The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1893-03-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

on number of presidential nominations
were confirmed in executive session.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
MRS. SARAH R. Hicks, who was un.
doubleday the oldest person on Long
Island, died at her home at Westbury,
on the evening Of the 18th. Mrs. Hicks
was In her one hundred and third year.
She was born at Cedar Swamp, Queens
county. small farming section, now
known as Greer vale, and was the
daughter of Stephen and Sarah Rush.
more.
+. EDWIN EDwELL, the sculptor, OF
New York city, has received the con-
tract from the. Gettysburg Monument
commission to make an equestrian
statue of Edwin Winfield Scott Han
cock, to be, erected at commanding
point on the Gettysburg battlefield.
The statue will be of heroic size, and
will represent the hero Of Gettysburg
seated on a horse and directing the
movements of the troops on the historic
field.
On the nth Secretary Carlisle signed
a warrant for s62,64s, drawn in favor
of the governor OF New Mexico, in pay
ment of New Mexico's proportion OF
the direc. tax
WHEELER's opera house, the oldest
theater in Toledo. O., was destroyed by
fire at d. IN. of the 17th
The original constitution of the
United States, during its exhibition at
the Worlds fair, will form part of
the state department exhibit, and q
new case has been constructed to pre-
serve the old document from possible
injury or loss. 1t is in fairly good
state Of preservation, though showing
the effect Of years of repose in cylin-
drical tin case, which slightly mutt
lated the edges.
THE body of Charles L. O'Dione, an
other victim of Boston's great fire, was
found, on the 18th, in the debris. This,
it is believes, completes the list of the
dead, which numbers Ave.
The Alamo hotel at Colorado Springs,
Col, was almost entirely destroyed by
FIRE on the 18th; loss, $4,000. The
guests escaped from the burning build
ing HLllu IDucu eAClteHleuL.
JOHN N. McDoNoueH. chairman of
the Massachusetts democratic state
committee, dropped dead at 4 o'clock on
the morning of the 18th, at the dinner
OF the Tammany club
MIR. GLADSTONE had so far recovered
from his recent indisposition as to be
able to drive to the house of commons
on the nth.
On the 10th President and Mrs. Cleve-
land resumed attendance at the First
Presbyterian church of Washington,
continuing the use Of the pew formerly
occupied by them.
KRuPP's big gun, the la4-ton mon
ster, the biggest gun ever made. reached
Baltimore, on the 18th, en- rout Re to the
Worlds fair.
The saloons, cigar stores and news
stands at Memphis, Tenn, were closed
on the 10th, the first Sunday in twenty
years.
The Bethlehem pa Iron Co. sent a
consignment of armor to the Brooklyn
navy yard, on the nth, consisting of
curved turret plates for the Terror.
Several shafts for battle ships Nos. l
and were sent to the Cramps on the
10th.
AN explosion Of dynamite occurred
near Searsdale, N. Y, on the 18th, caus-
ing the death of two Italian laborers.
SEVERAL of the Mexican states have
protested to President Diaz against the
removal of import duties on cereals
A MOTION for new trial in the Nc
Donald will case at Noblesvirle, Ind,
was overruled by Judge Stephenson, on
the 18th.
SECRETARY HoKE SMITH is pushing
the preliminaries for the opening of the
Cherokee strip.
The senatorial election in Spain re-
suited in sweeping victory for the
monarchists.
THE total loss sustained by 1870 in
surance companies in the late Boston
fire was e2,89l,4 $50.
The largest shaft ever forged in
America was sent from the Bethlehem
pa iron works to the Chicago fair
on the 18th. 1t weighed ", $50 pounds.
and will be the axle Of the perpendicu-
lar hurley-gurley, sixty-five feet high,
invented by Pittsburgh engineer.
GEORGE ABINGDON BAIRD, or, as he
was more Familiarity known, Squire
Abingdon" died in New Orleans, on
the 18th, OF pneumonia. He came to
this country with Mitchell, the pu-
gilist, as his patron and hacker, and
the pace at which he went among the
various points he visited proved too
much for an already undermined con-
stitution, and cold brought about the
fatal illness. Baird was the richest
gentleman" sport and the best anna
tcur jockey in England.
Two SISTERS OF MERCY visited Car
lyle W. Harris the convicted wife,
murderer at the Tombs, in New York
city. on the 10Th. but he spurned them
and ordered the warden not to admit
them to his quarters again. A great
deal of hysterical sentiment has been
worked up lin behalf OF the condemned
man.
Ex-UNITEp STATES SENATOR DAVID
II. ARMSTRONG died in st. Louis, on the
18th, MS the result OF heart failure.
with which he was attacked the day
previous. lie was one of the first
guests OF the old Planters house in St
Louis, and one of the last to leave when
it was closed.
MIR. Brooks residence At Br isto !
Tenn, was burned, on the night Of the
10th, and his mother, Margaret Brock,