The Van Buren press., 1899-05-06
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Three cases of smallpox have been
reported to the board of health of Le
Claire, la.
Ex-Gov. r. X. Scott, of South Caro-
linn, was stricken with apoplexy at his
residence in Napoleon, o.
The spring rush of immigrants into
this country through the port of New
York has been unusually great.
Ten thousand textile workers are on
4 strike at Brunn, Austria, to enforce
their demand for ten-hour day.
The spring crops in southern Russia
have been total failure. Many thou
sands of peasants face starvation.
Col. Alex. Biddle, for 25 years di-
rector of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Co., died at Philadelphia, aged so years.
The standard and New Amsterdam
gas companies of New York city have
reduced the price for gas to 65 cents
per 1000 feet.
Timothy Hogan, the notoriuos mail
robber, and one of the smoothest of
criminals, escaped from the Ohio peni-
tertiary at Columbus, Tuesday.
Siam, according to dispatch from
Singapore, has ceded to France the
province of Luang Prabang, in the
northwestern part of the kingdom.
August Rauschenbach, office super
intehdent in the st. Louis street de-
partment, and for 45 years connected
with that department, died Tuesday.
Formal announcement of the organi-
zation of the American Hide and
Leather Co. is made. The company will
soon be incorporated with capital of
10000, 900.
The wives and sisters of soldiers of
the Twentieth Kansas regiment have
turned heroines, and many of them are
working in the fields to keep the
farms going.
The United States cruiser Raleigh
left Philadelphia for Wilmington, N.
G., where it is expected she will re-
main for several days, going thence to
Charleston, S. G.
c. H. Cunningham died in the Ohio
penitentiary, where he was serving
term for forging the name of Judge
Il. T. Hamilton, of Cleveland, to
check for $4,000.
The Coney Island Sporting club,
which was the successful bidder Tor
the Fitzsimmons-Jeffr fight, has
been refused a license by the New
York police board.
Henry B. Hyde, president of the
Equitable Life Assurance society, died
in New York city, Tuesday, from heart
disease. He was 65 years old and had
been i'll for year.
Bookkeeper Walter Gray's shortage,
at st. Louis, has been found to he 5000
more than it was at first reported, so
Chief Clerk Kicker of the United
States subtreasury says.
II. II. Wentworth, an Atchison (kas.)
Christian Scientist, who was doomed
by western newspapers a few years
age as a rival of Schlatter, the healer,
died, Tuesday, aged S4 years.
At Terrace Hill, Des Moines, Ia, the
home of Millionaire F. M. Hubbell his
daughter, Miss Beulah Hubbell, was
welded, Tuesday evening, to Count
Carl Axel Wachtmeister, of Sweden.
A New York syndicate has bought
an old copper mine 20 miles from
uanabaocoa. The ore from this mine
assays 35 per cent. copper, per cent.
ei'vor and one ounce and half gold to
the ton.
...aene Breitel, of Joplin, Mo-, shot
and fatally wounded Sandford Doris.
The latter's brother married Breltels 8
daughter The father intended to Nil
the son-in-law, whose brother came to
his aid and received the bullet
One of the most exciting campaigns
in the history of Baltimore, Md, re-
suited in democratic landslide. Thos.
G. Hays was elected mayor by nearly
5000 majority over William T. Master,
republican, the present incumbent.