The Van Buren press., 1900-02-24
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

William IL. beard, inc Well-hnoNn
artist, died in New York Tuesday
night.
Michael Shay was struck and in
stantly killed, at Sycamore, H., by d
switch engine.
6. b. Cothern was found mortally
wounded in his store at Centralia, ILL.,,
Tuesday morning,
The citizens of central Missouri are
petitioning congress to improve the
channel of the Missouri river.
Kansas City is leading in the race
for the national democratic conyen-
ton, and gaining ground steadily.
The interior of the Masonic temple,
the costliest structure in Arcola, ILL.,,
was gutted by fire Tuesday morning.
The Yale faculty has consented to
the petition of the junior class asking
for the abolition of the sophomore So
cety,
The Missouri university fred a sa-
Lutte in honor of the enrolment of the
hundredth approved school in the
state.
The Turkish minister at Washington
requests the gentlemen of the press to
let the affairs of his household severe
IS alone.
John Quirk, the oldest resident OF
Arcoa and probaly of Douglas county,
H., is dead, aged SO years. He located
at Arcola in 1858.
The members of the Society of
Daughters Of the American Revolu-
tion, in session in Washington, called
on the president Tuesday.
According to a dispatch from
Rennes France, factory there has re-
ceiyed an order from The Transyaal
government for 100000 artillery shells,
Admiral Dewey says our fleets will
be a sufficient guarantee of the ncu-
trality and safety of the interOceanlc
canal in time of war, as well as in
peace.
Fred Godt was shot and fatally
wounded by Harry Andrae at st. Paul,
Mo-, because he had expressed the
opirion that Goebel deserved assus-
sinston.
Peter Englehart, aged about AZ
years, died at the st. Louis city hos
pital from injuries sustained by fall
ing down "A stairway at his home, last
Sunday.
Rumors current at Vienna point to
impending hostilities between Bul-
garia and Serva. There is no doubt
that both are massing troops on the
frontiers.
Nine. MacMahon, duchess of Ma
genta, widow of Marschal Patrice Mau-
rice MacMahon second president Of
the third Republic of France, died in
Paris Tuesday.
A dynamite explosion occurred in
the Union Pacific gravel pits, so miles
west of Cheyenne, Wyo., Tuesday, in
which two men were killed and three
seriously injured.
South Africans contend that what
ever may be the strategic points of the
campaign, the capture of the Free
State capital would be staggering
blow to the Dutch cause.
The French officers serving with tho
Beers were paid bonus of 5000 or
starting, another 5000 on arrival In the
Transyaal, and receive from $500 tC
5000 month during the campaign.
Secretary of the Treasury Lyman j
Gage was the guest OF honor at din
ner given, Tuesday evening, at the
Auditorium Chicago, by the Nationu
Association Of Merchants and Travel
ers.
Charles Kumlc Rowe and William A
Schmidt, who were buried at the sam,
hour, at So, Louis, Tuesday, were Die
Ions friends and had served as fore
men in the same printinghouse for J(
years.
The Society Of Planters of Cuba has
agreed to petition the government tC
raise the duties on importations, will
few exceptions, in order TO incrcos'
the income Of the island without re-
sort to direct taxation.