The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-04-30

IT was announced, on the 25sh, thas
the queen regent of Spain still hoped
for peaceful foreign Intervention.
RECRUITING OFFICER DAY, located at
Cleveland, O., received orders from
Washington, on the 25th, to enlist all
the men between 81 and 81 he possibly
couldfo the hospital corps, experienced
men being preferred.
THE war department refuses to con-
firm the contract made by the quarter
master at st. Louis with Sparks Bros,
of Kansas City, for 300 pack mules at
SOB. 10 per head. 1t was also broadly
intimated from Washington hat no
more mules would be bought in Kansas
City, as the government will not allow
itself to be robbed.
GOVERNMENT officials at Jacksonville,
Fla, are making arrangements looking
to the immediate invasion of Cuba.
Twenty of the leading Cuban physicians
have been engaged to go with the army
from hat city, and 20 young men who
speak English will accompany them as
interpreters.
REAR-ADMBAL SAMPSON has asked
permission to shell Havana's forts, and
the navy department has the request
under consideration. 1t is CALLING to
the pride of the navy to be constantly
fired at and not be allowed to respond
in kind.
Gov. TANNER of Illinois has declined
to turn down Maj. Young, a West
Pointer, who is at the head of the cav
airy arm of the Illinois national guard,
to make room for John A. Logan as
colonel of the cavalry regiment or
dered into service.
UNDER the provisions of the army re-
organization bill. which was finally
passed, on the 18th, the regular army
may be increased, in time of actual war,
from 27,0O0 to 6 $1,000. This will be i'm
mediately acted upon.
CONGRESS-, on the 18th, passed a bill,
in response to a request from the presi-
dent, declaring a state of war to exist
between the United States and Spain.
The president promptly signed the bill.
NAVAL officers high in the service
make no secret of the fact hat they
expect to fight across the water. They
point out that this country is making
quite too extensive preparations for a
war to be fought on this side only.
THE United States government, it is
reported, has offered Greece A., % 900
francs for her entire fleet of warShips.
Grecian sympathy is with the United
States, and the proposition may be con
sidercd.
Upon the recommendation OF Capt.
Lemly, judge advocate general, Secre-
tary Long, on the 10Th, directed the
release from a Boston naval prison of
IS sailors. The men had been in pris-
on for various infractions of military
law, and the department thought hat
conditions warranted their restoration
to active service.
THE United States gunboat Newport,
Capt. Is. f. Tilley, on the Goth, towed
to Key West, Fla, the Spanish sloop
Pacquett and the Spanish schooner Pr
coasting vessels, which she had
captured off Havana.
COMMANDER HORACE ELMER, until
recently commander of the Mos
quito fleet, and who was retired be-
cause of ill-health, relieved by Admiral
Erben, died at the Mansion house in
Brooklyn on the Goth.
The Italian Red Cross society has of
fered its services with the use of its
paraphernalia to the Red Cross socie-
ties of the United States and Spain.
THE powder mills at Santa Cruz, Cal,
blew up, on the Goth, wounding sew
eral employees, and killing seven out
right. The buildings afterward caught
fire and the damage done was verv
great.