The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-08-27

MILITIA was called out to suppress
the disorders growing out of the rail-
road strike at Buffalo, n v
Mrs. STEPHEN BERRY, of Delaware
county, n. Y, was killed by bees
sting. She was stung on the temple
and in fifteen minutes was dead
The steel works at Stowe, near Potts
town, Pa, will, it is said, double its
force and run on double time from the
oath inst The cause of this is an i'm
provement in the iron market.
HENRYW JAEHNE, who has been serv-
ing ten years sentence in Sing Sing
for his part in the Broadway railroad
Doodle scandal in New York in 1884, is
looking forward to October Is, when he
will be released.
THE Mutual Banking, Surety & Trust
Safe Deposit Co, of Philadelphia. in
which the large amount of funds be-
longing to the Order of the Iron Hall is
deposited, failed to open its doors on
the 10th.
FIVE hundred miners at Hazleton,
Pa, have gone on a strike.
THE Jones & Laughlin American iron
works. Pittsburgh, Pa, employing 5000
hands, have resumed work.
GEN. Hustled is still critically ill at
Peekskill. n. Y.
An Italian. boy and trained bear
were killed by lightning at Loon Lake.
n. Y. The bolt struck the man. passed
through him into the boy, whose foot
touched him, and through the boy into
the bear, on whose head his hand rested.
THE strike at Buffalo, n. Y, assumed
vast proportions when the Lake Shore,
the Lackawanna and the New York
Central switchmcn joined the Lehigh
& Erie. It was impossible to measure
the disorder and enormous damage done
to perishable freight Troops were Or
dered out to preserve the peace.
The stable of John A. Bostwick, of
the Standard Oil Co, was burned at
Mamaroneck, n. Y. Two men were
cremated. Bostwick got excited and
dropped dead of heart failure.
SUIT has been brought at New York
against the Kruse Cash Register Co. of
New York, manufacturers of the Kruse
and also of the Dreyfus cash registers,
for infringement of patents owned by
the National Cash Register Co. of Day
ton, O.
A FOUR THOUSAND ton steamer is to
be put on Lake Erie.
SHOTS were fired into the militia
camp at Homestead, Pa, from a fast
moving freight train. Great alarm was
occasioned, the non-union men in the
mill being especially in terror. An in
vestigation was to be made.
JEERs of the mob at Buffalo, n Y,
so excited a militia captain that he Or
dered a bayonet charge. Several per-
SONS received wounds in the leg.
MARY CARNEY and Paul Ginther were
shot at Philadelphia by Joseph Bailey.
who mistook the woman for his wife.
They will recover. Bailey also shot
himself and is dying.
DR. ALBERT KIMBALL, a well known
dentist of New York, has committed
suicide
Mrs. HAwLEY CHAPMAN, wife of the
demented actor, Jeffrey Hawley, is go
ing on the stage and is now studying
for the purpose She will make her de-
but September Is at New York.
PIERRE LoRILLARD has purchased from
Brown and Rogers the three
year-old colt Lamplighter, the price
paid being So, 500.
ONE engineer and fireman were killed
and two others probably fatally in
iured by a head-end collision on the
Boston & Maine railroad near Boston
PENNsYLvANIA's treasurer has paid |
,ut sl52, 900 for the services of troops at
Homestead.