom of Italy,
and will probably start from London
for Florence on March 90.
THE special Pullman train conveying
the members of the French opera com
pany from New Orleans to San Fran
cisco, was wrecked, at midnight of the
Sth, at Casa Grande, Ariz. All OF the
passengers on the train were badly
shaken up and frightened, and a tramp
stealing a ride between h baggage
cars was killed.
EDWARD j. RUSSELL, alias Meredith,
charged with Matchmaking ex-Corpora-
ton Counsel Almet F. jerks, of Brook
lyn, out of 81 500, by representing him
self a. the agent of a press association,
and demanding that sum for the sup
preston of a story, was, on the 9th,
sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing
prison.
On the 9th Senator Allison, chairman
of the republican caucus, appointed the
following steering committee: Sena-
tors Allison, Hale, Aldrich, Cullom,
Davis, Sewall and Carter. BY the &C
ton of the caucus Mr.. Allison was
made chairman of the committee.
AT the annual meeting of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway Co., held in st.
Louis Oh the 9Th, the old board of di-
rectors was reelected. The arrange
ments for the extension of the Iron
Mountain bonds was affirmed.
IT is authoritatively stated that the
works of the Maryland Steel Co. at
| Sparrow's Point, Md, will start up all
its departments in a few weeks, thus
giving employment to over 1000 men.
SECRETARY SHERMAN, on the 10th, re-
ceived a ~cablegram from Consul Nc
Carr at C~ienfuegos, Cuba, stating that
Antonio Suarez del Villar had been
liberated.
On the 10th Mayor Campbell, of Bowl
ing Green, O., imposed a fine of five
| dollars and costs upon himself for be-
ing drunk and disorderly. His hon.
or was carried to the police station in
a beastly state of intoxication and Oc-
! cupied a cell with the common drunk
ards. Citizens are indignant, and he
will probably be removed from Office.
GEN. RUSSELL HASTINGS, of Bermu-
da, w. l., said to have been ranking
officer Of President McKinley's regi-
ment during the war, was knocked
down and run over by n wagon near
the treasury building in Washington
city on the 10th, fracturing his right
leg near the knee.
The Mussulmans who were besieged
by the insurgents at kandamo, island
of Crete, arrived at Canea, on the 10th,
on board an Italian var ship.
Ex-UEITRD STATES SENATOR JOSEPH
| DoLPH died at Portland, Ore, on the
10th.
The north-bound Illinois Central st.
Louis express collided with a freight
train at East Cairo, KY, ON the 10th, at
1:2O a. m, killing Fireman Walter
Rogers, colored, and injuring Tele-
graph Operator Goodwin Boaz, who was
in the station, which was knocked over
into the backwater by the passenger
engine, which left the track.
THE flagship Philadelphia, with Ad'
miral Beardslee on board, has left AGA
pulco, Mexico, for San jose de Guate,
mala, to be present at the opening Of
the international exposition as repre-
sentative of the United States.
Mrs. CORA STUART WHEELER, a well
known literary woman, died in Boston
on the 10th.
WIN. II. HEAToN, ex-commissioner o.
King county, Wash, was arrested il
Seattle, on the 9th, on a charge of EN-
bezzlement of county funds. 1t il
claimed that his populations amount t.
about $40, 900.
In a tenement house fire in Brooklyn
on the 9th, Mrs. Gladys Duncan threw
her eight-months-old boy from tn
fourth-story window, and then jumped
to the pavement. The babe was killeC
and the mother fatally injured.
A SPECIAL, dated the 10th, from Ia
vana, said: From information receive,
1 can announc positively that Capt.
Gen. Weyler has had orders to seel
Gomez and offer him whatever term
are necessary to end the war"
The members of President McKin
ley's cabinet are meeting some disagree
able surprises at the manner IN vhicl
they find themselves blocked in the dis
pensation of patronage by the applica
ton of civil service rules made opera
tive by President Cleveland.