The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-09-03
From Sir Thomas Upton. the latest

From Sir Thomas Upton, the latest
challenger of the Americas cup, there
was received in New York city, on the
Goth, a cable message stating that he
had contributed $40, 600 for relieving the
sick and wounded American soldiers.
News has been received of the big
party of Germans who made a spec
tacular departure from New York last
winter for Alaska. Peter Schramm,
one of the party who was recently at
Juneau, reports that the party did not
go to Dawson. but drifted down to
Lake Atlin, opposite Pine creek, where
they found gold in paying quantities,
and all had staked out claims.
The success of the Transmississippi
exposition, at Omaha, Neb., is meeting
the highest expectations of stockhold-
ers and managers. Total attendance
for the week ended on the 27th, was
115, $40, or 1900 increase over the
week previous. The managers have
reduced the price of admission to %
cents for Sundays, and also for Mon
day and Thursday evenings.
Minister Angel, at Constantinople,
has informed the state department that
a note from the porte that,
on account of local needs, the exporta-
ton of wheat from the province of
Scutari, in Albania, European Turkey,
is forbidden until further notice.
On the eth the associated banks of
the city of New York held S2I ,343, 300
in excess Of the requirements of the
25-per-cent. rule.
President and Mrs. Mckinley spent
a pleasant hour at Camp Meade, on the
27th, en- route to Somerset, Pa, for a
short vacation.
The United States war ships Olympia
and Raleigh have gone from Manila to
Hong Kong to go into dock. Admiral
Dewey has transferred his flag t O the
Baltimore.
Official returns show that the Chero-
kee-Chickasaw agreement was ratified
by the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations
at the recent election by a large ma
jority.
At Manila steamers are entering the
river as usual. The Americans are
temporarily maintaining the former
Spanish tariff. and business is brisk.
DR.. John IIopkinson, an English
electrical engineer, and his son and
two daughters were killed while as
cending. without a guide. the Dents de
Neisivi, in the Canton of Valais, Swift
erland. the mountains of which are
among the highest in Europe, and
which are exposed 10 furious torrents
and destructive avalanches.
Ferdinand W. Peck, commissioner
general for the United States to the
Paris exposition. has appointed the
governors of the various states as vice
presidents of the Lafayette Memorial
commission.
Operators on the Berlin bourse, on
the Goth, were favorably impressed
by the suggestion of the czar looking
to a general disarmament. and BUSH
ness opened with an upward tend
ency.
The Austrian and hungarian pre-
miers reported to the emperor, on the
Goth, that. as Il result of the Ausglech
negotiations, a final agreement on the
subject was expected the next day.
1t is officially announced from Simla
that for the week ended on the eth,
there were 1900 deaths from plague in
the Bombay presidency. The epidemic
is spreading.
The instructions to the Cubans anG
Porto Rican military commissions were
drawn up and approved by the presi.
dent before he left Washington.
The statement of the condition of the
treasury, issued on the Goth, showed:
Available cash balance, S292, OOO, 2I1;
gold reserve, S213, 159. 6S4.