The Van Buren press., 1899-10-28
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Hog cholera is raging along kiclta'
ZOO creek, near Bloomington. Ill.
Oklahoma will hold a convention TO
consider plans for early admission to
statehood.
The magnificent school building of
Tarkio, Mo-, was partially destroyed
by fire Tuesday evening.
Robert Daley, two years old, fell
into n tub of boiling water, at st,
Louis, and was scalded to death.
The insurgents in Luzon are reoc.
cupying towns from which they were
routed by Gen. Sehwan's advance.
The Clay county (Ky.) feud is again
raging, and another death has been
added to the bloody record of that sec.
ton.
The sword that Admiral Dewey wore
during the battle at Manila has been
on exhibition in Washington, attract,
ing many visitors.
Clarence kenamore, son of the Mis-
souri, state beer inspector, narrowly
escaped death by being caught in a
folding bed at st. Louis.
A coal famine eonfronts the mining
district Of southwest Missouri. Ar.
rangements are being made by the
operators association to build smelt,
ers.
President Steyn of the Orange Free
State has issued a proclamation annex.
ing all the territory north of the Naal
river, including the diamond fields at
Kimberley.
Among the passengers who arrived
on the Ward liner Havana, from Cuba
were Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and Col. Il. G.,
Rathbone, in charge of the postal ser
vice in Cuba.
A telegram from Chihuahua, Mexico
says that Grant Gillett, the cattle
plunger, who fled from Kansas a yeat
ago. is very i'll with what is believed to
be smallpox.
The requests for the payment of in.
terest on the public debt in advance
of its maturity have proved very few.
Only two have been received from pri-
yate individuals.
Beginning at Stromsburg under
rainy skies, w. ]. Bryan began his
tour of Nebraska, Tuesday, by address
ing total of about 12, 900 persons in a
half dozen small towns.
Flag Lieutenant Brumby of Admiral
Dewey's flagship Olympia, arrived at
Atlanta, Ga, Tuesday night. Thou
sands of people were waiting at the
depot and gave him rousing recep-
ton.
A vein of crude petroleum has been
discovered on the farm of Peter
Harms, eight miles northwest of Ncr-
sailles, Mo. The oil WAS struck at a
depth of 81 feet while drilling for
water.
The department of agriculture has
organized sections of climate and crop
service in Porto Rico and Cuba. 1t is
now issuing weekly bulletins which
give the climatic and crop conditions
in those islands.
Stephen o. Lawrence, first-year
student in the Yale law school, at
New Haven Conn, was sentenced to
Is days in Jail for kissing May Carroll
in the street. A like sentence was inn
posed upon the girl.
One hundred southern music teach
ers, representing Alabama, Tennessee,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-
gia and Florida, are assembled at AT.
lanta, Ga, to organize the Southern
Music Teachers association.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester Rainville, Of
Braidwood, ILL.,, celebrated the sixtieth
anniversary of their marriage. They
were married in st. Marie district of
Montreal, Can, October %, 1899, and
moved to Braidwood in 1878.
The Sixteenth and Seventy-eighth IL
linois volunteers held their annual re-
union at Macomb Tuesday. There were
"a Of the Sixteenth and IS of the Sew
enty-eighth present, besides several
hundred from other regiments.