The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-04-25

AT Central City, Col, during a case
in court, on the 18th. Smauei Giving
ton. a visitor charged with erdeavor-
ing to in%timidate q witness, denied tho
assertion hotly, and being threatened
with arrest, pulled a gun and killed
ex-Mayor Williams and mortally
wounded City Marshal Keller. Gov
ington while ~endeavoring to escape,
was shot dead by Henry Leaman.
BURGLARS looted the private bank In
Pioneer, O., on the night of the 18th.
They succeeded in opening the vault
without the use of explosives, and
then, after probably taking all that it
contained changed the combination so
that the vault could not be opened.
Two EXPLOSIONS of powder in n of
the buildings of the Chicago Fireworks
Co., near Crosse Point. H.. on the
18th, killed three employees and in injured
a number of others. The building
was badly wrecked. and the ruins We're
almost entirely destroyed by fire.
IT is said t. be impossible to estimate
the numbers of the belligerent Mata-
beles in South Africa. The whole
country is now in the hands of the
rebellious natives, and they are mass
ing in great force.
ALASDsIIDE Occurred at Trubbach,
Switzerland. on the 10th, as the re-
suit of continuous rains. The damage
to property is very heavy.
CAPT. JOHN CALHOUN SHEPHERD. a
veteran of the Mexican war, a CalifOr-
MIA forty-niner, and one of the most
noted characters in Montana, died in
the county poor house at Butte on the
18th.
REV. GEORGE p. KNAPP, the Ameri-
can missionary who was recently ex-
pelsed from Bitlis by the Turkish au-
thorities. arrived at Aleppo in good
health on the 10th.
A DISPATCH from Havana to the
Madrid Imparclal, on the 10Th. said
that the insurgents had hanged 90
Spaniards in the Sagua district.
A WARRANT for the surrender to the
Dominion authorities of Charles Ryan.
under arrest at Easton, Pa, charged
with robbery, was issued by the presi-
dent on the 17th.'
DURING a fire in the Clifton house. a
Chicago hotel. on the night of the 10th,
while the employees We're opening the
rooms to be sure that no n vas
asleep in them, they discovered a would
be suicide unconscious 'on the bed in
one of the rooms, the windows closed
and the gas turned on. He was res
cued and may
IN consequence of the great salts
faction given by street-car mail service
in st. Louis, the pioneer city, New
York, Boston, Philadelphia. Washing
ton, Baltimore. Chicago and Cincin-
natl. it is said that at the beginning of
the next fiscal year similar service will
be inaugurated in a number of cities
having rapid transit.
In a tenement-house fire at Turner's
Falls, Mass, early on the morning of
the 18th, five French children We're suf-
located. The property loss was small.
UPON the order of Gov. Morrill, the
Kansas state penitentiary has been
~quarantined against Shawnee and
Wyandotte counties. cases of small
pox having been reported in both
counties.
THE Corean envoy to Japan has gone
to Russia, under the authority of the
king of Corea. to negotiate a loan of
$1,000, 900, giving the Corean province
Of Hanging AS security.
ED PARDRIDsE. the Chicago wheat
speculator, who had beer i'll for sew
erai weeks with Bright's disease, died.
on the 18th, leaving a fortune of at
least a million dollars.