The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-10-23

4hE OOredu legation IN hdSnlnBVC~s
received a ~cablegram. on the 18th,
stating that the date on which the
king of Corea proclaimed himself en-
peror was October Is instead of the
18th, as previously reported.
COL THOMAS s. BARR, assistant Judge
advocate general, has been transferred
from the department of the east to the
department of the Missouri, exchanging
places with Lieut.-Col. John w. Clous.
The statement of the condition of
treasury, issued on the 18th, showed:
Available cash balance. $40, 42S. 27s;
gold reserve, $50, FOG, CTS.
THE case of the State of Illinois
against Adolph L. Luetgert, charged
with numbering his wife and reducing
her remains in a vat used in his sau-
sage factory in Chicago, was given to
the jury, on the 18th, but up to 100 a.
IN. of the 10Th, the latter had failed to
agree and a hung jury was anticipated
by the waiting attorneys and populace.
CONSUL MONAGHAN, at Chemnitz,
Germany, in a report to the state de-
partment urges Americans to make
every effort possible to secure a good
exhibit at the Paris exposition in
1900. He says that Americans who
have been to Leipsic and Brussels have
returned disappointed at the poor
showing made by the United States.
The Terre Haute(Ind.) Electric Street
Car Co. went into the hands of a re-
~ceiver, on the 18th, as a result of a levy
made by the city treasurer for delin-
quent taxes, amounting to SO, 900. The
company also owes $40, 600 for street
improvements, and has a heavy bonded
Indebtedness. Russell Il. Harrison is
president of the company.
A DISPATCH from Colon, via Calves
ton, Tex, on the 18th, said: The Co.
lombian authorities have seized, at
David's bay, near Panama, 1000 rifles
and 500, 600 cartridges on board the
schooner Colombia, bound for Nicara-
qua. The rifles and cartridges ap-
peared on the manifest of the schooner
as diving machinery"
TIE state department, on the 18th,
refused the request of the Mexican gov
eminent for the surrender, under the
~extradition treaty, of Jesus Guerra,
who was in the celebrated Garcia raid
into Mexico in December, 1892.
On the 18th Savannah. Ga, removed
all quarantine restrictions on cotton
from yellow fever-infected territory.
The quarantine was continued against
passenger travel from infected sections.
ONE-TuIRD of the $40. O0N, 900 Ioan put
on the London market by the Dominion
government will be taken up by Ca
madam banks and capitalists.
THE steamer Belgic arrived at San
Francisco. from Yokohama, via Homo
lulu, on the 10Th, two days ahead of
schedule time.
COUNCILLOR AKIYAMs, who attempted
to commit suicide by carving himself
with a yataghan shortly after his re-
turn to Japan from Honolulu, was re-
ported, at last accounts, to be in a fair
way to recovery.
CHARGES of inefficiency in the man.
agement of the Kansas City post Office
have been filed at Washington against
Postmaster Homer Reed and Assistant
Postmaster C. NJ. Seidlitz.
j. Is. THUNNISoN and wife, of Mitch
ell, S. D., were found unconscious in
their home, on the 10th, overcome by
the fumes of gas from a hard coal stove.
THE Japanese government has decid-
ed to apply the gold standard to the
currency of Formosa Immediately.
OF the e135, 600 in bullion withdrawn
from the bank of England, on the 18th,
e85, 900 was il American eagles.
COL DENLY. United States minister
at Picking, has been very i'll, but is now
convalescent.