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

v~ioiinist, has had to cancel his concert
engagements, and may never be able
to make another concert tour. should
he from his present serious ILL
ness. While a guest at the home OF
Henry S~artorius, an old-time friend, in
Davenport, Ia, he went into a general
collapse, due to heart failure and in
cipient dropsy.
NICOLA TESLA, the well-known cleo
t~rician, says he is satisfied that he has
a machine which, when perfected, will
enable him to make practical expert
ments in distributing electric waves
about the earth so hat messages may
be conducted to all parts of the globe
sim u~ltaneously.
F. H. CAsTLEMAINE, aged IS. died in
New York city, on the night of the
25th. from an overdose of morphine,
taken, it is believed, with suicidal in
tent. He was the husband of one of
the Sutherland sisters, and had only
been in the city a few days, having
recently left Georgia.
THE Turkish government has issued
an appeal. addressed to France and
Russia. asking them to intervene with
the object of regulating the affairs of
Egypt. Germany, it is added, was also
requested by the porte to exercise her
good offices in this sense.
Four men were run down by a train
on the Central railroad in the freight
yards at Elizabeth, n. j., on the Goth.
Two We're killed instantly and one was
fatally injured. They were stealing a
ride, and in alighting from one train
ran in front of another.
JUDGE DICKEY, of the supreme court
Of New York. on the Goth, granted n GER
tificate of reasonable doubt in the case
of ex-Police Inspector Vim. w. Nc
Laughlin, recently convicted of brib-
cry and sentenced to Sing Sing.
A TERRIBLE explosion of fire damp
took place in a mine at B~runnerton.
New Zealand, on the Goth. Five persons
were killed outright and go more en-
tombed with no hope of rescue.
SENATOR LEXow's greater New York
bill passed the assembly, on the Goth,
by a vote of ayes. Of. noes, So. and
went to Gov. Morton for his approval.
OK the 27th Sir Hercules Robinson,
governor of Cape Colony, telegraphed
from Cape Town to Mr.. Joseph Cham
berlain, British secretary of state for
the colonies, that in the revolt of the
Matabeles in the InseZa and Filabusti
districts seven whites were killed with
knives and four were wounded.
FAILURES throughout the United
States for the week ended on the eth,
as reported by r. G. Dun & Co., were
259, as against 234 for the correspond
ing week Of last year. For Canada the
failures were 80, against 40 for the
same week last year.
THE funeral service over the remains
of the late Gen. Thomas L. Casey, U.
S. A, took place, on the 27th, at the
family residence in Washington city.
COUNT MoRTERA. leader of the Cuban
reform party in Madrid, died on the
e7th.
THE cut-down in a few of the smaller
Rhode Island cotton mills is not to be
general. The large corporations deny
that a general reduction of wages is
contemplated.
THE senate committee on public
buildings and grounds, on the 27th.
ordered favorable reports or bills au-
thorizing public buildings at Oakland,
Cal, to cost $3.50, 900, and at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, to cost So, 600, 900.
THE schooner Matte l.. Ford was
capsized and sunk in the Cohnansey
river, near Bridgeton, n. j., during a
squall on the 27th. Two of the crew.,
Newell Dutch and Frank Moore, were
drowned.