The Van Buren press., 1899-11-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Complied from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


There was no improvement in the
ambition of Vice-President Hobart ON
the 5th. Messages of sympathy were
received from President Mckinley,
Secretary of State Hay and Mrs. Hay,
and Gen. Wesley Merritt. Among the
callers at the Hobart residence was
Att'y.-Gen. Griggs.
Francis p. Deweese died in Washing
ton on the 9th. He was an assistant
attorney general from 1885 to 1893,
since which time he had had an extern
syc practice in the court of claims.
-Four men were killed, two seriously
. injured and one had narrow escape
from death by rush of dirt in the
mine operated by Lawrence & Brown
near Mahoney Plane, Pa, on the 4th.
The Fifty-first Iowa volunteers, fe
turned from Manila, arrived in Coun.
ell Bluffs, on the 9th, where elaborate
preparations had been made to receive
them.
After blockade of two days, Puer
to Cabello, Venezuela, surrendered. on
the 5th, to Gen. Castro and the officials
of the defacto government.
Under cover of heavy artillery fire,
on the morning of the 2d inst, a
British column from Gen. Whites
army at Ladysmith, Natal, surprised a
Boer camp at Bester's hill. The burgh-
ers fed, leaving their entire camp
equipment in the hands of the British.
Lieut.. Egerton, of II. NJ. S. Power
fnl. under whose direction the naval
guns were taken to Ladysmith, and
who was so badly wounded that both
legs had to be amputated. failed TO
rally from the shock and died. He
had previously been promoted to COM
mander.
Two columns from Gen. MacAr
thurs division sailed out from An
geles, on the 5th, and captured Maya
lcng. Col. Smiths column killed II
Insurgents. wounded 12S and captured
80, as well as taking a lot of insur-
gent transportation. Major O'Brien' s
column killed 40 insurgents, wounded
many and took 2s prisoners. The
Americans had II men wounded.
James Gosnell, a well-to-do farn1e'
near Mount Pleasant. o., was assasNi-
mated, on the night of the 4th, by some
unknown person. who fired two re-
yolver shots into his back rs be sat in
his home reading "A newspaper.
The jury at Moscow, Idaho, returned
a verdict of guilty in the case of ten
onI IN N three of
the Couer d'Alene miners, who have
been on trial in the United States
court on a charge of conspiracy and
stopping a United States mail train az
Wallace on April 20 last.
Judge 4. j. Stafford, a wealthy man
and lawyer of Pawnee, Okla died re-
gently, and just before his death le-
ncunced infidelism, of which he had
been an earnest advocate for many
years. lie had fought the churches
vehemently and on his dying bed sad
that he had been wrong.
The treasury department at Wash
ington, has thus far succeeded in put
ting into the money market Sl,sl1'1Sl
as the result of the offer TO prepay m
terest on the bonds up to June 20. The
bonds presented for advance interest
have now exceeded seven per cent. or
the total amount outstanding.
Persistent reports were current in
Lisbon, On the 5th, that the British
force under Gen. White, at LadNsmlth,
had surrendered to the Beers. Nc
confirmation could be secured from
other sources.
The transport Ohio brings tidings of
a shortage of food supplies at Guam
island, both among the natives and
foreigners. Any price was offered
Purser Hedges of the Ohio for flour
potatoes and onions, but he was IN
able TO spare any.
The famous Scots Greys embarked
at Glasgow, on the 9Th, on the troop
ship Rance for Africa. As they rode
through the streets, magnltcentlN
mounted. the Greys were cheered oN
enormous crowds. The docks we're
lined with the wives and sweetheaIts
OF the soldiers. The ship sailed anna
the cheers of men and the weeping OF
women.
A municipal yawnshop, operating
under a law passed by the last Iegls-
iature, was opened in Chicago. on the
9Th and judging from the number OF
applications for loans, will be sue
cess. The institution is operated un'
der state charter. and loans money
at one per cent. month instead oi inc
customary five to ten per cent ana up
wards charged by pawnbrokers'
III Maj. Count Esterhazy. the reput""
author of the bordereau which brought
about the conviction of Capt Drey rus
on the charge of treason. was sen
fenced in Paris, on the 9th, by default
on his cousin Christians charge oI
swindling. 10 three years mpr'SoI-
ment and TO pay a fine of 80 francs nc ne
was also ordered to refund the '''"''
inncs claimed by Christian.
/ One of the passenger elevators IN me
Il Phoeniy building in Minneapolis
Ninn.. fell four stories. ON the 9th Sc
nously iniuring eight or ten persons.
II Queen Victoria has contrih&'Sd z l.
.N and the prince of Wales t-o- 10
NE Transyaal war relief funI-