The Van Buren press., 1899-02-18
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Mayor James NJ. Jones of Kansas
City, Mo-, has filed suit for divorce.
AT meeting of broomcorn holders,
in Chicago, it was decided to advance
the price $50 per ton.
In order to look older, the law stu
dents at Missouri university have
formed Whiskers club.
The fears of general crop damage
in the south are substantiated. Deaths
from the cold are numerous.
Thirty-six marriage licenses were is.
sued in st. Louis Tuesday, making
new record for st, Valentines day.
John d. Ellinghaus, a wealthy sa-
loonkeeper at Peoria, ILL.,, was awak,
ened and fatally shot by an unlnowl
man.
Charles j. Summers, a letter carrier,
aged 62 years, and Joseph Evans, aged
60, were frozen to death at Philadel-
phia.
Quo warranto proceedings have
been instituted in the Missouri SIT
preme court against the Plug Tobacco
trust.
The Nebraska legislature will inves-
tigate the charges of Irregularities
made against the insurance depart
ment.
Gen. Hale says that the conduct OF
the Filipinos has been turned from in
science into Difference for the Amer
leans.
Aguinaldo was student at Munich,
bavaria, in 1894, and was associated
intimately with the polytechnic en-
gineer students.
Gen. Wood has recommended the ap-
pointment of Demetrio Castillo for the
position of acting civil governor Of
Santiago.
A dispatch from Appleton, Wis.,,
says A paper bag trust has been
floated, with capital stock of over
$25, 900.
Correspondent Burnside, at Paris,
the representative of an American
journal, died suddenly while prepar-
ing to fight duel.
A number of merchants and manu-
facturers of st. Louis have been sum
moned to appear before the Major
investigating committee.
Admiral Dewey says that if the Fill
pinos were ordinary people the in
surrection would be broken, ''but with
Filipinos you can never tell"
Christian Neidecl1. a railroad sec.
tion hand, was burned to death in
fire that consumed his dwelling at st.
Joseph, Mo. Neideck lived alone.
Herr Rafael, formerly president OF
the municipal council of Apia, and tn.
most disturbing element in the Samoa
situation, has left Apia for Germany.
The Italian minister of war and
chief of the navy have expressed their
admiration for American men and
arms in strong terms to Ambassador
Draper.
ST. Louis millers say that the -four
trade with Cuba has been demoralized
by the heavy sales of -four by the
commissary department of the United
States army.
William j. Bryan, of Nebraska, WIS
the guest of honor at a banquet given
by Minnesota democratic and populis-
tic politicians at the Ryan house, St.
Paul, Tuesday night.
The Arlington apartment building
at 462 Forty-frst street, Chicago, one
OF the most fashionable apartment
buildings of Grand boulevard, was de.
stroyed by fire Tuesday night.
A Spanish prisoner who escaped
from Malalos reports that Baldero
Aguinaldo, a cousin of Gen. Aguinal-
do, and minister of war, was killed in
the fighting at Caloocan on February
10.
Holman's Washington cafe, on the
Central Park Havana has been or
dered closed by Senior Federico Mora.
civil governor of Havana, because of
the refusal of the proprietor TO serve
drinks to Gen. Ducasse, a Cuban
mulatto.
The Missouri senate voted to apprc
pirate 100000 to defray the expensea
of mobilizing the Missouri troops 1T
Jefferson barracks during the recent
war. 1t seems the state can not col
lect this sum from the government
until it is first paid by the state.