The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-08-27
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mate and apportionment met, on the
ed, and closed the budget for the is-
cal year of 1898, except for the amount
to be appropriated for the new library.
The total sum to be raised by taxation
this year is 1851, 222. O3, of which a
little more than SIG, 900, 900 is for the
boroughs of Mahhattan and Bronx,
and S31, 600, 600 for the %boroughs of
Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond.
The Spanish engineers who have
been working on the Notifications at
Algeciras, on the west side of the Bay
of Gibraltar, have been ordered to Ma
drid, and the batteries recently sent
there have been ordered to Seville.
A RATE of one and one-third fare has
been arranged for the National Irriga-
ton congress, to be held at Cheyenne,
Wyo., September l, 2 and 3, the tickets
to be good for six days, beginning three
days prior to the opening day.
PERFECT order has thus far been
maintained in Manila under American
control. The city is quiet, and seems
almost to have resumed its normal
business and social activity.
The fourth American expedition,
which left San Francisco July Is, in
command of Maj.-Gen. Otis, arrived at
Manila on the 23d. All on board were
well.
THE statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 22d, showed:
Available cash balance, S27s, 264, 436;
gold reserve, SOS, O69, 372.
Hon. MOODY CURRIER, former COVER
nor of New Hampshire, died at his res
idence in Manchester, n. H., on the
23d.
A. G. MENOCAL,c civil engineer in the
navy, who was court-martialed some
months ago and sentenced to suspen-
sion from duty on furlodgh pay for
three years, for neglect of duty in con-
nection with the construction of the
Brooklyn dry dock, has been pardoned
by the president, which restores him
to his former status in the navy. He
will retire from active service on Sep
TENDER l.
ILLNESS among the American troops
at Ponce, Porto Rico, is on the in
crease, and there are now nearly a
thousand cases of malaria and dysen-
terry, with a few of typhoid fever.
There is absolutely no recuperating
property in the climate, and Surgeon
General Greenleaf has urgently recon-
mended that the sick be sem north as
rapidly as possible.
a DISPATCH from Copenhagen, Den
mark, says: "A terrible storm swept
the whole Jutland peninsula on the
23d. Many outbuildings We're struck
by lightning and six persons were
killed and 80 farm buildings and ID
houses were burned"
On the 22d DIR. Cleon NJ. Hubbard,
house physician at the Planters hotel
in St. Louis, fell through the passen-
ger elevator shaft from the seventh
floor of the hotel, a distance of 50 feet,
to the granitoid pavement, and was in
stantly killed.
The postal system now in operation
in the Hawaiian islands will be re-
tanned pending the recommendations
of the Hawaiian commission, which
has already begun its labors there.
The statement of the condition of
the treasury, issued on the 23d,
showed: Available cash balance, S277,-
SOS, S51; gold reserve, sos, 439, Pa.
ADMIRAL SAMPSON left Washington,
on the 23d, for New York, to join his
flagship, the New York, which is in
dry dock for repairs.
ALL the Madrid papers announce the
the 9th and 10th of September.
ADMIRAL SAMPSON will probably
leave for Cuba about September l.