The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1901-02-09
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Gen. Adna r. Chaffee, nominated
as major-general in the regular army,
began his army career as a private in
the Sixth cavalry.
The total death list in the British
army in South Africa from the begin
ming of the war shows 1889 victims.
Nine-year-oid George Smith was in
stantly killed, at ST. Louis, by falling
on n strip of ice on the sidewalk, OF
which he was sliding, and fracturing
his skull.
Clifford Christian and Henry Arthur
were burned to death in the city hold
over at Columbia, Mo-, while trying to
burn their way out.
The February grand jury at st.
Louis was instructed to investigate
election fraud charges and other al
legged official corruption.
Herbert Griffith, the 17-year-old son
of George Griffith, was accidentally
shot and instantly killed while hunt
ing rabbits at Sycamore, Ill.
Addison Cammack, aged IA years,
at one time one of the most promi-
nent speculatrs in Wall street, died
at his home in New York city.
The queen of Sweden and Norway
is suffering from dangerous affec-
ton of the throat, says the Copenha-
gen correspondent of the London
Daily Telegraph.
Eleven buildings, comprising the
plant of the Mutual Chemical Co.. at
Jersey City, n. j., were destroyed by
fire, Monday night, with their con-
tents.
Prince Henry OF Prussia has re-
joined the German flagship Baden at
Portsmouth, He has been gazetted
an honorary vice-admiral in the Brit
ish navy.
The 11-months-old child of John
Walker, farmer OF Grantburg town
ship, johnson county, H., got bean
in the windpipe, which caused its
death,
The William Kimball public school
At West Superior, Wis, was destroyed
by fire Tuesday. There were nine
women teachers and $50 children,
most of them young, in the building
at the time of the fire. All escaped
safely.
The county court of Andrew coun-
ty, Mo- has offered a reward of $500
for the arrest and conviction of the
party or parties who murdered Frank
". Richardson at his home in Savan-
nah.
The United States consul at Guaya-
quill, Ecuador, says that the entire
South American country is on boom,
and that there is great field for
American enterprise and capital.
Henry Youtsey was sentenced to
life Imprisonment for completely In
the murder of Senator Goebel Of Ken
lucky. He declared that he was in
nocent and victim Of perjury and
subornation Of perjury.
Eleven-year-old Philip Nagle, heir
to an estate worth $4,000, is under
guard at his uncle's house, in st.
Louis, as the result of an alleged at
tempt by his brother-in-law to kid.
nap him.
Mexican troops were ambushed by
Yaqui Indians in the mountain passes
'ast of Ures and fully hundred
ere killed and wounded before they
)uld eXtricate themselves.
The Savings bank at sylvania, o.,
vas entered by burglars and six inef-
'ectual attempts made to blow the
vault. Waterman Randall was bound
while the men worked.
The strike on the Spanish railroad
to the Portuguese frontier Is causing
a great dislocaton OF traffic. Only q
few trains are running, and they are
worked by military engineers.
Patrick Flood, superintendent OF
the Central Union brass works, ut st.
Louis dropped dead just rs he had
taken up the receiver Of the telephone
in his shop.