The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-11
ADMIRAL CERvERA will be allowed ia

ADMIRAL CERvERA will be allowed ia
select from the list of Spanish prison
ers at Fort Mcpherson, Ga, whom he
is willing to take in exchange for Con-
structor Hobson and the gallant crew
that manned the Merrimac on her last
run.
LATEST advices from Admiral Dewey
report 20 hours fighting around Ma
Mia, the insurgents driving the Span.
ish back with great slaughter.
On the 9th, according to a report
from Port au-Prince, Hayti, Admiral
Sampson forced the passage of Santi.
ago bay and engaged the Spanish fleet.
sinking two of Cervera's ships. One
American ship was injured.
THE arsenal at Cavite, Philippine Is
lands, has been prepared for occupa
tion by the United States troops upoI
their arrival on transports.
THE statement of the condition al
the treasury, issued on the 9th, showed:
Available cash balance, S194, 1877, SIC;
gold reserve, S17O.5 56. 1874.
WHILE fishing at Bluff creek, on tia
9th, Judge ]. NJ. Thomas, of Caldwell
Kas.. was drowned. He was a pioneer
and had held many important state OF
fees.
Miss KATHARINE MCKENNA, sister ,:
Associate Justice Mex emma, of thu
United States supreme court, died il
San Francisco on the 9th. She was j
native of Philadelphia, and was 81
years of age.
THE London papers are engaged in
extolling the heroism of Lieut.. Hobsol
and the chivalry of Admiral Cervers-
They seem to overlook the fact that the
prisoners are confined in Ell Moro, in
the direct line of fire from our ships, a
fact roundly denounced by American
officers.
On to Porto Rico will be the pro-
gramme as 500 as the Santiago expe.
dition is landed. The troops for this
latter movement will be gathering on
the east coast of Florida even while
those who have left Tampa will be still
On the water.
FRIENDS of Gen. Lew Wallace, who
have been urgently presenting his
name for a major-generalship of volun.
teers, will be sorry to learn that the
president has aboIt decided hat he
can not make the appointment, the sole
reason being Gen. Wallace's age.
AN American force is said to have
landed at Aguadores, just south of San.
tiago de Cuba, on the 9th, under the
protection of the guns of Simpsons
feet. Heavy firing was heard for tn,
most of the day.
ALL day long. on the 9th, troops were
embarking on the transports at Tampa,
nothing of horses and equippage to be
loaded. 1t is said there would be As
transports in the fleet.
ONE of the most notable weddings il
Maine this year will be the marriage
of Mrs. Nellie Grant Satoris to Gen.
Henry Kyd Douglass, of Maryland, the
last survivor of Stonewall Jackson's
staff, at Bar Harbor.
On the Baltimore & Ohio railway,
six miles east of Parkersburg, O., at :
a. H., on the 18th, a freight train was
derailed, and apassenger train ran into
it. John Henry, engineer, was killed,
and seven persons were wounded.
THE bill for the removal of all po-
litical disabilities arising from the civil
war became a law, on the 18th, Presi.
dent Mckinley formally approving it.
Representative Jenkins, of Wisconsin.
is its author.
The annual convention of the Amer
lean Medical association opened al
Denver, Col, on the 18th, with a large
attendance. Gov. Adams and Mayor
McMurray delivered addresses of wei.
come.