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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

IN the senate. on the 25th. the pen-
sion deficiency appropriation bill, car
r ying nearly $1,000, 900, was passed.
Mr.. Allison. in charge of the war rev
enuc bill. endcavored to secure unani,
nous consent that a final vote on that
measure be taken on the 2Sth, but the
motion was antagonizcd by Mr.. Teller
Coll and Mr.. Daniel (Na.G, the latter
threatening to offer some amendments
to the measure that would probably
precipitatc debate. In the house. the
house bill granting certain lands to the
territory o; New Mexico for schools.
charitable institutions. public build
ingS, and for irrigat,ng and RiC
Grande river improvement purposes
was passed. The house then listened
to ~eulogies upon the late Senator
George, of Mississippi, adopted the
usual resolutions and adjourned.
JAMES j. DORSEY was found dead in
a yard at Key West, Fla, within a hall
block CT the KY West hotel, on the
18th. His face and head were bruised
beyond recognition. This. together
with the assault of Il negro upon two
sailors, on the night of the cath, has
reused the people to demand that the
city be put under martial law.
Col. JONATHAN MERRIAM, n United
States pension agent at Chicago, issued
the first pension voucher of the wal
with Spain on the 18th. 1t was for Mrs.
Elsie a. Montfort, of Council Bluffs,
la matthew aF Nantnan Nm II Mont
fort, who was u victim of the Maine
explosion in Havana harbor, Febru-
airy 10.
GEN. MILES has recommended to Sec
rotary Alger that First Lieut.. A. ).
Rowan, of the Nineteenth infantry, be
promoted to the rank of lieutenant
colonel. This Gen. Miles did as a rec.
ognition of the valuable services per.
formed by Lieut.. Rowan in his recent
p~eriious mission to Cuba.
The transports Australia, City oil
Picking and City of Sydney left Sar
Francisco, on The 18th, for Manila
Philippine Islands, with $500 troops to
reinforce Admiral Dewey. Wild scenes
of enthusiasm on ship and shore
marked the departure.
The president, on the 18th, issued a
proclamation calling for IS, 900 addition.
al volunteers. The national guard be-
ing practically exhausted, tine enlist
ments under the new call will be gen.
eral.
IT is semi-ofticialIy denied in Berlin
that there is any TRUTH the story from
Manila regarding the German consul
threatening Rear-Admiral Dewey foI
Lot permitting the landing or provi
slons from German ships.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
IRON MAINE 70 Texas.
A Comprehensive and E &cient Sys
tenn for Observing the Approach
of a hostile Fleet.
IT'S THE BEST EVER PUT IN OPERATION.
The Coast Signal Service Now in Good
Working order, with Cooperation
from the Lighthouse and Life-Saving
services-Nothing Can Escape Their
Vigilance.

WASHINGTON. May a5.-After several
weeks of work along the entire stretch
of the Atlantic and gulf coasts, the
navy department has completed the
most comprehensive and efficient sys-
tenn for observing the approach OF a
hostile fleet that has ever been put into
operation. A new bureau has been
created for this purpose, known as
the Coast Signal Service" in
charge of Capt. Bartlett, who at
tends to this as well as the work
of the naval board of information.
The system has the services of $500
men stretched along the coast from Bar
Harbor, Me-, to Galveston, Tex. These
are divided into Fl central stations
about SO to 100 miles apart along the
coast. The stations are in turn con-
nected directly by telegraph with the
coast signal Office of the navy depart
ment, and operators are on duty n ight
and day keeping the navy department
in constant telegraphic touch with the
entire stretch of Atlantic and gulf
coasts.
Secretary Long projected this plan a
month ago and SIS, 900 was set aside to
establish the points of observation
along the coast. After selecting the
81 central points from Maine to Texas,
rush orders We're given to build obser-
walton towers and houses for the OBJ.
v Naval militiamen. with the
rank of naval quartermasters, are now
on duty at each of these stations. The
towers are completed, and also the
small houses for their living purposes
There are 233 of these miiitiamen now
in the service. The next step was to
have the lighthouse service made an
adjunct to this coast observation. This
was done through the cooperation OF
the treasury department and the light
house force of 1,200 men from Maine
to Texas are assisting the work of OBJ
~servation. The li~fe-saving service was
brought into similar cooperation, SO
that now LOGO l~ife-saverS are added to
the observation force. The "a central
stations, with the numerous light
houses and .~life-saving stations, make
a complete chain of observation points,
all connected by telegraph or telephone
with one another. and with the navy
department.
BY arrangement with the telegraph
companies the reports from these OBJ.
servers take precedence over the pri.
vate Geographic business, so that the
navy department is enabled to get i'm.
mediate telegraphic notice of the ap.
proach of any hostile fleet or suspicious
ship.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Deaths Doings.

