The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-07-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AS THE result Oh a lOng-StdnulnP
feud, Amos Lynch and Floyd Della
fought a duel IN the highway near
Corydon, Ind, ol the 29th, and Della
was fatally wounded.
IT is said in London that there is no
doubt the marquis of Salisbury's
| speech, on the Goth, was intended as
a hint to the powers that Great Britain
is in sympathy with the United States.
THE degree of Master of Arts was
conferred upon Hon. VIM. r. Day,
secretary of state, by the University
| of Michigan at its commencement ex-
e~rcises or the 30th.
Hon. JOHN c. TRAER, a member of
the Iowa constitutional convention of
1855, died at Vinton, Ia, on the 1st,
aged 70. He was n of the early pio-
neers of that section of the state and a
prominent republican politician.
A DISPATCH to the Madrid impartial
from Santiago de Cuba, on the list,
said that four American war ships
bombarded ManZanillo at 4 a. m and
retired with one vessel seriously in
jured.
l. AANS NRPcAhbNN
George Bruce C~ortelyou, of New York,
assistant secretary to the president, to
fill the additional position of that grade
recently created by congress.
NINE negroes were drowned near
Plaquemine, La, on the 1st, by the up
setting of a skiff. One white and three
colored men were saved by holding on
to the skiff.
IT is charged that the Spaniards have
adopted the d~astardly trick of hosting
the Red Cross flag to protect their men
working in the intrenchments.
THE Indian and the sundry civil APP
preparation bills became laws. on the
1st, by the president affixing his sigma
ture.
A BRIDGE across the Mohican river
at Shelby, O., fell, on the 4th, with
1000 people. -Four were killed out
right and a hundred injured, some of
them seriously. A public wedding
was being celebrated on the bridge at
the time as one of the features of the
Fourth of July celebration.
A sTORM of tornado proportions struck
Hampton, n. H., early on the morning
of the 4th. Trees were uprooted, sew
eral cottages along the shore at Hamp-
ton Beach were blown down, and ten
persons were injured.
The United States dispatch boat
Zafro, which arrived at Hong Kong,
on the 4th, from Cavite with the re-
port hat the American troops arrived
there on June 80, reported also that
Admiral Dewey, when the Zafro left
on the 1st, was planning to attack
Manila with the fleet and troops on
the 4th.
The United States troops on the
transports City of Sydney, City of
Pekin and Australia, conveyed by the
United States cruiser Charleston, ar
rived off Cavite, Philippine islands,
on the 3Oth.
THE Chicago newspapers which had
suspended publication several days be-
fore on account of the strike among
the stereotypers gave it out, on the 4th,
that they would resume publication on
the 9th.
WHEN Cervera made his attempt to
get away from Santiago Admiral
Sampson, with his flagship, the New
York, was several miles away, in the
vicinity of Aguadores, Commodore
Schley directed the action which re-
suited in the destruction of Cervera's
fleet, Sampson not arriving on the
scene until it was practically COM
pleted.
GEN. LINARES, the commander of the
Spanish forces at Santiago, was severe
ly wounded in the fighting around that
place, and a Madrid report of the 4th
said that it was rumored that he had
succumbed. Gen. Vara de Roy was
among the killed