The Van Buren press., 1893-04-01
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Four big British ships left San Fran,
cisco, on the ed, on race around Cape
Horn to England. They are the Bow
den. Pinmore, Lord Templemore ant
Lache. The ship City of Athens, which
sailed on the Esd, expected to join the
race. The captain of each ship put ur
$3.50, and the winner will take ST. 900
while the second ship will save stake
money.
DETECTIVES Of the Pennsylvania and
Big Four lines have unearthed a gi
gantic combine that has been robbing
railroad cars and taken thousands OF
dollars worth of goods. The robbery
has been going on for over a year, and
cars on both roads have been literally
Quilted of their contents in transit
through the states of Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois.
Miss NANCY MARVIN, of Monrovia,
Ind, died on the alst, aged 1903 years.
She was born in London, England, but
was brought to this country when 3
years old. She remembered well the
visits of Washington and Lafayette to
her fathers house, and says the former
often took her upon his knee.
JOHN TERRY and Ben Mccoy, negroes,
were hanged, on the ed, at Halle
hurst. Miss, for the murder of j. C..
Davis, white, in October last. For COM
| plicity in the same crime two other
negroes are serving each ten-year
sentence in the penitentiary. Two are
still at large, and will be hanged fever
caught.
THE international Nickel Co., which
owned the greatnckel mines at Riddles,
Ore, has sold out to an English syndi-
cate, which is capitalized for IS, 900, 600
CARLYLE W. HARRIS was taken to
Sing Sing IN. " prison, on the esd,
and placed in cell in "Murderers'
Row." there to remain until, in the
week beginning May 8, he is taken out
to die. Harris has broken down under
the conviction that the efforts his
friends are making to obtain executive
clemency will not avail.
| THE court of arbitration appointed to
adjust the difficulties between Great
Britain and the United States in rela-
ton to the Behring sea seal fisheries
met in Paris, on the sd, in the Office of
the French foreign ministry. All the
members of the court were present.
As ONE result Of the destructive cy-
clone which visited Tennessee and
northern Mississippi on the esd, a
schoolhouse at Tunica, Miss, was de-
molished. burying $50 colored children
in the ruins many of whom sustained
broken limbs and fractured skulls.
FIRE broke out in the Claggett sad
dlery shop of the Southern Indiana
prison at Jeffersonville, Ind, on the
2ad, from defective fue. and spread to
the dining hall, the tailor shop and
hospital, causing damage to the amount
of $50, 900.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has given it out
that he will spend great deal of time
the coming summer in preparing what
will be known as an -administratio ton
tariff bill for submission to congress as
soon as it assemblies.
SEVEN persons, including blind wo-
man and little boy of IS months were
suffocated during the burning of The
Morgan, fashionab bic boarding house
in Cleveland o., on the 23d.
ONE HUNDRED people were killed in
side of four days, recently, by snow
avalanches in Yetshiki Gun, IIida prov
ince, Japan.
A PASSENGER train on the Flint River
division of the Flint & Perc Marquette
railroad was ditched by a rotten cul-
vert, near Geneseeville, Mich. on the
24th. There were ten or twelve pas
sengers in the two coaches, and all
were more or less injured, but none
seriously.
THE Summit Seed and Feed Co. s
building at Denver, COL, was destroyed
by fire on the gath. Fred Pierrepont,
of Truck Co. No /, was killed by fall
ing walls, and three firemen were bad
ly injured, one fatally
A CHINAMAN who got off train at
Great Falls. Mont, on the oath, mar
rowly escaped lynching at the hands Of
mob. They allow no Celestials in
that town.
MATHEW H. Deadly. of Portland, Ore.
United States district judge, died on
the cath.
The grip has again broken out in
New York city.
A MANS foot was found on the brake
beam of the baggage car on Lake
Shore train No. s, on the night of the
23d, on arrival Mt Toledo o., which
proved to be that of John Kennedy,
who had been run down and killed at
Sylvania.
ABOUT six inches of snow on the level
fell at Fargo, N. d., on the night of the
ESD, badly bloclsading railroad trains.
GEORGE MANNERS ASHLEY, who has a
seat in the British house of lords as
Baron Hastings, was arraigncd at the
Marylebone police court, on the gath, on
u charge Of having acted indecently to-
ward girl in Regents park. The court
found him guilty, and sentenced him to
pay fine of ESQ or be imprisoned for
three months.
MAJ. C. c. WILCOX, formerly of the
Thirteenth Tennessee, and noted as
being in command of the troops that
l,;11a1 Can Tnhp MorUan the Uoted