The Van Buren press., 1901-01-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Complied from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The cZar and cZarina will return to
Taarskoe-Selo, near St. Petersburg,
about February 2.
A certificate of incorporation was
filed at Dover, Del, on the 27th, for
the Midland Canal Co., of Fargo, N. d.
Capital $1,00o,00O.
The corn crop of 1900 was one of
the four largest ever gathered, while
the oat crop has only once been eX-
ceeded
Martial law has been proclaimed in
the districts of Beaufort West and
Carnarvon, Cape Colony.
In runaway accident at Flint,
Mich, on the 27th, DR.. II. w. Rowland
was killed and G. II. Quigley, a prom
inent business man, fatally injured.
Moses Colt Taylor, professor OF
American history in Cornell universi-
ty, died at Ithaca, N. Y, on the 2sth,
after an illness of three weeks.
El Liberal, an official government
newspaper declares that much trichi-
nae has been discovered in pork sold
in the Nicaraguan markets.
Maj. Alexandra Alberto da Rocha
Serpa Pinto, the African explorer,
died in Lisbon on the 2Sth. He was
born April 80, 1876.
The summer meeting of the Ameri-
can Mathematical society will be held
next August at Cornell university.
United States Charge Beaupre, at
Bogota, informs the state department
that Carlos Martinez Silva, Colombian
minister for foreign affairs, has been
appointed minister to the United
States.
IL is officially announced that Fred
erick August, grand duke of Olden-
burg, is suffering from overwork.
The Swedish ministry of war has
decided to supply the army with snow
shoes.
The Holland society Of New York
received cablegram from the Hague,
on the 2sth, saying that Queen Will
helmna's marriage has been set for
September next.
Lord William Leslie de la Poor Beres-
ford, V. G., popularly nicknamed
"Fighting Bill" in the British army,
died in London, at midnight OF the
2Sth, aged SO years. lie saw active
service in Afghanistan, Burmah, India
and Zuuland, and was sportsman
Of the first rank
j, M. Johnson, of Fairlawn, sub
urb Of Akron, o., on the 2Sth shipped
to Cleveland, to be broken for Presi-
dent Mckinley, II handsome team Of
bays, to be driven to the presidents
carriage in the inaugural procession,
They cost the chief executive $1,000
each
Keepers OF IA dives and gambling
houses were indicted by the Chicago
grand jury, on the 2sth, as the result
of the inquiry into crime and vice in
the city. The work will be continued.
OF the IA indictments four were
against alleged keepers Of gambling
houses aud ten against proprictors Of
basement and other resorts.
HANNA Divinity hall, on the Wit
tenbcrg college grounds, ut Spring.
field, o., was burned to the ground
on the night OF the 2sth. II was oc-
cupied by the theological seminary,
and was the gift OF DR.. NJ V. Ham
ma, Of Washington, d. G. The loss
on the building will be about 100000;
covered by insurance.
John Henry Rogers, n pioneer set
tier and merchant, died at Sycamore,
ILL.,, on the 2sth, aged 66. He settled
In Sycamore In 1855, when he opened
dry goods store that has been con.
ducted ever since by him. lie was
one OF DcKnlb county's wcOlthiest
and most prominent citizens.
During the past year there have
been issued 2i,660 original patents by
the pntent office, an increase OF L.
so4 over the previous year, A total of
l,76S design patents were issued,
which IN decrease Of 3sl over 1900,
There was decrease OF eleven rels.
sues, the exact number for the year
being ST.
A wild sensation has been caused In
New Westminster, B. G., by the dis.
covery Of Si9.50 In coarse gold M big
ns ilnxseed In the craw OF u wild
goose, which was killed at Pitt Lake,
as miles from Westminster, Prospcc.
tors IRE hunting for the placcrs,
An accounting made, on the 2sth, TO
The probnte court, at Chicago, shows
that the Pullman estate In now valued
at $ib0Q0,000, M against 80, 10000 O..
the time II was turned over 20 the
executors. The tremendous Increase
In largely due, IL In said TO the In.
cre0se In the value of stocks, bonds
and similar property,
Serious charges have been made
against Supt. G, \, MeKeown, of the
county insane asylum at Ia Crosse,
Wis, by three former employees of
the institution. II Is charged that Me-
Kown has abused patients, struck
them ind fed them on unwholesome
food
Two German tourists, Hcrren IAiner
and KlndlInger, nsccnded Mount
Schwnrtsenbergcn without guides, nc.
cordIng TO dispatch TO the London
Daily Express from Vienna, and, fall.
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