The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-02-12
Four saloon-keepers of Leaven,rorth,

Four saloon-keepers of Leavensvcrth,
kas., have been notified that they have
been dropped from membership in the
Modern Woodmen of America lodge
because of their calling. Two of them
are h~otel-keepers.
THE funeral of the late Hon. ]. P.
Smith, director of the bureau of Amer
lean republics, who died at Miami, Fla,
on the 5th, o place on the 9TH,
from his home in Urbana, O.
SHERIFF BRoCKLIss, of Douglas
county, New, where the lynching of
Adam Uber recently occurred, has been
indicted for the wilful neglect of duty
in not taking steps to prevent the
illegal execution. His trial has been
set for the 10th.
A DISPATCH from Athens says SAN
culinary conflicts continue between the
Turkish troops and the peasants in
Thessaly. 1t is reported that the Turks
have ransacked several villages and
hundreds of people have been killed.
PEssIMIsTic impressions are current in
Spain regarding the relations between
hat coLntry and the United States and
have depressed the Madrid and BARGE
Iona bourses. Public feeling is strong
against the United States.
MARIE Hook. living near Perkins,
Payne county, Okla. is one of six heirs
to the So, 900, 900 estate left by Thomas
Clark, the Colorado miner, who died re-
Gently.
SEVERAL London papers, on the sth,
announced that a crisis seemed to be
approaching betweent the United States
and Spain. The leading dailies had
been advised by their correspondents in
Madrid that the relations between the
two countries had undergone a sudden
and unfavorable change, and that Spain
was seeking the moral and material
support of the powers.
APPROXIMATION of the chief mayor of
Cologne against American hams is the
latest act of German unfriendlineSS to-
ward the products of this country.
Consul Barnes has forwarded q copy to
the state department.
THE department of state has received
the report of Consul General Lee upon
the killing of NestOr Aranguren in
Cuba. If the report could be made pub
lie it might bring a crisis in 4 hurry.
Mrs. j. j. BAGLEY, widow of the late
Senator Bagley, of Michigan, died at
the Waterman cottage at Austin Bluffs,
Col, on the 18th, of heart disease, super
induced by complications resulting
from Bright's disease of the kidneys.
The Barton estate vineyard, near
Fresno, Cal, one of the largest in the
country. has been fined S15,24O by the
United States government for irregu-
l~arities in the matter of distilling, and
Mr.. Lampkin, the United States gauger
at Fresno, has been first suspended and
then dismissed.
PORCH climbers entered the home of
w. W. Norton. in st. Louis, on the 18th,
while the family We're at supper, and
stole diamonds and jewelry to the
value of $1,000, the property of Mrs.
James o. West, a society woman of
New York, and an aun of Mr.. Norton.
A DISPATCH from Madrid. on the Sth,
said: The Spanish government has de-
cided to send the Spanish cruiser Almi-
rante Oquendo to Havana and thence
to New York"
PRESIDENT DOLE of Hawaii and party
arrived at Cleveland, o., on the sth,
where the president and his wife spent
the day at the home of Mr.. Charles
Cate, Mrs. Dole's brother. The two had
not met for many years.
THE fourth session of the fourteenth
parliament of Queen Victoria and the
twenty-siXth of the United Kingdom,
was opened, by commission, on the sth,
at 2 p. IN, with the customary pere-
monies.