The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-07-23
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

strained I1tlr DOluneSS 10 Tic punt VI
appearing on our coasts and defyIng
our batteries, which showed more cour-
age and valor, than effect, when they
opened fire on the squadron. 1t needs
more than courage to make projectiles
penetrate; indeed it does"
The fourth Manila expedition, with
Maj.-Gen. Otis in command, sailed from
San Francisco on the 18th. 1t consisted
of the transports City of Puebla and
Peru, the former the flagship. Brig
| Gen. Otis will command the fifth expe-
ditiou.
r. L. HUNsCoME, for eight years tel
Ter and bookkeeper of the First ma
tional bank of Kingman, Kas., has
left, and the bank is about $4,000 short.
He appeared at his desk as usual, on
the 18th, but when he noted that the
bank officers were going over his &C
counts he skipped out.
THE Spanish government, it is said,
has definitely decided to open peace
negotiations without delay, proposing
as a basis the remuneration of all rights
over Cuba and the immediate discus
sion of any other reasonable pro-
posals" the United States may make.
CLARA L. WARD, the divorced wife of
Prince Joseph of Chimay, died at Buda-
Pesth, Hungary, on the 18th, of milk
fever. Clara Ward was the daughter of
a wealthy resident CT Detroit, Mich,
and was as noted for her personal
beauty as for her utter disregard of the
conventionalities of social life.
FRANK S~TAHLBERG, a railway postal
clerk, was arrested at Chicago, On the
18th, for stealing registered mail be-
tween Chicago and st. Louis. He was
to be married soon, and it is said he
rihed the mails to get money with
which to furnish a house.
THE associated banks of New York
city held. on the 10th, $40, 365, S25 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
Ir is said that President Mckinley is
disposed to be very moderate in his de-
mands against Spain for indemnity.
The monitor Monterey, which sailed
from Honolulu on the I'd, had a
more important mission than mere
strengthening of Dewey's feet at Ma
Mia. In addition to being ordered to
stop at the island of Guam, the warship
was charged with Selling the Caroline
islands.
GEN ToRAL having surrendered Tor
agreed to- began to haggle over the de-
tails of the capitulation, drawing out
the conference unnecessarily. Gen.
Shafter was ordered from Washington,
on the night of the 18th, to insist IN
the original terms-unconditional sur
render-or to proceed to enforce it.
GEN. MILES himself will command
the Porto Rican expedition, aided by
Gen. Brooke.
The president has appointed n. o.
Murphy to be t governor Of Arizona, Ito
succeed Myron w. McCord, who resigned
to accept thecolonelcy of an army
regiment. Mr.. Murphy has represen-
ted the te~rritoryin many official capac-
tiles.
The statement of the associated
banks of New York city for the week
ended July 16 showed the following
changes: Surplus reserve, decrease,
So, 9,475; loans, increase, S6,17S, 200;
specie, decrease, So 32, 300; legal ten
ders, decrease, S317,6 600; deposits, de-
crease, S2sl, 700; circulation, decrease,
SS1. 800.
The British tank steamer Lucilene,
capacity 1000, 900 gallons, has been
bought by the government to carry
water to Cuba and elsewhere. The
price paid is said to be $1,000
EBEN BREWER, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
who HAD charge of all postal arrange
ments of the United States in Cuba,
died near Santiago, oil fever, on the 18th.
THE long parley ended at nine o'clock
on the morning of the 18th, when Gen.
Toral surrendered his sword, in the
sight of both armies, to Gen. Shafter,
the latter c~hivalrously returning the
weapons to its owner. The Spanish
troops then advanced from the trenches
by regiments and surrendered their
arms. The Stars and Stripes were
run up above the palace at II o'clock
and Santiago ceased to be a Spanish
city.
GEN. JOHN S. WILLIAMS, eX-United
States senator and nero of the Mexican
and civil wars, died, on the 18th. at his
home neal Mount Sterling, Ky. He
was buried at WEBSTER, Pa, on the
18th.
The work of classifying the new
bond issue had progressed sufficiently.
on the 10th, to enable the treasury de-
partment to that all sub
scriptions for S4,9sO and less will be
awarded. A considerable balance will
be pro-rsted.
ADvICEs from Honolulu indicate that
the coast defense vessel Monterey will
take possession of the Caroline islands
before reaching Manila.
A MOVEMENT has been started at Port
Tampa, Fla, to present Admiral Ger
vera a home on Tampa bay in recogni-
ton of his humane and chivalrous
treatment of Hobson and his crew, and
a desire to save him from insult and
possible death should he return to
Spain.
THE sultan of Morocco is concentra-
ting considerable force in the vicin-
ity OF Ceuta and Melila, in order to
guard the frontier and preserve neu-
trality.
GEN. MILES, leading the Porto Rican