Capt. J. Il. Coffey, a veteran of the
civil war, and well known at st. Joseph,
afte, an illness of three weeks. He
suffered from pneumonia.
Harman Goesling, aged As, of Milan.
He was buried under the auspices of
the odd fellow lodges of the county, of
which he was an honored member.
Joseph Cooper, ex-sheriff of Noda-
way county, at Homer, in Cooks inlet,
Alaska. Mr.. Cooper owned extensive
coal mines in the vicinity of Homer.
He died last November, but owing to
poor mail facilities the news was al
most seven months in coming.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
A Matter of Importance.

WASHINGTON, May 25.-The post of.
fee department renew its request to
all persons addressing mail to officers
or privates, or others in military camps
throughout the country, to plainly
write upon the letter or parcel the com.
pany, regiment and state. For ex-
ample: John Doe, Company D, Six.
teenth Illinois Infantry, Falls Church,
Va"
At Camp Alger, which receives its
mail from Falls Church, Va, there are
located a number of regiments bearing
the same numerical designation, and
the state name should be attached.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

THE important announcement was
made in Madrid, on the 10Th, that the
Spanish Cape Verde squadron had ar
rived at Santiago de Cuba. The fact
that Admiral Cervera had evaded the
United States squadrons which had
been searching for him for weeks, was
hailed with delight and as an evil
dence hat the Spanish commander
was too much of a strategist for the
Americans.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

At tho seventeenth annual encamp-
ment of the department of Missouri, u.
A. T., held at Carthage, \. Il. Peterson,
st. Louis, was elected commander;
Comrade Henry, Kansas City. senior
mander; I. b. little, Carthage,
junior vice-conmander; Rev. E. Terrell,
chaplain; DIR. bronson, Sedalia, medical
director.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
IIOuse Landed In Il Tree.

Grant Stubblefieid's residence. two
miles from Cassville, Barry county,
was lan,led in u tree 100 feet from its
foundation. Mr.. Stubbletield and fam
lily had barely time to reach the cellar
when the house left. Mrs. Porter. an
aged lady in the neighborhoOd, was
severely injured, and 4 child OF Noah
Brattin was not expected to
from it's bruises.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

AFTER a fight lasting several years,
the government has secured from the
railroads a concession under which
officers and privates making long jour
neys will be given through tickets.
Heretofore each road has hOnored a
government order for transportation
by issuing a ticket over its OVID lines
only.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

The navy department posted a short
bulletin, on the Goth, stating that the
department had information, believed
to be authentic, that Admiral Cervera,
with his Spanish flying squadron, was
at Santiago de Cuba.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

PosTMAsTER-GENERAL SMITH has re-
established mail communication with
the Philippines and revived a regula-
ton which allows a soldier, sailor or
marine to send his letters unstamped,
postage to be collected on delivery.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

On the 23d the United States supreme
court decided convictions under the
oleomargarine laws of Pennsylvania
and New Hampshire to be invalid, thus
holding the laws unconstitutional.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

THE governor of Curacao, Dutch West
Indies, has sent a cable dispatch to the
foreign office at The Hague saying that
only two of Admiral Cervera's ships
We're admitted in the harbor, in spite
of the Spanish admiral, and he adds
that they were only allowed to take on
board coal enough to take them to the
nearest harbor.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

