The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-08-13

THERE was a severe earthquake
shock at Messina, Island of Sicily, on
the 9th, at 2:33 a. m. The inhabitants
were panic-stricken, but there was nc
damage done.
A WASHINGTON correspondent says:
Il am able to make the important an
nouncement that Secretary Day will,
at an early date, retire from the Office
of secretary of state, and after con-
Guiding his labors as a member of the
peace commi ssion resume the practice
of law in Cation"
The porte has replied to the Amer
lean demand for compensation for
losses sustained by American subjects
during the Armenian massacre The
reply is the same as that given to other
powers, repudiating the responsibility
for the losses.
THREE men were killed and a mum
Der of mail clerks were severely in
jured a Canton Junction, Mass, on
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad, on the sth, by an express mail
special from New York to Boston Jump
ing the track.
Miss RUTH NJ. OSBORN, daughter Of
d. w. Osborn, the millionaire reaper
manufacturer of Auburn, n. Y, died
of consumption on the Union Pacific
train just as it reached Denver, Col, on
the Sth. Her father and mother and
the family physician were with her.
A DoZEN ambulances from the Red
Cross society arrived at Montauk Point
Long Island on the sth, and Col. Forward
is going on with appropriations to pro-
vide for the care of the sick soldiers
who are to arrive from Santiago de
Cuba.
A SPECIAL from Lloyd's agent at St.
Johns, n. F., says he regards the re-
ported wreck of a transatlantic steam
ship in the straits of Belle Isle as be-
ing without foundation in TACT.
BRIG.-GEN. JOHN S. POLAND died in
Asheville, n. c., on the Sth, of fever
contracted at Chickamauga. The re-
mains were sent to his home in New
York state.
ONE HUNDRED miles of military tcle-
graph are o in operation in Porto
Rico, connecting the points occu pied
by the United States troops with the
cable station at Ponce.
TIE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 9th, showed:
Available cash balance, S26O, 669, Ill;
gold reserve, $40, %. 696.
THE Wade Porto Rican expedition has
been abandoned as unnecessary.
AT a meeting of the stockholders Of
the Metropolitan Street Railroad Co.
of New York, On the 9th, it was unani-
mously decided to increase the capital
stock of the company from $50, OOO. 900
to SIS 600. OOC. OF the increase SIC, OOO,-
600 will be used to liqaidate outstand-
ing obligations and the remaining So
600, 900 will be held in the treasury as
n fund for improving the property OF
the company.
WHILE leaning from a window of the
Shamokin Valley knitting works at
ShamOkin, Pa. on the 9th, Miss Jennie
Allison. aged IS years, was electrocuted
by her Ose coming in contact with a
wire hat had been crossed
by a live arc wire, and thus charged
with 1900 volts of electrical fluid. She
had her feet resting on a coil of steam
heating pipes at the time.
A DISPATCH from ~Cartagena, Colom-
bia says the reason of the Colombian
delaying its note replying
to Italv's demand for a settlement OF
the Cerruti claim is apprehension of a
popular uprising.
TIE steamer Signal, reported as
wrecked off the Washington coast, was
into San Francisco harbor, ON
the 9th, by the tugboat Sea Queen,
broken a crank pin.