The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1900-12-15
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED

Jacob Stumpf, prominent St. Louis
business nan, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart.
Capt. T. +. Davis, in charge of the
recruiting post at St. Louis, has been
promoted to the rank of major.
Philip j. Rothermel was found dead
at his home in st. Louis, where he
hanged himself, by boy who went
TO collect the rent.
Andrew j. Stevenson, nephew of Ad-
lai e. Stevenson, died in Chicago, aged
20 years.
The Russian imperial train has been
ordered to be in readiness to leave
the Crimea on December 2S.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Stafford cele-
brated their golden wedding at Tay-
lorville, Ill.
August Belmont, the New York
banker, is critically i'll at his country
seat, near Hampstead, Long Island,
with an attack of pneumonia.
The fourth annual convention of the
League of American Municipalities,
known as the Mayors convention
is in session at Charleston, s. C.
A st. Louis couple who were mar
ried by Clayton judge have no mar
riage certificate, because they were
shy one dollar of the two-dollar rate
David jenkins, miner at the Led
ford mines, at Harrisburg, ILL.,, was
seriously, if not fatally, crushed by
falling slate.
Steve L'Hommedieu made the pool
room operators at Hot Springs, Ark,
sick Tuesday. He won $500 on Owens
)oro at Oakland.
From Navasota, Tex, comes the re-
port OF valuable find of placer gold
by man who was digging post holes
in pasture about a mile from that
city.
The California Jockey club has
barred Tod Sloan from riding at Oak
land until he has been reinstated by
the English racing officials.
Charles Stratton, of Ludlow, KY,
and Madison C. Stephenson, of Worth
ington, Ind, have been disbarred from
practice before the interior depart
ment.
Efforts are to be made this winter
to induce congress 10 pass bill open,
ing to entry a portion of the Navajo
reservation in Arizona, which con-
tains valuable copper deposits.
Maj. James Converse, widely known
throughout the southwest, died at
Abilene, Tex, Of congestion of the
lungs, aged II years. He built the
Southern Pacific railroad through
Texas.
In accordance with the law, Gov
Tanner Of Illinois and State Audito
Mccullough have estimated the stat
tax rate for the year 1900. The rate
is so cents on each 500 valuation OF
property.
The attempt to introduce Chinese
laundrymen into London has resulted
in failure. Forty Cinnamon who went
there to start the enterprise are desti'
tute and homeless.
The late Robert Arlington, an &C.
centric gentleman of Leeds, England
who lived in q misery manner in or
der to devote his wealth to foreign
missions, has left the London Mission
airy society over f250,000,
A man who said his name was Will
lam Koenig, and gave his age as AZ
years, got a license at Belleville, I'LL,
to marry Frances Bell, negress, rs
years old.
Cornelius l., Alvord, Jr,, former note
teller of the First national bank OF
New York city, accused Of having en-
bezzled 100000 from that institution
was indicted by the United States
grand jury in 81 counts,
Robert s. Macdonald, for SO years a
citizen Of st. Louis and an attorney
for 40 years, died Tuesday afternoon
Death was due TO heart failure. Mr.
Macdonald was 70 years old.