The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1893-03-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts,, will be as
sistant secretary Of state.
President Cleveland had busy day Monday
shaking hands with callers.
Fire did 10000 damage to the Hogs Bros.
Broom factory in st. Louis.
Sixty-One naval officers will 60 on the retired
list during President Cleveland's term.
A hurricane at Tamatav, on the east coast OF
Madagascar, caused a loss OF hundreds Of lives.
James w. Hyatt, President Cleveiand's for
mer treasurer, is i'll with govt at Norwalk,
Conn.
Members Of the pie brigade are informed that
the president is not going 70 cut the pie until no
gets good ready.
There is great activity and excitement Of
Key West, Fla. over the proposed flibusterine
raid against Cuba.
Mrs. Wakefield, . colored woman, died ct
Utica, Mo-. at the well-authenticated age OF loo
years and . months.
Federal once holders in New York city are
tumbling over each other in their anxiety to get
their designations accepted
The lower house Of the Prussisn diet agreed,
BY vote Of los to 70, to arbitrate on differences
between miners and mine owners
o. Overholt, in the grain and lumber business
In Assumption, ILL.,. has made an assignment.
Liabilities, $4,000; assets. $4,000
The South San Francisco Cali glove stock
factory of Fred c. Anderton has failed. Liza
bjlities over t7O00o0; assets, $4,000.
George Bradford suddenly died at Selma.
ILL.,, aged co. He was the father OF Mary Brad
ford the medical missionary at Tahrix, Persia.
A desperate attempt was made by footpads 70
rob citizen on crowded downtown street In
st. Louis in broad daylight One Of them was
arrested.
Uv~a IL Eoi~ nf n.
Kas., murdered his wife In Chicago by cutting
her throat, and then committed suicide by slash
ing himself from car to ear.
The new chaplain Of the Illinois penitentiary
st Joliet has bounced all the old Sunday-school
teachers, and hereafter only Lutheran and Cath
ole teachers will be tolerated.
Eighteen Campaign county ull.) families,
numbering In all more than 100 persons, left
Clifford Monday on special. train OF twenty
enc cars, bound for homes in the west
NV Temple. president OF the First national
bank Of Lexington. Neb.. ind his wife nre In =
dying condition from eating meat on which one
Of the children had spread rough on rats.
Emanuel Defrates, one OF the oldest mcn In
Morgan county, ILL.,, died Monday. He was 81
years old and was originally from Portugal
but had lived in Illinois for nearly hty years.
case similar 10 that Of Smith ut Paris, Tex.
but with the color reversed, has occurred al
Paschal, Ark, but there is no talk OF another
auto d. fe. The child II In serious condition,
Gus ID. Moser, a mall carrier. was arrested at
Dallas. Tex, at the instance OF Post ONCE In
spector Fisher on the charge OF opening letters
and appropriating their contents TO his own use
Relief measures for the cyclone sufferers In
Mississippi continue. More than "0O families
have been rendered homeless In Lauderdalt
county, with no means in most cases 10 rebuild
Capt Bourke, Third cavalry. U. 8. A., who
has been actively engaged OH the Mexican
frontier for several years, has been ordered Il
duty in Chicago in connection with the World'I
fAir.