The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-01

James A. Dugan, of Evansville, Ind, suffering with typhoid fever is still alive and will likely recover, though pronounced dead by attending physi- cians, once being laid out and prepared for burial
 F. N. Neal. an exjudge of Union county, Ark, committed suicide at his home in Junction City Saturday morning. He was 72 years old. prominent citizen and no motive for the deed is known
 Reports teii of typhoon which swept over the Phillipine Islands in October which killed 800 Europeans and t. 900 natives. The loss of property is said to be several millions, Many tracing vessels were destroyed
 United States Inspector sBrunner re- ports 600 death in Havana Cuba, last week, large per cent being from starvation. Yellow fever is spreading rapidly also, and this will be menace to the United States in the Spring.
 A non-partisan meeting will be held at Guthrie, o. T., December 1. to discuss plans for securing statehood for the territory and such portions of the Indian country as congress sees fit to add The meeting was called by the chairmen of four state central committees.
 William Carr, convicted of throwing his little girl into the Missouri river near Kansas City some weeks ago, at tempted suicide in the jail at Liberty, Mo. Saturday. by swallowing pounded glass. He then fought the doctors who tried to save him, but was con qacred. He may die.
 At Holton. Kan, Nov. 27, Ralph Armstrong, a sixteen-year-old son of J. c. Armstrong living about six miles southeast of Holton. was so badly hurt while playing "blackman" at school that he died in about thirty hours from a probable rupture of some of the internal organs.
 Thomas I. Foster, Norton county, Kan, stockman, has been suffering heavy losses from blackleg in herd of Texans he bought recently. An examination by Taylor Riddle, secre- tary of the live stock sanitary commis- sion. shows that over ssOo0 worth of the cattle were thus diseased.
 the branch of the Louisville x Nash vile road near Chester, Ky, on satur- day. twenty-three loaded coat cars precipitated to the bottom of ravine sixty-hve feet below. Two men were buried under hundreds of tons of coal. lumber, etc. The loss is very heavy. 
 The collector of customs at Tagish Lake in a letter, says five lives have been lost in the lakes and others on the route to Dawson within the last few weeks. With the exception of Frank Anthony he does not know the names of the victims. A number of boats have been wrecked iu the rapids,
 A Mrs. Dice of Hamilton, Mo-, was granted divorce before dinner one day last week, largely on the testimo- ny of the Rev. Jacob Dyer. She and the preacher were married within an hour, and the judge cn being so in- formed, annulled the divorce. but the couple, ignorant of this, had gone to their home in another town, where they are living. it is supposed, in bliss ful ignorance of their predicament,
 Stricken with remorse that he had robbed a poor postmaster of $20O, Walter ]. Kenny, now serving a six term at the house of correct ion, in Milwaukee, Wis, has made and has told where he hid the money. The $200 was found in to which the postmaster was directed by the thief Kenney's crlm- lnal career has tinge of romance in It. He is about 35 years of age and