The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-07-09
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER Y

LIEUTENANT = COMMANDER WAN.
WRIGHT, who was executive officer OF
the Maine when she was blown up,
did some daring work in the battle
with Cevera's fleet. With the on
verted yacht Gloucester formerly Cor
sair) he plunged into the thickest of
the fight, and was mainly instrumental
in placing hors de combat the torpedo
boat destroyers Pluton and Furor.
WHEN the news of the disaster to the
Spanish reached Skaters army, on the
Sd, which was during the truce, a regi.
mental band that had managed to keep
its instruments on the line, played
The Star-Spangled Banner and
"Therell Be a Hot Time in the Old
Town Tonight" Men cheered from
one end of the line to the other.
THE secretary of the Illinois Manu-
fa~cturers' association asked Secretary
Gage for a ruling on the internal rev.
enue stamps on bills of lading issued
by express companies, and has received
the following reply from the internal
revenue department at Washington.
Express and transportation companies
must afix stamps to bills of lading is
sued by them"
The steamer Surf City, while on her
trip over from Salem Willows to Bev-
erly, Mass, on the 4th, was struck by a
squall and sunk about a quarter of a
mile off her wharf. There were from
100 to $50 passengers OIL board at the
time. 1t is believed that between 20
and 80 were drowned.
The most important action taken by
the war board at its conference, on the
4th, was a decision to expedite the de-
parture of the fleet under Commodore
Watson to the Spanish coast. The adj
ministration is desirious of beginning
bombardment of the important coast
cities of Spain as soon as possible.
As USUAL, in spite of the fact that
Cervera'S fleet had been annihilated. it
was sought, in Madrid, to give the inn
preston that he had escaped, and there
was.a lot of premature rejoicing.
A DISPATCH from Hong Kong to the
Frankfurter Zeitung says that the
American cruiser Charleston's forces
also occupied the Caroline islands on
her way Over to Manila.
THE town of Dunsmuir, in Siskiyou
county, Cal. on the line of the Cali
fornia & Oregon railway, was almost
out of existence by fire during
the early hours of the 5th.
THE British warships Pallas and
Alert left Kingston, Jamaica, on the
5th, for Santiago de Cuba. in order to
take away British subjects who were de.
sirous of leaving the city.
THE question of what disposition to
make of the Spanish prisoners take n
by the United States forces is causing
the war department much perplexity.
ONE HUNDRED recruits for Col.
Woods Rough Riders left Santa Fe, n.
NJ, IN the 5th, to join the regiment at
Santiago.
THE state department was officially
appraised, on the 5th, of the entrance of
Camara's feet into the Suez canal.
The family of Gen. August has es-
from MacabOra and rejoined the
general in Manila.
CAPT. MATTHEW SHERMAN, Il noted
naval veteran of San Diego, Cal, and
in the Mexican war, died in
that city, on the 5th, of paralysis.
The Spanish torpedo boats which
were with Camara's fleet have been or
dered to Messina, Sicily.
A CONSIDERABLE quantity of bacon
supplied to the regular regiments at
Camp Merritt, at San Francisco, was
on the 5th, by n special
board of survey appointed by Maj.-Gen.
E. S. Otis. The meat was inspected
and Immediately adjudged unfit to be