The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-03-13

An examination Of accounts of Navy
Paymaster Corwine, lately stationed at
Newport, R. L, is said to show a short
age of from IS, 900 to $40, 600, and as he
cashed a check before ~absconding for
SIS, 900, his shortage will amount to at
least SIS, 900 and probably more.
JOHN CoRwIN, the United States navy
paymaster, who recently left Newport,
r. l., accused of being an embezzler OF
government funds, was arrested in Chi
cago on the Sd. When arrested he con-
fessed to a shortage of $40, 900.
PASSENGERS arriving from Havana on
the Sd reported that the crew of the
Competitor had been released and that
the schooner had been restored to
them. The report is not confirmed.
FoURof the annual appropriation bills
failed to become laws because of the re-
fusal of President Cleveland to sign
them. Three of these, the sundry CIV
il, the Indian and the general deficiency
bill, failed to reach him in time for him
to give them close scrutiny, and the
fourth, the agricultural appropriation
Dill, IdlIcu W StCuES LID dPpiONn"
BY the derailment Of a rapidly NOV
ing wrecking train at Deep Cut, on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, three miles
east of GAINESVILLE, O., on the 4th, three
men were killed and two fatally and
eight slightly injured. The train, con-
sisting of an engine andfve cars, rolled
down q 40-foot embankment.
A PRESS dispatch from Athens repre-
sents King George as declaring that
Greece is ready for war with Turkey,
and will yield to no admonition from
the powers. The king is reported to
have added that the powers might
blockade Greece, but in the interior
they would be powerless. The Greeks,
he said, were fully prepared to fight to
the death, and the Macedonians were
eager for revolt.
The singing of hundreds of canaries,
in gilt cages suspended here, there and
everywhere, was a notable and very
pleasing feature of the inaugural ball
in Washington or the night of the 4th.
A DISPATCH from Montevideo, the
capital of Uruguay, says that a state
of siege has been proclaimed there and
orders have been issued for the mobil-
ization of the troops of the republic.
THE report of the health officers show
that since the outbreak of the bubonic
plague in Bombay, up to the 4th, there
had been 1888 cases and 5,97S deaths
from the disease.
An explosion, on the 4th, Of gas
which leaked from the two six-inch
mains that cross the subway at the cor
ner of fremont and Boylston streets,
Boston, killed six, injured two, prob
ably fatally, and less seriously injured
nearly fifty other persons.
b. D. HATCHER. cashier of the de-
funct Northwestern national bank OF
Great Falls, Mont, which closed its
doors on February 5, was arrested in
that city, on the 4th, on a complaint
made by Bank Examiner James &.
Lazear, which charges misapplying
money, credits, and property of the
the bank in the sum of 800, 900.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended OF the 9Th,
as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were
246, against 2S5 for the corresponding
week of last year. For Canada the fall
ures were 50, against IS last year.
A CAUCUS of republican representa-
tives in congress will be held at eight
o'clock on the evening of the 18th for
the purpose of nominating candidates
for Office in the ensuing congress and
for other business.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN BELLAMY SToRER,
of Cincinnati, has been rendered and
accepted the Office of first assistant sec.
rotary of state, now filed by MI. Rock
hill, of Maryland.