The Van Buren press., 1901-01-05

OTHERWISE UNNUilCED
The total customs collections for St
louis In 1000 were S1.64S.74l.29.

The total customs collections for St
Louis In 1900 were Sl,64S,74l.29.
c. c. Nestlerode, one of the prom
inent pioneers of Iowa, is dead at
Fostoria, at the age of H.
DR.. jay Corey, one of the oldest and
most prominent physicians of Fort
Scott, Kas., died of consumption.
Walter {. Casley, druggist, was
shot through the head and instantly
killed in his store at Pueblo, Col, by
a burglar
The earl of Hopetoun was inau-
gurated as the first governor of the
federated colonies of Australia Tues
day.
TWO zinc miners were severely
baked and boiled by fire and escap-
ing steam while caught in shaft
near Webb City, Mo.
Judge Charles Bennett died at Mat
toon, Ill.,, at the age of 63 years. He
was native OF Bridgton, Me-, and a
graduate of Bowdoin college.
The czar of Russia reviewed, at Lii
vadia, a regiment of rifemen re-
turned from China, and personally
thanked them for their services.
The home of Garland Gibbs, at NAL
vern, Ark, was destroyed by fire, to-
gether with the entire contents. An
infant child was fatally burned.
Peoria's Qll.) new Odd Fellows
temple, erected by Fort Clark lodge,
|. o. o. F., at cost of several thou
sand dollars, was dedicated Tuesday.
j. W. Bell, engineer, was killed, and
John Scott, fireman, fatally injured
by the derailment of a Chicago e.
Northwestern locomotive at Barring
ton, Ill.
Frank Shapleigh, first vice-president
and general manager Of the A. +.
Shapleigh Hardware Co., of st. Louis,
died Tuesday night, as the result of an
attack of erysipelas.
Mrs Martha Rolwing, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. w. Speed Stephens, and
niece of Gov. L. V. Stephens, died at
the home of her parents in Boonville,
Mo-, Tuesday, Of pneumonia.
James O'Toole, while attending the
wake of John Mahan. in st. Louis,
fell down fight of stairs and sus-
tanned compound fracture of the
skull, from which he died.
The prosecuting attorney in the
Richardson case at Savannah, Mo-,
says that a new clew has been de-
veloped from an unexpected source,
and that an arrest may soon occur.
Albert Green, the 10-year-old son of
prominent Stoddard county (Mo)
farmer, while hunting, Tuesday, acci-
dentally shot himself through the left
shoulder, inhicting fatal wound.
The powers are divided on the gues-
;ion of the Chinese Indemnity, and
the foreign ENJOYS at Pekin are de-
sirous of delaying negotiations with
China until an agreement is reached.
james Gibbons, medical student,
son of John 4. Gibbons, leading
merchant of New Orleans, and a
nephew of Cardinal Gibbons, died rs
the result of wounds inflicted by high
way robbers.
1t is rumored that Mrs. Richardson
is seriously i'll at Savannah, Mo. The
testimony of servant as to- male
callers in her husbands absence is
said to have caused shock to her
nervous system.
Miss Edith Wilson, n patient at ST.
Ninccnt's asylum for the insane in St.
Louis county, Mo-, was found dead in
her room hanging by the side OF the
bed, her neck in moose made of one
OF her garments.
Roy Griffin, II years old, employed
in the sheep department OF the Swift
Packing Co.'s plant, in East ST. Louis.
H., slipped and fell on butcher knife
the keen blade scvering his iugular
vein, causing death In few minutes.
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