The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-20
OK the 18th the state department 70

cetved a copy OF PRESIDENT CreSpo meS
sage to the Venezuelan congress OF Feb
ruary 90, sent by the American minis
ter at Caracas, in which he discusses
the arbitration treaty at considerable
length and urges the congress to post
pone all other business until a decision
is reached upon it.
PHYSICIANS at st. Luke's hospital,
Chicago, said, on the 18th, that they
had hopes of the ultimate recovery o !
Mrs. Caroline E. Bragg, who was mys-
teriously shot at her home, 221 East
Thirty-frst street. If she RECEIVERS,
the physicians say, she will be totally
blind, the bullet having penetrated the
right eyeball. Mrs. Bragg has made a
new will disenheriting her adopted
daughter Josephine.
THE LaGrange county safe in the
courthouse at Lagrange, Ind, was
blown open, early on the morning OF
the 18th, and $500 was carried away.
| Two Thousand pennies just received
from the mint was a portion OF the
plumber.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY, on the 18th,
signed the new patent convention
with Japan, which thus became opera
tive.
BY the falling of a section of the old
wall in the ancient town Of Fee, Mo
rocco, on the 18th, $50 workmen were
killed.
AFTER a weeks stay at the White
House, "Mother" Mckinley and Miss
Helen Mckinley, the presidents sister,
left Washington, on the 18th, for their
home in Canton. o. They were accom-
panied by Capt. Heisland, the presi'
dents military aid.
RANAvoLANA Ill, the queen of NADIA
gascar, who has only held her position
since the island was made a French
colony, has been exiled to the island OF
Reunion. a French possession near the
island of Mauritius.
AS RESULT of the several confer
ences which have been held, not only
by republicans, but by the democratic
senators, it may be definitely said that
the men who have been appointed SEN
ators by the governors in states where
legislatures have had an opportunity to
elect will not be seated.
| INVESTIGATION has revealed the fact
that hundreds of important signatures
have been distracted from the congress.
sional library. In the files OF the house
documents not a signature OF Webster,
Clay or Lincoln remain.
A REPORT was made to the police, on
the 18th, that Lewis Forbes, a we'll
known resident of Springfield, O., and
a cousin of President Mckinley, had
mysteriously disappeared from his
home.
JOHN +. SULLIVAN, the murderer OF
Mrs. butcher and her young son Har-
ris, was hanged in the Jail yard at
Dorchester, n. B., on the 18th. Sulli-
van walked to the gallows in an IN
concerned way, and was apparently
oblivious of his doom.
On the 18th Secretary Long issued an
advertisement for 5000 tons of nickel
steel Harveyized armor for the battle
ships Alabama, Illinois and Wisconsin,
together with the necessary bolts and
various hollow forgings, ammunition
hoists. etc.
Mr. ALBERT Mort, of Baltimore, has
been appointed chairman of the ma,
tional racing board of L. A. W. to sue
coed George D. Gideon, of Philadel-
phia, who declined reappointment.
Gov. BRADLEY of Kentucky, ON the
18th, refused to grant Scott Jackson's
appeal for clemency. Jackson will hang
on the Goth.
ARTHUR MAYHEM, a negro, was cleo
trocuted in the prison at Sing Sing, N
Y, on the 18th.