The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-05-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

LIE government received auVlccS, on
the night of the 2Sth, that the Spanish
fleet had fed from the vicinity of Ma
Mia, Philippine islands, presumably
preferring to prey upon American COM
merce to risking an engagement with
Commodore Dewey's fleet.
JOHN WALTZ, the Spanish spy cap
tured at Port Eads, while sketching
the Notifications, is to be tried by mill
tary commission. Maj. Quinn, COM
mandant at Port Eads, says the evidence
of guilt is conclusive, and hat the spy
will be shot.
A GREAT impression was produced in
Madrid, on the Goth, by a rumOr that
Germany had issued a note declaring
she would not oppose the landing of
troops in the Philippines, but would
not permit any bombardment.
The steamer Esmeralda, chartered
by the banking companies of Hong
Kong, was sent to Manila, capital of
the Philippine islands, to bring away
the specie there, as trouble was appre-
hended.
IT was reported, on the Goth, that
there had been a collision among the
vessels of the Spanish fleet, and some
of them had returned to st. Vincent,
Cape Verde islands, for repairs.
A SMALL Spanish sloop, Engracia,
captured by the United States gunboat
Newport, Capt. b. F. Tilley, off Caba-
mas, Cuba, on the 2Sth, was brought to
Key West on the Goth.
Tnr r1an of fOrp,ip- N S,no+ion r,;{h
Gomez, in Cuba, contemplates not only
the provisioning and equipping of the
insurgent army, but also the establish
ment by Gomez of a civil government
in Matanzas. 1t will be declared the
capital of the island of Cuba.
JAPAN has requested permission for
Japanese naval officers to watch oper-
ations in the Philippines from the
Spanish headquarters.
Gov. CIRCUIT of Vermont has called an
extra session of the legislature for May
5 to provide funds for the subsistence
and transportation of Vermont troops.
The state militia will be modified, on
the 18th, at Brattleboro.
THE east-bound mail train on the
Southern Pacific was stopped by six
masked highwaymen, on the night of
the 2Sth, al Comstock, Tex, and the
mail and express cars were blown open
with dynamite. The amount secured
by the bandits was not learned.
GREAT excitement was occasioned in
Eastport, Me-, on the Goth, over can
nonading heard off Quaddv Head, which
was suppose to come from a SpaniSh
gunboat said to be in Fundy bay.
WEYLER, in the Spanish senate, on
the Goth, urged the government to take
the offensive against America. He JUS
tilted his administration in Cuba
The government has cancelled con-
tracts for the transportation of coal to
Behring sea points, which would in
dictate that the Behring sea patrol is to
be abandoned this year.
MADRID became greatly excited by
the serious news from the Philippines,
on the 1st, and there was an immense
gathering in the Collie de Seville. The
civil guards on horseback were called
put to preserve order.
WHEN the bulletin announcing the
complete defeat of the Spanish feet
was posted in the hotel lobby at Key
West, on the evening of the LIST, naval
and army officers cheered, shouted,
threw their hats in the air in the most
demonstrative manner. Naval officers
Rugged each other and yelled: That's
what we'll do to them if we eyer get a
chance"