The Van Buren press., 1899-04-08
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED

Adjt.-Gen. Bell of Missouri says he
could not place a single company in
the field owing to a lack of equipment.
According to a dispatch from Rome,
the pope had fainting fit Monday,
which proved of the gravest char
acter.
Capt. James B. Wright, a civil war
veteran, and one of the oldest settlers
of Christian county, ILL.,, died Monday,
aged 76.
Capt. Joseph La Barge, one of the
best-known of st. Louis old-time river
men, died. Monday afternoon, at the
age of "a years,
The general merchandise stock of
NJ p. Epstein, at Staunton, ILL.,, was
destroyed by fire Monday morning.
The loss is $500; insurance on stock
$1,000.
If the muster rolls of the Cuban
army are not promptly surrendered by
the assembly, Gen. Brooke will order
the $3,000,000 returned to the United
States.
d. d. Quinlan, who was arrested in
Chicago as a forger, confessed to the
police that he had realized small
fortune by securing money on worth
less checks.
The Tagalos alone are responsible
for the uprising in the Philippines.
The are the fiercest of the Filipinos,
and they force the weaker natives to
fight with them.
Miss Maggie Hughes, postmistress OF
Hugh, Ark, committed suicide by
hanging from the bedpost in her room
over the post office. She was disap-
pointed in love.
G. Bulle, who was United States con-
sui at Matanzas, Cuba, at the breaking
out of the war with Spain, has been
appointed to position in the customs
service at Havana.
Mrs. Ernestine F. Rector, wife of
eX-Gov. H. NJ. Rector, of Arkansas,
died in Little Rock, Monday, of CON
gestion of the brain. She had been
sick only three days.
1t is said that Aguinaldo will leave
the island of Luzon and go to Mindi-
mao, where he will continue the re-
bellion. He has been advised to do so
by the HongKong junta.
Mary, the six-year-old daughter of
Mrs. George Mitchell, died at Louisi-
ana, Mo-, of spinal meningitis. This is
the third death in this family within
ten days. Only the mother is left.
Howard Bray, an Englishman, chief
adviser of the Filipino jnnta at Hong
Kong, has gone to Singapore to ar
range for the shipment of arms from
Java to the insurgents In the southern
islands.
The remains of Philip Lehr, private
of Co. C, Twelfth United States infan-
try, arrived at Ottawa, ILL.,, Monday,
and were buried with military honors.
Lehr fell in the battle or Santiago July
1 last.
Two prisoners, who were left in the
Jail corridor at Salem, H., by Sheriff
Wells, dug a hole through the brick
wall on the west side of the Jail and
escaped, They were captured near
Kinmundy.
The body of Cullom Whittlesey, the
only member of Battery A, of St.
Louis who died in Porto Rico during
the Spanish war, arrived at ST. Louis
Monday evening, and will be taken to
Lebanon, Mo-, for interment
Five fatalities occurred in and near
Joplin, Mo-, Monday. Three men
were smothered to death in a sewer
cave-in, one fell down a mining shaft
at Lone Elm, and one was killed by a
falling bowder in the Parr Hill mine
Miss Helen NJ Gould, Monday even
ing, received the official gold badge of
the New York fire department, pre-
sented to her by Fire Commissioner
j. j. Scannell in recognition of her
work at the Windsor hotel fire. 1t is
of 1s-carat gold.