The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1900-03-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The United States canal commits
sion, after having conferred for several
days with President Zelaya of N;ca-
ragua, left San Juan for Panama, via
Corinto.
The statement of the condition of
the~treasury issued on the 23d showed:
Available cash balance. $296, SOS, 95S:
gold reserve, $255,5S3,7S7.
Six lives were lost and a number of
vessels wrecked by 4 fierce southwest
erly gale that swept the New En-
gland coast on the night of the cath.
The storm was most severe in Maria
gansett and Boston bays and Port
land and bangor harbors.
An Official call has been issued for
the tenth annual session of the Trans
mississippi Commercial congress, to be
held ut Houston, Eek, April Il to 81,
inclusive. The territory TO be repre-
scented embraces all of the states and
territories lying vest of the Mississip-
pi river.
Dispatches from Lord Roberts up to
the oath said hat he still had Gen.
Cronje surrounded and was continu-
ing the bomhardment of the Roer
camp. He WAS gradually Tightening
the line around Cronje, meanwhile
fighting off reinfOrcements from Cape
Colony and Natal.
As a result of a fire, on the 25th. at
st. Quen, a suburb of Paris. in 4 col
lection of alcohol and oil stores. a Sc
ries Of explosions occurred, spreading
the flames until 4 block of six i'm
mense warehouses was involved in a
huge confiagratioh. One hundred and
fifty persons We're injured by flying
debris.
Plans are said TO be already under
consideration at the treasury depart
ment fer carrying out the gold stand
ard law as soon as the conference re-
port agreed upon is ratified by the two
houses and approved by President Nc
Kinley.
DIR. A. j. Darling. who recently ar
rived at Corpus Christi, Tex, from
Manila. states that the Filipinos have
killed over thirty members OF the Red
Cross society, and that their sharp
shooters seldom respect the badge of
that noble order.
Richard Hovey, the poet died sud-
denly, on the 2t4h, of apoplexy, in the
post graduate hospital, in New York,
where he had been a patient for three
weeks suffering from cancer of the in
testines.
Fire, on the night of the 25th, in the
plant of the Detroit (Mich.) Steel and
Spring Co.'S works destroyed both the
company's rolling mills, and caused
the loss of a fireman's life, besides ii
directly resulting in injuries to a ply
siCiar. and ambulance driver. The
property loss is about 500, OoO, fully
covered by insurance.
Charles Davis, known throughout
the country in his character of ALVIN
Jcslin," and noted for his lavish dis
play of big diamonds, was reported
dying of pneumonia at his home, in
Avalon, near Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
25tI.
According to Consul-General Pattec-
soH, at Calcutta, the season has been
disastrous for the cotton crop. and the
reports Ire discouraging from all
quarters. In many places in the
south there is no cotton to pick, and
not a fifth of an average crop vii. he
obtained. The total yield for the yea
son is estimated at 641,327 bales,
against 1,365,S64 bales last year.
In the criminal court of Kansas
City, Mo-, on the Goth, Albert Has
kins pleaded guilty to holding up n
car conductor one night last
and was sentenced 10 -
years in the ~penitentiary. He is a
widower and has two children. Two
weeks before a jury in the same court
assessed a 40-year sentence against a
negro highwaynlan.
Senator Clarke, of Wyoming, On the
26th, introduced a bill for the admls-
zion of Arizona as a state.