The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-09
A DISPATCH from Cape Town. South

A DISPATCH from Cape Town, South
Africa, on the morning of the Goth,
said it was reported from Johannes.
burg, on good authority, that John
Hays Hammond had died from excite
ment and the shock, on an official mes
sage being received CO the death SEN
tence being cOmTated.
COMMANDER BooTH-TUCKER was ar
raigned in the Center Street court.
New York city, on the 29th, and asked
to explain his Summing tour, which
was interrupted by his arrest while
%strolling through Chinatown. Justice
Simms, after hearing the commanders
version of the affair. discharged him
with a reprimand, warning him that
the law against masquerading would
be strictly enforced.
T. J. MoYNAHAN, owner of the Port
land hotel, in which the fire at Cripple
Creek, Col, started on the Goth, called
at the office of the state insurance de-
partment in Denver, the same day, and
made a statement which stands to
show that the fire was of incendiary
origin. Mr.. Moynahan stated hat
$1,000 insurance was carried on half of
the furniture. and that the furniture
had cost but $500.
A COMPANY of militia from Pueblo,
Col, was ordered to Cripple Creek. on
the 3Oth, to prevent pillage and pre-
serve peace, should it be necessary.
On the 10th Cleveland, o., was visited
by the heaviest rain storm yer known
there, and much damage was done. the
sewers being unable to carry off the
surplus water. Many easements were
flooded. Girls at work in the base
ment of the store of Levy & Stern, toy
manufacturers, were caught unawares
and narrowly escaped with their lives.
Shade and fruit trees were uprooted
all Y the city.
EDWIN BETHEL. the Boston actor who
fred four shots at his wife, known as
Miss Dallas Tyler, at the Hotel Heu-
blan in Hartford, Conn. on the Goth.
was arraigned in the police court, on
the 3Oth, charged with assault with in
tent to kill, and held in So, 200 bail for
trial.
A'N NiNN ~ SchSA VS.
man, while riding his bicycle in New
York city. on the 3Oth, fell over an
other rider, who had met with a mis-
hap, and was painfully but not dan
%gerously injured.
4 DISPATCH from Havana, on the 1St,
said: "One of the the men captured in
the Competitor filibustering expedi-
ton is an American citizen named
Onna Milton. He will, with the others,
be summarily tried, which means swift
punishment if found guilty
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST. showed a net increase in the
debt, less cash in the treasury, during
April. of S.. "a .4l6. Total cash in the
treasury. SS6s, 799,5 $50.
SEBASTIAN GRABENHAUER, of Mar
shalltown. Ia. committed suicide, on
the 1st, by leaping overheard from the
inward-bound steamer Spree near Fire
island.
JENNIE, the daughter of Lorenzo @.
Powell, of C~enterville, N. y, was
burned to death, on the 1st, her cloth
ing catching from a bonfire. Mrs.
Powell, in trying to save the life of
her daughter, was so badly burned
about the arms and chest hat great
pieces o: flesh dropped from the bones,
and her condition was considered crit
zeal.
THE Swiss national exhibition was
formally opened in Geneva, on the 1st,
by DIP. Adolphe Duecher, vice-presi.
dent of the Swiss confederation.
THE third and p probably final at,
tempt to tie up the lines of the Union
Traction Co. of Philadelphia ended in
failure on the 1st.