The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-09-18

NEWS mas Deeu I6celVeu dJ ocdIttc,
from Alaska, hat the steamer Eliza
anderson, bound north with gold hunt
ers and supplies, has been lost with all
on board.
A HURRICANE, terrific in its velocity,
struck Port Arthur, Tex, at an early
hour on the evening of the 18th. Six
persons are known to have been killed,
while many others were injured.
Buildings were blown down and great
damage was wrought. Several other
towns on the gulf coast were nearly
wiped out.
The villages of Los Melones, Mejia
and San Pedro, west of Las Tunas,
Cuba, and close to the Jucaro-Moron
trocha, have been taken with little re-
~sistance from their small forts by the
insurgent vanguard of Gen. Calix to
Garcia.
The British war office has notified
the ameer of Afghanistan's London
commercial agent that no war material
or machinery for the manufacture there
of will be allowed to cross the frontier
of Afghanistan during the present
crisis.
Hon. HANNIs TAYLOR, the retiring
American minister, presented his letter
of recall to the queen regent of Spain,
at San Sebastian, on the 18th, and in
doing SO made a short complimentary
speech. Half an hour later the queen
received Gen. Stewart L. Woodford,
the new minister.
Cr-nrr0D INacnTx -hn hoe hann OF
Ocean Springs, Miss, for some time,
was taken i'll on the 18th. This infor-
nation came from Surgeon Murray,
who did not state the nature of the ILL
ness, but it is supposed to be yellow
fever.
SURGEON GUITERAs, the yellow fever
expert, reported, on the 18th, to Sur
geon-Generai Wyman from Mobile,
Ala: Have found one case of yellow
fever at the city hospital, Norwegian,
who has not been out of city; probably
fatal termination. One suspicious case.
l apprehend serious outbreak"
THREE masked bandits stood ten
Omaha CNeb.) citizens up in line at an
early hour on the morning of the 18th
| hHu EtllCNGu each u 1TOLA CIV W ~lOO.
The victims were members of n social
party who had taken possession of a
peer garden for 4 little entertainment
A WOMAN, demented and almost nude,
was found in the woods near M~elrose
Park, Cook county, ILL.,, on the 18th,
by some farmers. The woman was in
a terrible condition from exposure and
%privation, having been living in the
woods for at least a month. Her de-
scription is said to tally in many re-
spects with that of the missing Mrs.
Luetgert.
Col. GUTAv PABsT, a son of the
Milwaukee millionaire brewer, was
married at Ventnor. Isle of Wight, IN
the 14th, to Miss Hilda Lemp, a daugh-
ter of the millionaire brewer, w. j.
Lemp, of st. Louis.
Col. S. HARVEY, of Colorado Springs,
Col, took from Cripple Creek, On the
18th, 4 piece of ore weighing over 100
pounds, which was literally alive with
free gold, and which carried values ag-
gregating fully 500, 600 to the ton.
On the 18th the president appointed
lJuIlcI ID llllucI- vi IcHHSy lNdLid,
United States district attorney for the
western district of Pennsylvania. Mr..
Hainer was formerly u member of con
gress.
JUDGE SLACK, of San Francisco, on
the 18th, decided the An~gus-Craven
case in favor of the plaintiffs, the heirs
of the late Senator Fair, after the jury
had failed to agree and been discharged.
REV. JAMES q. X. MCCLURE was, on
the 14th, elected president of Lake
Forest university at Chicago.