The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-17

on Salisbury plain during the review
of the troops at the end of the army
maneuvers in England Oh the Sth.
The City of Rome with Admiral
Cervera and staff and over LOO Span
ish prisoners sailed from S~eavey's Is
land, On the 18th, for Santander
Spain. Of the number 1.66S men were
from the prison at Seavey's Island.
The president, on the 9th. n AIMED
Senator George Gray, of Delaware, as
the fifth member of the peace commits,
sion. This completes the personnel OF
the commission which stands: Secre-
tary Day, Senators Davis, Frye and
Gray, and Hon. Whitelaw Reid.
At the opening of the British Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Science
at Bristol, on the 9TH. President
Crooks, in his inaugural address, ad-
vanced the theory hat the worlds
wheat supply will fail to keep pace
with the needs of the growing popula-
ton beyond the year 1891.
The post hospital at Washington
Barrack, District Of Columbia, the
Sternberg and Sanger field hospital at
Ihickamauga Park and the military
hospital at Ponce, Porto Rico, have
been designated as general hospitals
and are placed under the exclusive
control of the surgeon general of the
army.
\ definite statement has been Sc
cured from the Canadian Pacific as to
its intentions regarding the restora-
ton of rates. 1t will use the basis in
effect prior to last November, taking
care to use the lowest rate in effect
over any American line. This arrange
ment is satisfactory to all the Ameri-
Fan roads.
The navy department is shifting
some of the officers of the battleshipS
Oregon and Iowa preparatory to their
departure from New York on their
.ong cruise to San Francisco by way
of the straits of Magellan. They will
be accompanied by four of the best
rollers purchased by the government
during the war.
According to advices received from
Barbados since the death of Hon. Mr..
PHO, speaker of the assembly, on the
I'd. from the effects of the recent at
tempt to assasSinate him, the governor
and five public officials have been
anonymously warned that Il similar
fate has been decreed for them, las a
reward for their oppression"
In Denver, Col, the National Edi-
tOrial association, on the 9th, accepted
the report presented by ". l.. Eaton,
of Illinois, chairman of the committee
on press laws, providing for a stand
ing committee of three to confer with
the various state press associations
with reference to bringing about uni
formity of press laws by concurrent
action of state legislatures.
The Empress of Austria was asSassi-
mated near Il pier in Geneva, Switzer-
land, on the 10th, by an anarchist
Tamcd Luigini, who was arrested.
He stabbed the empress with a small,
keen weapon, later aScertained to be a
three-cornered file. The dastardIy
deed threw the crowned heads of Eu-
rope into mourning and caused great
grief throughout the world.
The queen of the Netherlands and
her mother, on their arrival at The
Hague from Amsterdam, on the 9Th,
were received with the same ceremo-
malls that marked the entry of the
royal party into Amsterdam. The
streets and houses were magnificently
decorated, and the cheering was con-
tinuous throughout the passage of the
procession from the railroad station to
the palace.
The admirals of the foreign powers
stationed in Cretan waters, replying to
the protests of the Cretan executive
committee against the recent mas
sacres, have declared that they will
recommend hat their respective gov
ernments solve the question definitely
by the removal of the Turkish troops
from the island of Crete, and the ap-
of a governor to be elected
by the powers.
Joseph Letter has cleared up his IA
nous wheat deal. Every creditor has
been paid, obligations % banks whose
assistance was enlisted have been can
and IA, 600, 900 bushels of wheat
been liquidated since the an
nouncement of the voluntary assign
nearly three months ago. To ac-
complish this, property belonging to
the elder Letter to the value of SIS, $780,
600 has been mortgaged.
The conference of West Indian rep
resentatives at the island of Barbados
passed a resolution, on the 9Th, de.
manding aid from the British home
government as a matter of right, as
being the only available remedy for
the industrial crisis, and also demanded
the adoption of measures either for
the exclusion of bounty-fed sugar
from the English market or the en-
of countervailing duties