The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-06-29 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

REAL SAVAGES AT EARL'S COURT. The Savage South Africans, so extraordinary an attraction at Earl's Court, have had a little revola among thimselves. On returning to the kraal from the sham fight display in the Empress Theatre, the savages kept on their war paint, and unanimously declined to retire to their huts, leaving the attendants and interpreters to surmise the reason. Obviously there was mischief brewing, the savage blood being up. About two a.m. an explanation was forth. coming in a rather undesirable way. Some Trans. viud Boris, whose quarters were as far removed from the Kaffir kraal as the limits of the show would permit, determined to visit the camp of their racial enemies, and the Zulus, Matabele, and Swazis got wind of their intentions. These tribes have a common grudge against the Boers. Consequently the instant the indiscreet Dutchmen put in an appearance up rose the savages as one man, shouting their war-cry. With a keen regard for their skins the Boers instantly bolted, vaulting the turnstiles like deer. The handful of attendants on night duty were now confronted with the dangerous task of keeping the savages within bounds; and, as one of them remarked to Lloyd's representative, they had to fight for their lives. Savages once fairly roused will not submit to the indignity of arbitration, but must find an outlet for their passions. One after another of the white men went down before the knobkerries of the rioters, and there were assegais a-flying in the air. Repeatedly the blacks rushed at the gates, but eventually returned inside for a free tight among themselves. A hot twenty minutes ensued, during which blood flowed rather freely. After the battle it WU found that the list of casualties numbered seven wounded-Iw6 SsiThrle, two Matabele, two Zulus, and one Raffle boy. TIMM are now in hospital, and all are reported doing well. "I sh9uld have got my quietus," said an attendant, "but for the protection of a Swazi, who covered my head with his shield as a Matabele was swinging his knobkerry over me, while I was down, half-stunned, on my knees." There were no two opinions among the interpreters but that the Boers were the cause of the trouble.  While the French barque Louis Pasteur, from San Francisco, with a cargo of wheat, was entering Queenstown Harbour on Saturday, a seaman MI from the mainyard on deck, and was killed on the spot. The barque was subsequently arrested for the sum of £1 20 penalty for alleged incorrect bill of lading. The writ was issued out of the High Court of Admiralty in Ireland.  A married man, named Richard Gernon, died at Nantwich Workhouse Hospital on Friday from shocking injuries. Demon and another man were in charge of a three-horse furniture van, which left Warrington on Wednesday night. When passing through Church Minshall, -Demon rolled off the top of the van, the wheels of which passed over his head and body, inflicting terrible injuries.  An inquest was held at Greenwich, on Friday, on William Grove Thomas, sixty-four, a well-known South London journalist, who hanged himself at his residence at Lewisham. Evidence was given that Mr. Thomas had been ailing physically and mentally for some time, and that he had been able to obtain but little sleep. The jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane, and the jury and coroner expressed sympathy with the family.  On Sunday several thousand people witnessed the departure of a young Shields seaman, named Carl Johnson, from South Shields Pier, in his canvas canoe, bound on a voyage to Gothenburg, Sweden. The daring adventure created immense excitement. The boat in which he will attempt to cross the North Sea is only thirteen feet long. Johnson is provided with stores to last for three weeks should 1019110 weather be met with.