The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-06

SEVEN hundred reinforcezlents ar
rived in Havana, on the 1st, from
Spain.
AMADRID dispatch says that the pay
of the army in Cuba is 800, 900, OOO pese'
tas. or about $50, 900, 600, in arrears.
SHAREHOLDERS in the defunct Union
national bank of Denver. Col, re-
ceived notice, on the lst, from Comp
troller Eckels. to the effect that. in or
der to pay the debts of the bank, it is
necessary to enforce the individual
liability of the stockholders as pre-
scribed by the revised statutes. he
therefore demands of the stockholders
of the bank $500. 600, payable before
November 90, at the rate of 500 for
each share.
The Chickasaw legislature, in ses-
sion at Tishomingo, l. T., on the LIST,
ratified the agreement entered into
between the Dawes commission and
Indians for the allotment of their
lands and dissolution of their tribal
government. The Indian solons stood
IS for and 10 against ratification of
the treaty, the full-blood element OPP
posing the measure.
SPECIAL AGENT ZEvELY, of the in
terror department, whose sensational
discovery of $50, 900 worth of fraudu-
lent Creek Indian warrants was re-
Gently announced, reached Washing
ton, on the Ist, and made a verbal re-
port of his investigation to Acting Sec
rotary OF the Interior Ryan.
A STATEMENT, issued on the 1st, by
the bureau of statistics showed that the
number of immigrants arrived in the
United States during the first three
months of the present fiscal year was
40, 296, which is a decrease of nearly
1,5OO, as compared with the same
period last year.
The monthly statement of the comp
troller of the currency shows the total
circulation of national bank notes, on
October 80, to have been $3.50. 047, 635.
ONE man was fatally injured and five
persons were severely bruised by a col
lision on the Panhandle road at Harris
dale, Ind, on the 1st.
A POSITIVE and final refusal was
given by the 500 road, on the I'd, to
the request that it become a party to
the agreement to withdraw commits
sions on north Pacific coast business.
Before the 500 will agree to this prop
osition the other roads will have to
concede it the difference it has been
demanding for two years on east-and-
west bound business. Its competitors
are equally determined that it shall
never be allowed these differences.
DURING the progress of "a fire at Bor-
not's dyeing and securing establish
ment in Philadelphia, OH the I'd. a
large can of benzine exploded. Thir-
teen fremen were SO seriously burned
hal they had to be taken to a hospi-
tai. 1t was feared that some of them
might lose their eyesight.
CASHIER SILFvERBERG. of the Copen-
hagen branch of the Mutual Life in.
Co. of New York, who was ar
rested on September 2S, charged with
embezzling 40 crowns, and with
classifying his accounts, was, on the
Sd, sentenced to TWO years penal serv-
itude.
CYCLIsT j. A. BRIEGEL left Chicago,
on the I'd, bound for Klondike. via Ell
Paso. Tex, Los Angeles and Frisco,
Cal, and Seattle. Wash. A large
crowd congregated to watch the man
start on his long journey. His wheel.
with outfit, weighed so pounds.
RETURNS of the general election in
Newfoundland, received from all but
two Legislative districts, show that the
opposition party, headed by Sir James
Winter, carried 81 seats, the govern.
mentc andidates holding only Is.