The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24

A DISPATCH from Essen-on-the-Ruht
announces that ten persons were killed,
on the 14th, by an explosion of fire
damp in the Oberhausen pit.
SECRETARY BLISS of the interior de-
partment has held up an order issued
by the authority of his predecessor
comforting 4S, 900 acres of land upon the
state university of Missouri as an addi-
ton to its endowment fund.
MIR WILLIAM F. RYAN, of the Dis
trict of Columbia, who for a long time
occupied a confidential position in the
pension bureau, has been retained as
confidential clerk to Commissioner
Evans.
the 10th, was still above Vicksburg, and
the weather bureau issued an emphatic
warning to the people of Louisiana to
remove from places that have been
flooded in former years, as the danger
was imminent and pressing.
JAMES ii. GoRDY was convicted at
Georgetown, Del, on the 18th. of muir
der in the first degree for the killing of
his wife, formerly Mrs. Mary Estella
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into the Broadkill river at Milton, Del,
March II.
FROM reports made to the committee
in charge of the land parade at the
dedication of the Grant mausoleum in
New York, it is figured that so, 600 men
will participate. including regulars, ma
tiOnal guards, veterans and civic so
cieties.
GEN. WEYLER, tired of trying to sub
jugate the Cuban insurgents in the
field, is now trying to strike them
through their source of material aid in
this country by seeking to encompass
the arrest of the junta and. its agents
in New York and Washington.
BUT one weak dixie and a lettering
railroad embankment stood, on the
18th, at Omaha. Neb., between the yell
! low flood and millions of dollars worth
OF city property in the shape of ware
houses and big manufacturing estab-
lishments on the low lands.
A DISPATCH from Constantinople says
that in the last encounter between the
Greek irregulars and the Turkish regu-
lar troops on the M~acedonion frontier
| Illc ldIUtT lOSU -tU hlllcu anu "OulUtu.
THE Lowell observatory, which was
transferred from Flagstaff, Ariz.. to
Mexico, early in December last, for the
purpose of observing the opposition of
Mars and for the measurement of south
ern double stars, has been ~dismounted
and shipped back to its original loca-
ton after three months remarkable
service
THREE lepers, natives of Iceland,
have arrived at the lazaretto at Ira
cadie. Gloucester county, n. Ii. They
were taken from Winnepeg, Man., in a
freight car. which was directly behind
the locomotive, and was ~placarded to
warn the people to keep away from it.
The captain and crew of the Norwe-
gian ship Sentax, 81 men in all, from st.
John, n. b., for Newport, England,
before reported passed abandoned,
were landed at Philadelphia, on the
10th, by the British steamer Snowflake
from Penarth.
A TELEGRAM was received by the
Cleveland (O.) Leader, from Asheville,
n. C., on the 10th, stating hat Mrs. S.
VI. Hanna. the mother Of Senator Han
ma. had died at that place from pneu-
monia, aged 81. She had been sick only
about a week.
CASHIER STICKNEY, of the Great Falls
national bank, of Somersworth, n. H.,
was brutually murdered, on the 10th,
by two unknown robbers, who after
wards escaped with an amount of
money estimated at So, 900.
The statement of the condition OF
the treasury, on the 10th. showed:
Available caSh balance, S224,617, $50;
gold reserve. $154, COB. 125.