The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-17
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

iveness and hen thrown into the sea
Joseph Chamberlain admitted, on the
sth. that the treaty with Germany had
been signed, thus making it known to
the world for the first time hat such
an alliance had actually been made.
SO hot was the pursuit of the kha'
lifa .Abdullah by Gen. Kitchener'>
camel corps. after the recent battle
! that some of the khalifa's wives were
abandoned by The roadside. The derv,
ish losses foot up 11.20O killed, 10000
wounded and nearly 1000 prisoners.
The president received a message
from Mai.-Gen. Otis. in command al
Manila, on the 18th. stating that Aguin,
aldo had been given 81 hours in which
to retire from the suburbs of Manila,
| Should he fail to do so Gen. Otis will
drive him out.
1t is stated at the war department
that the troops to be used TO garrison
Cuba pending the establishment of
some permanent form of government
Will he principally regulars. The regi-
ments. however. have not yet been Sc
lectcd.
Six cases of yellow fever have devel-
oped in Col. Sargentis Fifth immune
regiment at Santiago de Cuba.
\ cable dispatch from Hong Kong,
dated the 9th, announced that a com
mittee Of three Filipinos, appointed
by Aguinaldo, had left Hong Kong in
order to confer with President Nc
kinlev upon the future of the Philip
pines.
\ dispatch from Washington, on the
8th. said: The administration officials
have had no recent cause to feel that a
critical condition of affairs IA "a
at hand with the insurgent forces in
the Philippines"
Col. James y. Sexton, of Chicago,
was elected commander-in-chief of the
G. A. Il. at Cincinnati, on the Sth, re-
ceiying 424 votes against pa for 4. d..
Shaw, of New York. No other names
We're presented.
Il. Il. Hawley, present congressman
from the Tenth district, the only re-
publican from Texas, was renominated
by the convention held at Columbus,
on the Sth.
A dispatch was received in London,
on the Sth, from the British minister
at Pekin, Sir Claude Macdonald, con-
firming the report that Lii Hung Chang
had been dismissed at his (the min
i~ster's) request.
Col. Loper, of the Fifty-first Iowa
regiment, at San Francisco, received Il
l.--4- r.. 49,. Al-. -
the Sth, telling him not to allow his
men to suffer for anything, and add
ing that the state will foot the bills.
The colonel replied hat his regiment
was all right.
Aurora borealis brought all tele-
graphing at Chicago to a standstill for
"A time on the 9th. The area of dis
turbance extended 500 miles or more in
all directions from Chicago.
Gen. Shafter reached Washington,
on the 9Th, and went Immediately to
the Ebbitt house.
Horrible stories are told by the ref
ugees from Gambia. They say the
Bashi Bazouks cut open the bodies OF
their Christian victims. and threw the
entrailS INTO the flames of the burning
houses. They hurled the British vice
consul bodily into the flames.
Failures for the week ended on the
9th, as reported by K. e.. Dun Il Co,
were. for the United States. I64, against
2l5 for the corresponding week last
year; for Canada the failures were is,
against 35 for last year
The American army chaplains in
Manila have instituted Protestant
services in private buildings. Such
services have never previously been
held in the history of the Philippine
islands.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 9th, showed:
Available cash balance, S3O7, 36I, O15;
gold reserve. S232, 1874 1874.
Louis Sass, sporting editor of the
Chicago Record. and Carl Smith, edi-
torial writer on the same paper, were
drowned. on the 9th. by the capsizing
Of their nj near the city OF Quebec,
Canada.
The war department has ordered the
discharge of a number of officers O n
nected with the volunteer service,
whose service will no longer be re-
quired. Among those discharged was
Capt. James &. Blaine. now en- route
20 Manila. 1t is said the captain is al
together too gay.
The monthly report of the Iowa
weather and crop service estimates
lowa's crop for this year as follows:
Corn yield. 100000. 900 bushels. an
increase of 4O.OOO.O 900 oyer last year:
average. "a bushels per acre. Wheat.
24.137.S14 bushels; increase, 9,524,7 700;
average per acre. winter wheat, Is;
spring. 16. Oats-Total yield. 141,s75,-
COZ bushels; increase, 9,304, 900; aver
age. 80 per acre.
The Masonic temple at Washington
Courthouse, o.. was destroyed by fire
on the nth. The Springfield, o., fire
department rendered timely assis-
lance. The loss IN the building is
about $4,000.