The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A SPECIAL from Washington says: 1t
is believed to be the plan of Admiral
Cervera to keep u of the way of the
battleShipS and turn his entire atten-
ton to the cruisers and %gunbOatS, which
he can perhaps do by reason of his su-
periOr speed.
MORE than a million bushels of grain
in Armour's ID" elevator, in Chicago,
was destroyed by fire, on the 18th,
together with the immense structure
containing it. The flames also spread
throughout a portion of the vast lum-
Der district around Twenty-second and
| Morgan streets, the whole entailing a
loss estimated at nearly 81, zoo, 900.
The president has approved the
| Alaskan homestead and right-of-way
| bill.
THERE is much uneasiness in Ma
drid on account of failure of the bread
supply in all the bakeries.
SENIOR SAGAsTA, the Spanish pre-
mier, is experiencing unexpected diff
Guilty in forming a new cabinet.
THE schooner Jennie 5. Butler, from
Cienfuegos, which arrived at Boston on
the 18th, reported that her mate, John
Purchase, of Portland, Me, was killed
by Spaniards before the vessel sailed
from CienfuegOs.
LLoYDs' agent at Manila cabled from
Hong Kong, on the 18th. that the block
ade of the capital of the Philippine is
lands was strictly maintained, and
hat the cable was aboard al American
vessel.
A COMMANDMENT of Manila is 1mmi-
nent should the Spanish attack the
American blockading squadron.
OWING to demonstrations on the part
of the students, the universities of Ma
pies, Bologna and Rome have been
closed. The suppression of newspa-
pers continues.
4 SPECIAL from St. Thomas, on the
18th, reported that Admiral Sampson
had left San Juan to meet the Spanish
fleet said to be neal the island of Mar
Unique.
The second Spanish fleet vas still at
Cadiz, on the 18th, and, it was expected,
would escort a strong military expedi-
ton to the Philippine islands.
The first battalion, First regiment
Oregon volunteers, numbering about
$50, arrived in San Francisco on the
18th.
DUFFY DIVER, a player at the Gem
theater in Deadwood, 5. D., shot his
wife and then shot and killed himself.
on the night of the 18th, at the Clark
house, a though clearinghouse. His wife
wa an actress at the Gem and he was
jealous of her. 1t is thought the wom-
an will live.
AFTER the landing of the Gussie eX-
petition at Cabanas the bodies of three
Spanish soldiers, killed by the Ameri-
can fire, were found. The GuSsie
failed to land her cargo.
EDUARD REMENYI, the Hungarian
| violinist, dropped dead at the Orpheum
theater, in San Francisco, on the 18th,
while performing.
The Spanish fleet of four ar med
cruisers and two out of the three tor
p%edo-boat d~estroyers, which were re-
| ported off Curacao, Dutch West Indies,
on the 18th, anchored in the harbOr of
Curacao on the 14th. The ships were
in fighting trim, and apparently eX-
pected an early encounter with the
| American fleet.
The plant of the Baltimore (Md.) Bis
cult Co. was damaged $4,000 by fire
on the night of the 18th. Three hun
dred men had worked all day on rush
orders for the government, and this
stock, as well as a large quantity of
-four. was consumed and the machinery
practically ruined.
News has been received of the almost
total destruction, OF the 18th, of the
town of Chipley, Fla, on the Pensacola
& Atlantic railroad. Nearly every bus
mess house in the place was burned,
also the new railroad depot and many
private residences.
THE war department has information
that the Spanish army in Cuba has an
| effective force of So, 900 men. The esti-
mate is so much higher than it had ever
been reported that the government
hardly credited the report.
BRIG.-GEN. GUESTHER has been as
signed to temporary command of the
troops concentrated at Washington for
purposes of organization.
SENIOR SAGAsTA, on the 10th, visited
the palace and formally handed to the
queen regent of Spain the resignation
of the ministry.
THE newspapers of Madrid express
fears hat a secret Anglo-American al
lance already exits.