The Van Buren press., 1902-02-08
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.


northwest Missouri Wednesday.
James Millken, prominent fnGn-
cier, died in New York, Wednesday,
at the Hoffman house.
A blizzard ragged In southwestern
Michigan for three days. All trains
were more or less delayed.
Permission to attend King Ed
wards coronation will be Miss alice
Roosevelt's birthday present,
The contributions of the Minneapo'
lis school children to the Mckinley
memorial fund aggregated $685..
Mrs. Serana Short, the most-noted
woman of the Chickasaw tribe Of In
dams, died at Emmett, Tex, .Wednes-
day.
The Mills brothers, of South Bend,
Ind, who, it is said, operated a pea
nut corner last year with much sue
cess, are said to have corner in
pine apples
A dispatch from Toxic says there
is a possibility that the crown prince
of Japan will visit the United States
before long.
The second annual dinner Of the
Missouri society was given at the
Waldorf-Astori hotel, New York,
Wednesday night.
A dispatch from Yokohama states
that Ed. Padmore, negro, died from
the effects of a punch over the heart,
received in a prize fight.
Snow storms are reported from
northern Texas and heavy rains from
the southern part, A fierce blizzard
ragged in the vicinity of Santa Anna.
Mrs Lucy j. Blair Wheeler, wife OF
Gen. George NJ. Wheeler, U. 5. a. ire
tired, died at her home in New York
city, Wednesday, from a disease Of
the spine.
Miss Enid Dickens, granddaughter
of the noted Charles Dickens, was
united in marriage to Ernest B.
Hawksley, says London dispatch to
the New York Tribune.
Congressman Cochran, of Missouri,
has introduced a resolution inviting
President Kruger to visit the United
States, and appropriating money for
his reception and entertainment.
At Balanga, capital of Bataa'I, in
the Philippines, there are only "a
voters. but SO votes were cast at the
recent election, and another election
has been ordered.
Rev. Gjerriund Hoyme, president Of
the United Norwegian Lutheran
Church of America, and one Of tina
most learned Scandinavians in this
country, is critically i'll at his homa
in Eu Claire, Wis.
Fire destroyed number Of bust
ness houses at Seneca, Kas., Wcdnes-
day. 1t had its origin in the estab-
lishment Of Kennard, Nickes d. Co.
Wells & Wells, lawyers, lost the finest
library in the state.
In the reply to the Dutch note Of
fering Intervention to stop the war
in South Africa, Lord Lansd"wne
says that England will deal only
Wlln INC botlS WIZ 'N"' '''H
them only in South Africa.
1t has been discovered that every
law made by the last Wyoming legis'
lature, which met year ago, is pos
sibly invalid, for the reason that the
bills were not read and recorded
properly in the lower house.
Morbid curiosity led more than i0,-
900 persons, at least half of them
women, to stand in line for hours in
the streets, at Pittsburg, Pa, with
the thermometer at zero, to get u
glimpse at the faces Of the dead Bid
die brothers.
A request was made of President
Northrup OF the state university OF
Minnesota by Booker II, Washington
for negro graduate of the agrlcul-
turo college to FIJI the chair of agri-
culture at the Tuskegee Gala col
lege. Mr. Washington was infoi med
that no negro ever graduated from
thu uniyrrsity