The Forrest City times., 1897-11-12
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

dfTcSbSu, on Ihe ous on a charge OF ROB-
bling the mails. For several months
letters containing money have been
disappearing. Post office inspectors
placed decoy letter con tanning money
in the post office, and found it in Siden-
er's pocket when he was arrested on
suspicion. Sidener confessed and inn
plicated Steele, who also confessed
when arrested.
The ordnance bureau made test at
Indian Head. on the 4th, firing a ten
inch armor-piercing capped shell at
l41a-inch plate. The latter was nickel
steel, Harveyized. The shell went
through the plate and exploded on the
other side. The test was considered
most satisfactory.
As THE result of a wager. Prof Ar
thur st. Andressey and Miss Louise
Charlotte Wlborg were married, on the
night of the 4th, in the den containing
the monster lions Caesar and Cleopatra,
at the Boston zoo. An immense crowd
witnessed the ceremony, and cheered
the couple as they emerged from the
den
DR.. w. w. SHEFFIELD, a prominent
dentist, died at New London, Conn, on
the 4th, aged 20 years. DR.. Sheffield
was one of the best-known dentists in
the United States. having acquired
considerable prominence by his tooth
browning patents.
THE president has ordered a court
martial TO try Capt. Lowering whose
undenied brutality towards Private
Hammond has been exploited in the
press. The court will SIT at Fort Sheri-
dan. Chicago, November %, under the
presidency of Brig.-G j. f. Wade.
IN a book on the Cuban war just pub
lished in Havana, Gen. Weyler writes
the Introduction. IN one place he
says: The system of warfare carried
on by me during this campaign is not
a new one. 1t is the same as pursued
by the Americans of the north when
they fought their brethren of the
south"
Col. HENRY T. RUSSELL, of Chicago,
vice-president and general manager of |
the Union Drop Forge Co, died sud !
denly of heart disease. while at lunch |
con on the 9TH. Col. Russell was 81 |
PROF. GEORGE FREDERICK HOLMES, of |
the University of Virginia, died at
Richmond on the 4th.
Mrs. ANGELINA MENDENHALL, aged /
81, died at her residence in lndianapo-
lis, Ind, on the 5th, and was buried, |
later in the day in the same coffin
with her hus band, aged 81, who had
81 HIT,
Mrs Mendenhall had said that she
would not be present in life at her hus-
bands funeral, even if he died first, for
she would join him few hours after
his death.
The most i'm portant iron ore dis
covery in the Menominee range in Mich
lgan in several years has been made
on the bank Of the Michigamme river,
one mile south of the Mansfield mine.
The vein is r feet deep aud 40 feet
wide. The ore assays 81 per cent in
iron and .05l per cent in phosphate,
thus putting It's assay within the Bes-
semer Limit.
MRS. CELIA WALLACE, who resides at
the Auditorium Chicago. and is a child
less widow, has taken fancy TO
Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros. the Gu
ban refugee, and has offered to adopt |
The Cuban maid aud make her an heir !
10 fortune estimated by friends Of \
Mrs. Wallace at 5000. 600.
The first annual report of Commits |
iioner Of Pensions II. Clay Evans to |
the secretary Of the interior was made !
public on the 5th. 1t fails TO show the |
in the number of pensions
anticipated by former commissioners,
but discIoses a net gain of ). 1886, the
Total number on June 80, 1891, being
176,0l4.
MARK TwArS's publishers, at Hart
ford, Conn, have received a cablegram
from the author, in which he denies
the report that he recently wrote
letter to a personal friend in this
country stating that he had made
ss2. 900 in the last two years and had
paid his debts in full.
OF the AZ persons who landed with
Gen. Maceo near Baracoa, Cuba. near
ly two and a half years ago, only three
survive, the others, including Gen.
Maceo have died either on the battle
fields or in the hospitals or in prisons
in Cuba
TEMPLE EMANUEL, the Jewish syna-
gogue at the corner of Twenty-fourth
aud Curtis streets, Denver, Col, was
totally destroyed by fire on the Sta;
loss, SIS 000
GREAT BRITAIN has declined TO take
part IN the Florida fisheries confer
ence though greatly interested in the
objects of the conference"
ABOUT 2, 600 head of cattle arrived in
Havana. on the 5th, from the United
States.
The residence of George Tul iock,
about three miles from Halifax, " s..
was burned to the ground on the
night of the 9Th. Miss Mary Walker,
a sister of Mrs. TulloclS. and four
year-old child of the Tullocks were
burned to death.
NINETEEN men were drowned by the
sinking OF the steamer Idaho, which
was lost on Lake Erie, above Long
Point, on the 9th.