The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
FoRTY-Two persons are known to
have lost their lives and IS others are
reported dead as the result of the tor
nadoes which devastated portions of
eastern Iowa, western Illinois and
northern Wisconsin on the night of
the 18th.
The Spanish troops III Cuba have re-
ceived NO pay for many months and are
on half rationS, and some of them have
mutinied recently, with the result that
a number of officers have beer placed
under arrest and some of the privates
tried by drumhead court-martial and
shot.
FAILURES during the week ended
May 20 were, for the United States,
$50, against 24S for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were 90, against 81 last year.
Two soldiers of a New Jersey volun-
teer regiment were arrested in Wash
ington, on the Goth, for having defaced
the beautiful bronze doors, erected at 4
cost of SGT. 200, on the east side of sem
ate wing of the capitol, by scratching
| their names in the bronze and other
wise defacing the work.
TIE statement of the associated banks
of New York city for the week ended
on the 2lst showed the following
changes: Surplus reserve, increase,
So, 7lS,025; loans, increase, S7,Sj7, 500;
specie, increase, s., 963, 500; legal ten
ders, increase, 81, 1921, 800; deposits, in
crease, IA, 267, 900; circulation, increase,
S51, 900.
ADvICEs received by steamer tell of
a very critical state of affairs in the
Samoan islands, where another native
war is believed to be inevitable. The
rebels are hosting their flag in de-
fiance of Malicious government.
AN attempt was made by the Indian
apolis and Kansas City teams to play
ball, on the 22d, at indianapolis, Ind.
After two innings had been played all
the members of both teams and the
umpire were arrested. The idea was
to make a test case of the Sunday law.
The game was lot advertised, but, in
stead, a band concert.
THE funeral of Mr.. Gladstone will
take place on the 2Sth.
The centenary of the Irish rebellion
of 1898 was celebrated in Sydney, n. 5.
W., on the 22d. The remains of
Michael Dwyer, who died in 1925, and
the remains of his wife were taken up
and reburied in st. Marks cathedral.
The funeral cortege, which was miles
in length, was witnessed by thou
sands.
AT Alamada, Cal, on the I'D, during
an alteration with her husband, from
whom she was separated, Mrs. Gregory,
a medical specialist, shot and killed }.
Ii. Williams, who was present. 1t is
supposed the bullet was intended for
Gregory, but the woman's aim was BAD.
THE One Hundred and Fifty-ninth
regiment of Indiana volunteers left
Camp Mount, on the 22d, in four Sec
tionS for the rendezvous AZ Camp Dunn,
F~allsChurch, Va, commanded by Col.
Barnett. This vas the last regimentto
leave Camp Mount.
The old single-turret monitor Jason,
which had been undergoing repairs
and refitting at League Island navy
yard, left for New York, on the 22d, in
tow of the tug Pioneer.
THE great influx of gold into Eng
land has brought down the discount
rates. Over G6. $50, 600 has been received
at the bank of England since the mid
die of April.
On the 22d the associated banks of
New York city held $50, 253, lis in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
Four men were crushed to death, on
the 21st. by the cave-in at Hartshell &
Swartz's hematite ore mines near
Marsville, Pa.
EDWARD BELLAMY, author and hu-
manitarian, died, on the 22d, at his
home in Chicopee Falls, Mass, in the
forty-ffth year of his age.
ACCORDING to a dispatch received in
Paris from Rome, Italy has protested
against the blockade of Cuba, claiming
it is ineffective.
THE war department asked Gen.
Roe, on the 23d, if he could have an
other New York regiment ready
TO start upon call. Gen. Roe re-
piled in the affirmative, and from'this
it is inferred that the First or Third
may be ordered to join Gen. Merritt's
forces in the Philippines.
Two HUNDRED and five members of
the Illinois naval reserve were sent to
the gulf coast on the cath. 1t is said
they will be given a chance to serve
with Admiral SIMPSONS fleet.