The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-10-15
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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cago & Alton railroad within one mile
east of Kansas City. Mo. After detach-
ing the engine and baggage and express
cars and running them to a safe dis
lance they were frightened from their
work by charge of dynamite placed
upon the through safe, and which.
failing to explode, they were afraid to
re-enter the car and made off through
the underbrush.
Two CoLoRED women, Mrs. Mary
Sammon and Mrs. Jennie Layton. were
arrested, on the 18th, at Camden, n. j.
charged with causing the death of
three children. All of Mrs. Lay tons
five children had diedunder peculiar
circumstances, requiring a coroner's
certificate.
GEN. WILLIAM THOMPSON, retired,
died, on the nth, at Tacoma, Wash,
aged 81. Deceased served throughout
the the civil war, retiring, at his own
request, with the rank of captain in the
Seventh cavalry. BY a vote of the last
congress he was breveted brigadier-
general in the regular army.
FIRE which originated on the stage
of the Detroit (Mich.) opera house, on
the 9th, at a. m, caused a loss of be-
tween 5000, 900 and $500. 600. The fire
spread to the block bounded by the
Campus Martius, Woodward, Gratiot
aid Monroe avenues, in the center of
the business district
The sum of 100000 in American
eagles was withdrawn from the Bank
of England, on the 18th, for shipment
to the United States.
HAVANA dispatch states that Sc
norita Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros
made her escape from the Casa de
Recogidas some time during the night
of the 9th or early morning of the 18th.
One of the bars on the window of her
room was cut and bent outward. Wey-
Ter is furious.
A sEvEN-FooT vein of rich gold ore is
said to have been struck in the Red
Rover mine at Acton, Cal. 1t is said
to be sprinlSled freely with free gold.
There are tens of thousands tons of ore
in sight.
The Mormon church has again en-
tered the political arena. and has start
in the state of Utah. The Gentle POI
litical leaders are discussing the adj
visibility of reorganizing the old lib
eral party.
A DISPATCH from Washington says
President Mckinley will probably go
to Canton to vote at the Noven Der cleo
ton.
On the Sth, silver scored rise of
penny, to % pence, in London, and
cents, to IS cents, in New York. Bull
lion dealers were unable to assign any
other cause for the rise than a scarcity
of supply.
o. d. WEBSTER, of ST. Louis, aged 10,
Respondent from lack of employment,
took dose of carbolic acid, on the
9th, and died shortly after his recep-
ton at the city hospital.
IT was made public in Vienna, on
the Sth, that Count Wurmbrand. aged
10, the son Of Count Wurmbrand, who
was minister of commerce in 1895, had
committed suicide by shooting himself
in cab owing to his unreciprocated
attachment for the family's English
governess, who declined to marry him.
DISPATCH from Lima, Peru, saws:
After discussion, which continued
for several days, the chamber of depu-
ties adopted the gold standard by a
majority of one vote"
Z. +. HASTINGS, a nephew of Grover
Cleveland, has been arrested at Film
wood, kas., charged by State Agent
Yates of the Central Life Insurance Co.
with embezzling $1,000 of the com
pany's money.
WILLIAM }. SCANLoN, United States
consul at Fort Antonio, Jamaica, died
OF yellow fever on the 9Th. He was APP
pointed from the District of Columbia,
and had been only few weeks at his
post.
THE eleventh annual convention of
the Illinois union of the Christian En-
deavor society was called TO order at
Central music hall, Chicago, on the
sth, by President o. w. Stewart, with
about 1900 delegates present, nearly
every district in the state being repre-
scented.
Hon. HoKE SMITH, former secretary
of the interior. has been elected presi-
dent of the board of education of At
lanta, Ca, to succeed Judge Howard
Van Epps, resigned. Mr.. Smiths cleo
ton was unanimous.
On the sth the president appointed
Ambrose w. Naulin collector of inter-
nal revenue for the sixth district of
indiana, and David w. Henry collector
of internal revenue for the seventh
district of Indiana.
UNITED STATES CONSUL DAY at Annoy
has reported to the state department
that the bubonic plague, which had
ragged in that section of China for three
months, is now regarded as having run
its course.
The president, on the sth, appointed
George IL. Bridgeman, of New York,
minister to Bolivia.
CARL FABER, confidential man for
oelrichs Il Co., importers, of New York
city, was arrested on landing from a
steamship at New York, on the sth,
charged with embezzling slOO0O from
the firm. lie confessed