The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-07

| OK Saturday the associated banks Of
New York city held S44, 5O4, 675 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
The cruiser Topeka formerly Diog.
enes) arrived safely at New York, IN
the list, after a tempestuous voyage
across the Atlantic. She proved her.
self a good sea-going craft. She brought
a large consignment of Hotchkiss guns
and ammunition.
The state department has learned
through its secret agents that the
wreck of the Maine in Havana harbor
has been destroyed by the Spanish au-
thorities. The information has in
tensfed the desire to "Avenge the
Maine"
GEORGE E. BOWMAN, associate editor
of the Appeal to Reason, has been com
PEELED to leave Girard, Kas., on account
of a sighting remark about the Stars
and Stripes used in an article CRITICS.
ing the worship of the flag by the
American people.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Vienna, of
liz 4ot. says Illd EuSIIId SCCICIlN
aiding Spain, and that Greece is about
to sell, through a third party, her three
finest warships, to the Austrian gov
eminent to be transferred to Spain in
lieu of some petty obligation.
A DISPATCH from Ravenna, capital of
the province of hat name in central
Italy, says a bread riot occurred at the
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The troops fired on the rioters and
wounded five of them severely.
IT was suggested at Madrid, on the
I'd, that the half-breeds at Manila
arsenal, insurgents at heart, cut the
cables connecting with the submarine
mines, enabling Dewey to force the
harbor in safety.
AT two o'clock on the morning of
the I'd a mob tried to break into the
Apollo theater, in Madrid, to hold a
manifestation. The police prevented,
but windows were broken before the
crowd dispersed.
A c from Madrid, on the I'd,
said: "Weyler declares himself ready
to return to Cuba and undertake the
leadership of an aggressive warfare
against the United States army of in
vasion.
TIE statement of the condition of
the treasury issued on the I'd showed:
Available cash balance, S2l5, $40, 622;
gold reserve, SlSI, 1928, 126.
The pope was Frustrated by the
news from Manila. His holiness e
pressed horror at the terrible loss of
life, and said ne wished he had died be-
fore seeing such a war.
ACCORDING to a dispatch from Cadiz
to the London Daily Chronicle, on the
I'd, it is believed that orders nave been
given for a fleet of five vessels TO start
for Cuba on the 18th.
PRINCE koUNG, president of the
tsung Ii yamen. or Chinese foreign of
flee, died in Pekin on the ID.
ARMED men are guarding the Aetna
powder mills at Miller station, Ind,
day and night, for fear the works may
be blown up by some Spanish sympa-
thiZer.
THE First national bank of Car.
thage, n. Y. closed its doors, on the
3D., the president of the bank having
absconded.
In response to a telegraphic request
received from Miss Clara Barton, the
central Cuban relief committee of New
York shipped from that city, on the
4th, in one of the outgoing steamers
of the Mallory line, 20 tons of food for
the Cuban refugees at Key West, Fla.
A KEY WEST special says that one of
the officers captured on board the Span
ish steamer Argonauta is reported to
be a brother in-law of Gen. Weyler.