The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-07-30
Two HUNDRED AND fifty -four Span.

Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOUR Span.
ish prisoners, captured On four prize
steamers, sailed from View York for
home on the ed. As the Hesperia, on
which they sailed, DIR .opped down the
bay, the departing prisoners heartily
cheered the Americ. An flag.
The treasury department. has COM
menced the deli'ery of the new wal
bonds. 1t is tn e intention of the secre-
tary OF the treasury to put out the
oonds just as. rapidly as the bureau of
engraving and printing can supply
them.
uEoRG e NJ. ALLEN, for Ii years editor
OF the ferre Haute Qnd) Express, has
been appointed chief clerk to the first
ASST slant postmaster-general. In the
absence of Mr.. Perry Heath he will act
rs first assistant.
. Mrs. SALLIE HoBsoN, mother of
Lieut.. Hobson, arrived at Atlanta, Ga,
On the 25th, on a visit to her son, John
n. Hobson. Mrs. Hobson expects to
meet the lieutenant in Atlanta before
his return to Santiago.
INDICTMENTS were voted by the Cook
county grand jury, on the 25th, against
President George H.. Wheeler and Sec
rotary James Howard of the Washing
ton Park race track at Chicago,
charging them with violation of the
state gambling law.
Two FAMILIES, consisting of 13 peo-
pie, on the De Coursey farm, south of
Leavenworth, Kas., were poisoned by
buttermilk said to have contained
ptomaines. One child, five years old,
died, on the 25th, and others were dam
gerously ill.
Don CARLOS, the pretender to the
Spanish throne, arrived at Lucerne.
Switzerland, on the 25th, with his wife
and aide-de-camp.
THE earl of Mimic has been appointed
encouragement of Canada in success
sion to the earl of Aberdeen.
WHILE Judge Parry, of the Lanca-
shire (England) county court, was de-
livering Judgment, on the Goth, can
ceiling the commission of Court Bailiff
Taylor for misconduct. the latter drew
a revolver and fred three shots at the
judge, probably fatally wounding him.
LORENZO d. NJ. SWEAT, who repre-.
sented the First district of Maine in the
Thlrty-eighth congress, died in Port
land, Me-, on the 10Th, aged so years.
Mr.. Sweat, a democrat, was an active
supporter of the Union in the civil
war.
The steamers Lakme and North Fork
were announced to leave San Francisco,
on the Both, for Honolulu with $50 men
of the New York volunteer regiment,
who will garrison the islands.
GEN. MILES arrived off the coast of
Porto Rico, on the Goth, and captured
the harbor of Guanica, Is miles west
of Ponce, after which he proceeded to
disembark his forces and munitions.
Two THOUSAND people attended the
twelfth annual regatta of the Iowa
State Amateur Rowing a~ssociation,at
Ottumwa, on the 26th. The day was
fine, and the course as smooth as glass.
ALMA POINT light, near Ceuta, the
| Spanish penal settlement on the coast
of Africa, will be extinguished until
further orders.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Madrid, on
the Goth, said: Miss Shafter [Schleyl
has been requested to leave Spain
forthwith"
REPORTS from Cooks Inlet say that
not much mining has been done this
season on account of high water.
On the 10th the navy department
issued an advertisement calling for
proposals for constructing, by contract,
four harbor defense monitors provided
for by the naval appropriation bill.
The bids will be opened Saturday, Oc-
tober 1.