The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-02-19
INFORMATION received at Washington,

AIlDN TecelVcu dU washington
through official channels. is to the eff
feet that the movement toward Cuban
independence is making rapid progress
in the interior of Cuba. Autonomy is
being used as a cover. 1t is being
turned against Spain.
SPAIN is expected to make some kim
of an apology for the De LONE letter.
But the apology will be treated as diplo-
macy. 1t can not restore the situation
as it was. Congress and public senti-
ment have undergone a great change.
The feeling that the time to intervene
has come is nearly unanimous in Wash
ington.
The Canadian government has re-
fused to permit the United States troops
to cross the boundary line of British
Columbia. and the efforts of the war
department to relieve the suffering
miners in Alaska has in consequence
received a temporary check.
ALMOST under the nose of Edward
GaylOr. superintendent of Pinkertons,
and many Spanish spies. a large Cuban
expedition left Tampa. f a., on the
night of the 18th. and the neXt night
sailed from a point on Peace river.
IT is now known on the highest au-
thOrity that the real reason for sending
the United States torpedo a Cushing
to Havana was that the Spanish author
tiles have been t%ampering with mail
sent to the battleship Maine in Havana
harbOr.
800, r,ap- ID NJ .-r. ~ ~ ~ tla
Missouri supreme court, who under
went an operation for appendicitis at
st. Luke's hospital. st. Louis. IN the
18th. and who. it was thought. would
rally from the shock, died at 7:3O Il. III.
on the morning of the ETH.
Mrs. ADRIAN K. ROBINSON and Edith
Schaffner. of Lyons, y. H.. Were found
in bed. on the 18th, nearly asphyXiated
by coal gas from the parlOr stove
Neither is expected to recover.
THERE is some talk at The Hague OF
the betrothal of Queen Wilhelmina of
Holland t. Prince Louis Napoleon. now
colonel of the Czarina's lancers in the
Russian army.
A PORTION of the Westfield Plate Co.'S
1dCl'IN at DoOhN lilN. -hooo.- NAOSSN
down on the 18th.
TIE garrison of Paris has been rein
forced by troops from Versailles.
The house committee on merchant
marine and fisheries held a meeting. on
the 18th. going over proposed changes
in the navigation laws to remove trOu-
blcsome problems arising in Alaskan
commerce.
THE steamship Oregon, which left
Astoria. Il. C.. on the 18th. for Dyea
and Sllaguay. was lowed back the
same evening with her coal bunkers on
fire. The fire was said to be under con-
troll.
FROM New York to Buffalo. 425 miles,
in 426 minutes actual running time.
was the record made over the Erie rail
road. on the 18th, by a special cws
paper train.
On the 18th a member of the Spanish
cabinet said, in relation to the De
LONE letter: The ministers feel more
aggrievcd than President Mckinley
can possibly be. We are honest men
who have been placed in Il false posi-
ton by a fool"
LUTHER q. BILLINGS, pay director in
the United States navy. has been found
guilty by a c~ourt-martial of falsehood
and scandalous conduct, and sentenced
to dismissal from the navy.
The south wall of the Union Storage
Co. building in Pittsburgh, Pa. which
was destroyed in the recent big fire,
fell on the 18th. A number of boys
were playing about the ruins, and it
was thought hat at least five of them
were caught by the falling wall and
buried under the debris.