The Van Buren press., 1893-02-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE fremont hotel at Red Bluff. Cal.
was destroyed by fire on the nth. On
the following morning the remains of
Charles II. Humbert were found in the
ruins.
THE College of Physicians Of Phila-
delphia adopted a series of resolutions
calling upon congress to keep quaran-
tine at all frontiers under the SUI
preme and exclusive regulation and
control of the national government,
and administered solely by trained
sanitary officials of the United States.
On the sth Superintendent Gibson, OF
the Big Four railroad discharged sixty
nine switchmen who had gone out on u
strike the previous night at Springfield,
O., demanding extra pay for overwork.
EIGHTY bohemian miners met instant
death by an explosion in the Fort
schritt mine at Dux, in Bohemia, on
the Gath, and scores of others were ia
tally injured.
Mr.. AND Mrs WILLIAM STRIEBY, liv-
ing few miles south of Goshen, Ind.
celebrated their sixty-second wedding
anniversary on the sth. Their ages
are respectively 80 and 81 years.
THE longest telephone circuit in the
world was successfully tested on the
8th, when Gov. Russell of Massachu-
setts, ut Boston, engaged in converse
ton with distinguished citizens in Chi.
cago.
The New York senate, on the sth,
passed, without dissent, concurrent
resolution urging the president and
congress to take steps to establish a
protectorate over Hawaii with view
of ultimate annexation.
EDWIN c. PACKARD, a pioneer resi-
dent of the northwest, died, on the
sth, at his residence at Belmont, Ia,
aged II years. He located in Hancocl,
county in 1858, driving an OK team
through from Wisconsin.
Gov. WERTz of New Jersey, on the
sth, confirmed the report that he would
appoint ex-Gov. Leon Albeit to the
place on the state supreme court bench
made vacant by the death of Justice
Edward w. Scudder.
HERDER's hotel, 265 West Fifth street
Cincinnati, was burned early on the
morning of the 9th, and four persons
Fred Detzel, waiter; Albert Grau
yardman; Joseph Maines, and - Got
heb, waiter, persisted in the flames.
HENRY BENSON, Of Chesterton, Ind,
was found on the morning OF the sth
half buried in an ice drift. He was re
turning to his home in the outskirts o.
the village the night before when he
was assailed by masked man, beaten
into insensibility and then robbed
Both of his arms were frozen stiff ant
amputation will be necessary.
FOLLOWING up the dismissal from thu
Dominion public service of Cosgrove
of Toronto, for signing the annexation
manifesto, the government is hunting
up evidence of treason against large
number of government officials wht
| had declared themselves in favor of an
nexation to the United States, and who
if the charges are proved against them
will share a similar fate.
THE jury in New York city in thu
case of Charles w. Gardner, Rev. DR.
Parkhursts agent, on the sth, fount
him guilty of extortion. 1t was charged
that he had received money from thu
keeper of disorderly house to secure
immunity from police interference.
THE STAFFORD county insane asylum
four miles from Dover, N. H., wa
burned, on the night of the 9th, ant
forty-four OF the forty-eight inmates
were cremated in their cells. The poor
house adjoining, with over 100 inmates
had narrow escape.
By the explosion of q gasoline stow
in the dyeing and securing establish
ment of Edward Whitehouse, AIS For
ty-fifth street, Pittsbu rgh, Pa, on tn
9th, the building and contents wer
totally destroyed, and Whitehouse ant
his daughter Emma were fatal.
burned.
Now THAT the silver bill has beef
shelved in the house and the appropria
tions are getting ont of the way, anti
option will be brought to the front !
is probable that Mr.. Hatch will make
move in behalf of his pet measure at al
early day.