The Van Buren press., 1900-03-10
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.
The conference report on the finance
ill was adopted by the senate, A to


bill was adopted by the senate, A to
26.
Lebanon 0ll) citizens are making
an effort to build an electric road to
st. Louis.
The American Sugar Refining Co.
has reduced the price of all its su-
gars ten cents per 100 pounds.
George Higgens, of Olathe, Kas, was
killed at Bowling Green, Mo-, by a
train on the Chicago g. Alton railroad.
Veterans Of the war of 1854 at So
lingen, Rhenish Prussia, will present
to President Kruger a sword OF honor,
a Damascus blade.
Mrs. Thomas +. Dorsey, formerly Of
st. Louis, buried the wrong man, sew
eral weeks ago, and now discovers that
she is not widow.
The British house of commons, in
committee of the whole, adopted res
olution to authorize loan of G35,-
100000 The vote stood 16l 70 26.
Isaac Gordon, the famous modern
Shylock of England, is dead in Birm-
ingham. Though painfully i'll, he made
a unsurious loan two hours before lie
died.
Pruno Leopold killed himself with a
revolver at Kansas City, Mo-, because
he believed he was to be taken back
to Germany by force to serve in the
German army.
Two suspects in the Goebel assas-
sination case were held for trial, at
Frankfort, Ky. 1t is the theory of de-
tectives that Goebel was the victim Of
a gigantic conspiracy,
A movement is on foot in Berlin to
present a sword of honor OF Maj AL
brecht, the German artlleryman who
surrendered to Lord Roberts with Gen.
Cronje at Paardeberg.
While the faculty and students of
Howard Paine college, at Fayctte, Mo-,
were at the opera house, thieves en-
tered the college and ransacked the
rooms of the young ladies.
Gen. Albert Shaw, commander-in'
chief of the G. A. r., addressed a large
audience at Norfolk, Va, Tuesday
night. There were many union and
confederate veterans present.
Col, Jack Chinn has filed suit, 1T
Frankfort, Ky, for $4,000 damages
against Mrs. Kate Banta on the charge
of malicious libel. She is the woman
who said that Chinn shot Goebel.
Building material firms which sup
ply the Chicago market have decided
to close their plants until conditions
in the building industry of the city
shall have changed for the better
DR.. i. i. Landon, dentist, aged %
years, was run over and instantly
killed by switch engine in the Kan
sas City, st. Joseph e. Council Bluffs
railroad yards at ST. Joseph, Mo.
All Japan is discussing the ap-
preaching marriage Of the prince inn
perial, and interesting gossip is being
published concerning the betrothed
pair. The wedding is fixed for April
The Big Four bridge over the Wa
bash river, at Terre Haute, Ind, which
recently collapsed and was repaired,
was struck by the broken ice gorge
Tuesday morning and knocked al
most II foot out Of line.
John G. Pettis, found starving and
frost bitten in freight car at st.
Louis, said he had been placed there
six days ago by Arkansas lnoonshin-
ers, into whose still he had unknow-
ingly wandered, thinking ii barn.
A warrant charging perjury has
been issued against Mamie Stadler. the
states star witness in the trial Of
James Beachum, Allen Brown and Jo.
seph Greer, negroes accused of mur-
dcring William Posten Scott at st.
Louis.
The Missouri democratic state com
mittee decided to hold three conven-
tions, ms follows; State nominating,
at Kansas City, june 8; national dele
gates, Jefferson City, June II; judicial,
Sedalia, July II, The holding Of the
state nominating before the national
convention is departure from demo-
cratic precedent. A majority Of the
candidates, however, favored the plan.
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