The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-07-07

TO inform the foreign consuls there im-
mediately that the legations at Pekin
shave been arranging peace terms
Ensign Samuel Magill, of the train,
ing station, died suddenly of typhoid
fever at the naval hospital on Coast
ers' Harhor island. on the Goth. lie was
born in Iowa and appointed from
North Dakota, entering the service ir
1893.
The statement of the treasury bal.
ances in the general fund, exclusive OF
the $3.50, 900, 900 reserve in the division
of redemption, issued on the Goth,
showed that the available cash balance
on hat day was $152, 424, 200; gold
s70,331,S43.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster-Gener-
al Bristow, who for the past five weeks
had been in Havana investigating the
Cuban postal frauds and initiating re-
forms in the administration of the Gu
ban postal service, returned to Wash
ington on the 2Sth.
The steamer Zalindia, which arrived
at San Francisco, on the Goth, eight
days from Cape Nome, brought word
that smallpox had broken out on board
the steamers Santa Ana and Ohio, and
those vessels had been placed in quar-
antine at Egg island.
-l1o E.o-- La oDl
Princess Won Hohenberg, formerly
Countess Chotek, were married in the
chapel of the castle at Reichs.adt,
Bohemia, On the LIST, in the presence
of the nearest relatives of the arch
duke and the princess.
A dispatch from Che Foo, on the
27th, said: 1.-The American mission at
Wuh ST En-, Shan Tung province,
China, has been destroyed. The mis-
sionaries escaped. The governor has
notified foreigners inland that he is
unable to protect them"
The Shanghai correspondent of the
London Times cabled on the Goth:
1.-THE United States battleship Oregon
went ashore in a fog of Hoo-Kic is
land, IS miles north of Che-Foo.
Messrs. Jardine, Mathieson & Co. are
sending her assistance"
1t is reported on good Chinese au-
thority that the government, alarmed
by the foreign military preparations,
has issued an edict ordering the per-
emptory suppression of the Boxers,
and announcing a decision to protect
the legations at all hazards.
The League of American Mothers
sent cut a call for n national confer
ence to be held in Chicago, August 1.
2, 3 and 4. The four days will be given
to the study and discussion of child
raising and how to create right neigh
borhood conditions for the upliftment
of the young.
Senator Wolcott has received notice
from the national republican commit.
tee of his appointment as chairman of
the committee to notify Gov. Roosevelt
of bis nomination for vice-president,
The ceremony will take place at Oys-
ter Bay, at ten o'clock on the MORN
ing of the 18th.
The w. U. Cargill Elevator Co.. which
runs an extensive line of elevators
through the northwestern wheat re-
Eion, has announced that, owing to the
prospective wheat crop shortage. all of
their elevators north of the Litchfeld
(Minn.) line, numbering 20. will re-
main closed this year.
The New York Life Insurance Co.
settled a claim of several thousand dol
lars apparently about TO become due
on the policy of Howard C. Benham, of
Batavia, n. Y. who had been convicted
of killing his wife and sentenced to die
in the electric char. Benham got a
new trial. later, and was acquitted.
Rear-Admiral John w. Philip com
mandant of the Brooklyn navy yard,
who commanded the battleship Texas
in the famous battle with Cerycra's
fleet off Santiago, a man beloved by
all who knew him, and especially by
the men who served with him, GIed, |
on the evening of the 3Oth, of heart
failure.
1t was reported, on the Goth, that as
. result of negotiations between the
powers, an agreement had been ar
rived at which provides for the main
tenance of the statu quo in China as
regards spheres of influence and COM
mercial agreements. and also respect
ing the nature of the guarantees and
compensations which will be demand
ed from China.
In the competition for the Worlds
championship for professionals urder
the auspices of the Racing club OF
France, in Paris, on the 1st, the Ameri.
can, Schoenfield. won the weight-throw'
ing contest, covering 1881 metres. The
high jump was won by Sweeny. OF
New Orleans, who cleared 1:S0 metres,
with Schoenfield second, clearing 1:7i
metres. Sweeny also won the long
Jump, with 500 metres; and Schocn'
field was second, with SOS meters.