The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-04-09

LORD PmLINGDoN Charles Henry
Mills, chairman of the committee of
London clearinghouse bankers, died
suddenly in church at Wilton. En-
gland, on the Sd. He was born in 1880,
was the son of the late Sir Charles
Mills, bart, and was elevated to the
peerage in 1856.
A DISPATCH from Christiana, Nor
way, reports that the steam whaler
Fridtjof has been secured for the Well
nan polar expedition to Franz Josef
Land instead of the Laura, previously
engaged
THE weekly statement of the I'm
perial bank of Germany, issued on the
4th, showed the following changes, as
compared with the previous account:
Cash on hand, decreased, 81, 1OO, 900
marks; treasury notes, decreased, p
100000 marks; other securities, in
creased, 1913, $50, 900 marks; notes in cir
culation, increased, 239. $50, 600 marks.
FROM present indications the second
congress of mothers, which meets in
Washington May 2 to Z, will be a most
successful gathering and will include
prominent women from many parts of
the country.
BIDS were opened at the treasury de-
partment, on the 4th, for furnishing
granite and erecting the su~perstructure
of the post office at Chicago. Fifteen
bids were submitted, that of John
Pierce, .of New York city, for 1887.
600, being the lowest.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the Kansas
Millers' association have completed an
examination of the wheat fields in CEN
trail Kansas, and report that the recent
cold weather did not injure the grow
ing crop.
INFORMATION from official sources,
which is absolutely correct, says:
Forty floating submarine mines were
secretly planted in Havana harbor, on
the night of the 3Oth, by the Spanish
government"
THE employees of the POnomah cotton
mills, of Taftville, Conn, went out on
strike on the 4th. Two thousand hands
were employed. The strike was in
consequence of a ten-per-cent. reduc-
ton in wages.
REPRESENTATIVE HULL, of Iowa,
chairman of the house committee on
military affairs, introduced a bill, on
the 4th, creating a military reserve to
be liable to active duty in time OF
emergency.
ADvICEs from Shawneetown, ILL.,, on
the 5th, stated: THE gap in the lie wee
is now over 100 feet wide, and gradu-
ally widening. The water is from ten
to fifteen feet deep all over the town.
With the continued cold rains, and the
loss of life, the suffering and sorrow
are little abated."
SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, the British
ambassador, on the 5th, drove to the
French embassy, and had a long con.
ference with NJ. Cambon, the French
ambassador, it is believed, in regard to
the suggested concert of the powers on
the Cuban question.
The movement of the powers of Eu-
rope for a joint offer of mediation be-
TWEEN the United States and Spain has
received a severe and probably fatal
rebuff, in the form of a definite refusal
upon the part of Great Britain to par.
ticipate in it.
A DISPATCH from Victoria, B. c.,
says Jack Carr, a former United States
mail carrier, has arrived at Departure
Bay, from st. Michaels, via Dawson,
with advices from Andree, the balloon
list.
A TELEGRAM from Rome, on the 5th,
said: THE pope has dispatched a ca
BILE of 500 words to Archbishop Ire
land, urging increased efforts in the
interest of peace and further immedi.
ate representations to President Nc.
Klnley."