The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1893-03-04

prints cholera statistics showing that
in the last two months 500 deaths and
937 new cases have occurred. Most of
the cases were in the provinces of Po-
dolia and Kieff.
PORTER l.. T.. SMITH, paying teller Of
the First national bank of Whining
ton, Del, who confessed to the detail
cation of s55, 900, waived hearing in
the United States court at Whining
ton, on the oath, and was held under
$50, 900 bail.
JOHN w. MACkAY, the bonanza king,
was shot in the back at San Francisco,
on the a4th. by an old man named w.
c. Ripley, who then shot and fatally
wounded himself. Mr.. Macltays wound
was not thought to be mortal.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the
seven days ended on the 24th, number,
for the United States 1913, and for Can
ada, 81; or total of 230, as compared
with total of 2S4 the previous week.
For the corresponding week of last
year the figures were go.
The New Jersey legislature, on the
24th passed the race bill over Gov.
Wertz's veto
S. GLEITZ and wife, of Tarentum,
Pa, attended the funeral of friend,
on the 18th, leaving their two children
at home. Two hours later they re-
turned home to find their two children
in bed and the bed in flames. Before
the fire could be eXtinguished, the
daughter, aged years, was burned to
death, and the other child was fatally
burned.
WHILE a peasant wedding party was
crossing the Dnipper river on the 18th,
near Ekaterinoslav, Russia, the ice
broke and two sledges, with ten per-
sons, disappeared under the water.
All were swept under the ice and were
drowned.
THE anarchists Bauer and KnoId,
convicted of conspiracy with Berg
mann, to kill Henry c. Frick at
Pittsburgh, Pa, some months ago,
were sentenced on the a5th, to five
years Imprisonment at hard labor in
the Western Pennsylvania peniten-
tary.
ROBERT J.. WALKER, of Youngstown,
o., denies the report that he carried a
tontine life insurance policy for the
benefit of Gov. Mckinley.
KING GEORGE TuBou of the Tonga
islands is dead.
THE factory building 81 to Sl7 Eas
stroyed by fire on the 27th. 1t was oc'
cupied by William Rowland ship
joiner. and II. & NJ Hershaw, bung
makers. A model for big steamer
which was to have been exhibited al
the Worlds fair, was destroyed. The
loss on the building is SIS, 600 and on
stock $50, 900.
On the 27th the revenue cutter Wash
ington, while entering the slip at the
barge Office at New York, was run into
by Annex boat No. of the Pennsyl
vania road. The boat struck the cut
ter amidships and partially sunk her.
Nobody was injured.
The steam barge George r. Bur
roughs, which was stuck fast in the ict
in Lake Michigan 2s miles off Michigan
City, Ind, was finally released from hel
perilous position by two tng s and safely
towed to Chicago, on the 27th.
AN officer of the Reading Coal ant
Iron Co. stated, on the 21th, shat thu
various anthracite companies woult
make reduction in the price Of coal o
from % to 80 cents on or about April
QUEEN VICTORIA and her daughters
the German empress dowager ant
Princess Beatrice, arrived at Buclsing
ham palace on the 27th.
GEN. JoHN c. NEW, consul-general a
London, expects to retire on May 15tl
next.