The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A wELL-KNowN Washington banking
house, on the 10th, made a proposition
to the secretary of the treasury to sub
scribe for 500, 600, 900 of the new bonds
at 1O1. Under the law the bonds must
be sold at par and allotted to the sub
scribers for the smaller amounts first,
hence the offer could not be enter
tanned.
Four THOUSAND additional troops
will leave Mobile as soon as t%ranspor-
tation can be provided, and proceed di-
rectly to Santiago de Cuba to reinforce
the American army under Maj.-Gen.
Shafter.
IT took just one hour and thirty min
utes of vigorous Smelling by the Texas,
Marblehead and Suwanee, on the 18th,
to reduce to ruins the new earthworks
and the old-fashioned brick fort at Cal
manera Guantanamo bay, Cuba.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY will not carry
the war into Spain until Santiago,
Porto Rico and Havana have been cap
tured. This statement is made on au-
thority from the executive mansion.
The international Fishery congress,
organized at Tampa, Fla, last year,
has been invited to meet in Paris dur
ing the exposition and has accepted
the invitation.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury issued on the 18th showed:
Available cash balance, S1S6, BAG, 500;
gold reserve, S163, 554, 1925.
THE bill to incorporate the interna-
tional American bank passed the sem
ate on the 17th-26 to %.
The Philippine insurgents propose to
form a republic under Anglo-American
tutelage.
On the 18th the associated banks of
New York city held S59,27 800 in excess
of the requirements of the 25-per-cent.
rule.
SPECIAL dispatches from Hong Kong,
confirming former reports from Ma
Mia add the rumor that Capt.-Gen.
Augustus wife and family are held as
hostages at Cavite.
A PASSENGER train on the Pennsyl-
vania Central railroad was wrecked
three miles above Mauch Chunk, on the
10th, and the engineer, Richard Me-
Hale, of Easton, Pa, and the news
agent, Charles Elmer, of South Easton.
were killed. Two others were badly
hurt.
In view of the approaching visit of
Emperor William to Palestine an aide
de-camp of the sultan is examining
and having repairs made upon all the
roads in Syria and Palestine All the
troops have been presented with new
uniforms.
PARK CITY, Utah, vas visited by a
disastrous conflagration, on the 10Th,
by which almost the entire business
portion of the town was destroyed, the
damages done being estimated at nearly
/ zoo, 900.
The British steamer Zen Sang, which
arrived at Hong Kong from Manila
June IA, reported that on leaving Ma
| Mia he sighted a number of vessels, be-
lieved to be American transports.
ADJT.-GEN. CoRBIN made public, on
the 10Th, the names of 1876 young men
| who have been selected for appoint
ment as second lieutenants in the reg
/ ular army to fill vacancies created by
the act of congress adopting the three
battalion organization for the infantry
arm of the service and the addition of
| one second lieutenant to all batteries
when filed to wal strength.
THERE has been shown considerable
resentment on the part of the military
authorities at Madrid over the report
that President Mckinley had sent a
message to Admiral Cervera. stating
that the Spanish admiral ard Gen.
Pando, of the Spanish army, would be
held personally responsible should
harm befall Lieut.. Hobson and his
men.
The government has taken a firm
stand with regard to securing trans
ports to carry the troops to Manila, and
from this time forward impressment
will be made the rule until enough ves-
sells have been secured to carry the
army from San Francisco to the Philip
pines.
FIRE at Albuquerque, n. NJ, on the
10Th, destroyed Grants opera house, and
with it the great dry goods store of
Ilfeld Bros, on the lower floor of the
building. Loss, 5000, 900; insurance,
$4,000.
The Astor light battery, numbering
1Ol men, including three officers, ar
rived in San Francisco on the Goth