The Van Buren press., 1899-07-29
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

threatening.
The striking street car men at Cleve-
land, o., protest against the presence
Of troops.
The employees of the Republic iron
and steel plant at st. Louis have had
their wages raised.
The weather bureau reports favora-
bic conditions for the agriculturist in
Missouri during the past week.
A cloudburst, Tuesday night, de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property In
the business part of Morristown, Tenn.
Andrew Carnegie offers to give Fort
Worth, Tex, $4,000 for a public Ii
brary, provided the city will maintain
it.
Col. W. j. Bryan will speak in Des
Moines, Ia, on the night of August 10,
state convention.
An America0 citizen has filed
claim against the Transvaal for $2,-
00o,o00. The state department is re.
quested to press it.
Frank Cheyalier, a st. Clair county
(lll.l farmer, was caught on trestle
By train and met death by falling be-
meath it. 4 companion escaped.
Gen. de Gallifet, Franch war minis
ter, has degraded Gen. de Negrier, and
arrested Capt. Villanueve, owing to
their having criticised the ministry.
IN Grimes county, Tex, negro was
lynched by mob of whites. The
tragedy grew out of a race riot, in
which two white farmers were wound
eG.
For sending an alleged indecent let
ter to his wife at Lathrop, Mo-, Mark
Pound "A years old, has been arrested
by post office inspector and placed
in Jail.
The contractors on the battleships
kentucky and Kearsarge have called
for the eight-inch guns, and the two
great men-of-war are nearly ready for
business.
Mrs. Augusta Styles, who shot and
killed her aged mother, in Chicago, be
cause she impaired a family secret to
her granddaughter, Belle Styles, was
acquitted.
The members of the Second Oregon,
at San Francisco, have objected to the
form of discharge prepared for them
because it does not contain the word
''honorable.a
John Barber, better known as
'Grandpa" Barber, who lived on Beaver
Dam creek, twelve miles northwest of
Poplar Bluff, Mo-, is dead. He WAS
103 years old.
Bishop Horstmann of the Catholic
diocese of Cleveland, O., has issued an
address calling upon his people to up
hold the law and pray for the restora-
tion OF peace.
Defects have been discovered in the
plans of the two new battleshirs,
Maine and Missouri, which, it is said.
will necessitate 200 tons of armor be-
ing left off of them.
Henry Novels negro, attempted to
assault Miss Rosaline Davis at the lit
tie town of Hattiesburg, Miss. A mob
quickly formed and went in pursuit,
caught and lynched him.
The Texas health department has
received information from Vera Cruz,
Mexico, that during the month of June
there were 465 cases of yellow fever
there. of which number 1876 died.
Lord Brampton, who, before his ele-
vation to the British peerage, was dis
tinguished as Judge Hawkins, and who
retired recently, aged 50, has tired OF
idleness and began working again.
William Armstrong. who was ar
rested at Port Angels, Wash, on a
fugitive warrant by Detective Frank
Tyrell, of Chicago, will not return to
Chicago until he has tested the extra
dition laws.
Judge Otis of the United States dis
trict court at st. Paul, Mimi, has de-
cided that express companies can not
be compelled to submit statement of
gross earnings to the railroad commits
sion of the state.