The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1893-01-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

CLAY HOPPER, the young man who
had been lying in Toledo, o., in So
called trance for two weeks, after hear
ing his funeral sermon preached, died
ON the 18th.
A DISPATCH from st. Paul de Loanda,
Angola, West Africa reports collision
on u down grade, between locomo-
tive on the Congo railway and a wagon
loaded with dynamite and gunpowder
the conclusion exploding the dynamite
and causing the death of fifty persons,
including NJ. Liqueue, head OF the So
ciete Anoyme Beige
AT meeting of the French cabinet,
On the i4th, NJ. Tirard, minister of
finance, presented for consideration his
bill taxing bargains on the bourse ten
rentimes per 1000 francs, and another
bill, limiting the note issue Of the bank
of France to 1000, 100000 francs
RUSSIA will send three war ships to
New York to take part in the naval
demonstration in connection with the
Columbian fetes. These vessels will be
under the command of Admiral Kazen-
akoff
KoRNELL 10th, Hungarian, % years
old, was electrocuted at Dannemora,
N. Y, on the 10th, for the murder of
Mrs. Elite Eemascls, at her home in
Schenectady.
FIRE broke out in the town hall at
Brewster, N. Y, on the 18th, and be-
fore it could be checked had destroyed
the town hall, Smith 4 Bro. s store,
II. A. Lobsdell's store, :. A. Merrett's
bottling establishment. the post Office
and the printing office of the Brewster
Standard, entailing loss of upwards
Of slOO. 900, with insurance of bout s75,.
300.
PORE LEO is said to be greatly inter-
ested in the situation In America and
DESTROYS of putting an end to the exist
ing differences here. With this pur-
pose the pope is preparing an encyc-
lical to the American episcopate advis-
ing harmony.
A SWIFT line of ocean steamers is to
be established between Canada and
Great Britain, completing the through
Canadian line from Great Britain to
Asia.
THE funeral of Gen. Rufus Ingalls,,
late quartermaster Of the army, who
died in New York on the 18th, took
place at Arlington cemetery, Washing
ton, on the 18th.
FRANCES ANNE KEMBIE Mrs. Pierce
Butler), the weli-lsnown actress, died
in London on the 18th.
GEORGE A. STANTON, a well-lnown
insurance broker of New York, was ar
rested, on the 10th, on an Indictment
for criminal libel. Stanton is charged
with having issued circular rejecting
on the standing of the American Assur-
ance Lloyds.
Gov. TURNEY of Tennessee took the
oath of Office at his home, "Wolf's
Crag." near Winchester, OH the 10th, in
the presence of a legislative committee
sent from Nashville. Judge Turney re-
manned seated during the ceremony.
being still crippled by rheumatism,
from which he has suffered much of
late.
GEORGE r. GRAHAM, founder of Ora
hams Magazine, is i'll at the Memorial
hospital at Orange, N. D., and his death
is expected at any moment Mr.. Gra-
ham has been an inmate of the hos
pital for several years, his board being
paid by George w. Childs of the Phila-
delphia Ledger. At one time Mr.. Gra-
ham was worth between 5000, 900 and
$500. 900, but lost his money in specula-
ton.
Ex-PREsIDENr HAYES was reported,
on the 18th. as lying seriously i'll at his
home near Fremont O. Neuralgia OF
the heart seized him several davs nre-
vious. While in Cleveland recently he
had bad spell and was hurried to his
home. lie has since showed BAD symp-
toms, and is now under he constant
care of his family physician,