The Taney County republican., 1898-12-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

! ming and end of everything. Uncle
Sam declared was on account of hui
manity, and Spain protests that she
signed the treaty of peace out of pure
| humanity" There's difference be-
tween the Spanish and the American
article.
Thomas Jones, living near Greer,
w. Va, attempted to light fire with
crude oil, on the 18th. An explosion
occurred, wrecking the room, and the
| dresses of his twin daughters, aged
six years, ignited. He was too severely
burned to assist them, and they were
so badly burned that both of them died
shortly afterwards.
A dispatch from Utica, n. Y, an
Eounces the suicide of Leroy Z. Mid
lam, the last democratic postmaster at
Marquette, Mich, from which city he
lately removed.
French Ambassador Jules Cambon
will sail from Havre for New York, on
January z, to resume his duties at
Washington.
The Spanish mail steamer Villa
Verde, with Marshal Ramon Blanco,
former captain general of Cuba
aboard. arrived at Alicante, Spain. on
the 10th, from Havana. Marshal Blan-
co landed without incident, and evad-
ing the crowd which was awaiting
him, took the train for Madrid.
Great Britain has given another in
stance of her friendship for the Unit
ed States by suppressing a filibuster-
ing expedition organized in Hong
Kong for Aguinaldo and his followers.
/. q. Rand,e, one of the most danger
Gus of men with Il weapon, and one of
the best known in Texas, was killed
outside of Branch's saloon, near the
city hail. in Dallas, Tex, on the even
ing of the 10th, by ii. p. Erwin, of
Fcrney, Tex. An old grudge was the
cause.
The worst fire in the history of Ter
re Haute, Ind. took place on the night
of the 18th, causing a loss of fully ST.
100000. The blaze started in the show
windows of the Havens & Geddes COM
pany, wholesale and retail dealers in
dry goods and notions. Several per-
sons were fatally and many seriously
injured.
The general commanding the north
ern army of Spain has proclaimed the
closure, from the Goth, of all Carlist
clubs and societies in his district.
During the fire at Terre Haute, Ind,
on the night of the 10Th. the Indian
apolis fire department sent over
wagon and an engine on special
train, which made the distance be-
tween Indianapolis and Terre Haute,
72A miles in 61 Minutes
Fire,which broke out at Fort Adams,
Newport, Il. l., in the stables of Light
Battery F, Fourth artillery, not only
destroyed the stables, but commune
Gated to a neighboring gunshed con-
tanning some powder, and an eXplo-
sion followed, killing three men of the
Seventh artillery and injuring several
others.
By vote of s to 5, on party lines,
the house committee on military af-
fairs ordered favorable report. on the
Goth, on the Hull bill increasing the
regular army to 100000 men.
The Midland Railroad Co. of En-
gland has placed ansorder for ten
mogul freight engines with the Sche-
nectady On. W locomotive works.
Among a network of wires, 90 feet
above the ground, at the corner of
Fifty-fifth and State streets, Chicago,
Roderick Chisholm, an electrician, was
slowly burned to death in sight of sew
eral hundred spectators.
Col. Edward S. Barrett, national
president of the Sons of the American
Revolution, was killed by falling from
a window of his home in Concord,
Mass, en- the 21st. He was about 60
years of age.
The directors of the Bell Telephone
Co. declared dividend of three per
cent. at meeting held in Boston on
the 21st. An extra dividend of IA per
cent. was also declared.
The steam barge Ketcham, which
had been overdue, arrived safely at
Chicago on the 21st.
rear-end collision occurred on the
Pennsylvania railroad three miles from
Railway, N. J., on the 21st, which re-
suited in the loss of two lives and se-
rious though not fatal injuries to four
persons.
American officials and private citi-
zens alike, after casual inspection of
Havana, generally declare the commits
sion reports of its unsanitary and un-
healthy condition to be gross exagger-
ations, but thorough official inspec-
tion show the city to be regular
disease incubatoN