The Van Buren press., 1893-02-25


OF property he owned being swept
away by the failure of Robert l..
Walker, banker of Youngstown, O. 3,
whose paper Gov. Mckinley had in.
dorsed to the extent of $4,000
L. NJ. DAMON, minister of finance In
the late Thurston cabinet has been ap.
pointed vice-president of the Hawaiian
provisional government by the execu-
tive and advisory councils. Mr.. Da-
mon is one Of the commissioners now
in Washington,
Mrs. J. H. HILTON, aged &c, met with
horrible death at her home. near
Shawnee, o., on the 18th. She was
subject to fits, and having one during
the absence OF her husband, fell against
the CRATE, where her clothes caught fire,
and she was slowly burned to death in
the presence Of two helpless children.
CHARLES c. GOODWIN. for many years
the captain OF the Cleveland CO., life
saving station, and who has been in
strumental In saving number of lives
off that port, died suddenly, on the
18th, of heart failure. "
A SERIES of earthquakes have been
felt in the Yellowstone national park
during the last few weeks, one OF which
was of the most terrific force.
JUICE JAcKs0N's appointment as as
sociate justice Of the United States SUI
preine court was confirmed by the SEN
ate. on the 18th, without opposition.
JOSEPH BENSON, employed as hooker
on at the Rankin wireworks in Pitts.
burgh, Pa, was working near set OF
rolls, on the 18th, when red-hot bar
of iron, half an inch in thickness, flew
out and struck him under the left ear.
1t passed entirely through his neck,
protruding several feet on the opposite
side. A fellow workman succeeded in
pulling the bar out after Benson had
sunk to the ground unconscious, but
physicians pronounced the injury fatal.
The Reading railroad interests were,
on the goth, as the result of suit by
the third mortgage bondholders, rep
resented by ex-senator Platt, placed in
the hands of receivers. Chief-Justice
Paxson of Pennsylvania, President Me-
Leod of the corporation, and Elisha p.
Wilbur, president of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Co., are the receivers.
RoLIN ROBINSON, OF Palmyra, Mich,
died at Adrian, Mich. ON the Goth, aged
SO. When boy he worked in the Wayne
Sentinel Office at Palmyra, N. Y, and
assisted in printing the first edition of
the Book Of Mormon" or gold Bible
for Prophet Joseph Smith.
The government of the republic of
Colombia has granted a temporary ex-
tension of the Panama canal conces-
sion. The extension is until March s.
On the I'D, the whisky trust investi-
cation, which had been delayed several
days owing to the absence Of witnesses
from Washington, was resumed.
JOSE Nj. RAssoN, Mexican minister to
Japan died at San Francisco, on the
10th. from dropsy.
The c2arowitz telegraphed his con-
CALCULATIONS to the pope on the occa-
sion Of the pontiff's jubilee.
The National Wall Paper Co.'S fac
tory in New York, consisting of six
fioors packed with stock. was burned
to the ground on the 10Th Loss on
stock estimated at $3.50, 900: on build
ing $4,000,
w. N. Roach. a democrat, of Grand
Forks, was elected United States sena-
tor from North Dakota, on the sixty
first ballot, on the Goth. Roach was the
regular caucus nominee as per pro-
gramme, and all the democrats and
populists went to him.
OWING to the failure of the cortes to
approve the financial schemes of the
ministry, the Portuguese cabinet re.
signed on the Goth,