The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-07-02

June "a Were, Tor the United States,
2s5, against ZIG for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail.
ures were IL, against "a last wear.
THE dynamite cruiser V~esuvius, with
Admiral Simpsons squadron, a few
nights ago entered the channel leading
into Santiago bay, passed the sunker
Merrimac, and made observations along
the inner harbor. When returning.
she found no difficulty in getting
around the wrecked collier.
GEN. CARACAS Cubans are coming il
for unstinted praise for the valuable
aid they are rendering Gen. Shafter':
army. But for their skill in Cubar
woodcraft many of Col. Woods wound
ed might e have been found after
the battle of La Quasina.
THE Spanish fleet under Admiral
Camara arrived at Port Said on the
Goth. 1t is awaiting orders. 1t con.
sists of the battleship Pelayo, Admiral
Camara's flagship; the iron-clad EN-.
perador Carlos Quintos, two armored
cruisers, three torpedo boats and five
transports carrying 1000 troops.
ORDERS issued at Camp Thomas
Chickamauga park, by Gen. Brooke, OIL
the Goth, indicate an early move to the
front by a large body of troops. 1t /:
thought the Second Missouri will be in.
cluded in the detail.
THE Clifton hotel, in Clifton, Ont.
on the Canadian side of Niagara river.
about a mile below the falls, was de,
stroyed by fire on the Goth. The loss
is $4,000. The % guests and the EN-.
ployes of the hotel escaped uninjured
The initial fight of Col. Woods rough
riders and the troopers of tle First ant
Tenth cavalry will be known in history
asthe battlesof La Quasina.
Mrs. w. B. LOWE, of Atlanta, Ga.
was elected president of the Genera.
Federation of WomCn's clubs at Den.
yer, Col, on the 9th. The vote was
Mrs. Lowe, 429: Mrs. Alice Ives Breed,
234; Miss C. p. Burns, 10; Mrs. VIM
Todd Helmuth, 2.
GEN. JOHN 5. (CERRE GoRDo) WILL
LIAMs, aged So years, was reported, or
the eth, to be dying at Lexington, Ky.
He was once u United States senator.
and distinguished himself in the Mex
lean war and in the confederate army.
ALL the hills about Santiago are GOV.
cred with blockhouses. There are 81
lines of intrenchments, and behinc
these are four lines of rifle pits, while
the fronts are protected by rows o:
barbed wire.
On the 27th the pope received in au
dience Ri. Rev. Sebastian Messmer.
bishop of Greenbay, Wis.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Fiume, the
seaport town of Austria-Hungary
says an Austrian vessel is on her way
to the Philippine islands with 500 tor.
pedoes intended for the Spanish
fleet"
THE Bellingham Bay Improvement
Co. S mill at New Whatcomb Wash,
was burned on the eth. Loss esti
mated at $500, 600. The mill employed
40 men.
THE O'Higgins has not been sold tc
Spain, and positive information la:
reached Washington that Chill viii
not sell the ship to any government.
The statement of the condition of the
United States treasury, on the 2sth
showed: Available cash balances, S194,.
132, 344; gold reserve, Sl65, 723, 699.
The water supply of the city of San.
tiago was cut off on the night of the
Goth, and nothing but cistern water Is
now available.
JESUS AsCEvEDO, a Porto Rican, who
arrived at New York on the 9th OF
the steamer Pretoria, from st. Thomas
was arrested, on the 2Sth, on suspicion
of being a Spanish spy.