The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-05-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ON I'M ON nv PASoAoSAb SShb AS LII
lowing nominations to the senate.
Robert n. Patterson, of Tennessee, to
be consul-general at Calcutta, India,
and Stanton Sickles, of New York, to
be secretary of legation at Madrid.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the Sd, showed,
Available cash balance, S2%1, 254, 221;
gold reserve, SAG, COS, SS7.
FIRE broke out at 4 p. m, on the 4th,
in a crowded charity bazaar in Paris, at
which the flower of the old French
aristocracy were present An indie
scribable panic ensued, as a result of
which hundreds of lives were lost, the
bodies of a large portion, including
many titled ladies, prominent church
men and women, being incinerated.
Latest reports put the loss of life at
$50.
JOSEPH R. DUNLOP, publisher of the
Chicago Dispatch. left Chicago, on the
4th, in custody of Deputy Marshal John
A. Logan, for Joliet, to begin his two
years term in the penitentiary.
ACCORDING to official reports re-
ceived at the palace in Havana, on the
Sd. "a battles were fought the previous
day. as follows: In Santiago, six;
Puerto Principe, two; Santa Clara, ten;
Matanzas, six; Havana, two; Pinar del
Rio, eight. The aggregate losses, as
officially reported, were: Cubans, 81
killed; % prisoners; Spanish, 81
wounded.
GEN. HORACE PORTER, United States
ambassador to France, sailed for his
post on the 5th. Previous to his de-
parture he was presented with a beau
tiful silver-bound illuminated album by
his friends of the Union League club of
New York, whose names, after those of
President Mckinley and cabinet,
adorned the pages.
A SPECIAL from Webster City, Ia, on
the Sd, said: 1t is given out that the
amount of Cashier H. II. Espes' defal-
cation from the Savings bank Of Rad
cliffe is in the neighborhood of SIS, 600.
Espes has left for parts unknown.
COLLECTOR KHBRETH of New York
city received from Secretary of the
Treasury Gage, on the 4th, q series of
regulations aimed to prevent the i'm
p~ortation of spurious and adulterated
teas. The new regulations, which
must be put into effect at once, provide
for the expectation or destruction of all
teas which do not come up to the stand
ard Fixed by the new regulations.
ADMIRAL MEADE (retired), U. S. N,
who had been i'll at Washington city
for three weeks, died at DIR. Johnson's
private sanitarium. on the 4th, of grip
aggravated by appendicitis.
A COLLISION occurred off Girdless
lighthouse, on the coast of Scotland,
on the 4th, between the British steam
ers Coldynee and Gringoe. The Colby
nee sank and IL of her crew were |
drowned.
A MAN named Lawrence, confidential
servant of Mrs. Arthur H. Blair, of
Chicago, has disappeared, and with him
diamonds to the value of Ss, 600 and
81, 500 in money. He was sent to make |
a deposit in Mrs. Blair's safe-deposit-
box, but took the contents instead and
skipped.
GEN. ~SMoLENsKI says that Prince
ordered the Greek retreat
from Matt and that the order was a
blunder. Prince Constantine says that
he did not order a retreat but that as
he assumes the re-
sponsibility for it.
FIVE anarchists, convicted of partid-
patton in the bomb outrage of June 2
last, at the feast of Corpus Christi, were
to death at Barcelona, Spain, on
the 4sh. They died shouting: Long
live anarchy"
The senate, on the 9Th, passed the
bill to provide for free homes on the
public lands for actual and bona fde
settlers, known as the free homestead
bill;' yeas, a; nays, IL