The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1893-03-25

uchly, at MS nome at Harrisburg, Pa. ,
on the nth, from excessive use of cigar
cites. He had been addicted to the
cigarette habit for several years.
EIGHT miners were killed by the &C.
cidental falling Of the cage in which
they were descending to work in q coal
pit near Chesterfield, England, on the
Goth.
IT is estimated that there will be $780,.
600 deadhends ut the Worlds fair.
The Berlin Schlesche Zeitung, organ
OF Chancellor Caprivi, states on author
ity that dissolution will occur at the
end Of April unless the reichstag passes
the army bill.
JOHN BRUNER, IS years of age. q ship.
ping clerk at 8. Hamilton's music store
in Pittsburgh, Pa, was crushed to death
by piano elevator on the Goth. His
head was caught between the stills Of
the elevator and . crossbeam and
crushed to pulp.
In the New York court of general
sessions, on the Goth, after a speech
lasting an hour and forty minutes and
full of dramatic interest, by the pris.
oner at bar, Recorder Smythe reaf-
firmed the sentence of death previously
passed upon Carlyle w. Harris. for the
murder of his young wife. Helen Potts
Harris, and ordered that the sentence
be carried out during the week begin
ming May 8.
AMONG the more important nomina-
tions sent to the senate by President
Cleveland on the Goth were: James B.
Eustis, of Louisiana, to be minister to
France; Theodore Runyan. of New Jer-
sey, minister to Germany; John E. Ris-
ley, Of New York, minister to Dem
mark; Wade Hampton, of South Caro-.
lima, commissioner of railroads.
JOSEPH FLYNN, who owned the two
buildings IN Toledo, O., that were
crushed to the earth by the falling of
the walls of the Wheeler opera house
recently, has become insane on account
of the loss of the buildings, on which
he had not cent of insurance. He
was placed in the padded cell at the
police station on the 21st.
Gov. REYNOLDS of Delaware, ON the
21st, appointed Hon. Charles b. Lore.
chief justice of the state, to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the death of Chief
Justice Robinson. In 1882 he was
elected to congress on the democratic
ticket. and was reelected in 1884.
Ex-UNITED STATES SENATOR ELI
SALISBURY. of Delaware, who had been
critically i'll for several days and de-
lirious occasionally, suffering great
pain, was thought, on the 22d, not to
be in immediate danger.
QUEEN VICTORIA started from Ports
mouth, on the 2ist, on the royal yacht
Victoria and Albert, on her way to
Italy, where she will spend the spring
season at the villa Palmieri near Flor
ence
The grand army posts OF Indianapo-
lis, Ind, are practically unanimous In
opposition to holding the national en-
campment in that city this year.
PRINCESS KAIuLANI embarked for En-
gland on the 22d.
CAPITAL has been subscribed in New
York city to start new factory to com.
pete with the White Lead trust.
THE ten days statement issued by
the treasury department gave the gold
in the treasury, on the 2lst, as 500, $780,
900. gain of $4,OO0, OOO within the ten
days.
Or the lO5 deaths reported to the
health department Of New York. city on
the alst. five were caused by la grippe.
SIX bombs were thrown in the city OF
Rome on the 2lst, and q general alarm
is felt.
The mayor of Moscow was assassina,
ted in the council chamber, on the 2lst
by man named Adricanon.