The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-12-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

was IullN llauSurateu.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
The French embassy has submit
ted to the state department Z request
from the Spanish branch of the Red
Cross society for illustrations and ex-
plantations of the surgical. medical
and humane devices usedby the United
States to alleviate the horrors of war.
Mrs. VIM. Mantell. who killed her
husband and attempted suicide in
Alameda. Cal. on the night of the I'd,
will recOver. She claims to have been
secretly married 20 Mantell a month
ago. She declares that they quar-
relied, and that he had Knocked her
down before she shot him.
The sixteenth victim of the Union
Elevator holocaust at Toledo. O., was
found in III" ruins, on the I'd. the
body being that of s~iX-year-old Harold
Parks. son IF Supt. Parks. who almost
met his death in the flames. Four
members of the family lost their lives
in the fire.
Official election returns from all
counties IN Michigan but two show
Gov. Pingree's plurality to be 1881.
S~evcnty-eight amateur racing men
will throw Off allegiance to the League
of American Wheelmen by competing
in unsanctioned races in Madison
Square Garden.
Arbuckle Brothers have reduced the
price of refined sugars lie cent. 1t is
generally understood that the other
retincries will follow with a similar
reduction.
DR.. Won HoIlenben, the German am
bassador TO the United States, who is
now in Berlin. lunched. on the I'd, with
Emperor William. and at his majesty's
request cXpounded at length his views
regarding the present and prospective
situation of Spain and the United
States.
At the cabinet meeting. on the I'd.
the president suggested that 10000
of the wal emergency fund be set
aside for cleaning the city of Havana
and putting it in a sanitary condition.
This proposition met with the unan-
imous approval of the cabinet.
AS Dol as the peace treaty is signed
the good intentions of the United
States government towards the Fi!ipi-
nos will lie made as emphatic as posi-
BILE. The policy will be to win over
the leaders and the rank and file with
kindly treatment. if such Il course will
do it. In the meantime the American
forces on land and water will be reaGy
to enforce American sovereignty.
The Spanish war Office has put most
of the artillery regiments on Il war
footing. and has ordered that the con-
scripts Of 1895 he taught to use tine
Mauser rifle. The precautions against
the CarliStS and the keeping of 10000
men under arms have already cost an
extra 100000 0 p~esctas.
Mrs. George Green. victim of an as
sassin's bullet. fired at her on the
night of November p. while standing
at her gate. died. on the I'd. at her
home in CementvilIe. lid. Her ante
mortem statement. mGde to Prosecu-
tor Montgomery. charges her husband
with doing the shooting.
The peace commissions have agreed
not to mention the Cuban or Philip
pine debts iii the treaty, because it
might lead to misrepresentation. The
American commissioners have indi-
Gated to the Spaniards that these debts
can not possibly in law, right or
equity, be saddled upon Cuba OF the
Philippines, since the money was not
employed for the benefit of the col
cnies.
The safe taken from Cevera's flag
ship, the Maria Teresa. has been
opened at the Norfolk Na.) navy
yard. for the first time since its re-
covery from the sunken ship. In it,
ircased in canvas bags. was found a
large sum OF money. believed to be,
after a careful estimate. $4,000 or
more.
Gen. Miles. commanding the army,
has prepared the draft of a bill pro-
viding for a regular standing army of
loo ,OOO men. The bill, it is said. will
provide for an organization of - COM
panies TO the regiment. with an ar
rangement for a third lieutenant for
each company in case of need.
David Stuart Ervaine, thirteenth
earl of Ruchan. died in London. on TIE
4th. in his eighty-fourth year.
The British steamer Anglers arrived
at New York, on the 4th, in distress.
having encountered terrific gales on
the Atlantic. She also brought eight
shipwreched mariners which we're
taken from the dislnasted and water
logged American schooner Harry B.
Ritter in mid-ocean.
The death wGs announced in Paris,
on the 4th, of Sidi-AIohamed Taieb
Bey, brother and heir presumptive of
Sidi Ali. Bey of Tunis. He was in his
seventy-eighth year.
Arthur Stirling, the well-known ac-
tor. died in London. on TIE oath.