The Van Buren press., 1899-03-11
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Gov. Tanner of Illinois has signed
the bill repeating the Allen street rail
way law.
Ryan, Kennedy and Shepherd the
alleged train robbers, were indicted al
| HartsVille, Mo.
The Oklahoma senate passed a bill
prohibiting the practice of Christian
Science in the territory.
Dunbar II. Johnson, of Memphis
| Tenn, has been disbarred from prac
tiee before the interior department.
1t is announced from Vienna that
the wife of Rigo, the gypsy musician
who eloped with Princess Chimay, has
been granted a divorce.
Gov. Stephens of Missouri pardoneG
George Brumfeld, sentenced to ths
penitentiary from st. Francois county
last November, for grand larceny.
Settlement of the Fashoda incident
is well nigh reached. England, it is
semi-of1icially announced, has conced.
ed to France an outlet on the Nile.
| iioii IL " Dcll, lllCl IuI ulSdHy, u
st. Louis, was convicted and sentenced
to a term of four years in the peni-
teniary. Both wives were in court.
The Chinese minister, Mr. WI Ting
Fang, expresses himself as highly
gratified at the definite determination
of the United States to keep hands off
China
The Central Labor union of Wash
ington, D. c., has adopted resolutions
commendatory of Congressman Dock
cry, of Missouri, for his work in be
half of labor.
Gov. Smith of Montana has vetoed
the bill passed by the late legislature
legalizing boxing contests. Such con-
tests are absolutely forbidden by the
law in force.
During a severe electrical storm at
| Winsted, Conn, bolt of lightning ran
into the house of Louis Curtiss and
totally blinded Rev. c. T. Chesebro,
who was sick in bed
Congressman William Sulzer, of the
Eleventh New York district, has an
nouneed himself as a candidate for the
leadership of the democratic party in
the house of representatives..
A destructive fire in Deyea, Alaska.
on the night of March 2, DESTROYED the
Palace and Northern hotels the Chill
coot tram stables, the Senate saloon
and the courthouse loss, $4,000.
A. n. Howard, late of Co. NJ, High
land sharpshooters, Second regiment.
Arkansas volunteers, committed sui
| eide at the Denton hotel, in SPRING
field, Mo-, on account of love affair.
Gus Rubin, of Akron, O., met and
defeated Joe Goddard of Australia, in
the fifth round of what was to have
been a 20round bout before the
Lenox Athletic club, in New York
city.
After 26 years. congressional service,
Roger Q. Mills arrived home at Corsi-
cana, Tex, Tuesday, to resume his
position of private citizen. A large
crowd with a brass band met him at
the depot.
The mercury registered two below
zero at Alto Pass, ILL.,, Tuesday morn
ing, which is the lowest ever recorded
in March. Some tomato growers were
caught mapping, and thousands of
young plants were killed in the hot
beds
John Gilbert, who was arrested at
Emporia, Kas., for the murder of his
family, and confessed, after being
placed in Jail said that he was not re-
sponsible when he made the confess
sion, and that as a matter of fact he
knows nothing about the murder.
The authorities at Hamburg, H.,
succeeded in opening the safe of Geo.
w. Bixter, the missing justice of the
peace and school treasurer of Eldora-
do. AS was expected, it was empty.
The ashes in the stove indicated that
the books and papers of the office had
been burned.
Banks, stores and post offices at
Shamollin, Pa, have been flooded with
counterfeit dollars bearing dates of
1879, 1882 and 1884, and having such a
good ring that bank officials who sent
some of the dollars to the national
treasury for examination think the
counterfeits contain more silver than
the genuine money.