The Van Buren press., 1899-04-22
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Col. Bryan visited the cruiser Ra.
leigh, in New York harbor, Tuesday.
Two women were fatally burned in
their farmhouse near La Grange, Mo.
The Arkansas legislature has ad.
journed, after a continuous session OF
1o1 days.
Popular subscriptions to the Worlds
fair at st. Louis are surprising ex
pectations.
President Mckinley will be asked to
open the slhice of the Chicago drain.
age canal October 8 next.
-Four strikers were sent to jail al
Wheeling, w. Va, for interfering with
the running of street cars.
Gov. Tanner of Illinois has signed the
bill appropriating $250,000 to Illinois
volunteers for the war with Spain.
A Mississippi river houseboatman
fired on river packet becapse he be.
lieved the members of the crew were
flirting with his wife.
Rev. Josiah McCary, the oldest Free
Mason and the oldest minister of the
Gospel in Missouri, died at his home In
Nevada, Mo-, aged 90 years.
The United States torpedo boat Som.
ers Is on board the Atlantic Trans.
port lines steamer Manhattan, which
left London for New York, April Is.
The Missouri crop bulletin says that
the favorable weather of the last week
has helped farming operations eonsid-
hlu Tho anflnaly ic hrie erht fnr
apples.
The United States transport Buffa.
lo, bearing a number of officers and
ner from Admiral Dewey's fleet whose
terms. had expired, arrived ut Suez
Tuesday.
Henry Webber, aged II, died at his
home In Galatia I'll. He was born in
Saline county, near where he died, IN
1899, and had been resident there
ever since.
Viola Horlecker is under arrest at
Sheldon, Ia., on charge of sending
poisoned candy to Mrs. Morey, of
Hastings, Neb. Miss Horlecker at
tempted suicide.
Daniel /. Cline, d veteran of the civil
war, who had been noted in the Grand
Army circles of Kansas for his re-
mArkable vitality in extreme age, died,
at Fort Scott, aged "a.
Elections were held in the towns
throughout Illinois Tuesday. Tenn
Ierance was the pricipal issue In
vclved, but the saloon element tri-
uinphed in most instances.
miner at Bonne Terre, Mo-, mur-
dcred a man of whom he was jealous
His victim was asleep when he drove
an AK into his skull. He then shot his
wife and attempted suicide.
The Rochester Bridge Co., an old
and prosperous concern, has closed
down its works, its managers assert
ing that they can not successfully
compete with the bridge trust
The jury Mt Eureka, ILL.,, acquitted
Leonard Hunter, who was under trial
for manslaughter. In quarrel be-
tween Hunter and companion last
fell, the former shot and killed Marsh.
Charles Frankel aged A, of St.
Louis, was found dead in bed at the
Park hotel, Hot Springs, Ark His
death is supposed to have resulted
from his eating a large plate of rad
isles.
NJ. J. Grogan, one of the oldest con.
ductors on the Lake Shore road, was
found dead on the tracks at Toledo
o., Tuesday night, shortly before hi,
train was to leave. Murder Is sus
pected.
Penniless, unable to pay her rent
and hopeless of the future, Georgiana
Dworscak, n widow, aged 26 years,
shot and killed herself and her two
children, aged four and six years, nj
Duluth. MINI.
Gov. Stephens of Missouri has par.
doned Robert J. Thomas, sent to the
pcnitentiary from st. Louis in 1896 for
ten years for murder in the second de.
gree. He killed James Burnes in O
saloon fracas.
THE POINTE PITRE FIRE.
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