The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-17
Ak official dispatch from Manila, cap

Az official dispatch from Manila, cap
ital of the Philippine islands, on the
9TH, stated that ZOO houses had been
destroyed at Touvo by a fire which was
accidentally started.
THE foreign admirals, on the sth,
sent a war ship to kissamo, with in
structiOns to assist the Turks in evac-
uating that place, the latter having de-
clared it to be impossible to resist the
Cretan insurgents.
A BIG FOUR freight train was ami
lated by an explosion at the Belt
junction, near indianapolis, Ind, on
the sth. The trouble probably origi-
mated in a car loaded with whisky,
which had n hot box.
IT was reported in Havana, on the
1h, that a band of insurgents had at
tackled a train bearing Gen. Ruis Rivera
from San Cristobal to Havana and sue
ceeded in carrying off their wounded
chieftain.
SECRETARY WILSON is giving all the
preference possible under the civil
service rules to Union veterans in APP
pointments and promotions in the agri-
cultural department. Both the ability
and the war records of the veterans are
duly considered, but they are put ahead
of other candidates wherever possible.
AN elevator in the Ellicott Square
building at Buffalo, n. Y, fell five sto-
ries, on the Sth, injuring A. o. Girls
void, Elyria, o.; Charles Harsch, To
ledo; George Woman, Toledo; c. Mes
Ser, Toledo; Madison Hobart, Pember-
vile, o., all G.. A. X. veterans, who
were inspecting quarters for the ma
tional encampment.
The women of Denver, Col, won
their first signal victory under equal
suffrage in the last election. They
nominated, worked for and triumph
antly elected a ticket which will deal
an icy blow to the sporting and saloon
element, who comprised its most bitter
opponents.
JOHN CANNON, a farmer lex Ma
rietta. Ind, and his twin babies were
probably fatally burned, on the Sth,
by the explosion of an oil can in the
hands of Mrs. Cannon while filling n
lamp, and it burning. Mr.. Cannon
was holding his babies by the table
when the accident occurred.
AUSTRALIAN advices state that S.
Duncan. a white trader, while trading
with natives of New Hebrides, was
made a prisoner, forcibly fattened,
roasted with due ceremony and Toasted
,,Don NV tha caDnihalS
THOMAS W. STEEP, the missing
Scripps-McRae league correspondent in
Cuba, has been found. He is in the
camp of the patriots. The length of
time he has been there is not now
known, but there is no doubt that he
has been with the main army of the
patriots for some time.
IMPORTATION received from Pretoria
states that the British have secured In
yack island, at the entrance to Delagoa
bay, and that a squadron of war ships
from Cape Town will proceed there to
take possession of the island and pro-
claim it British territory.
LEWIS MAYO, one of the Oldest imple-
ment and seed dealers in Kansas, on
the 9th made an assignment to ]. w.
GRANGER & Co., of Leavenworth, for the
benefit of creditors. Liabilities and
assets not stated.
THE Greater New York charter has
been returned to the state legislature
with the disapproval of Mayor Strong
of New York city and Mayor Wuerster
of Brooklyn. Mayor Gleason of Long
Island City approved it.
OF the SO guests who were sleeping
in the Hotel Knox, at Knoxville, Tenn,
on the morning of the sth, when the
fire broke out, only 35 have been &C
counted for. .