The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE body of Marie Flood was found
in the Ohio river at Cincinnati, on the
10th, and identified. She was a promi-
nent Sister of Charity and escaped from
Mount Adams convent over a month
ago. She was evidently demented.
WHILE Harry Flynn was drowning in
Lake Michigan, on the 9th, in full view
of hundreds of spectators in Lincoln
park, Chicago, Albert Mattarl, one of
the observers, suddenly pitched for
ward on his face, dead. His death was
ascribed to excitement, caused by
watching the struggles of the drown
ing boy.
The United States senate, on the
10th, agreed to the resolution directing
the committee to inquire
into the cause of the recent Mississippi
river floods and to report next Decem-
Der.
CAPT. JOSEPH KING, who said he was
1O6 years old, died, on the 10th, at his
home in Lansing, N. Y. He claimed
to be of Indian descent.
The supreme court of the United
States, on the 10th, denied the petition
for a rehearing in the Trans-Missouri
association case.
THE grand jury of the criminal
branch of the United States circuit
court in New York city, on the 18th,
indicted Capt. Edward w Reed of the
ship 7. F. Cakes for maliciously, and
without justifiable cause, withholding
food from the crew of his vessel on
the voyage from Hong Kong to New
York.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 18th,
showed: Available cash balance, $780,
COS. TAB; gold reserve, S147, $50, s67.
HENRY b. CHEATHAM, of North Caro-
lima, was, on the 18th, nominated by
the president to be recorder of deeds
for the District of Columbia
JUDGE DAY, of Ohio, qualified and
assumed the duties of his Office as as
sistant secretary of state o. the 18th.
THE sublime porte has ordered the
mobilization of the fifth and sixth
army corps reserves, stationed at
Bagdad. Syria, and for the immediate
dispatch of so b~attalions to Kenich.
As these troops are not needed to
operate against Greece, the powers are
getting anxious to know what Turkey
by it.
JOHN SHERMAN, secretary of state,
celebrated his seventy-fourth birthday
anniversary, in Washington, on the
night of the 18th.
The Kansas supreme court has az
firmed the decision of the district court
of Saline county, giving a verdict for
Judgment and costs against the city of
Salina in favor of Wade Adams, the
father of Dana Adams, colored, who
was lynched by q mob in Salina about
four years ago.
IT is intimated that the state depart
ment is in possession of a report from
Consul General Lee which, if made
public, would result in freedom for
Cuba or the biggest kind of a nus
with Spain.
The British war Office is reported to
have ordered 90, 900 special transport
mule wagons from the United States,
for immediate shipment to South
Africa. The contract price is $500, 600.
A DISPATCH from Havana says yellow
fever is increasing daily. Spanish SOL
diers are attacked one after the other,
and train loads of sick soldiers are con-
stantly arriving at Havana.
THE senate committee on foreign
relations, on the 18th, decided upon an
adverse report upon Senator Aliens
resolution expressing sympathy with
the Greeks in their war with Turkey
on the ground that the subject had
been covered in former action of the
senate.
SENATOR BUTLER introduced a reso-
luton, on the 18th, requesting the
president to inform the senate under
what authority the proposed sale of
the Union Pacific has been agreed o.
between the executive and any COM
bination of purchasers"
A SPECIAL dispatch from Cape Town.
South Africa, on the 18th, announced
that a serious engagement had taken
place in Rechuanalaad. Chief Toto had
been captured and many volunteers
killed.
PERU and Bolivia have submitted
their territorial dispute to the arbitra-
ton of Spain.
ATBaxter Springs, Kas., on the 18th,
Col. Alexander Warner, president of
the defunct Baxter bank, was arrested,
together with his son, B. S. Warner,
assistant cashier of the concern. on q
warrant charging them with violating
the state banking law, sworn ont by
Louis Imbeaus, an Indian.