The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-04-23

J. L. HANNo, United States consul a.
Cardenas, Cuba, arrived at New York
on the Norwegian steamer Britannia,
on the 18th, with Is other passengers.
A PANIC was created, on the after
noon of the 10th, by fire breaking out
in the grandstand of S~portsman's park,
st. Louis, while a game vas In prog
gress between Chicago and st. Louis
baseball teams The structure was en-
tirely demolished, and a large number
of persons were injured in the panic
that ensued on the alarm being given,
including several prominent business
men of the city. No lives were lost.
The present crisis has been a most
impressive object lesson to the United
States. When the $50, 600, 900 was voted
for national defense there was not on
hand five rounds per gun for our ships
of war, and even less for heavy batter
than $4,000 of the new Krag-Jorgenson
rifle, adopted by the United States
army, in our arsenals.
MAY Is has been fixed as the date for
the launching of the United States bat
tleship Alabama, in course of construc-
ton at Cramps shipyard in Philadel-
phia. Miss Morgan, daughter of United
States Senator Morgan, will, it is
stated, christen the ship.
The Madrid Impartial, referring to
the attack upon the American consulate
at Malaga, on the 10th, deplores the
outrage as necessarily calling for apol-
ogies, and warns the people against
provoking a war which Spain would
avoid if possible.
CYRUS A. BELL, a miner, has been ar
rested at Butte, Mont, charged with
attempting to burn Mrs. Marian Kelly
and her two children to death in their
house. She had refused to marry him.
The perpetrator of the crime entered
her house in the early morning, bound
and chloroformed her and her Oldest
daughter and then set fire to the house.
Her screams when awakened by the
flames summoned the neighbors who
rescued the inmates and put out the
flames.
COMMODORE SCHLEY said, on the 18th,
that he hoped to have the New Orleans
and San Francisco attached to his fleet,
but as yet had received no notification
from the navy department of such an
assignment.
THE Allen line steamship Lucerne, of
about 1000 tons, has been purchased
by the United States.
IT is reported that Spain is attempt
ing to raise a $50, 900, 200 loan in Lon
don.
THE steamers New York and Paris,
chartered by the government, have
been rechristened Harvard and Yale
respectively.
Gov. BUSHNELL, on the 10Th, ordered
the Ohio national guard to be recruited
to its maximum strength, $500.
THE IA department has practically
decided that the first call to arms will
be for O,OOO men, to be taken from the
militia of the several states.
FOUR inches of snow fell at Ironwood,
Mich, on the night of the 18th. Mani
towoc, Depere and Plain6eld, Wis, also
reported a heavy fall of snow.
AT Sioux Falls, S. D., on the 10Th, IA
indictments were returned by the
United States grand jury against a
number of prominent men in Nebraska
and the Black Hills on the charge of
stealing timber from government land.
IT was officially announced in Mad
rid, on the 10Th, that negotiations were
progressing with the Cuban insurgents
to obtain their submission as a result
of further concessions.
THE pneumatic gunboat Vesuvius
made a successful test of her guns in
Nsrragansett bay on the 10th.
GOLD was quoted at Buenos Ayres,
the 10Th, at 166. so.