The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-08

On the I'd Gen. Blanco received S4,-
900, 900 in silver, consigned from Spain
for war purposes in Cuba.
MGR SARNELLI, archbishop of Naples,
died in Rome on the I'd.
The supreme court Of Pennsylvania,
on the I'd, affirmed the judgment Of
the common pleas court of Pittsburgh
in the damage suit for false arrest of
Pitcher Mark Baldwin against Chris
Won der Abe, owner of the st. Louis
baseball club. awarding damages at
81, 500.
4 LARGE number of eastern cotton
mills and other industrial plants an
nounced reductions in wages, IN the
Sd, of about ten per cen In most
cases the cut was acquiesced in by the
employees, but in a few strikes were
talked of.
The steamship La Bretagne, from
Havre, brought $500. 900 gold, on the
Sd, consigned to Muller, Schall & Co.,
of New York, in transit to Cuba 1t
was stated that the next steamer would
carry a similar consignment.
The Canadian Pacific railroad earn
ings for the week ending December II
were S797, 600, against for the same pc
riod last year, S69l, 900; increase, SlOj,-
900.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt, issued on the Sd, showed that
at the close of business December 81,
1897. the debt, less cash in the treasury,
amounted to $3.50, Ill, 567.a decrease for
the month of SO, ia. 500, due princi-
pally to an increase in the cash, ac-
counted for by the sale of the Union
Pacific railroad.
AGENTS of the Spanish government
have recently purchased I'VE 5000
head of horses in Texas for the use of
the Spanish army in Cuta.
JAMES Z. EC6ELS, eX-comptroller of
the currency, began his duties as pres
ident of the Commercial national bank
of Chicago on the Sd.
THE steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse, sailing from New York for Eu-
rope, on the Sd, tool out 400. 600 ounces
of silver.
Two young and apparently inexperi-
enced men boarded the Port Arthur ex-
press on the Kansas City, Pittsburg
81 Gulf road, as it was pulling out of
Kansas City, Mo-, on the evening of
the 4th, and entering the express
car, bound and, gagged the messenger
and ri1ed the local safe before the
train stopped at Air Line Junction,
where they quilted it and made their
escape.
LADY ANNE COVENTRY. third daugh-
ter of the earl of Coventry, was mar
ried in London, on the 4th, to Prime e
Dhulep Singh, son of the late mahara-
jah of Lahore.
CAPT. ROSENDAHL, commander of the
German war ship Friedrich Karl, has
been appointed commander of the Ger
MAJ forces ashore at Kiao-Chau bay.
On the 4th the mercury registered 30
degrees below zero at Saranac lake; 25
below at Mountain View, and 20 below
in Malone. y. Y.
THE president and members of his
cabinet have subscribed S5,O0O to the
Cuban relief fund.
STOCKTON. Cal, suffered from a S 500,
900 fire early ON the morning of the
4th.
WIN. CARSON, the millionaire lumber.
mai of Eau Claire, Wis, died. on the
4tI, after an illness of several days.
aged so.
GEORGE BAKER and his wife, who
lived about three miles west of Fair
bury, Neb., were murdered on the 4th.
They were found lying dead in the dim
ing room Of their home. Zach had
received a charge of birdshot in the
head. The shot had peel fired through
q window US the couple sat at break