The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-06-05
THE town of Leyaneer, NorwaJ, on

THE town of Levanger, Norway, on
the Trondhjem Fiord, was almost COM
pletely destroyed by fire on the Goth.
The cenfiagration swept away four
ffths of the buildings.
FREDERICK DE LA TOUR BooTH-TUcK-
Err, commander of the Salvation Army
in the United States, was, on the Goth,
convicted of maintaining a d~isorderly
house at the big army barracks in West
Fourteen street, New York city. Sci
tence was postponed until June s.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY, on the Goth,
committed to life imprisonment the
sentence of Dennis Davis, convicted in
the United States court for the west
ern district of Arkansas of murder and
sentenced to hang July %, 1897. The
president found mitigating circum-
stances.
The American members of the COM
mission investigating the death of DIR.
Ruiz in Cuba seem confident that the
findings will be so far satisfactory as
morally to back Consul-General Lees
report upon the case, and at the same
time to justify the claims of the widow
of DIR. Ruiz for damages from Spain.
ADvICEs from Cuba received at Phila-
delphia, on the Goth, were to the effect
that Gen. Gomez would temporarily
| resign as commander of the inSurgent
forces and come to this country as
secretary of war pro tenn of the Gu
ban republic to confer with President
Mckinley on the Cuban situation.
GEN. NELSON A. MILES, who left the
| United States with the intention of OBJ
serving the Greek-Turkey war, started,
on the Goth, for Athens, with his suite.
The general has abandoned his pro-
posed trip to Thessaly.
IT is likely that the persons arrested
for participating in the notorious See
| lev dinner in New York city last Janu-
ary that was raided by Police Captain
| Chapman, will not.b be tried. The dis
trict attorney. according to report, has
about come to the conclusion that the
best interests of the community de-
mand that the details of the dinner be
allowed to remain buried.
A COLLISION between a freight and a
passenger train at American Falls, %
miles west of Po~catello, Idaho. early
on the morning of the 2Sth, caused the
death, so far as known, of nine men
and the serious injury of eight others.
Two of the latter will die. This is the
worst wreck that has occurred on the
Short line in many years.
ALBERT NJ. KING, who fed from Bos-
ton recently with $50, 900 of the funds
of the Boyleston national bank in his
possession and was arrested and taken
back, was arraigned, on the 27th, be-
fore a United States commissioner on a
charge of embezzling. He pleaded not
guilty and furnished bond. He will
be held to the grand jury.
IT was reported, on the 27th, that
the Turks had confiscated l,250,00
bushels of wheat at Volo. and that the
Turkish commander had issued a proc
lamation calling upon the peasants to
return and gather the harvest or their
crops would be contiscated.
BUFFALO CALF, the aged chief of the
Quapaws, died of pneumonia, on the
9th. at the Quapaw agency, in the
northern part of the Indian territory.
He was the last of the Quapaws.
THE final conference report on the
sundry civil bill was agreed to in the
senate on the 27th-32 to %.
OFFICIAL and probably false Spanish
reports, given out on the 27th, detail a
series of engagements at Sienras Ami
mas, Ell Cuzcu and Brujo, in which a
number of Cuban ships and ten boats
were destroyed, 4 quantity of arms and
munitions captured and "a Cubans left
dead on the field besides a number car
ried off by their comrades. The Span
ish lost five men killed and 81 wounded