The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-11-18
NEWS ITEMS

his residence at Benoit, Miss.
The temple matter came up again IN
the w. C. T. U. Tuesday afternoon, and
resolution endorsing the temple was
defeated by vote of 76 to 277.
Miss Caroline Swartout, 90 years old,
is dead at her home in Paterson, n. D.
Miss Swartout was the last ineal de-
scendant of family well known IN
New York and New Jersey.
The Hong Kong correspondent Oh
the London Daily Mail says: "War
preparations continue here without
abatement and the mines in the La1-
Mum pass have been charged"
1t is expected that the board OF
which RI. Adm. Howell is president
will assemble this week at Annapolis
for the purpose of establishing con-
struction course for the education OF
cadets.
Congressman A. L. Hager, of the
Tenth Iowa district, will introduce
bill in congress to admit Osborne deg
nan, one of the Merrimac heroes, to
the United States naval academy at
Annapolis.
Another train load of alcohol billed
to Japan has been sent west from
Peoria, ILL., 1t will be used in the
manufacture of smOleless gun powder.
There were II cars Of 20 barrels each,
or 62, 900 gallons.
During the present week President
Faure will receive from the Spanish
fleece, conferred, it is said, through
Senior Montero Rios, president of the
| Spanish peace commission.
The war department is informed that
the transport Michigan, with the 5th
cavalry on board, has arrived at Ponce,
| Porto Rico, and that as soon as ready
the vessel will transport the batteries
now at Ponce, destined for service in
| Cuba.
The French police Tuesday con-
Quoted to the frontier a man named
Simon Rivas, who had once attacked
| Senior MOnterO Rios in the streets of
Madrid and who had followed him
here, presumably with the intention
of killing him.
After the expiration of his term of
governor in January next Gov. Adams,
of Colorado, will start on tour around
the word. He Will visit first the Ha-
waiian and Philippine islands and viii
return through India, Egypt and the
| Mediterranean.
A movement is on foot looking to the
consolidation of all the sash, door and
blind interests in America. The new
company will probably be known al
the Consolidated Sash, Door and Blind
company. The company is backed by
English capital.
Edward A. Kimball, an inventor and
mechanical expert and formerly super
intendent of the mechanical depart
ment of the University of Illinois and
the Illinois industrial home for the
blind in Chicago, is dead. at his resi-
dence in Chicago.
The Berliner correspondent asserts
that the San Jose scale louise was
found at Hamburg in September and
October in dried and undried Cali
fornia pears and nectarineS. The con
signments were seized and re-exportcd
under official control.
Lieut.. Commander l. Harris, who
Maria Teresa at the time of her aban-
donment, has been ordered to proceed
from Charleston with the enlisted men
formerly attached to the Teresa, to the
navy yard at Norfolk.
Adam r. Smith, president of the
lakewood Cemetery Association, Troy.
n. Y, and formerly cashier of the
Union national bank, committed sui
eide Monday by shooting himself
through the heart. 1t is thought his
mind was unbalanced.
Judge Samuel Owens. formerly an
eminent jurist of Pennsylvania and
afterward resident of Iowa and Cali
fornia. died in Los Angeles, Cal, Mon
day. He came to California in 1881
He was the father of Maj. Madison L.
Owens, of Los Angeles.
The members of the Illinois naval
reserve who took part in the war with
Spain, either on battle ships, auxiliar-
les or blockading fleets, including the
tars of the I'd battalion from Moline,
Quincy and Alton, have taken steps to
organize the Illinois Veteran associa-
ton.
The steamer Centennial, which ar
rived at Seattle, Wash. from Hilo,
Tuesday, reports that the steamer Co
lumbia bound from Honolulu to Seat
tie, sank in the harbOr of Hilo on No
vember .. She had "a number OF pas
sengers on board, but there were no
Casualties.
At general meeting of French hold
ers of Cuban bonds, held in Paris. a