The Van Buren press., 1899-06-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

During a conf1agration, believed to
have been of ineendiary origin, on
Coney Island, on the Goth, in which
200 buildings were destroyed and dam
age to the amount of half a million
done, an army of thieves appeared
upon the scene, and looted both burn
ing houses and those safe from the
fire. Thirty-fve hundred persons
were temporarily driven from shelter
by the flames.
The Spanish Gen. Montero, while ON
his way to Manila, ON the Goth, with
the Spanish garrison from Zamboan-
pa, on the steamer Leon XIII. died of
wounds received in a recent engage
ment with the Filipinos in Mindanao.
Senator Aldrich, chairmen of the
senate committee on finance, has is
sued call for meeting of that com
mittee, to be held at the Fifth Avenue
hotel, New York, June 8.
An electro technic congress was
opened at Goettingen, Hanover, on the
Goth, with $50 delegates in attendance.
The United States cable ship Hook
er, from New York, May 1, for Manila,
arrived at Port Said on the 26th.
The steamer Umbria, sailing from
New York for Europe, on the 27th,
took out 1000 ounces of silver
Paper money won't do for crcula-
ton in the Philippines. The islands are
infested with ants. and they seem to
be particularly fond of United States
paper money. Only coin will be sent
out in future.
The Iowa supreme court has affirmed
the verdict of the lower court, in the
Frank Novak murder case, which was
Imprisonment for life Frank A. No
wax, son of a prominent banker, was
convicted of burning a store building
and causing the death of Edward
Murray. at Walford, Ia, In 1897.
Gen. Brooke has issued decree, at
Havana, making editors and publish
ers responsible for libels. The Span
ish laws made the writer of an article
alone responsible; and, therefore,
every Havana editor has had a hired
substitute, paid to sign articles of a
defamatory character. Z.
Grave fear exists that the scenes OF
the Nez Perces Indian war of 1877, in
which so whites were massacred. 13
volunteers and 105 officers and soldiers
killed and 1870 wounded, are about to
be repeated about Lewiston, Idaho.
New York and English capitalists
have representatives in dozen see
tions of Kansas buying up all of last
years wheat they can get. More than
10000 bushels were sold for shipment
TO Liverpool in Saline county in one
day.
The through train from Chicago to
Minneapolis, Mimi, over the Rock ISL
and d Burlington and Cedar Rapids
Northern railways, was wrecked on
the 2Sth, at 1915 a. M, at the crossing
of Sink creek, about four miles south
east of Waterloo, la. Nine persons
were killed and 23 injured.
Many places in Nebraska and Iowa
were visited, on the 2Sth, by de-
structive cyclones and hailstorms
Many lives were lost in the aggregate,
and a large number of persons were
injured, while the loss in crops and
other property reached up into the
hundreds of thousands.
A Chicago Great Western passen-
ger train was wrecked, early on the
morning of the 28th, four miles north
of Oelwein, la. The Pullman car por-
ter was killed and number of persons
were injured.
Among the passengers who arrived
at New York, on the 2Sth, on the
steamer Lauenberg, from Matanzas,
were Gen. Joseph Z. Sanger and Col.
George II. Cecil.
Brig. Gen. George West died at his
home in Athol, Mass, on the 27th,
aged 67 years.
Messrs. Fred Dumond and Lionel
Walden, American artists, have been
awarded third medals for oil paintings
at the Paris salon.
Lena Bouts, aged IA. and younger
brother, children of Frank Bouts.
Burlington tie contractor of Penning-
ton county, S. d., are under arrest, the
girl being charged with numbering her
father. She shot him through the
head while he slept. The man was
cruel to his family, who lived half
starved much of the time.
A large proportion of the names on
the Cuban army rolls are found to be
fictitious, and the rolls omit ma
jority of the names of those rightly
entitled to share in the gratuity. The
object of this, apparently, is to dis
credit the entire proceedings and 10
show the Cuban public that a large
proportion of the troops refused to
take American money.
Louis E. Bert, farmer OF Oxford
township, near Sandusky, o., was
killed by lightning, on the night OF the
9th, at barn warming near ms
home. About 30 persons wer in the
barn, and all were prOstrated, sew
eral of them being more or less In
Jured by the shock.
In the vicinity of Bijou Falls, s u.
on the night of the 27th, the wind BILE"
with the velocity of tornado over
path 200 yards wide and several mules
long. Seven persons, five of them mem
bers of one family, were killed, ana
two were probably fatally injured