The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1893-04-08

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THERE were 1874 New York policeme,
on the sick list on the 3lst
The third session of the seventh Do
minion parliament was prorogued OF
the LIST.
THE last of the 5000, 600 Worlds fail
souvenir half dollars was struck off a
the Philadelphia mint on the S0th.
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EMPEROR WILLIAM has given his con
sent to the proposal that the whole O
the Imperial opera shall appear In Lon
don in 1894.
COMMANDER WHITING, of the United
States navy, admits that the report O
his engagement to Miss All Fong, O.
Honolulu, is correct.
TIE Beethoven museum at Bonn will
be inaugurated with festival lasting
from the 10th to the 18th of May. Sew
eral of the greatest German musicians
will take part.
SECRETARY MORTON of the depart
ment of agriculture has appointed
Edward Sheldon, of Nebraska, western
agent of the bureau of animal industry
vice NJ Piclserell, of Nebraska.
II has been decided by the state de
partment not to permit the origina
draft Of the declara ton of independence
and the constitution of the United
States to be placed upon exhibition al
the Columbian exposition.
THE Philadelphia & Reading Co. has
shipped its Colum ban exhibit to Chi
cago, consisting of 1863 boxes of coal
made up of all varieties mined, and 9
collection of tools and implements used
by miners in digging coal.
ASKED what he would do with ref
erence to the states prepared by con
gressmcn for the apportionment of fed
eral offices within their several dis
tricts President Cleveland is credited
with saying. 81 will smash them!'
CHOLERA has again made its appear
ance in st. Petersburg, and, although
the authorities are pursuing a policy
of repression and Withholding all in
formation from the public, it is known
that fatal cases are of daily occurrence.
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NEARLY 6,o00 immigrants arrived al
the port of New York by the steam
ships which arrived on the afternoon
of the 3lst and the morning of the 1st
This is the largest number since last
October, when the cholera was brought
over from Hamburg
The Austrian war office has accepted
the bullet-proof cloth invented by Herr
ISLANDER. engineer resident in Paris.
The cloth is third of an inch thick,
and is said to be much more pliable
than that invented by the taller Dove,
in Mannheim, Germany.
BUSINESS failures occurring through
out the country during the seven days
ended on the 3lst numbered, for the
United States. 1866, and for Canada rs; q
total of 1874, as compared with $40 foi
the previous week, and ZIG for the cor
responding week of last year.
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ADvIcEs received from ltayt, on the
3D., state that President Hippolyte, with
his army, had reached Cape mayhem
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