The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-06-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.
COMPLIED from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

Ioncy Island, on the 10Th. IN which
200 buildings were DESTROYED and dam
age TO the amount of half a million
done, an army of thieves appeared
upon the scene. and looted both burn
ing houses and those safe from the
fire. Thirty-fivc hundred persons
Were temporarily driven from shelter
by the flames.
The Spanish Gen. Moutero, while on
his way TO Manila, on the Goth, with
the Spanish garrison from XambOan-
ga, on the steamer Leon Mi. died OF
wounds received in Il recen engage
ment with the Filipinos in MindanaG.
Senator Aldrich, chairmen of Tic
senate committee on finance. has is
sued a call Tor a meeting of that COM
mittee. to be held at the Fifth Avenue
hotel, Nv York, June 9.
IN ci,ct-o technic congress was
opened at Gocttinren, Hanover. on the
goth, with $50 delegates III attendance.
The United States cable ship Hook
er, from New York, May /. for Manila,
arrived at Port Said on the 10Th.
Ing S''t-A'l N-ApIld , SdItihS IiOAi
New York for Europe, on the 18th,
took out $4,000 ounces of silver.
Paper money won't do for circula-
ton in the Philippines. The islands are
infested with ants, and they seem TO
be particularly fond of United States
paper money. Only coin will be sent
out in future
The Iowa supreme court has affirmed
the verdict OF the lower court, in the
Frank Novak murder ease, which WAS
imprisonment for life. Frank y. No
wax, son Of a prominent banker. was
convicted of burning a store building
and causing the death OF Edward
Murray. at Walford. Ia. in Io"s.
Gen. Brooke has issued 4 decree. at
Havana. making editors and publish
crs responsible for librls. The Span
ish laws made the writer of an article
alone responsible; and, therefore,
every Havana editor has had a hired
substitute. paid TO sign articles OF a
defamatory character.
Grave fear exists that the scenes of
the Nez pcrccs Indian war Of 1871, in
which 80 whites were nIaSsacr"d. Is
volunteers and 105 officers and soldiers
killed and 120 wounded. are about Il
be repeated about Lewiston. Idaho.
New York and English capitalists
have representatives in Il dozen sec
tons of Kansas buying up all OF last
years wheat they can get. More than
@O,C0O bushels were sold for shipment
10 Liverpool in Saline county in one
day.
The through train from Chicago to
Minneapolis, Mimi, over the Rock Isl
and q burlington and Cedar Rapids 4
Northern railways, was wrecked on
the 18th, n l:l5 a. H., ut the crossing
of Sink creek. about four miles south
east OF Waterloo. Ia. Nine persons
we're killed and - injured.
Many places in Nebraska and Iowa
We're visited, on the 18th, by de-
structive cyclones and hai!StorIns.
Many lives were lost in the aggregate,
and a larg" number of persons were
injured, while the loss in crops and
other property reached up into the
hundreds of thousands.
\ Chicago Great Western pasSen-
ger train was wrecked, early on the
morning Of the 18th. TOUR miles north
of Gclwein. la. The Pullman car por-
ter was killed aid a number of persons
were injured.
Among the passengers who arrived
AT New York, on the 18th. on the
steamer L~au"nbcrg. from MLatanZaS.
Gen. Joseph =. Sanger and Col.
j;corCc L. Cecil.
Brighten. George West died at his
home in .Athol. Mass, on the eth,
aged 81 years.
Mcssrs. Fred Dumond and Lionel
Waidon, American artists, have been
awarded third medals for oil paintings
1t the Paris SIlon.
Lena Bouts. aged Il. and a younger
children oc Frank Houts. a
tie contractor of Penning-
county, 5. D.. are under arrest. the
.irl being charged with numbering her
She shot him through the
head while he slept. The man was /
to his family, who lived half
much of the time.
y large proportion of the names on
he Cuban army rolls are found To be
fictitious. and the rolls omit a ma
iority Of the names of those rightly
to share in the gratuitv. The
of this, apparently, is to dis
'redit the entire proceedings and to
the Cuban public that a large
proportion of the troops refused TO
axe American money. !
Louis +. Bert, a farmer Of Oxford
township. near ~Sandusky. o., was
>illcd by lightning. on the night of the
nth, at 4 barn warming near his
nome. About 80 persons wer in the
Darn. and all We're FRUSTRATED. sew
raj of them being more Oh less in
ured by the shock
In the vicinity OF Isijou Falls. :. D.,
N the night OF the 9th. the wind blew
WIN the veloCi::: Of a tornado over n
,ath 200 yards wide and several miles
onc. Seven persons. five OF them mem
,crs ct one family. We're killed. and !
were probably fatally injured