The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-06-04

AN American named Stickley. who
has been in Mexico City, Mex, in the
land business, has been arrested on the
charge of having stolen $4,000 when
agent, in Ohio, of the Adams Express
Co.
DURING a dense fog, off Fire island,
on the evening of the 2Sth, the United
States cruiser Columbia was run into
by the steamer Foscolia, grain laden,
and a hole stove in her hull. The Fos-
cola sank almost Immediately, but the
Columbia succeeded in rescuing all of
her crew.
GEN. ERAsTUs NEWTON BATES. prom
i%nently identified with the civic and
military history of the states of Illinois
and Minnesota, died at Minneapolis,
Mimi. on the 10Th. aged 20 years. He
was one of the trainers of the charter
of Minnesota and its first senator.
THE car barn and 100 winter cars
stored therein, of the Consolidated Rail-
way Co. of Baltimore. Md, were burned
on the evening of the 29th, cntailing a
loss of $4,000 The barn was located
at l~ryington.'
The number of troops assigned to
Gen. Merritt's command has been in
creased by 5000. This means that 90
900 men are to be taken to Manila as
fast as the transports can be procured
to carry them.
An unique feature in the Memorial
day parade of the grand army posts in
st. Louis was the carrying of a ma
tiOnal flag by each veteran, which was
placed, with the flowers, on the graves
of the dead
UNITED STATES MINISTER BRYAN and
the brazilian minister of foreign af.
fairs have signed the supplementary
treaty to the eXtradition treaty be-
tween Brazil and the United States.
AT the suburban Columbia cemetery
near Cincinnati. on the Both. the memo
rial platform gave way. About 1OC
persons, mostly children, fell. Many
suffered slight injuries.
BARON LYON PLAYFAIR, the distin-
guished English chemist, political
economist. civil service reformer and
parliamentarian, died in London ON
the 18th.
\ sTEAMER'iS reported to have land
ed 5000 rifles at Cavite for the use of
the Philippine insurgents.
The cook of the United States aux.
Hilary guuboat Hawk, a native of Ma.
Mia, who deserted his post recently. was
arrested ashore at Key West, Fla
on the Both.
y LONDON news agency. on the 30th.
asserted that the pope had forwarded
peace proposals to President Mckinley.
THE Americans have captured the
Spanish gunboat Leyte, which was at.
tempting to run dispatches into Iloilo.
The Spaniards have offered So. zoo
for the head OF Aguinaldo, the Philip
pine insurgent leader.
FREDERICK HALL, a crate maker, liv-
ing at Burslem. the principal town in
the district called The Potteries' in
Staifordshire. England, while insane,
murdered his wife and five children
with Il billhooi5 and then committed
suicide by cut ing his throat.
The Spanish bark Maria Dolores, of
Dilbao, was ~ovcrhauled by onc of the
American cruisers, six miles off Porto
Rico. She was bound from Rio Janeiro
to San Juan de Porto Rico with coal.
POTTER PALMER, of Chicago, arrived
at New York, on the 31st, from Eu-
rope.
GEORGE WEST. alias Charles Rivers,
has sawed out of Jail at South Bend,
Ind, and escaped. West was con
victed of robbing the South Bend ma
tional bank of S15, 900.
INVITATIONS are given in Washing.
ton that the present military move
ment will be directed against Porto
Rico as well as eastern Cuba.