The Van Buren press., 1899-09-09
N JEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


After a session at Omaha, Neb., last
ing two days, the Transmissorri
committee of the Western Passenger
association concluded IT'S labors on the
1st. The principal matter under dis
cussion was the question of military
rates.
The statement of the condition OF
the treasury issued on the 1st showed:
Available cash balance, $279 1852, ,S72;
gold reserve, $24S,757,971.
The demonstrations organized, on
the Sd, in Cardiff, Hull, Bristol and
Liverpool, England, by the Sailors and
Firemen's union, were well attended.
At all the meetings resolutions were
adopted to go on strike unless the in
crease in wages asked for is granted.
A special from Deadwood, S. D., OF
the Sd, said: "A fiere timber fire is rag
ing ten miles from this place and
threatening a wide extent of country,
and as everything is dry as tinder and
gale is blowing from the south, the
situation is very serious"
Policeman Patrick O'Keefe, attached
to the East One Hundred and Twenty
sixth street station in New York city,
was fatally shot through the head and
chest, on the Sd, by Michael Farrelli,
in Farrelli's saloon, a notorious dive
on Second avenue.
A pleasure yacht on the Maumee riv-
er. capsized, on the night of the Sd,
;u Ial ha
entire company aboard, consisting Of
nine men and women, from Toledo,
were drowned.
His holiness, Pope Sophronius, pa
triareh of the orthodox church of Alex
andria, Lydia, Ethiopia, and all Egypt,
died at Alexandria, on the Sd, aged
103.
The unknown woman who registered
at the Lindel hotel, Hastings, Neb., as
Mrs. w. l.. Lee, and who died of poison
in the hotel at that place August g. has
been identified as Miss Laura Lee
French, of Burlington, Ia, and it is al
most an assured fact that the girl did
not commit suicide, but was murdered.
Two masked men, at four o'clock on
the morning of the Sd, walked int3
Harry Green's gambling room, in the
very heart of the business district OF
Spokane, Wash, and held up Is men,
looted the tills and safe, and escaped
with $1,000. A police officer was prob
ably fatally shot during a chase of the
robbers, one of whom was captured.
Cotton experts say that there are
Il
homa territories that formerly yield
ed as much as bale to the acre, in
which it will take ten acres to make
bale this year. This is especially so
in portions of the Indian territory.
Both worms and dry weather are re-
sponsible.
Z. D. Free, treasurer Of Barnwell
county, S. c., reported to the governor
that his (Frees) father was an embez-
Zler. Frees father had been county
treasurer for seven years, and on his
death the son was appointed to the
place. The deficit is $16,754.
The thirty-thrd annual encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic be-
gan at Philadelphia, on the 4th, with
city was magnificently decorated, and
the citizens of Philadelphia had made
every preparation for an enjoyable
week for the old soldiers.
The Twentieth Kansas volunteers
embarked on the transport Tartar, at
Manila, on the Sd, and sailed the same
evening for home. The Washington
-Al Al
the Tennessees and lowGs, the last OF
the state volunteers, will follow in a
few days.
The transport Morgan City, with 7@4
recruits on board, struck rock at
the mouth of the inland sea. while
putting into Nagasalii, Japan, and was
beached to save her. No casualties re-
ported. This is the first accident to d
troop ship en- route to the Philippines
Pinconning Village, 20 miles north
of Bay City, Mich, was visited by a
disastrous fire on the Sd. Thirty-two
frame buildings, including the Michi-
gan Central passenger station, Maeca-
bee hall, 13 business houses and %
dwellings, were totally destroyed, with
their contents, in nearly every case.
August Scherb, Me Fass and Will
lam Hole, business men OF CEDAR
Grove, Wis, were instantly killed, and
Albert Ike probably fatally injured on
the Sd, by a train running into then
wagon at "a crossing ds they were re-
turning from Sunday outing, The
team was killed and the wagon de-
moiished.
Much of the excitement which FOL
lowed the statement that yellow fever
had broken out at Key West, Fla, ha'
subsided, due largely to the fact thai
the type of the disease was mild, ane
the announcement, on tie 3d, that al
epidemic had been declared, did moi
add greatly to the alarm. Every pre-
caution is being taken TO eonfine tins
disease to Key West.
Herman Hundhausen. who, WIZ
Richard Honeck, was arrested IN NhI
cago. on the I'd, charged with the mur
der of Walter Koelter, ia his boarding
house on Fulton street, made tul
confession of their crime on the Atm.