The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-27
THE DEMOCRAT.
b. II. ADAMS, Publishes.
CAPE GIRARDEAU. MIS- SOURI,.

EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany 3
rived at Kiel, on the 22d, to attend a.,
swearing in of the naval recruit
On the 18th Secretary of da,n por,.,
of Nebraska was fined 9 % In tbe In
coin police court f.or violating the
health ordinance by buteherinG hog.
within the city limits.
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The President has granted a full par.
ton to 5. NJ. Folsom, the Albuquerque
q. ID banker, sen up for five years
for publishing false statements of his
banks condition. Depositors have
since been paid in full.
The budget committee of the lower
house EFF the reichsrath to which the
bill providing for a provisioualrenewai
of the compact between Austria ant
Hungary was referred, announced, OF
the 18th, that it had adopted thai
measure.
LONDON Suffered, on the 18TH, .fEpn
one of the most disastrous fires, il its
history since 1866, in which 1T was. off,
'cially reported that $50 immense ware
houses, together with theircostlyecon
tents, were consumed, the damage be.
ing estimated at G5, 00e, DOC.
A GERMAN force kaS Anded Mt Kia
Chua bay, China to demand satisfac
ton fer the murder eff the Rhensh mis-.
sionaries heal Yen Chu Fu and the mob.
bling Of the German minister to China
and the captain Of the gunboat Cor
morant, the latter incident having oc.
Cured on November 6 a. Wu-Chang.
FRANK PHJsCATeR, of Michigan, re-
Gently from the klondike, where he is
reputed to have acquired z mining
claim which he has disposed of for
81, 600, 900, was at the war department,
on the 18th, having been summoned
by the government to confer respect
ing the conditions in the mining coun-
try.
THE Dominion Cotton &c. of Mon
treal, Can, has decided to substitute
electricity Tor steam power in its mills,
and has made a contract with the La
chine Hydraulic Go. for the supply of
electrical power for their establish
ment. The contract will run for 90
years. The power is-generated by the
Lachine rapids.
SECRETARE ALGER Eeceiyed a tele-
gram from q LOs Angeles Gal news
paper, ON the 18Th, .offaring to publish
the advertisements of the-var depart
nent calling for proposals for the
building of the breakwater at San
Pedro, Cal, and take the chances of
obtaining U-aey il payment from con-
Gre- xxi session.
FoRTY-EIGRR men from the interior
o. Austria. who were arrested in the
swamps of Mississippi By United States
inspectors, on the charge of violating
the alien labor contract law, were, on
the 2lst, with their LEADER Jahan
Poke, locked up in the Immigrant
house of deteRtion at Locust Point,
Md'' awaiting deportation to Bremen.
LIE Madrid correspondent of the
London Daily Nail said, ON the Goth:
ASoS s. A111OAH JlO
manufacturers Of Catalonia against
tariff concessions to Cuba AT Bar
celona.a committee has been appointed
with Instructions TO go to Madrid aud
organize a meeting of senOrs aud
deputies to protest against the cOnaes-
siOnS."
HE five survivors of the crew of the
alleged flibuster Competitor, recently
.pardoned and released from Spanish
prisons in Cuba: Arrived at New York.,
on the ed, on. the steamship, Saratoga.
The description of these mental and
physical WRECKS Of former men and
citizens, as furnished by the
press dispatches. was pitiable in the
GEN. SAUssIER, the military governor
OF Paris. has appointed Gen. Pollieux
inquire into the charges brought
against Ferdinand Walsin E~sterhazy,
former major of French infantry, who
has been charged by sMakkieu Dreyfus ,
with the crime for which Capt Alfred i
Matthews brother, is now I'M :
HSO6 SSHPNHSS ~ lhSp$Rb0uLuSuG I
or life. 9
AT a meeting of the Spanish cabinet,
N the 18th, u letter from the United i
states minister, Gen. Stewart L. Wood 7
ord, was read, expressing the salts 8
Of the United States govern !,
nent relative to the settlement of the .
case and other current "
Iuestions. The communication Great 7
d a good impression in Spanish polit- a
cal circles. h
TIE cabinet was in session for two q
Iours, on the 18th, the time being de-
oted largely to a discussion of the an -
reports of the different mem A
'ers. The more important reports q
rom the treasury, war and navy de- Z
'artments not having yet been made -
these were given consideration. \