The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-07-30
CURRENT TOPICS.
III NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

yellow fever has been entirely stamped
out.
ALL the old officers of the United
Confederate Veterans were reelected
at the Atlanta Ga convention as fol-
lows: Gen. John B. Gordon, Georgia,
general commanding; Gen. Stephen D.
Lee, Mississippi, commanding the de-
partment of Tennessee; Gen. w. L..
Cabell, of Texas, transmississippi de-
partment; Gen. Wade Hampton, the.
army of Virginia.
In the vicinity of Casselton, n. D., on
the 21st., $4,000 acres of wheat was
destroyed by ahail storm.
A TORNADO struck Minot, n. D., on
the night of the 2lst, demOlishing IL
buildings and injuring a number of
people. No one vas killed. The coun-
ty hospital IA destroyed, and sew
eral of the inmates badly injured. Six
loaded box cars on the 500 tracks were
blown 100 feet from the rails and de-
molished.
WHILE bathing in the Minnesota
river at Morton, Mimi, on the 22d.
Barbara and Rachel Gale, Martha
| Lorenz and Alvina Reis-all under 90
were drowned.
The United States cruiser St. Paul
arrived at New York, on the 22d, after
a run of four days from the harbor of
Guantanamo, with all well on board.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury issued on the 22d showed:
Available cash balance, S25S, 720, 129;
gold reserve, $3.50, 455, 533.
ARRANGEMENTS are being perfected
at the war department for the estab-
lishment OF a military garrison at Hon
olulu.
THE president has appointed Ferdi-
nand Peck, of Chicago, commissioner
general of the Paris exposition.
THE little colony of foreign naval and
military attaches who saw the battles
about Santiago and who have returned
| to New York, talk enthusiastically about
the bravery and magnificent discipline
of the American troops and splendid
work of SIMPSONS fleet. They say our
men would have done still better work
had they been supplied with smokeless
powder.
| SEChEIAh1 LONS SpOHI dOOub WV
hours with the president, on the cath,
presumably in going over Admiral
SIMPSONS report on the destruction of
the Spanish fleet at Santiago.
THE most conservative figures on the
seasons surplus wheat crop in the Co
lumbia river basin and the William
cite valley in Oregon are 1,05O, 600 tons.
These are based on last years actual
surplus of the known increased acre
age this year over last, and the first
rate condition of crops now under har-
vest.
w. l. SAMUELs, banker and distiller,
and one of the w%ealthieSt men of Mel
son county, KY, ended a long illness,
on the ED, at Bardstown, by shooting
| himself in the head with Il revolver.
The news was a great shock to the
community, in which he was highly
respected.
LIEUT.. HoBsoN arrived in New York,
on the ED, on the auxiliary cruiser st.
Paul and proceeded at once to Wash
ington with dispatches for the navy de-
partment. He was recognized on land
ing and was heartily cheered, as he was
later on his arrival in Washington.
INFORMATION reached Santiago, on
the 22d, that 1000 insurgents, compris-
ing Gen. Garcia's army for the eastern
| department of Cuba, nave been routed
in a fierce engagement with a detach-
ment of Spanish troops bound for San
| tiago to surrender to Shafter.
AT an early hour on the morning of
the cath the car barn of the CONSOLE
dated Traction Co., of Pittsburgh. Pa,
was completely Quilted by fire, entail
ing a loss of about Sl75, 900; well COW
cred by insurance. Thirty-six of the
so cars in the building were destroyed.
REPORTS received from the eastern,
middle and western states show the
tonnage of hay this year to be greater
than any during the past ten years,
and the conditions of the harvested
crop above the average.
A from Madrid says the
chiefs of the Carlist organization are
leaving Spain.
The quartcrmaster-general, on the
24th. received a telegram announcing
the safe arrival at Santiago of the con-
~struction boat Panama. She will pro-
| coed at once to Porto Rico to join the
feet there.
SENIOR SAGAsTA, the Spanish pre-.
mier, says hat not all the troops in
| Guided in the ~capitulation of Santiago
agreed to surrender.
On the 23d the associated banks of
the city of New York held S42, OLE 900 in
excess of the requirements of the 25-
percent. rule.
A CALL for the fifth annual meeting
| of the National Hay association to be
held at Buffalo, n. Y, August 9, has
been issued.
The London Times, in its weekly war
review, expresses the opinion that the
measures taken by Gen. Shafter for the
protection of life and property at San
tiago de Cuba will exercise a definite
influence in other parts of the island,
where it will be understood that
Spanish loyalists are not to be aban-
doned, whatever happens
GEN. GOMEZ is quoted as saying: Il
have only to say that the only man that
has anything to say in the direction of
matters is Mr.. Mckinley, and we shall