The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-03-14

RAY VAN TAssEL was found guilty
of murder in the first degree at Mason
City, Ia, on the 5th, and sentenced to
life Imprisonment at Anamosa. He poi
soned his wife in June, 1895.
EX-STATE SENATOR w. C. GEAR, OF
trial at Columbus, O., charged with
bribery, vas d. the 5th, acquitted by
the jury.
IT appears that the resignation O:
Capt. Grant of the American liner New
York grew out of his refusal 70 comply
with the request of the pilot to eat
his anchors while approaching New
York harbor in n fog, Il precautior
usually taken to secure speedy drop
ping in thick" weather.
AT Valencia, Spain, on the 5th, the
disorders broke out afresh, and there
were renewed demonstrations of hos.
tility to the United States. The moi
made its way to the United States con
s~ulate, which was stoned. and the win.
dows of which were smashed by the
Infatuated populace.
King MENELIK ii. of Abyssinia, who
has just administered such 4 crushing
defeat to the Italians, claims to be de,
scended in Il direct line from Menelib
l., emperor of Ethiopia, son of King
Solomon by the queen of Sheba. Meme.
lik III. succeeded to the throne in 1889.
on the death of John IL, and concluded
in that year a treaty with Italy, which
placed the kingdom under an Italian
protectorate. He has quarreled with
the Italians over the text of thai
treaty, hence the war.
Up to the evening of the 5th 90 bodies
had been recovered from the Cleophas
mine, at Kattowitz, Prussian Silesia.
1t was believed that 20 bodies remained
in the mine.
THE undergraduates of Princeton
On. j. university, on the night of the
5th, burned in eftigy the king of Spain
in a demonstration, in which several
hundred took part. The flag of Spain
was dragged through the main street.
and later was torn to pieces in the
center of the campus.
THE Venezuelan blue book, which is
entitled documents and Correspond.
ence Relating to the Question of the
boundary of Guiana and Venezuela"
was issued by the British government
on the 9th. The volume consists of
4i3 folio pages, with a separate book
containing nine maps, and treats ex-
haustively of the occupation of the ter
ritory in dispute by the Dutch and En-
glish long before Spain planted a col
ony there.
TIE Hocking-Berry gas well, two
miles west of Metz, w. Va, belonging
to the South Pennsylvania Oil Co.
took fire, on the 9th, from the friction
! of pebbles which were being elected
from it while Foreman Wright and his
men were pulling the casing. One
man was fatally and several severely
burned.
LORD LANsDOwSE, British secretary
of state for war, has attached a mem
orandum to the army estimates stat
ing that. in view of recent events,
it Will be impossible to reduce the
strength OF the garrison in Egypt in
1896.
CAPT.-GES. WEYLEE has issued a Cir
culart to the various military command
ers in Cuba ~instructing them to arrest
no more civilians for deportation eX-
ccpt upon indiSputable proof of their
connection with the i~nsurrection.
&. Clubhouse and his wife and five
children persisted in the burning of
their home near Alma, Wis. on the
night of the 9Th. Their bodies were
found in the ruins.
THE arsenal at Cadiz, Spain, is being
worked to its full capacity in the
manufacture of guns, cartridges for
artillery, etc, and the greatest actiV-
ity prevails.