The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-07-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

II I1IISuul Sh llLlCS CLld No.
"With Hobson, a kinsman of one North
Carolina governor, and Bagley,a grand
son of another, it is easy for the gov
errors of the old Tar-Heel state to re-
mark to each other that il is not a very
long time between 'glints of glory in
the peanut belt The old southland
is winning some glory out of the war,
anyway.
THE report that Admiral Camara's
feet had returned to Cadiz is denied.
1t is said that it could not return with
out creating riots in that city and
Madrid, particularly as the admiral
said at the farewell banquet given to
him that he would never return until
his flag had been STEPPED in American
blood.
THERE is adisposition becoming a
ifest in the senate, in view of the assur-
ance of the Hawaiian annexation New
lands) resolution being adopted, to take
up the treaty and concur in it, thus
preserving to the senate its dignity as
the treaty-making power in conjunc-
ton with the president.
JAMES MCKINLEY, a nephew of the
president, who has just graduated at
the Canton (O.) high school, left Can
ton, on the 22d, for Washington, for the
purpose of enlisting in sthe regular
army, after spending a few days with
his uncle.
The arctic exploring ship Fran, hav-
ing on board Capt. Otto Sverdrup's ex-
petition to the arctic regions, sailed
from Christiana, Norway, on the oath.
DIR. hansen, the arctic explorer, and an
immense crowd of people were present
to bid the party farewell.
The four-story brick building occu-
| pied by the Jacques Manufacturing Co.
of Chicago wa burned on the cath.
Loss, SIS, 900. Pipeman Florence Nc
Auliffe was fatally injured by an ex-
p~losion. Eight other firemen were in
jured.
On the morning of the oath four
troops of the First cavalry, four troops
of the Tenth cavalry and eight troops
of "Roosevelt's Roughriders," all dis
mounted, forming the advance guard
ofGen. Skaters army, were ~ambushed
by 1000 Spaniards and n terrific fight
enSued, in which the enemy were rout-
ed, but not before they had inflicted
serious loss. Our loss was Is killed and
about 80 wounded. The Spanish loss
is not known. Among the killed are
Capt. Capron and Sergt. Hamilton Fish,
of the roughrIders.
The arctic expedition under Walter
Wellman, the explorer, sailed from
Tromsoe, Island of Tromsoe, Norway,
| on the Goth. Mr.. Wellman's expedition
is undertaken first to find and succor
Prof. Andree, and, second, to discover
the north pole. He is accompanied by
a corps of scientists and a competent
explorer.
IT is announced in Madrid from Cuba
that yellow fever has already attacked
members of the American expedition at
Santiago.
AT Trenton, Ia. Perry Elliott shot
and instantly killed Ellie Kelly and
then shot himself. They lived or op-
posite sides of the load. Elliott saw
Miss Kelly sitting with a young man in
| front of her house, and shot her with a
rifle from his doorway. His dead body
was found shortly afterwards in an
inner room. Jealousy was the cause of
| the rash act.
IT is alleged that another high
binder war is imminent in Chinatown,
San Francisco. The shooting of Chung
Wing a few nights ago, it is said, has
been followed by threats against at
least four other prominent Chinese.
The senate, on the oath, agreed to the
conference report on the bankruptcy
bill.
LARGE crowds attended the Omaha
(Neb.) exposition, on the Goth, day and
evening. The Thomas orchestral con-
cert was the drawing attraction.
On the 18th the associated banks of
New York city held S62, zoe, $50 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
WHILE section one of Col. Torrey's
troop train, bearing his cowboys to
Tampa, was standing at Tupelo, Miss,
on the Goth, section two came along
and, without needing the tlagman's sig
nal, crashed into the first SEXTON.
Four troopers and a porter were killed.
one mortally injured aud 10 others, in
Guiding Col. Torrey, were more or less
hurt. The headquarters car was
burned.