The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-07-31
THE DEMOCRAT.
B. II. ADAMS, Publisher.

CAPE GIRARDEAU. MISSOURI
RETURNING Christian Endeavorers
visiting the National parkin Wyoming
on the Goth, enjoyed the novelty OF a
snow storm in July.
SPECIALS from Fargo. Grand Forks,
Crookston and other Red River valley
points say that too much water Is 1aIl-
ing for the good of the wheat crop.
from Constantinople on
the 2Ist, said: The sultan has issued
an trade sa%nctioning the settlement OF
the frontier question in accordance
with the wishes of the powers.
REAR-ADMIRAL j. n. MILLER will sail
for Honolulu on the mail steamer leav-
ing San Francisco on August 5, and
upon arrival at the Hawaiian port will
assume command of the Pacific squad
ron.
The ambassadors at Constantinople
have forwarded to their respective gov
ernments their joint suggestions rela-
tive to the measures they think neces-
sarv in view of the contumacy of the
porte.
MEMBERS of the congregation OF the
First Presbyterian church of Washing
ton DENY in the most emphatic manner
that there is any dissension between
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage and them
selves.
THE official press of Yokohama
states that it is probable that the Jap
anese government will agree to the
proposal of Hawaii, and submit the dis
pute between the two countries to ar
bitration.
THE conference committee on the
tariff bill agreed upon that measure, on
the 10Th, and submitted its report to
both houses of congress. The bill as
submitted was passed by the house by
a vote of 1S5 to lis
The amount OF treasure brought
down to Seattle, Wash, from the famed
Klondyke region by the steamship
Portland is now placed at 81, 800, 900,
and there is good reason to believe that
the sun was nearer to 81, 900, 600.
BUSINESS failures throughout the
United States, for the week nde on
the SD, as reported by r 6. Dun "
Co., were 227, against Isl for the CORE
spending week of last year. For Can
ada the failures were IS, against 80
last year.
On the 23d the president appointed
VIM. E. Corson, of Wisconsin; D. A.
Keepers, of Ohio; John L. Wertz, of
Nebraska; James Jeffreys, of Tonnes
see, and Howell P. Wyton, of Indiana,
to be special agents to make allotments
of lands in severalty to Indians.
THE Indiana statute of 1895 provid-
ing that no convict-made goods from
other states can be sold in Indiana
without a state license and bond Of So
600 has been declared unconstitution-
al. The law also required that the
goods be labeled convict made
The colossal equestrian statue to
Mai-Gen. John A. Logan was unveiled
in the Lake Front park, Chicago, on
the 22d, by John A. Logan the Third
the ~fve-year-old grandson of the
BLACK Eagle" of Illinois, in the pres
ence of an immense of PEG.
pie,
TWELVE document cases in the Office
of the clerk of Kings county, in Brook
lyn. toppled over on the 21St, causing a
chaos hat will cost 500, 600 to correct.
The cases were filed with index
records of court proceedings and other
official papers dating back as far as
1912.
NOAH BANEY, a convict at the Michi-
gan City Qnd.) prison, has made a writ
ten confession, which, if proven true,
will have the effect ot giving Rev. W.
Z. Hinshaw, who vas convictedgtwo
years ago and sentenced to life impris-
onment for the murder of his wife, his
liberty.
The Carnegie and Bethlehem iron
companies have refused to bid for sup.
plying armor for battleships within
the $500 limit fixed by law, on the
ground that it is not possible for them
to produce armor of the quality they
have been supplyingt to the government
at hat figure.
A COMPANY has been formed in Port
Townsend, Wash, which will at once
send a buyer to the sheep ranches OF
eastern Washington and Oregon tc
purchase 1000 head of sheep, which
will be shipped north and driven tc
Dawson City to supply mutton to the
klondike miners.
AN ordinance has been passed by the
city council of Los Angeles, Cal, anc
is now in force, which prohibits the
public exhibition of pictures of pug i
listic contests by the vitascope OIL
other similar devices. The ordinance il
the resultof = petition of the Woman:
ChristianTemperance union.
ANOTHER effort is to be made by tn,
American and English governments t.
pass an arbitration treaty. There i:
the best reason for believing hat tn,
matter will be re-opened at Washing
ton in October, and that a short treaty
of less scope than the last, will be ar
ranged for submission to the respect