The Van Buren press., 1899-10-07
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

The Illinois supreme court met al
Springfield for the October term.
The convict lease system has been
abandoned in Jefferson county, Ark.
A serious coal famine is threatened
as q result of the strike at Decatur
Ill.
The first Iowa congressional district
has organized good roads associa-
ton.
The first days tax collection in New
York, Tuesday, for 1899, amounted to
So 2,651,s96.
Beef on the hoof reached 81 per
hundred at the stock yeards in Chi
oago Tuesday.
The weekly Texas crop report shows
that the drought continues with in.
creased severity.
The union tailors of Rock Island, ILL.,,
are on strike for ten per cent. in.
crease in wages.
Extraordinary exertions are being
put forth on both sides to end the
two years strike at Pana, Ill.
. Gen. Lawton dispersed the insur.
gents in the vicinity of linus, Tues.
day, driving them to the westward.
The fire at Nebo, ILL.,, did great dam
age, leaving only two buildings of inn
portance in the center of the town.
The democratic carnival at Dallas.
Tex, closed brilliantly with the dol,
lar dinner and much oratory Tuesday
night.
Details of the fight with the Yaqul
Indians at Ortiz show that three Mex,
lean soldiers were killed and four
wounded.
l.. r. Rankin was killed at Brenham,
Tex, by the explosion of a steTeep.
tican reservoir while he was giving n
lecture.
The Illinois board of equalization, in
session at Springfield, will assess the
capital stock of all the state corpora.
tions assessable.
As the result of Emperor Williams
advice, the University of Strassbura
will receive a Catholic faculty, thus
ending a long and bitter controversy.
There is a suspected case of small.
poX at Carbondale, ILL.,. and DR.. Egau,
secretary of the state board of health,
has sent DR.. Sullivan of the board to
investigate.
1t has been learned from high au.
ttority that Admiral Dewey will visit
Princeton. n. j. The admiral received
his degree of LII. d. from Princeton
university.
David A. Ball. one of the democratic
candidates for the Missouri ghberna.
torial nomination, says that a man who
is afraid of primary elections is afraid
of the people.
Mrs. Caroline Brush, of Hermann.
Mo-, 50 years old, was stricken with
apopleXy, Tuesday night while walk.
ing along the street, in st. Louis, and
died in few minutes later.
The nine prisoners charged with be-
ing implicated in the murder of Annie
Carr at the Fredonia mines, were
granted a change of venue from
Marion, ILL.,, to johnson county.
The large seed-cotton wareroom oI
the Weld & Neville Round Bale Cotton
Gin Co., at Ardmore, ]. r., was burned
Tuesday. The building contained 12O,.
900 pounds of seed cotton and was de.
stroyed.
The elevator of A. +. Taylor & Co.,
at Mount Vernon, ILL.,, was totally de.
stroyed by fire. 1t is supposed to have
been the work of incendiaries. The
building contained 5000 bushels OF
wheat and other produce.
The Yelled Prophets parade and
ball at st. Louis, Tuesday night were
on the usual scale of splendor-per.
haps little more so, and hundreds OF
thousands of people thronged the
streets to see the pageant pass.
The contract for erecting the two
large buildings for the asylum for fee
ble-minded children at Lincoln, ILL.,,
has been let. w. f. Hoyle, of Lincoln,
was the successful bidder. His bid was
S162,o50. The appropriation was $780,
300.