The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-04-16

A MUCH calmer feeling prevailed In
Madrid, on the Sth, rejecting the news
paper ~utterances and various published
versions of the cabinet meeting of the
previous evening.
A DISPATCH from Hong Kong, on the
10th, said: THE American squadron
has completed arrangements for put
ting to sea. Two vessels have steamed
up ready to start at a moments notice.
The cruiser Baltimore and the revenue
cutter Hugh McCulloch are expected
to-day. The British steamers Nanshan
and Zafro have just been bought by
America for transport purposes"
ONE nan was instantly killed and
another mortally wounded, in an Eas-
ter morning saloon tragedy in st.
Louis.
The Armenian patriarch announces
that there are 10000 orphans caused by
the late massacres of Armenians by
Turks.
AN uncontirmed rumor from Maya
Saki, Japan, says that a collision had
taken place between the English and
Russians at Ta-Lien-W Wan, China.
GEN. LEE came ashore at Key West,
Fla, on the 10th, about IL a. M, and
received an answer to a telegram he
had earlier sent to Washington. The
general sailed for Tampa at noon,
whence he went direct to Washington.
The Pals, the newspaper which had
been the most prominent in fomenting
the anti-government campaign in Mad
rid, continuing its sensational policy,
it's issue of the 18th was confscated
by the authorities.
FIRE at Oxford Junction, Ia, on the
business house in town. Loss, So, 900;
insurance unknown.
THE result of the late senatorial cleo.
tions in Spain is that 40 ministerial
lists were elected out of $50 senators
voted for.
AT every station along the route be-
tween Tampa, Fla, and Washington,
Gen. Lees special train was met by
throngs of the admirers of the consul
general who heaped upon him words
and misSives expressive of their APP
proval of his course in Havana, and
literally loaded his car with flowers.
II develops that a few nights before
Pulaski f. Hyatt, United States con-
sui, left Santiago de Cuba, under in
structlons, for Port Antonio, Jamaica,
a mob of Spaniards, made a demonstra-
ton before the consulate, throwing
tomatoes, eggs and stones at the Stars
and Stripes floating above the building.
SEVEN hundred miners in the Cam
bria coal region of Pennsylvania
struck, on the 18th, against the en-
forcement of obnoxious mine regula-
tionS.
ENGLAND e BRYAN, leather dealers
of Philadelphia, have received an or
der from the government for 10000
sides of leather, to be delivered at the
Rock Island arsenal at the earliest
possible moment. The leather is to be
used for the manufacture of cartridge
boxes and sword, saber and bayonet
belts and scabbards.
ROBERT LITTLE, an engineer on the
American liner Paris. was held in ST.
900 bail, on the 12th, by Commissioner
Shields, at New York, on a charge of
smuggling laces. His operations, it is
said, have amounted to 500, OO0.
THE British steamer Europe, which
arrived at New York, on the 18th, from
London, brought 20 tons of ammunition
for rapid-firing guns recently pur-
chased abroad for the United States
navy.
THE auxiliary torpedo-boat destroy
er Mayhower left the Brooklyn navy
yard and passed out Sandy Hook, on
the 18th, bound for Newport, Z. L, to
take on torpedoes.