The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-22
,KE Johnstown PAL Flood Co

THE Johnstown Pa.) Flood Corrc-
spondents' association will hold its an
nual meeting and dinner at the Wax
dorf hotel, New York, on the evening
of the 31st.
On the 18th the senate committee on
finance reached an understanding by
which it was practically agreed that
the debate on the tariff bill should be-
gin on Monday the oath inst.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury issued, On the 18th, showed:
Available gold balance, SEES, 70T, 297;
gold reserve, S14S, 04s, 401.
A PRELIMINARY contract for a loan of
SIC, 600, 900 $3.50, 600, 0OO) has been signed
in Pekin in behalf of a British syndi-
cate.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY is preparing a
special message to congress on the Gu
ban situation. 1t will contain some
startling disclosures as to the suffer
ings of American citizens On the island
under the concentration orders of Gen.
Weyler.
Col. BUCK, of Georgia, the new min.
lister to Japan, has received instruc-
tions to stop for a weeka at Honolulu on
his way to his post. These instrue-
tons are looked upon as significant by
the friends of Hawaiian annexation.
AN Athens dispatch of the 18th said
there had been a rising in central
Macedonia, and that 1000 insurgents
had captured the pass forming the prin-
cipal line of communication of the
Turkish army.
THE wheat crop of Oklahoma is larg-
err than ever before in the history of
the territory. The estimates of the
average yield run from 25 to 80 bushels
an acre, while some fields will produce
as high as 60 bushels.
JOHN ROSENBERG, a Russian sailor, in
prison at San Quentin, Cal, for horse
stealing, has made a sworn confession
before a notary, and in the presence of
several witnesses, that he killed
Blanche Lamont in Emanuel church,
in San Francisco, at the instigation of
a stranger and in consideration of
the payment of 500 for his bloody
work.
THE returns received by the immi-
grafton bureau during the last several
months show a marked falling off in
the number of immigrant arrivals in
this country. The number of arrivals
during the nine months ended March
81, 1897, was 142, 941, as compared with
2O9, $50 for the same period in the fiscal
year 1896.
FAILURES throughout the United
States during the week ended the 14th,
as reported by r. q. Dun e Co., were
264, against pa for the corresponding
keew last year. For Canada the failures
were 81, against SO last year. .
THE proceedings brought by the
heirs of the late Jay Gould to have the
amount of the inheritance tax fixed
was argued before the appellate di-
vision of the New York supreme court
on the 18th.
JUDGE JOHN LOWELL, the distin-
guished jurist, died at his home in
Brookline, Mass, on the 18th. He had
been i'll for some time, and his death
had been expected for several. days.
JAMES FRENCH, wife murderer. was
found guilty at Rockford, ILL.,, on the
14th, and the death penalty was i'm
posed.
STEPHEN r. MALLORY was elected
United States senator from Florida, on
the 14th, on the twenty-ifth ballot.
MAX MARETZEK, the w~ell-known OPP
cratic manager, died at his home on
Staten Island, N. Y, on the 14th, aged
rs.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued IN the 14th,
showed: Available cash balance, $780,
ITS, 729; gold reserve, S147, sos, 512.