The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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there were $4,000 man encamped at
Chickamauga park. The Ninth New
York, Col. e.. James Greene, command
ing, arrived on the Goth. There are
LOO men in the command. This regi-
ment was organized in $500, and has
preserved its organization intact.
HAVANA news has been received at
Tampa, Fla, stating that the city is in
a state of wild excitement over stories
of the American army that is coming
to besiege the city. The archbishop
ordered d special day of fasting and
prayer, hat the calamity may be
averted.
On the 2Sth the associated banks of
New York city held s53, 7O4, 600 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
THE mountain battery offered to the
United States government by John
Jacob Aston, when hostilities broke
out, has been accepted. Lieut.. c.
March, of the Fifth United States ar
tillery, has been detailed to com mand
the battery.
THE state department was notified,
on the 27th, by British Consul Gollen,
at Havana, that the exchange of pris-
oners had been effected, and the Maple,
with Charles Thrall and Hayden Jones,
theAmerican correspondents, on board,
had sailed for Key West.
News from Calcutta says that the
plague is causing great alarm there.
At Hong Kong, however, it is stated
that there has been Il great decrease in
the number of fresh plague cases.
W.. +. Bowen. of Butte, Mont, while
attempting to bid his brother good-by
on the departure of the troops for San
Francisco, On the eth, fell beneath the
military train and vas killed.
TIE rainy season is beginning in
| Cuba, and the fleet of war ships and
newspaper dispatch boats have already
experienced bad weather, with fire.
quent violent rain storms.
WORK at the Mare Island navy yard
is being pushed. Money for the repair
the supply now coming in will be "a D.
idly stored.
The steamer China arrived at San
Francisco, on the eth, from Hong
Kong. via Yokohama and Honolulu.
The China left Hong Kong IN April 30,
and therefore did not bring mail adj
vices of the battle of Manila.
WHILE miners were working in the
Red Ash vein of the Kaska William
colliery, about ten miles east of Potts
Vile, Pa, on the Goth, a large body of
water was struck and six men were
drowned.
FAILURES during the week ended
May 81 were, for the United States,
PAS, against PA for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were n, against % last year.
THE Bethlehem pa iron company
has made and shipped to Watervliet
arsenal, New York, the largest cannOn
forging ever turned out in America.
1t is the first one of the 16-inch group
ordered for Sandy Hook.
AT Bracebridge. Ont, the trial of
VIM. j. Hammond, a young druggist,
for the murder of his wife, Kate Ham
mond, on March 6, 1896, ended in a YER
diet of guilty. Hammond was SEN
fenced to be hanged on September Is.
The senate, on the 2Sth, voted to lay
on the table the finance committee
amendment to the war revenue bill,
placing a tax IN corporations-41 to -.
The United States marshal has I'M
der arrest and in the federal jail at
Guthrie, Okla, Kinder Ii. Hargo, a
young Seminole Indian, who has con-
fessed to numbering Mrs. Laird, for
whose death young Sampson AND Geisy
were burned to death by a white mob
last January.