The Van Buren press., 1899-04-29
NE WS IN BRIEF.
: Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

fOr Mduild, Nld llOH0Iulu, on the EUJ1,
carrying reinforeements for both army
and navy.
At Phillips, Wis, on the 2tst, Mich
ael Bartemus attempted to murder his
wife by shooting. He then turned the,
weapon upon himself, inficting fatab
Injuries. Mrs. Bartemus will recover,
Domestic trouble was the cause of the
tragedy.
The Third Nebraska will be mus
tered out May II.
In duel with pitehforks in an alley
In Chicago, on the 21st, Edward ZielS-
mond, white, stabbed Horace Scott,
colored, through the heart, and stood
over his PROSTATE form until he died.
Tie United States supreme court
will adjourn for the present term on
May 22.
The Munson line steamer Ella ar
rived at New York, on the 23d, from
Baracoa, Gibara and Neuvitas, Cuba.
She brought 40 passengers, all but two
of whom were discharged or fur
loughed officers and soldiers. There
wa difaO 1t dtntl tel On Dodlu. WHO WIS
placed under arrest on arriving at the
pier. lie was member of the hospital
corps at Neuvitas.
William ID. Burdock, a glyeerine
shooter, was blown to atoms at his
magazine near Bradford, Pa, on the
23d. He was carrying can of explo-
sive when last seen alive. a few mo-
ments later his magazine, barn and
boilerhouse went up in a cloud OF
smoke. Only small fragments of Bur-
docks body were found.
The burgomaster and eight mem
bers of the town council of Baser, Hun.
gary, have been arrested on a charge
of forging bank notes. The operations
of the criminals have been going on
for two years.
It is reasserted, in different reliable
quarters in Spain, that the attempts
of Don Carlos TO raise loan on the Sc
curity of his Italian and Austrian es-
tates have failed.
Sig. Mareoni, the distinguished cleo
trician, whose experiments in wireless
telegraphy have aroused a worldwide
interest will visit the United States
next October.
The agricultural implement ware
house of kingman & Co., an eight
story brick structure located across
an alley from the new Burlington sta
ton, at Omaha Ncb., took fire at $3.50
p. m, of the 23d, and was totally de-
stroyed. The loss is $4,000 on build
ing and $4,000 on stock.
The Sherborne school, a boarding
institution for boys, located in the
suburban town of San Rafael, Cal,
was burned on the 23d. There were
number of daring rescues, but
Charles Armstrong, the six-year-old
son of an army officer now in Manila,
rushed into the burning building for
some purpose, and was lost.
One of the most severe and desper-
ately contested battles that has oc-
CURED since the fighting with the Fill
pinos began, occurred in the vicinity
of Quingua on the 23d. 1t is known
that the American loss was eight men
killed and 43 wounded. Among the
killed were Col. Stotsenburg and Lieut.
Sisson, of the First Nebraska, which
regiment suffered the heaviest.
AS a result of his allusion, in an
impromptu speech at the Union League
club, New York, to the conduct of the
German fleet at Manila during the war
with Spain, Capt. Joseph B. Coghlan
will, in all probability, be relieved Of
the command of the Raleigh, the navy
department having taken umbrage at
lis undiplomatic utteranees.
Two of the most remarkable statues
ever found have just been unearthed
by M. Georges Legrain, a French
Psychologist, from the ruins of the
temple at Karnak, on the upper Nile,
One of these is in alabaster, and rep
resents the great Theban god, Ammon.
This alabaster god is IS feet high, and
was originally made from one solid
block of stone, the largest alabaster
statue in the world.
In the presence of nearly 1000 peo-
pie, who sent aloft yells of defiance
and shouts of joy, Sam Hose, who
known, was first mutilated and then
burned at the stake in a public road
burned at the stake in public road
one and one-haf miles from Newman,
Ga, on the 23d.
From a dispatch received by Secre-
tary Long from Admiral Dewey, on
the 23d it is evident the latter is still
In the dark respecting the wherea-
bouts of Lieut.. Gilmore and party
from the Yorktown, who, it is thought,
were ambushed and captured by a
party of Filipinos while going to res
cue Spanish prisoners near Baler.
At mass meeting in Music hall, st.
Louis, on the night of the 22d, it was
announced before adjournment, amid
the most unbounded enthusiasm, that
I,244,670 was in sight out of the pro-
posed $5,000,0O0, fund, and the COM
mittee of 200 assured the meeting that
the balance would be raised.
From Japan. the death in prison is
reported of the fanatic police officer
who attempted to assassinate the pres
ent car of Russia, when he was trav-
cling in Japan, prior to his accession
TO the throne. The would-be- assassin
Inflicted an ugly sword wound upon
the head of Nicholas.
The family of Sir Samuel Edward
scott, conservative member of the
British parliament for West Maryle-
bone, is in a state of great consterna-
uon over the mysterious disappear
Ancp of Indu Scott ,uhn NNns LADY,