The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-07-16

IT is understood among the army Of
fcers in the vicinity of Santiago that
as soon as the place has fallen it is the
intention to invest Nuevitas, the prin.
cipal port in Puerto Principe province.
THE hospital train bearing the
wounded to Fort Mcpherson, near At.
lanta, Ga, vas in a rear-end collision,
six miles south of High Springs, Fla,
on the 10th. No one was hurt.
Ten men were killed, on the 18th, by
a cavern in the Cleveland co. city wa
terworks tunnel being built under the
lake. A rescue party of six sent into
the tunnel failed to return.
THE statement of the condition OF
the United States treasury issued on
the 18th showed: Available cash bal
ance, S22O,17l,O5O; gold reserve, sl7l,-
749.417.
ex-senator CONGRa, of Michigan,
who had lived in Washington since he
left the senate, died 1T Ocean City, Md,
on the 18th.
The long-overdue American ship
Lake Lemon arrived at Vancouver, b.
c., from Panama on the 18th. She was
at sea 70 days without sighting any
boat.
Two EXPLOSIONS, which killed eight
men and wounded about 20 others and
wrecked two buildings, occurred at
the plant of the Laiin-Rand Powder
works. at POmpton, n. j., on the 18th.
AT Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 18th,
Geo. II. Spry, M of the best-known
lawyers in the northwest, ran in front
of a street CAP and was instantly killed.
The officials of the Spanish embassy
in Paris communicated to the press,
on the 18th, 4 dispatch from Ma
drid, declaring it came from an au-
thoritative source. 1t set forth, in
substance, that although Spain was
only fighting in order to maintain
her right to repel unjust aggression
she will continue the struggle until
she obtains an honorable peace, what.
ever sacrifice may be necessary to at
tain this end
THE sloop Wary, flying the British
flag, was brought to Key West, Fla,
on the 18th. as a prize of war. She
was captured by the St. Louis about
10 miles from Santiago de Cuba while
bound from Jamaica for Santa Cruz,
with a cargo of provisions. 1t is
thought her English registry is sub
terfuge.
The sensation of the day at Brighton
Beach, on the 18th, was the death of
Bromley's Rosebud from heart disease.
After finishing the second race, in
which he was the good thing" he
staggered against the gate of the pad
dock and dropped on the track as if he
had been shot.
The naval officials regard their part
in the operations at Santiago as at an
end practically, and are looking around
for new worlds to conquer. Their eyes
are turned to the east, and they are
rushing preparations for the dispatch
of Commodore Watsor's eastern squad
Two MEN. both named Michael Fla
vim, were killed, on the 18th, and three
were seriously injured by the giving
of a number of piles of the bridge
which is being built between the
Charles river and Warren bridges in
On the 18th all the Spanish minister.
handed their designations to the pre-
mier, Senior Sagasta, who explained
the situation to the queen regent.
Two BANDS of Philippine insurgents
at Cebu have been defeated, and three
Insurgent leaders have been captured
and shot.
THE Peruvian congress, on the 18th,
approved the protocol between Chill
and Peru by a vote of lis against 81.