A SPANISH official version of the en-
gagement said to have taken place off
Santiago de Cuba, on the 10Th, previous
to the arrival of the Spanish fleet, says
the American war ships were repulsed
and adds that one of them vas dam
aged.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

THE state department has made for
NAL response to the Austrian govern
ment as t. the Hungarians killed at
Hazleton, Pa, in the riots of last fall,
supplemented by a strong argument to
maintain the position taken by our
government-namely, that it was not
responsible, under the circumstances,
for the killing.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
Damage By a Flood.

At Galloway, eight miles south of
Springfield, Bud Hayden lost Is head of
cattle in the flood. The James river
was two miles wide in places, and great
damage was done to the crops on the
bottom lands.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

CAPT. TLLsoN, the United States
army recruiting officer located at Cieve-
land, O., received a telegram from the
war department, on the oath, directing
him, until further orders, to send re-
cruits enlisted by him to the Preside,
San Francisco.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
M:ssourian Killed Himself.

Says a dispatch to a st. Louis paper
from FL Paso, Tex:
George W. Fox, Il timer, who came to this
city last January from Missouri, committed
suicide by swallowing Iandanum. The only
paper found among his effects that might serve
to Indicate from what point he came was u let
ter Of recommendation written d q firm at
Kenneth, Mo.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

The grand Gordon of naval merit has
of the Spanish steamer Montserrat,
which recently arrived at Corunna
from ~Cienfuegos. The queen regent
personally presented the captain with
the insignia.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

The imperial Ottoman legation i'll
Washington declares that the dispatch
of the 21st, from Constantinople, pub
lished by the American papers, con-
corning the refusal by the Turkish au-
thorities to allow American citizens to
travel in the interior of the empire, is
absolutely and entirely without founda-
ton.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

THE will of the dead philanthropist,
Hon. Felix r. Brunot, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, was filed for probate on the 2Oth.
1t distributes 100000 among promi-
nent religious and educational insti-
tutions of the country. Any excess af-
ter private requests is to be divided
equally among several educational in
situations.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
Captured Two Fine Eagles.

Two eagles, a gray and a bald, were
caught alive in Shannon county. The
eagles We're large and were perfect
specimens. and We're shipped to a st.
Louis commission house,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
Have Patriotic Parents.

Owing to the attitude of France in
the present war, Miss Nellie Stark and
Miss Ethel FultZ, of Sedalia, who are
studying music in Paris, have been re-
quested by their parents to return
home
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

A DISPATCH from San Francisco, on
the Gath, said: The transport City of
Picking, with !, 200 troops on board, and
the transports Sydney and Australia,
also loaded with troops, are expected
to sail from San Francisco at once for
Honolulu, from which point they will
be conveyed to the Philippines by the
cruiser Charleston"
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

E~vANGELINA CossIo Y CIsNERos, the
young Cuban girl rescued from a Span
ish prison in Cuba by an American
newspaper correspondent, is soon to
wed Mr.. Carlos Carbonel, the former
Cuban banker, who has been nominated
by President Mckinley to be a lieu
tenant and aide on the staff of Maj
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

A COPYRIGHTED dispatch from Kings
ton, Jamaica, to the New York Even
ing World says that the military au-
thoritics there have been informed Of
the signing of an Anglo-American de-
fensive treaty. The same officials, it
is added, regarded as imminent a wal
crisis affecting Jamaica.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
Chance for the CoIored Man.

Missouri negroes may be given a
chance to demonstrate their patriot.
ism. 1t is suggested that a regiment
of colored troops be raised.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
newey's Victory Explained.

