The Van Buren press., 1899-08-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
COMPLIED from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Davis Dalton, a well-known swim.
ming instructor, who had been stop,
ping at Far Rockaway, N. Y, was
drowned near Hog island, near Rock
away, on the 9Th. He was in the water
giving an exhibition of swimming
when he suddenly disappeared from
sight. He did not rise, and it was sup
posed he was showing how long he
could remain under water.
4 The second trial of Capt. Dreyfus
began at Rennes, France, on the 7th.
No new cases of yellow fever were
officially reported in Santiago de Cuba
on the 9Th.
Leonard Gould, of Chicago, dropped
! dead on the Spring House piazza at
Block Island r. l., on the 5th of heart
trouble.
The battleship Texas and the cruiser
Brooklyn of the North Atlantic squad
ron arrived at Roekland, Me-, on the
9th.
The supreme court-martial, at
Madrid, before which Generals Toral
and Pareia were tried, charged with
surrendering Santiago de Cuba to the
United States forces without having
exhausted all means of defense, has ac-
quilted both officers on the ground
that they acted on the orders of their
superiors.
BY collision at Juvisy, a suburb OF
Paris, on the southern side, between
the Paris and Nantes train, and the
Paris and Lyons Mediterranean train,
II persons were killed and 73 injured.
The accident happened during a ter;
rife thunderstorm.
During a severe thunderstorm, on
the evening of the 5th, in Paris, the
lightning conductor on the Eifel tower
was struck ten times. A thunderbolt
set fire to the Jeanot factory, many
buildings were slightly injured and
scores of fine trees along the boule-
Yards were destroyed.
Wiley Bum, the self-confessed MUIR
derer of Allen Martin, in Calhoun
county. Ark, in 1898, who was being
f taken back from East st. Louis, H.,
by the sheriff of Calhoun county, cut
n his throat while on the train at Jones'
boro, Ark, and will probably die.
The United States steamer Badger,
R with two of the Samoan commissions
\ ers, arrived at San Francisco, on the
9Th, 10 days from Apia. United States
Commissioner Bartlett Trip and the
representative of Germany, Baron
Sternberg, came from Samoa without
their conferee, C. n. E. Elliot, British
commission, who went the other way.
Near Okarche, Okla, three little
girls, children of j. p. Pinkright, while
sitting on the sill of an open barn
door. were kicked by horse. One OF
the girls skull was crushed, another
had an arm broken, and the third was
badly bruised about the chest
Capt. Dreyfus was safely landed in
the trial room in the Lycee hall at
Rennes, on the morning of the 9TH
The passage from the prison was
quickly and quietly effected, The
crowds were kept back by soldiers and
mounted police.
Rev. George w. Pepper, d. d., died,
on the 9th, at his home in Cleveland,
o. DR.. Pepper had been in ill--health
for several months. He was ordained
a Methodist minister in 1850, and had
been prominent in that church in
Ohio.
London advices are to the effect that
the young duke of Manchester is pay
ing devoted attention to Miss Gertrude
Elliott. This charming woman is the
sister of Maxine Elliott, Nat Good
wins wife, one of the beauties OF the
stage. Miss Gertrude Elliott is a San
Francisco girl.
The passenger steamer City OF
Grand Rapids, with 200 passengers on
board, sprung leak when 35 miles
out from South Haven, Mich, on the
night of the 5th, and narrowly escaped
laundering, as the pumps were not
rigged. One was got in working or
der Just before the water reached the
furnaces.
At Barbourville, Ky, on the 18th, the
jury in the case against James Baker
for the murder of Wilson Howard. re-
turned a verdict of not guilty on the
first ballot There was general
handshaking when the verdict was an
nounced. The Bakers will not return
to Clay county, and say the feud is
over on their part.
The annual saengerfest of the Unit
ed Polish Singers of America began
in Bay City, Mich. on the 7th. with
business meeting. Delegations were
present from several of the larger
cities. The grand concert of the oc
caslon was given in the opera house OF
the evening of the sth.
The refrigerating ship Glacier ar
rived at Hong Kong on the 18th.
Free delivery postal service has beer
ordered established, on November l, al
Prescott, Ariz., and Reno, Ney.
A three-year-old daughter of Law
renee Hanley, the actor, was crushed
10 death under a trolley car at Los
Angeles, Cal, on the eth. The chill,
was crossing the street with Other
children and, becoming bewildered a
the rapid approach of the car.ran upoI
the track. Mr.. Hanley is filling an en-
gagement at St Louis