The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-08-13
|CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
JOSEPH GARDINER, a tramp hailing
from Nation, England, was caught be-
tween box car and fiat car loaded
with lumber while a freight train was
switching at Lenox, Mich, and prob.
ally fatally crushed about the hest
s.. CORRESPONDENTS Of the Oklahoma
Farmer for the week ending Monday,
August 3, from the cotton belt of Ok la
homa and Indian territory, report the
cotton crop badly injured by the ex-
eessive hot and dry weather. Cotton
!. on the upland Is drying up.
- A MOVEMENT to unite the farmers Of
the south in a fight against the cotton
tie trust in retaliation for the 100 per
cent increase in the price of ties has
been set on foot by Hon. T. R. Nesbitt,
Georgia state commissioner of agricul-
ture.
Gov. WILLIAM j. STONE of Missouri
Is to deliver the notification speech to
William ]. Bryan in Madison Square
garden, New York city. This honor
usually devolves upon the permanent
chairman of the convention.
Rev. JOHN S. MCELwEE, for 80
years minister in the Indiana Meth
odist Conference, died at Kokomo,
Ind, on the Sd, of Bright's disease,
aged 5: years.
As A result of the competition for
gun forging, Commodore Sam. .on,
chief of ordnance, has recomme- led
the acceptance of the Midvale Steel
{ Co.'S bid for the six-inch guns at $780,
900, and for the four, five and eight
inch to the Bethlehem Co. at $40, ,0OO
1t is found that the average price per
pound for these forgings is below 26
cents, while the last forgings made
under contract cost fcom % to go cents.
JOHN II. CALENDER, of Nashville,
Tenn, one of the most distinguished
physicians of the south. died on the
night of the Sd, aged 6s years. He
was for many years superintendent Of
the state asylum for the insane, and
figured prominently in the Guiteau
case.
5: FIVE cases of yellow fever have been
reported to the authorities of Vera
Cruz, Mexico. The most serious of the
cases is that of Mrs. James Brody,
wife of the engineer of the harbor
works of the port.
s INEz, the beautiful wife of Agra
monte, the noted Cuban leader, met
death on the field of battle, fighting
for Cuba's liberty. Sonora Agramonte
was an octoroon of great beauty.
3 For the first time in the history of
Illinois two women were, on the I'D,
accepted as jurors in a Chicago court of
Justice. The women thus honored were
Mrs. L. ID. Mitchell and Mrs. w. T. SAT-
ford.
A DISASTROUS freight wreck and ex-
plosion occurred on the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad at Weldy's siding,
seven miles west of Shamokin, Pa, on
the 4th. Engineer Michael Smok and
Conductor Alex Smith were killed and
Fireman Dreishback seriously scalded.
s A DISPATCH from Meath, Glamorgan-
shire, Wales, on the 4th, stated that
IN explosion of fire damp occurred in
the Bryancoach colliery there. Forty
miners were imprisoned, but whether
they were alive or dead was not known.
The municipal authorities of Edin-
burgh, on the 4th, gave a dinner to 100
men of the United States war ship
: Minneapolis.
sPRoF. r. s. TARR, of Cornell univer-
sity, who started with Lieut.. Peary on
an arctic geological expedition in the
steamer Hope, has written to his fam
lily in Gloucester, Mass, that they are
stuck in the foe ice of the Greenland
coast.
A DISPATCH from Vladivostock an
nounces that Corea has conceded to q
syndicate of Americans the right to
construct railroad from Seoul, the
capital. to Chemulpo, the main port
and harbor; also the right to work the
minerals along the line of this road.
In refusing to grant naturalization
papers to two young Italians, Judge
Cole, of the District of Columbia SUI
preme court, on the 4th, held that no
one who is in ignorance of the consti-
tuition of the United States Is COM
petent or entitled to become admitted
TO citizenship.
An epidemic of diphtheria is raging
IN the town of Russell, in Russell coun-
y. kas., and the state board of health
ofdered strict quarantine established.
THE residence of Lucy Parsons, Of
anarchist fame, was destroyed by fire
On the 9Th. Mrs. Parsons had a large
Anrary, the collection of her husband,
md there were also in her possession
many relics of Parsons prison and 9TH
81 experiences. Mrs. Parsons lived in
!. Ayondale. suburb of Chicago, and
sne house was remote from fire pro-
ectaon. The loss is abou. 50, 500
OH the 5th Commissioner of In
ssEnal Revenue Miller, with the ap-
Hoval of the secretary of the treasury,
sued series of regulations for the
iorcemsnt of the provisions of the
$ 81 defining cheese, and also imposing
z sax upon and regulating the manu-
.:esnre, sale. importation and exporta-
son o OF filled cheese"
ROBERT FRAZER, the old-timo
Aedian, scenic artist and author,
- was recently stricken by paraly.
died at the New York hospital,
3 - York city, on the 5th.
xHEw IxAIRLIAN. the Armenian
rch, resigned. on the 5th, and
suitan aeceDted his resignation,