Never again should the efficacy of
the rabbits foot and the four-leaved
clover be doubted.
They were responsible for Admiral Dewey's
victory a: Manila. says DR.. ". L. Chapman.
surgeon OF the steamship Gaelic. When the
Gaelic was last in Hong Kong the American
squadron was there. DR.. Chapman sent Dewey
the left hind foot OF q Missouri graveyard rab-
bit and a four-leaved clover, picked in Cali
fornia. The admiral thanked bin. and added
that he ard Capt. Gridley Of tile Olympic had
tossed to determine the ownership Of the
tokens lie had won the rabbits foot and
Gridley the clover leaf.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
Accidentally Shot Himself.

Robert Wheeler accidentally shot
himself at Dadeville, Dade county,
while playing with a pistol. The
wound was regarded as fatal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

INFORMATION reached Washington,
on the oath, from Canton, China, that,
through the efforts of United States
Consul Bedloe, a revision had been Sc
cured of the transit pass rules, which
will prove of great benefit to import
RrS
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
Indicted for Husband Murder.

Mrs. Rebecca T. Lumsden, charged
with the murder of her husband near
Milan, ON May 10, has been indicted,
charged with murder in the first de-
gree.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
North Missouri Wheat.

Wheat is beginning to head in the
northern section of the state, ard in a
few counties has made too rank a
growth and is falling.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
To the P~enItentiary.

Ches. Alien, leader of a gang of des-
peradoes near St. Joseph, was sentenced
to IL years in the penitentiary, and re.
spectacle people feel easier.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
During a Storm.

Charles McGinnis, living southwest
of Sparta, lost his house, during a
storm, and every member of the family
of nine received injuries.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

DENVER, Col, was chosen as h
place of meeting of the next general
assembly of the Cumberland Presby-
terrain church.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
said lie Would Kill Himself.

A. Osbon, of Civil Bend, has probably
drowned himself. His clothes were
found on the bridge at st. Joseph, con
tanning a note stating that he would
commit suicide.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

BY order of John b. Sherman, gen.
eral manager of the Union Stock Yards
and Transit Co. of Chicago, the null
titude of flags waving over the build
ings, s~cale-houSe, etc, of the entire
stock yards district were, on the 10Th,
ordered at half-mast out of respect for
the memory of the late Mr.. Gladstone.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

Bill Roberts, one of the wealthiest
farmers ia Christian county, lost his
dwelling and barn during a tornado,
but his family escaped unhurt.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

THE statement of the condition of
the treasury. issued on the Goth. showed:
Available cash balance, sos, pa, 976;
gold reserve, S174,623,92 OPS.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

Chinch-bugs are reported in q large
humber of the central and southern
counties, and already have done much
damage in places.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

In the criminal court at Kansas CITY
Ed Findley was fined 500 and four
others $50 each on the charge of rum
ming gambling houses.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
Daughters of Blue and GRAY.

The Daughters of the American Army
and those of the United Confrderacy
in st. Louis furnished lunches to sol.
diers about to go south.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
Condition OF St. Louis Rational Banks.

Abstract of condition of national
banks of st. Louis at the close of busi-
ness on May 5, as reported to the comp
troller of the Currency, shows:
Average reserve, "a 80 per crnt against PAL 10
per cent. on February Is; loans and discounts
increased from 1900 1873 to t56, 0Si, $50; stocks
and SecurietieS increased from S2,S73,955 to s.
1o6.693; gold coin increased from Sl,2i4,3 jos to
Sl,4l9,633; total specie increased from -. 80. 30
TO s. 3l3.4s5; lawful money reserve increased
from 70, iSG. $50 to all. ls2, Iy6.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28

In the central and northern counties
oats on low and on fiat lands are be-
ing injured by the continued wet
weather, but otherwise are doing well.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-08-12
Leaf Rolling Caterpiliars.

