The Van Buren press., 1900-03-17
OTHERWISE UNN0TICED.

Senator Sewell has introduced bill
changing the name of the steamship
Paris of the American line to the Phil
ldelphia.
Roland Reed, the well-known actor,
has been discharged from the hospital,
and his recovery is now only matter
Of short time.
Knoxville (Tenn.) capitalists have
let the contract for the erection of a
100000 cotton mill. Operations will
begin on November /.
Mrs. Patrick Lavery, of Bridgeport,
Conn, astonished her husband, Tues
day, by presenting to him a baby boy
weighing 24h pounds.
W. S. Hayden, who had been rail-
road ticket agent ut Versailles, ILL.,.
died at his home there, Tuesday, after
an illness OF one week.
The government food inspectors at
the City Of Mexico have seized large
quantity of American lard, said to be
sdulterated with tallow.
President Mckinley has granted q
tull and unconditional pardon to Capt.
Bowman II. McCalla, of the navy, now
serving in the Philippines.
The high school building at Kirk
wood, NO., with all it's contents, was
destroyed by fire early Tuesday Morn
ing, entailing loss Of over $4,000.
Late Klondike arrivals report rich
discoveries Of gold on the Jacks Wade
creek, Klondike,in some parts of which
from 50 to SIS bucket is being taken
out.
Mrs. Frank Price, colored, gave birth
to triplets, at jefferson City, Mo-, two
boys and one girl. The combined
weight of the three is little over 81
pounds.
The Ashley plant Of the American
Steel and Wire Co., Mt Joliet, H., was
forced to shut down, Tuesday, on ac-
count of ice in the Illinois and Michi-
gan canal
Willie Warren, who is five years old,
traded his mothers gold watch to q
stranger in Lafayette park, st. Louis,
for cheap pocket knife. The stranger
disappeared.
The Kentucky legislature has adj
journed. The house passed the senate
resolution appropriating 100000 for
the purpose of recovering the national
guard equipment.
The Nevins coal mines, north OF
Terre Ilaute, Ind, were burned, Tues
day. All the buildings at the month
of the shafts were destroyed, and the
loss will be heavy.
Conductor w. o. Loman, Of the Pitts
burg & Gulf railroad was found dead
in bed at his hoetl in Texarkana, Tex.
Tuesday morning. II is supposed that
he succnmbcd to asthma.
The New York police took a spasm
Tuesday night, and raided all the con
cert halls in the tendcrloin district
drove the women into the streets and
arrested the proprietors.
Creditors Of the Bank Of Hitchcock
s. d., which was robbed OF $4,000 in
cash, met, Tuesday, and Ethereal Will
son, proprietor Of bank, arranged to
pay all depositors iu full.
Thousands of dollars, representing
the life savings Of scores Of Italian
residents of Chicago, have disappeared
from the vaults of Giraldi Franks pri-
vate bank Frank is also missing.
William Koester of Bloomington,
H., died in Denver, Col, Tuesday, from
nbscess Of the liver aged 26. He was
son of the late John Rooster, editor
of the Bloomington Deutsche Press.
Mrs. Booth-Tuckcr, of the Salvation
army who was TO deliver a lecture in
Racine, Wis, Tuesday night, was
prostrated on her arrival there, and
was unable to fulfil her engagement.
Alma Spickerman aged four years,
was burned to death; Minnie, nged
| ten, received fatal burns, and Freda,
aged seventeen, was seriously burned
In a fire which consumed the residence
of their fahtcr, Henry Spickerman, at
Saginaw, Mich.
A performance of "sopho" was at.
tempted at Kalamazoo, Mich, Tuesday
night, despite the action of the city
council Monday night ordering it sup
pressed, When the performance had
barely begun the chief Of police ap-
peared and ordered the curtain rung
down.