The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-02

TELEGRAPHIc communication with
Buluwayo was cut off at Fig Tee, 3
small place near Mangwe, southwest
of Buluv-ayo. on the 23d, and. in view
of the serious condition of affairs. it
caused considerable anxiety in Cape
Town.
WILLIE SHAEFFER, a schoolboy of Il
years, hanged himself in the cellar of
his home. in Philadelphia, on the Esd.
Some weeks ago the boy told his moth
er that he had been studying science,
and learned from it that he was af-
fiicted with typhoid pneumonia and
would not live long. He continually
brooded over his supposed diseases, and
frequently predicted that he would not
live long.
LITTLE B. ANDREWS, a bicycle rider,
while racing with an electric car at
Baltimore, Nd, on the 23d, was thrown
in front of the car and killed.
GEORGE DILLINER, n of the first
settlers of Douglas county, Ill, died
on the I'D, aged SO years. One of Mr..
Dilliner's peculiarities was his belief
that the earth was fiat, and notwith-
standing the fact that strong evidence
to the contrary was presented to him,
his opinion was never shaken.
THE wife of Herman Scharnitzka, a
wood carver, 10 Yonkers street, Cleve-
land, O., on the I'D. tried to kindle a
fire with the aid of coal oil. The oil
can exploded, burning her fatally, and
two of her children, five and three
years old, who were clinging to her
skirts, were burned to a crisp.
The 81, 600, 900 Cuban republic bonds
placed on sale in New York were all
taken by investors.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS. aged 20, died at
Warsaw, Ind. on the ed. He served
in the Forty-second and Forty-third
congresses, and was a minister to Uru-
quay and Paraguay under the Garfield
administration.
BOOTH-TUCKER, the Salvation Army
commander, knocked out a tramp in
New York and reduced the belliger-
ency of another tramp who attempted
to assist his companion. The tramp
stuck a pin in a tender part of the En-
glishman's anatomy, and he was not
long in demonstrating that he could
fight as well as preach.
MANUFACTURERS of steel nails, in
consequence of the rise in the price of
steel, have advanced the price of their
product.
A SERIOUS conflict between Christians
and Turks occurred at Episkopi, in the
island of Crete. There were two days
fighting, and so persons were killed
and wounded. The Cretans have ap-
pealed to Greece for aid.
On the 23d Ezra Beamon Newton,
the oldest Shaker in the country, died
of old 2 at the Harvard Mass COM
munity, aged 101.
A DISPATCH from Buluwayo, South
Africa, stated that Captains Napier
and Duncan, with 200 whites and 100
natives, with Maxim and Hotchkiss
guns. met the Matabeles three miles
from Buluwayo. The Matables num-
bered $4,000, and fought desperately,
at n time forcing the allies to fall
back. The latter rallied, however,
and ~repulsed the natives with great
slaughter.
In a drunken row between Simon
Hasselback, aged 20, and his SON VIII
liam, aged IS, at Union City, Pa, on
the oath, the old nan drew a revolver
and shot his son, and then turned the
weapon on himself and sent a bullet
through his temple. Both we're fatally
injured.
WILLIAM TURNER and William R
Dunlop, the Burden diamond robbers,
were arraigned in the Marlborough
Street police court, London, on the
cath, and remanded pending the ar
rival of witnesses from America.