The Van Buren press., 1900-03-24
OTHERWISE UNN0TICED.
Admiral Dewey had severe attack
II indigestion at Savannah, Ga, Tues

Huuiiidl -ScNtN h"u Sc'ciS o''"SA
of indigestion at Savannah, Ca, Tues
day.
Two young ladies are making a po-
litical fight for the city clerkship at
Coffey Kas.
Miss Hattie T.. Edenberg, of East
Dubuque, Ia, was run over by Bur.
lington train and both legs cut off.
The American Federation of Labor,
in session at Washington, decided to
aid the striking machinists at Chicago.
Henry Wise, aged so years, died,
Tuesday, at Bunker Hill, Ill. He had
been "a resident of the place for the
past 30 years.
In the United States district court
at Guthrie, Okla, John Curtis, charged
with the murder of Peter Thompson,
was acquitted.
A dispatch from Constatinople says
that Ghazi Osman Pasha, the hero of
Plcvna, is dead He was Turkeys
greatest soldier
Former President Harrison has re-
ceyed from the secretary of state of
Illinois complimentary license TO
hunt in that state.
Dr Hunter Mcclure, the eminent
Virginia surgeon, who was Stonewall
Jacksons chief medical officer, was
parnlyzed Tuesday.
James A. Leroy, a Detroit newspaper
man, has been appointed secretary 70
rrof. Dean c. Worcester of the United
States Philippine commission.
Frank W. Elliott, editor of the Troy
(Kas.) Times was shot by an unknown
assailant rs he alighted from a Grand
Island passenger train at Troy.
George Finch, day laborer living
in Austin, a suburb of Chicago, while
beating his wife, was shot and in
stantly killed by his 16-year-old son,
Albert.
Daniel j. 'rrombley was convicted, at
Bay City, Mich, Of murder in the first
degree for killing his wife and infant
child in 1865. This was Trombley's
second trial.
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender,
has appeared in court at Lucca, Italy,
and renounced his Spanish citizen
ship. lie declared that he was an
Austrian subject,
Gov. Tanner, of Illinois, who it at
Palm Beach, Fla, and whose condi-
ton was such that much anxiety was
manifested when the first went there,
is recovering rapidly.
A man claiming 10 be Schlatter the
divine healer, has made his appear
ancc in Springfield, Ill, He makes
some wonderful predictions concern
ing the Twentieth century.
Gen. Otis has recommended the pro-
motion of Maj B. +. Cheatham, to be
colonel of the Thirty-seventh United
States volunteers, Maj, Cheatham
went out in the First Tennessee.
The secretary OF the interior has
promulgated an order which reduces
the royalty on coal in the Choctaw
aud Chickasaw nations from ten cents
on screen coal to five cents on mine
run,
John Kelley, a stonemason Of Bloom
ington, H., was killed at Godfrey, H.,
by being hit on the head with fall
Ing stone while working on the Chica-
go & Alton bridge across the Piasa
bottoms.
On Marrowbone Creek, 20 miles from
Pinevile, Ky, John Langley and Moses
Sopper had an alteration, in which
Langley and Sopper were both killed
and man named Johnson was seri-
ously wounded.
A log train on the Arkansas g. Choc.
taw railroad was ditched, 20 miles
north Of Tcyarkana, Ark, capsizlng
two log cars. The contents Of one GOV.
cred q brakeman named Harris, kill.
ing him outright
William W. Thomas, the United
States minister, and Mrs, Thomas,
gave n dinner, Tuesday evening, at the
United States legation at Stockholm,
with the crown prince of Sweden as
the guest OF honor.
Two of the most valuable dogs ex.
hibitcd nj the bulldog show in Madi.
son Square garden, New York, were
found dead and II is believed they
were poisoned The dogs were Della.
ware and Highland Mary.