The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-14

SECRETARY GAGE addressed the stu
dents of Cornell university on the eth.
A DISPATCH from Vienna says hat in
the highest circles lit is regarded that
affairs in Spain are hurrying rapidly
toward a grave crisis. But no fear is
entertained for the personal safety of
the queen"
FIGHTING JOE" WHEELER was the
first of the major-generals of the new
volunteer arnyto be musteredin. The
oath of Office vas administered to him
on the 9th. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was
mustered in half an hour later.
ESPECIAL from San Juan, Porto Rico,
on the 9th, said that preparations were
being made there for the reception of
the Spanish Cape Verde island fleet,
the arrival of which was expected al
most momentarily.
BY the explosion of a can of nitro
g%lycerine, found near the old powder
mills on the outskirts of Denver, Col,
on the sth, Fred Smetzger was in
stantly killed, his body being blown to
atoms, and Peter Lehl, Peter Schmear
and Henry Loos were badly injured.
THE queen of the Belgians, who is a
daughter of the late Archduke Joseph
of Austria, while driving in the vicin-
ity of the royal palace at Laeken, was
upset into the lake. Her majesty was
not injured.
OWING to the international compli-
cations likely to grow out of the war
between the United States and Spain,
the British government is arranging to
fortify St. Johns. y. f.
On the Sth the associated banks of
New York city held S43, 9l6, 475 in excess
of the requirements of the 25-per-cent.
rule.
THE British steamer Maitland, Capt.
Anderson, from Sydney, n. 5. w, for
Newcastle. is believed to have gone
ashore at Broken bay. Her crew and
passengers, numbering Is souls, are
thought to have been lost.
TIE cabinet has decided on an ag.
gressive campaign against the Spanish
in the Philippines.
CHARLES CHASER, eX-comptroller OF
West Bay City, Mich, shot himself
through the breast, on the 9th, and dice
- minutes later. CHASER was recently
indicted by the county grand jury on
charges of forgery and embezzlement.
AT South Bend, Ind, on the 9th,
Frank Harrington fatally shot Mrs.
Mahlert, a widow, with whom he
boarded, because she refused to marry
him. He then blew out his own brains.
The newspapers of Lisbon say that
a Spanish fleet, consisting of nine YES
sells, passed Cape Espichel, 81 miles
south-by-west of that port, on the Sth,
steering a southerly course.
ROBERT LINDBLOM, the widely-known
Chicago board of trade operator, made
an assignment on the 9th. Assets
given at $1,000 900 and liabilities Sl25,.
900.
A VALENCIAN deputy declared, on
the 10th, that the captain-gencral of
Valencia had threatened the newspa-
pers, saying he would break up their
forms if they printed matter attacking
the government.
WILLIAM A. AUBREY DE We're BEAU
CLERK, tenth duke of st. Adams,
hereditary grand falconer of England
and captain of her majesty's yeomen of
the guard, died on the 10th. He was
born in 1910.
MR. F. j. BABCoCK, who was private
secretary to Secretary Sherman, has
been requested by Secretary Day to
continue to serve him in the same ca
pacity, and has accepted.
On the 10th the comptroller of the
currency issued a call for reports on
the condition 70 national banks at the
close of business on May 5.
SPANISH cruisers are boarding yes.
sells in the straits of Gibraltar.