The Van Buren press., 1899-04-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Putnam Bradlee Strong, reported
by Gen. Otis as wounded, is the son of
ex.Mayor Strong, of New York city.
Brighten. Henry c. Merriam has
beer assigned to temporary command
of the department of Missouri in adj
dition to his duties as commander of
the department of the Colorado.
News reached Seattle, Wash, on the
31st, that Chief Moses, the well-known
Indian, died at his home on the Colville
reservation on the 95th.
Lord Charles Frohman has purchased
George Edwards interest in the Duke
of York theater, thus becoming sole
lessee of the building.
Oscar Strauss, the United States
minister to Constantinople, had an au-
dience OF the sultan on the 1st The
interview, which was protracted, was
of the most cordial character.
The opinion is expressed in official
circles in Washington that the outlook
for a satisfactory and peaceful final
adjustment of Samoan affairs is de-
eidedly hopeful.
Richard Chamberlain, brother of
Joseph Chamberlain, British secretary
of state for the colonies, died in Lon
don ON the I'd.
From the White House at washington
come confirmation of a cablegram sent
out from London announcing that
the British government was willing to
abrogate the ayton-Bulwer treaty
and allow the Nicaraguan canal to be
built by this country on the same ba-
sis as the Suez canal was built, and is
being operated.
Great indignation has been caused at
Madrid by the publication of dis
patches from Barcelona and other sea-
ports to the effect that the soldiers re-
turning home from Cuba and Porto
Rico are receiving offers of the imme-
diate payment of one-fourth of their
arrears of pay in return for receipt
for the full amount due.
Foreign business houses lost over a
million dollars by the destruction of
iloilo by the Filipinos before Gen. Mil
der captured the city. Stephen & Co.,
an English firm, estimates its loss at
S140,000, consisting of stored hemp.
Numerous other firms had warehouses
and stocks destroyed.
Nicholas Rossi, the alleged embezzler
of $4,000 from an Italian banking
house at Lima, Peru, was arrested on a
farm near Kiowa, Kas., upon extradi-
ton papers from Peru. Consul Berg
mann, at New York, had been on
Rossfs trail for a year
The steam Touring mill of Dow &
King, at Pittsfeld, one of The largest
concerns of its kind in central Illinois,
was destroyed by fire on the morning
of the I'd. Loss, $4,000; insurance par
tial. Besides the mill, 1000 barrels of
-four and 10000 bushels of wheat were
consumed.
Agoneillo, the Filipino agent, who is
row in Paris, belittles the importance
of the capture by the Americans of
Malolos, the Filipino capital, saying
that his people had determined to re-
move to San Fernando anyway.
Miss Mary Wilson, prominent
young society woman of Augusta,
Kas,, committed suicide upon learning
that Alva Dix, her lover, had beeu
killed on the battlefield of Malolos.
Dix was a private in Co. G, Twentieth
Kansas volunteers.
D Wholesale murder of gold seekers by
Indians has been committed near the
mouth of the Kuskokwim, one of the
largest rivers of Alaska, which emp
ties into Behring sea about 100 miles
southeast of Etolin straits. The mur-
dered men are said to be a party of
Kentuckians.
Rev. James Needham is dead at his
home near Pilot Mountain, n. C. He
would have been 100 years old on May
next. He was a Methodist minister
and his last sermon was preached in
Winston last November.
The remarkable exhibit of receipts
made by the treasury returns for the
month of March has greatly strength
ened the belief of Secretary Gage and
Treasurer Roberts, upon the adjourn.
ment of the last congress, that the
treasury will soon be upon a self-sup
porting basis.
King George accepted the resigna'
tion of the Grecian cabinet on the Sd.
The American Potteries Co., tho
name given the proposed S2700O,0oC
trust, to include all the potteries IL
the United States, is dead. The pro
leetors, it is said, spent S250,OOO in try
ing to effect an organization, but
1ailed because of over-capitalization.
A telegram was received at the wal
department, on the Sd, from Secretary
Alger, at Santiago de Cuba, saying
mat all members of his party wer,
we'll He made no mention of politca
affairs on the island and was silent al
10 hls future movements.
The statement ofthe condition of tn,
ueasury issued on the Sd showed
available cash balance, S2s5,052, $50
gold reserve, S245,564 .ss2.
-Four bandits, among them Antoni,
Nunez a notorious desperate, wer,
captured five miles from San Luis
ouoa, on the 2d, after lively fgh
with men of the Ninth immunes,