There are many kinds of ''leaf-roll.
ing" caterpillars, each employing diff
ferent mode Of rolling the leaf, but In
all cases the leaf is held in position by
the silken threads spun by the cater
pillar. There are plenty Of birds about
the trees, and they know well enough
that within the circled leaves little
caterpillars reside. But they do not
find that they can always make a meal
on the caterpillars, and for the follow
ing reason: The cHrled leaf is like a
tube open at both ends, the caterpil-
lar lying snugly in the interior. SO
when bird puts his beak into one end
of the tube. the caterpillar tumbles out
at the other, and let's itself drop to the
distance Of some feet, supporting itself
by silken thread that it spins. The
bird finds that its prey has escaped,
and not having sufficient inductive
reason to trace the silken thread and
so find the caterpillar, goes OF to try
it's fortune elsewhere. The danger be-
ing over. the caterpillar ascends its
silken ladder. and quietly regains pos.
session of its home.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-08-12

st. Mary's Academy at Notre Dana
Ind, ranks first among the educational
institutions for girls. Young women
from all parts of America and Europs
are found in its classes. The faculty
have just issued a catalog that con-
tains much valuable data. Parents do
sirous of sending their daughters to the
best institution should send for this
catalog before deciding on sendina
them elsewhere. 1t is under the super
vision Of the Sisters of the Holy Cross
and Is located at Notre Dame, far from
the excitement Of even village life, and
right among the beautiful scenes Of tns
Creators handiwork-
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-08-12

even the shortest skirts, which reach
below the knee.
Much of this is not to be gainsaid,
though it has been proved in America
that a circular or gored skirt made
close fitting at the hips and about eight
inches from the ground, is a pref
ty, modest length; will not blow, and
will not catch in the wheel or chain
even when guard is not used. The
fact is that English and German cy
clists who wear skirts wear them toe
long-an awkward and dangerous
length. Such skirts are seen more fire.
quently this year in New York and they
are not modest and they are very ugly.
1T is more possible to make a skirt
that will be suitable for riding the
wheel and at the same time fall to
the regular walking length than it is
to make a habit which will be suitable
for both horseback riding and shop
ping But when it comes to knicker-
bockers, it is found that we are much
more conservative than the old coun-
tries. While Great Britain is making
a stand against skirts, all the German
of wheels for women
show the women in the nattiest and
of knickerbockers. Here the
is the exception.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-08-12

secure good fit for their
gowns, and to prevent "slop-
py appearance, and that if disregarded
this outward and visible effect they dis
card the steeled protector the bands OF
the skirts will cut into the waist,
with injurious effect. That bands at
the waist line are needed the dress re-
former admits; it is also admitted that
single long garment has sacklike
appearance which is altogether unlove-
ly. The horizontal break in the cos
tune which is found in knickerbockers
is aesthetic, the nationalist says, and
the knickerbockers also follow the
lines of the beautiful natural figure"
It is admitted that a divided skirt
made by good tailor may look well,
but that an ordinary skirt looks in the
wind like a blown-out bag and flaps
from side to side, fatiguing the rider
and twisting itself into pedal, chain
and wheel. But one of the most i'm
portant points made by the nationalist
is that mud and disease germs are col
lected on the curbs and bus steps by
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-08-12

Public worship ought to be comfort
ing, joyful, enthusiastic. beautiful, ths
flower of all the week. but its eAief
note should be reverence and gcdly
fear. Praise and prayer. the reading
of scripture, and the preaching OF
the Evangsl should conapirs to hft
the congregation above the present
world and the ssnsible atmosphere n
which they have been living. and bring
them face to face with the Eternal.
Rev. John Watson. D. D.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-08-12
Mr.. Asbury Peppers.

Tho powder mills are workin>
overtime these days." said the observ-
ant boarder. That's surprising" said
Asbury Peppers. Il thought they shut
down when the theatrical and society
season was over."-Cineinnati I'M
uuirer
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-08-12
Beauty IL Blood Deem.

Clean blood means a clean skin Ne
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic cleans your blood and keeps it clean, BY
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm
purities from the body. Begin to-day
Danish pimples, boilsN blotch es, black heads
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. All drug
gfsts, satisfaction guaranteed 10c, &c, 50<
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-08-12

There is a mineral spring in Colorado
which cures liver complaint so completely
that after death they have to take out
fellows liver and kill it with club