The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Ae0 1911 NAOAE Ia
the monitors would be used in tn,
large ports of Cuba and Porto Rico
but it has now been decided to holC
them north.
A Madrid dispatch says; "Everyon,
is now anxious that a peace treaty bt
signed at once, and there is some ap
~prehension lest the government ham
per the peace commissioners with ride
ulous instructions. Referring to the
proposal that the government de
mand compensation for the piers anG
public buildings in Cuba, Ell Naciona,
says: We might as well claim the
roads, mountains and barren fields"
The gross earnings from operation
of the Baltimore e Ohio railroad for
the month of July, 1898, were So, 3O5, 991,
an increase of S6O,499.
Ex-Secretary John Sherman is quotec
as saying: Gen. Miles is a soldier
and, like soldiers, is a straightforward,
truthful man. He is no more afraid oil
an issue than he is of an Indian. and
when he comes back to Washington
and tells what he knows an investiga,
ton of the war department will be in,
evitable.7
The president is seriously thinking
of asking the senior Massachusetts
senator, George f. Hoar, to take the
place which will soon be vacated by
Ambassador Hay, and he is restrained
only by his reluctance to remove Sena-
tor Hoar from the position he now
holds.
The San Francisco Merchants ex-
change received news, on the 26th,
from Unalaska confirming the report
of the wreck of the bark Guardian.
The captain and crew landed at I'm
alaska. The Guardian was bound
from kotzebu Sound for Seattle and
ran aground during a fog on Tegalda
island.
The authorities of Dover, Del, be-
lieye they have wound i weh around
Mrs. Ada Botkin, charged with having
sent the poisoned candy, from which
she can not disentangle herself. They
are now patiently awaiting her arrival
from San Francisco.
Rev. Thompson Rowland, a Baptist
preacher for 80 years, died at his
home near Eddyville, KY, on the 25th,
of hydrophObia. He was almost
chewed to death by a mad dog several
weeks ago. The victim died in great
agony. He was IS years of age.
y statement prepared byGircceion Of
the commissioner of ~in'crnai en-
shows that for July tLra average dI!ly
shipment % interlil revenue Star,rs
aggregated. IN numbers, 22.1.3.j2-.
Counting % days 10 me mnni!.. the
total is show ntO have been 614.939. 129.
Japan wants to buy ilie I.a'irnne is
lands from the United States or Spian.
and is willing to pay a gool price for
them, according to late Japanese pI-
pers received. Japan wants 10 extend
her fishing" industry in that dir"c-
ton.
Mrs. Ada Botkin. under arrest in San
Francisco On the charge of sending
the box of poisoned candy which
caused the death of Mrs. j. p. Cunning
and her sister, Mrs. J. r. Deane, of
Dover, Del, lived in Kansas City, Mo-,
IL or Is years ago. The family was
prominent in social and financial cir
cles there for a number of years.
The Spanish transports San Fran
cisco, San Augustin and Colon left San
tiago, in the 25th, for Spain, with 4,56S
Spaniards, including Is officers and
their families and four priests. Eight
men died on the way to the ships.
Their corpses were checked off" as
passengers.
An order has been issued by the war
department extending the ~furlough of
volunteers on leave of absence from 80
days to 60 days.
The United Typothete of America
will hold its next annual convention
at New Haven, Conn.
The situation between England and
China has become acute. The relations
between the two governments have
reached a breaking point, and ere long
the whole of Europe will be engaged
in a diplomatic war, if, indeed, not one
of steel and fire.
The correspondent of the London
Times at Manila says: 'Twenty-three
thousand stands of arms. 10000. 600
cartridges and an immense quantity of
large ammunition have been surren-
dered to the Americans, with nearly
200 prisoners.
Miss Winnie Davis. daughter of JEFF
ferson Davis, is seriously i'll at the
Rockingham, Narragansett Pier, K. l.,
where she has beer confined to her bed
several weeks. Mrs. Davis is at the
bedside of her daughter.
The Carlists and republicans, mem
bers of the Spanish cortes, have de
cided not to attend the forthcoming |
session, and they will issue 4 manifesto
to the country explaining the reasons
for their absence.
: The peace commission as finally or
is composed of William Il. Day,
e~haiF4nan, Senator Cushman X. Davis, 4.
senator William b. Frye. Mr.. Whitelaw
Justice Edward White, of the
leiRd State supreme court.
:, 4 enr9o5d9Efruit SEM by fruit rails
ers + he mighhorhood of san Diego,
.a., jog t1esddftrs at Montauk Point.
tlFoFg# 4Iiys Ieitu Gould. arrived al
% the' aRth, and was fe:.
rad5a@n4 70 ths Hnag Island RAJ.
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