The Taney County republican., 1898-06-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


der arrest and in the federal jail at
Guthrie, Okla, Kinder II. Hargo,
young Seminole Indian, who has con-
fcssed to numbering Mrs. Laird, for
whose death young Sampson and Geisy
were burned to death by a white mob
last January.
AN American named Stickley, who
has been in Mexico City, Mex, in the
land business. has been arrested on the
charge of having stolen $4,000 when
agent, in Ohio, of the Adams Express
Co.
DURING a dense fog, off Fire island,
on the evening of the 2Sth, the United
States cruiser Columbia was run into
by the steamer Foscolia, grain laden,
and a hole stove in her hull. The Fos-
cola sank almost Immediately, but the
Columbia succeeded in rescuing all of
her crew.
The car barn and 100 winter cars
stored therein, of the Consolidated Rail-
way Co. of Baltimore, Md, were burned
on the evening OF the Goth, entailing a
loss of $3.50 900. The barn was located
at Irvington.'
THE number of troops assigned to
Gen. Merritt's command has been in
creased by 5000. This means that co.
600 men are to be taken to Manila as
fast as the transports can be procured
to carry them.
AN unique feature in the Memorial
day parade of the grand army posts in
st. Louis was the carrying of a ma
tional flag by each veteran, which was
placed, with the flowers, on the graves
of the dead.
UNITED STATES MINISTER BRYAN and
the Brazilian minister of foreign af-
fairs have signed the supplementary
treaty to the extradition treaty be-
tween Brazil and the United States
AT the suburban Columbia cemetery
near Cincinnati. on the 3Oth. the memo
rial platform gave way. About 100
persons, mostly children, fell Many
suffered slight injuries.
BARON LYON PLAYFAIR, the distin-
guished English chemist, political
economist, civil service reformer and
parliamentarian, died in London on
the Goth.
A STEAMER is reported to have land
ed 5000 rifles at Cavite for the use of
the Philippine insurgents.
The cook of the United States aux
iliary gunbOat Hawk, native of Ma
Mia, who deserted his post recently, was
arrested ashore at Key West, Fla
| on the 3Oth.
A LONDON news agency. on the 3Oth,
asserted that the pope had forwarded
peace proposals to President Mckinley.
THE Spaniards have offered SIS, 900
| for the head of Aguinaldo, the Philip
pine insurgent leader.
The Spanish bark Maria Dolores, of
Bilbao, was ovcrhauled by one of the
American cruisers, six miles off Porto
Rico. She Was bound from Rio Janeiro
to San Juan de Porto Rico with coal.
FREDERICK HALL, a crate maker, liv-
ing at Burslem, the principal town in
the district called ''Thc Potteries' in
staffordshire, England, while insane,
! murdered his wife and Ave children
with a billhooll and then committed
| suicide by cutting his throat.
Tue Americans have captured the
Spanish gunboat Leyte, which was at
! tempting to run dispatches into Iloilo.
POTTER PALMER, of Chicago, arrived
at New York, ON the 3lst, from Eu-
rope.
GEORGE WEST, alias Charles Rivers,
has sawed out of Jail at South Bend,
Ind, and escaped. West was con
victed of robbing the South Bend ma
tioral bank of SIS, 600.
Mrs. l.. 4. LETTER, of Chicago. has
presented the Chickamauga Park hotel,
at Crawfish Springs, to the United
States soldiers. The building will be
used as a hospital, and will accommo-
date 700 patients. The purchase price
is $4,000.
INVITATIONS are given in Washing
ton that the present military move
ment will be directed against Porto
Rico as well as eastern Cuba.
AMONG the recent nominations by
the president was First Lieut.. Andrew
S. Rowan, Nineteenth United States in
fantry, to be lieutenant colonel of the
Sixth volunteer infantry. This promo
tion was in recognition of Lieut.. Row
ans daring visit to Cuba, and was made
st the instance Of Gen. Miles