The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-04-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE United States battleship Mnssa-
chusetts, which left Cramps shipyard
recently for her builders trial trip; Re:
turned to her dock Oh the 22d. The
results were even better than those ac-
:ofnp1ished with the Indiana.
A DEFICIENCY in the pay appropria-
ton for the present fiscal year is con-
fronting the war department.. The
amount lacking is estimated at about
&4OO, 600.
:. MIR. JONES, of Virginia, offered in
tho house, on the 23d, bill appro-
priating $4,000 for the erection Of q
monument to the memory of James
trine, at Fredericksburg, Va.
On the 23d the house committee on
election of president, ETC., through
Mr.. John B. Corliss, of Michigan, ia.
vorably reported bill to provide for
the election OF United States senator's
by the people.
THE centrists in the German reichs-
tag have decided to support the govern
ment's sugar bill on the basis of raising
the premium about two marks.
A DISPATCH from Havana, on the
24th, said: 1.-TWO political prisoners
who are now confined in the Cabanas
fortress will be shot this week.
FIRE in the Atlantic refinery at Pitts
burgh, Pa. on the 22d, caused q loss of
$4,000 The fire started from some
unknown cause in the warehouse, and
before it had become known it had
enveloped the warehouse and spread
to the tanks.
THE fire which occurred In Colon, on
the Esd, destroyed 90 houses. The
government authorities and the Pan
anna Railroad Co. distributed food, pro-
CURED from Panama, to the sufferers.
Col. CHARLES H. BUEHLER, of Gettys-
burg, Pa, died, on the 24th, aged 70.
He was vice-president of the Gettys-
and prominent trustee Of Gettysburg
dred and Sixty-hfth Pennsylvania vol
unteers during the war for the sup
preston of the rebellion.
A DISPATCH from Montreal, Can,
says that the management Of the
Central Vermont railway will soon be
transferred to Montreal and that that
road will become practically q portion
of the Grand Trunk system.
THE formal unveiling and transfer
to the city of New York by the Grant
Monument association of the Grant
statue is set for April Is. Gen.
Grants grandson, u. s. Grant, the SON
Of Col Fred Grant, will unveil the
statue.
Ex-UNrTxD STATES COMMISSIONER
ROBERT CHARLsoN, Of Alfalfa, Ala, was
sentenced in the United States court at
Birmingham, on the Gath, to three
years at hard labor In the Brooklyn
IN. W penitentiary, and to pay . dne
Of 500 and costs on each of 12 indict-
ments for presenting false accounts.
AT Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 24th, II
was discovered at an autopsy that tho
death Of Lizzie Southerland, aged nind
years, was due to mineral poisoning.
the result Of eating April fooln candy.
A DISPATCH from Athens to the Lon
don Times, on the 24th, reported tho
ren0wal Of the murders of Christians
in .he island Of Crete, and the exist
cnce Of . panic there.
6ExAroR DAVIS, Of Minnesota, hav-
Ing authorized the withdrawal OF hta
name, the Minnesota republican state
convention unanimously declared to-
Mckinley % presidential candidate
THE New York Republican state con.
vention, on the cath, declared Tor Levi
p. Morton ns the choice Of the Empire
state republicans for presidential can
didate.
RoBERr ANDERSON, vice president oi
the Merchants bank of Canada, died
In Montreal, on the e5th, leaving an
estate valued at a, ,000, ,0OQ