The Van Buren press., 1900-04-28
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED

The treasury department warns peo
unscrupnlous parties who are quilting
the unwsry with references to vas,
amounts Of money held by the govern
ment awaiting claimants.
The government will make rigid
investigation of the influx of Jap
ancse.
The Arkansas crop report states
that the nights have been too cool fol
the early-planted cotton crop.
The Cape Town authorities have
listed the names Of $4,000 alleged reb
els in Cape Colony and Natal.
Admiral Dewey has decided to &C
before the Kansas City convention or
his record.
The Beers are making presents te
the queen of Swaziland, and are ask
ing permission to pass through to Nc
Hans Land.
Mrs Jacob Patton, aged 25 years
wife of Bloomington (lllD hack
driver, fatally poisoned herself with
concentrated lye. She was mentally
unbalanced.
United States Senator Horace Chill
ton, of Texas, fails to improve, and his
friends are becoming very much
alarmed.
S. s. Jones, who was shot in a pstoi
duel with his son-in-law, Frank
Blankenship, at Ashley, H., is still
alive. but in critical condition.
In attempting to save her husbands
coat from being destroyed by fire
Mrs. Matte Lambert, &c years old
was probably fatally burned at st
Louis
Michael Farrell, working on the Pc
oria & Pekin Union railroad, was Nllec
by the falling of large piece of sand
stone from up the hillside.
"kajah,' the man-killing elephant
owned by circus company, died al
the winter quarters near Argentine
Kas., of brain fever
Harry Putnam, of st. Louis, "a years
old, committed suicide in South st
Joseph, Mo-, by shooting.
AS result of the break in the gov.
ernment levee at Portage, Wis, 20C
feet of track of the Chicago, Milwau,
kee O. St. Paul road have been washcc
out.
The worstcd slippers which were
knitted by Mrs. Mckinley, wife of The
president, for the hospital fair in Pat
erson, N. j., have been sold at auction
for SIPS.
Hail fell in the vicinity of San An.
gelo, Tex, Tuesday, destroying the
fruit crop in its path. In its sudden
advent chickens were killed before
they could reach cover.
The Little Rock (Ark.) board oi
trade adopted resolution urging the
Arkansas senator's and representatives
to favor one-cent letter postage.
Sergt. W, c. Milliken, of Company e.,
Twentieth Kansas regiment, has de.
cided to become minister of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and has
been given charge of the Bartlett
church.
The state department has agreed tc
give the sultan, to settle the mission
airy claims Of about 100000, not much
time, but sufficient to relieve the stu
alton of its alleged warlike quality.
Tuesday being the anniversary VI
the death of Field Marshal Won
Moltke, who died April "a, 1891, EN-
peror William caused wreath to oe
deposited on the grave of the famois
German general
Edward Gray, theatrical advance
agent, 25 years old, OF Chicago, ut
tempted to end his life by swallowing
morphine at the home of his aunt
Mrs. Agnes O'Connell, at st. Louis.
The most remarkable religious re,
vival in the history of Bloomington
H., has just closed, having continued
seven weeks, II was conducted oy
Rev Thomas Harrison, the evangelist
The weekly crop report says much
replanting will be necessitated by the
southern floods, and corn planting IN
southern Missouri, eastern Kansas and
Nebraska has been retarded by heavy