The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-12-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

There is reason to believe that with
tine completed organization of the
Flour trust the opposition of the peo-
pie to all trusts will be crystalized in
to definite shape that will make the
issue extremely vital in the next pu-
li:ical campaign. 1t seems to be time
to call a halt when the bread supply
of Il nation is controlled by one CEN
tralized monopoly.
OF $50 food and drug samples ana
lived by the state authorities in New
Jersey POS were found to be aduiterat-
ed. The people of the United States
are far behind the English in pro-
tecting themselves from this Danger
GUS form of fraud.
The Americans hold nearly 15,OGO
Spanish soldiers as prisoners, captured
at the fall OF Manila. These are actual
ly Oh parole about the city. and the
question is how are they to be re-
turned 10 Spain. This must be settled
by the peace commissioners in Paris.
Mrs. CaliXto Garcia, the wife of the
Cuban general who died,on the 18th, in
w d~llliiS lOll. vi a " III ~
husbands funeral on the 18th. Her
daughter. Mercedes. who is quite i'll at
Thomasville. Ga. was not so well, and
Mrs. Garcia decided to remain with
her.
The Nicaraguan canal bill was taken
up in the senate on the Sth.
DIR. j. ]. Walter. pastor of the Cen
l-I E ID--+1a,l
Ore. has been appointed missionary in
| charge of all Methodist work in Alas
ka.
Gen. Garcia's condition was reported
to be much improved on the 9th.
The River Neva suddenly rose nine
feet, on the night of the Sth. inundat-
ing the lower quarter of St. Peters
burg, where communication was car
ricd on only by boats. The inhabi-
tants were panic-stricken, and there
was great loss of life and property.
Five powder mills in the lower yard
of the Dupont powder works, near
Wilmington, Del, exploded on the 9th.
Robert McHenry, John Moore, John
Wright and another nan named Stew
art were killed. and several others were
badly burned.
All the railroads in the Southwest
ern Passenger association have de-
cided to abolish second-class rates to
all Texas points on and after Janu-
airy 1.
The Tobacco Growers League of
Kentucky was formally organized at
Lexington by the board of directors
electing w. Il. Hawkins president and
J. J.. Lisle secretary and treasurer.
Claude NJ. Thomas was elected state
organizer to establish county leagues.
John Andersen, the cook of the
schooner Olive Pecker, who murdered
the captain and mate of that vessel in
August, 1897. while on a voyage from
Boston TO Buenos Ayres.wa hanged in
the Jail yard at Norfolk, Va. on the
9th. The execution was bungling, the
drop falling twice before Andersen
died.
leila, the 1~3-year-old daughter CT
William Galloway. who lives three
miles north of Kingston. Ia, was
burned to a Grip, on the 9th, by Ter
clothes catching fire at the stove. She
was dead when help arrived.
The transport Minnewaska. with
Brighten. George W. Davis and his
staff and the Two Hundred and Sec
ond New York. consisting of 81 Off
GERS, 1.179 enlisted men. and go men,
beers of the hospital and signal corps
| NIL onn,Store nrri,n1 nt ITnrnpn nm
the 9th.
The queen regent of Spain has suf-
fered terribly from the frightful strain
| of responsibility throughout the war,
as well as in connection with the anX-
ious negotiations that both preceded
and followed the conflict. She is now
reported seriously i'll at Madrid.
The members of the American peace
commission are booked to sail from
southampton for New York on board
the American line steamship st. Louis
on December II.
President Rafael Iglesias of Costa
Rica sailed from New York, on the
10th, for France on the steamship La
| Gascogne. He said that he was very
much pleased with his cordial recep-
ton in this country.
Action has been taken by Secretary
Long to withhold information concern
ing American naval affairs from for
eign governments.
James Shaw, the only surviving
member of the state legislature of
fS47, when Detroit was the capital Of
Michigan, died at Niles, Mich, on the
10th, aged sc.
John Roberts, charged, at Paola,
Kas., with the murder of his father,
was found guilty of ~manslaughter on
the 10th.
The pope mas decided shat the Span-
ish policy of the vatican shall be anti
Carlist and not neutral.
The Paris La Liberte says that the
temporary release of Col. Picquart has
already been ordered.
The text of the peace treaty will be
published in Madrid in a red book be-
fore the opening of the cortes.