The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-11-27
THE roval decree for the establish

THE royal decree for the establish
ment oil autonomy in Cuba was sub
mitted to a Spanish cabinet council
| on the 22d.
GEN. ALBERT 0RDwAY, of WashfNg-
York, on the 2lst
SAN Francisco and Puget Sound
gamblers are preparing to reap a Klon-
dixie harvest on a scale scarcely less
extensive than the big transportation
companies. They will open big hotels
and gambling resorts from st. Michaels
TO Dawson and at Dyea, Weangel and
Juneau
JOHN DENMARK. a farmer, was shot
while sitting in his arm chair in the
dinihg-room of his home near Van
Etten, n. y, on the 21st. The muzzle
of a double-barreled shotgun was
forced through the glass in a window,
and at short range the murderer in the
dark blazed away with both barrels.
Mrs. NJ. A. TRIGG. aged 81 years, and
her ten-year-old daughter, Ethel, lost
their lives in a fire tina: destroyed their
residence in Topeka, Kas., ON the 2lst-
A son escaped with a broken leg, jump
ing from a secOnd-story window.
DR. GUITERAs, the yellow fever ex
pert, expresses the opinion that yellow
fever vas imported to this country
from Havana, which port always ha
been a menace to the health of tn,
United States.
ANGEL PAZ, who betrayed the Cubar
| (ynn Castillo 70 tho Sn1niar1S for G.
600, was recently captured by the in
surgents on his way to Cienfuegos
tried by a drumhead c~ourt-martial and
hanged.
The grand jury, convened in special
session in Taunton, Mass, on the I'D,
found indictments against w. Shay
n Frank Ford, common councilmen
of Fall River, for soliciting brides in
connection with the awarding of con-
tracts for furnishing a school.
The United States treasury, on the
22i, received from the reorganization
committee of the Union Pacific rail-
way SI3, 645, 25O in cash on account of
the purchase of the road. and turned
over to the committee that amOun in
bonds which had been On deposit with
the government in the sinking fund of
the road.
CAPT. LEONARD A. LOWERING, of the
Fourth infantry, stationed at Fort
Sheridan, H. appeared before a coust-
martial at that post, on the I'D, to
stand trial on the charge of conduct
prejudicial to good order and military
discipline" the specific charge being
Ii causing of Private Hammond to be
dragged over the ground by the heels
from the guard house to the office of
the regimental adjutant.
A of SIX years and six
months each, at hard labor. in the
eastern penitentiary and the costs of
the prosecution was imposed by Judge
Butler. in the United States district
court at Philadelphia, on the ed,
upon John b. Meixell. ex-cashler, and
Willie Z. Hoch, ex-teller of the South
Bethlehem (Pa.) national bank, both
of whom pleaded guilty to embezzle-
ment.
HERBERT WISWALL, a Boston CAPT.
talist, who fell down a stairway in the
Grand theater at Atlanta, Ga, recent
ly, died on the 22d. An inquest by the
coroner's jury found that the fall was
accidental. The remains were shipped ;
to Boston.
The United States tornedo boat Por-
ter arrived at Savannah, Ca, on the |
to arrange for a visit of the Erics-
The Porter made the trip from |
Port Royal in three hours.
MRS nRETTT- ,;I.. |
john Boyle O'Reilly, the patriot, poet
and editor, died at her home in Boston
Oh the 22d, of pneumonia.