The Van Buren press., 1899-07-08
WIS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A Manila dispatch of the 1st SAYS
that Gen. Quenshine is in the hospital
suffering with fever, and that Gen.
Fred Grant is in command of the
formers brigade on the line to the
south of Manila.
Capt. Dreyfus was landed from the
cruiser Sfax, at Quiberon, six miles
east of Brest, France. He was taken on
a special train to Bruz and thence 10
Rennes by carriage, accompanied by IA
special guard.
Admiral Dewey's first landing in
Europe will be at Trieste. 1t is said
that his health has not greatly i'm
proved and that a complete rest in the
Austrian TyroI will be taken upon
recommendation of his physician
Practically every tin-plate plan in
the United States closed down, on the
evening of the 30th, to wait a settle
ment of the wage scale by the Anal
gamated association and the tin-plate
t1ust.
Eleven well-known citizens of North
vile, Mich, were arrested, on the 30th,
charged with attempting to lynch
Thomas Evans. who was charged with
improper conduct with his stepchil-
dren. After being actually hanged by
tie neck. Evans was cut down, and
he finally eluded the lynchers.
The treaty confirming the agreement
of February u, by which Spain cedes
10 IL
ands to Germany, and the declaration
granting Germany the most favored
nation treatment from July /, were
signed, on the 30th, by Premier Sill
vela and the German ambassador at
Madrid.
In an interview, in London, on the
2Oth, Senator Mark Hanna said he was
feeling like a schoolboy off for a vaca-
ton. He added that this was the first
time he had been out of America and
everything he saw was new and inter
sting. He was more than delighted
will: his holiday, he said.
Charles NJ Murphy, of the Kings
County IN. " Wheelemen, rode a
mile on a bicycle, paced by locomo-
tive, in 81 As, on the 30th. His course
was two-mile board track on sid
ing of the Long Island railroad. Muir
ply followed an engine and a day
coach. the latter being provided with
a hood, which acted as wind shield
for the rider.
Mrs. August Lisins, who lived on
farm near Crown Point, Ind, was
killed in terrible manner on the 30th.
Horses htched sto a moving machine
ran away, and, in her heroic efforts to
stop them, she fell from the machine,
directly in front of the fast-moving
sickle death resulting instantly.
Gov. Lind of Minnesota received
from Lieut.-Col. Frienderich, at Ma
nIla. on the 30th, a cablegram stating
that the effective strength of the Thir-
teenth Minnesota volunteers was $40.
OF the total membership, $50 were
sick, but not seriously. The regiment
was doing outpost duty on the rail-
road.
Many persons were injured in rail-
way accident at Winsford. England,
lust before midnight on the 1st. \
freight train on a siding overshot the
buffers and left the rails. Another
freight train collded with the wreck
age. and caused a partial fall OF
railway bridge. Then a crowded eN-
cursion train ran into the others. Up
wards of fifty cars were wrecked.
Three boys were drowned while
-, ha Calar riVar a Wntpr-
loo, Ia, on the I'd, by the swift current
below the river dam. Roy Harbaugh
ventured beyond his depth, and in
vain effort to save him, Bert and John
Hoover were also drowned.
Bishop John p. Newman, of the
Methodist Episcopal church, whose res
idence is in San Francisco, is critic
ally i'll at his cottage in Saratoga, n. Y.
There were slight disturbances in
Marseilles, on the I'd, growing out of
discussions regarding the Dreyfus af-
fair. The police made several arrests.
A Philadelphia paper publishes
story to the effect that mutiny de-
veloped on the auxiliary cruiser Pan
ther. now at League island navy yard,
while on her way from San Juan,
Porto Rico, to Philadelphia, and that
it was necessary to place "a men in
irons.
Gen. Wheeler will receive orders
within few days to start for the Phil
ippines. His particular assignment
will b. determined when the war de-
partment has heard from Gen. Otis.
Ten new cases of yellow fever were
reported at Santiago, Cuba, on the lst'
and five were reported on the 2d. This
raises the total number OF cases to IT.
TO deaths were reported on the 2d.
Mrs. Kate Rothenberg was horribly
beaten. on the night of the I'd. Mt
Leadville. Col, and may die. NJ. j. Rob
erts did the beating, and is under ar
rest. He claims that the woman is
possessed of witchcraft and has been
practieing on him.
As a result of a street car collision,
on the night of the 2d, on the road or
the Monongahela Traction Co, at
Pittsburgh, Pa, TWO people are dead,
five seriously injured and ten others
more OF less hurt.