The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-08

SHERIFF MCDONALD, Of Omaha, Neb.,
went to Lincoln. on the 2sth. to arrest
]. S. BARLEY, ex-state treasurer,
on q charge of embezzling s2o1, 600.
THE delegates to the postal congress
are beginning to arrive from all quar-
tiers of the globe.
DETAILS of a terrible slaughter Of
Spanish soldiers by Cuban dynamiters,
show that a Spanish column of 1000
men was utterly put to rout by Gen.
Calixto Garcia on the 18th, and instead
of ten soldiers killed, as the official re-
port declared, 200 were blown up by
the bombs and $50 were slain by the
insurgents during the confusion and
excitement of the panic-stricken Span
ish column.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL HALL at
Santa Fe, n. NJ, received word, on the
Goth, that Black Jack had been killed in
Arizona, is miles west of Clifton, by a
posse of deputy marshals. 1t was at
first thought the man killed was Sid
Moore, but the body vas later identi-
fed as that of Black Jack. Big re.
"d1 O11ClCu " lC oAASoS VA
Jack will be paid to the posse.
w. ]. DUNN, a prominent contractor
of Pittsburgh, Pa, who was charged
with forging assignments of city esti-
mates on contracts, entered a plea OF
non contende on one Indictment, on
the Goth, and was remanded to Jail for
sentence. There were IL other indict-
ments, involving about $50, 600, still
pending against him.
A SPECIAL dispatch to the Berlin
Nord Deutsch Zeitung from Athens, on
the 29th, said that King George had
signed a decree withdrawing the ex-
equateurs of all Turkish consuls in
Greece.
SENATOR ALLEN, of Nebraska, intro
duced in the senate, on the Goth, a pro-
posed amendment to the tariff bill for
the abrogation of the Hawaiian reci-
procity treaty on July 1, 1898.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued o n the Goth, showed:
Available cash balance, 1929, 500, 61S;
gold reserve, S154, $40, 273.
MAYOR BERKEY of Guthrie, Okla.
and President Horner of the Guthrie
club, after comforting with the citi-
zens' relief committee, on the 30th, is
sued formal notice to the neighboring
cities and towns, in which they stated
that outside aid would not be required
in the proper caring for flood sufferers.
Permanent relief committees had been
formed, they stated, and the needy and
destitute were being Systematically
cared for.
THE United States consul at Guade-
loupe, West Indies, telegraphed to the
state department at Washington, I'M
der date of April 90, from Point Apitre,
as follows: Severe earthquake; loss
heavy; many injured"
THE president has decided not to
interfere in the case of Joseph R. Dun.
lop, proprietor of the Chicago Dis
patch, who was sentenced to two years
Imprisonment for sending obscene mat
ter through the mails.
ABOUT June 1 Oshkosh, Wis, will have
in operation the first grass Irvine fac.
tory in the world. 1t will employ SOC
and will make Irvine from marsh
grass, something never attempted before
THE British foreign Office has mailed
the reply of the marquis of Salisbury
to the request from Washington for a
into the Behring sea fisher
les dispute. 1t is reported that the
British premier's reply is in the mega
tive, on the ground of expense.
DISPATCHES received from Volo, by
way of Athens, on the seth, said that a
terrible panic prevailed there, and that
if the place should fall into the hands OF
the Turks the situation of the Greek
army would be desperate.