The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1897-04-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

SECRETARY WILSON is giving all the
preference possible under the civil
service rules to Union veterans in APP
pointments and promotions in the agri-
cultural department. Both the ability
and the war records of the veterans are
duly considered but they are put ahead
of other candidates wherever possible
JOHN CANNON, farmer near Ma
rietta, Ind. and his twin babies were
probably fatally burned, on the sth,
by the explosion of an oil can in the
hands of Mrs Cannon while filing a
lamp. and it burning. Mr.. Cannon
was holding his babies by the table
when the accident occurred.
INFORMATION received from Pretoria
states that the British have secured In
yack island, at the entrance to Delagoa
bay, and that squadron of war ships
from Cape Town will proceed there to
take possession of the island and pro-
claim it British territory.
An elevator in the Ellicott Square
building at Buffalo. n Y. fell five sto-
ries, on the sth. injuring A. o. Girls
void, Elyria, o.; Charles Harsch, To
ser. Toledo; Madison Hobart, Pember-
vile, o., all G. A. K. veterans, who
were inspecting quarters for the ma
tional encampment.
THE women of Denver, Col, won
their first signal victory under equal
suffrage in the last election. They
nominated, worked for and triumph
antly elected ticket which will deal
an icy blow to the sporting and saloon
opponents.
THOMAS w. STEEP, the missing
Scripps- McRae league correspondent in
Cuba, has been found. He is in the
camp of the patriots. The length of
time he has been there is not now
known, but there is no doubt that he
has been with the main army of the
patriots for some time.
LEWIS MAYO, one of the oldest imple-
ment and seed dealers in Kansas, on
the 9th made an assignment to j. W..
/ GRANGER & Co., of Leavenworth, for the
benefit of creditors. Liabilities and
assets not stated.
ARLINGTON HOLLAND was taking a
loaded shotgun from a closet, at New
London, Ia, on the 9th, when it
was accidentally discharged, the load
entering the left side of his daughter,
Clara, a beautiful young woman of IS,
mortally wounding her.
ANNOUNCEMENT Is made that The
Patriarchs, the famous social organiza-
ton launched by Ward McAllister %
/
city, has dissolved. Lack of support,
strife for leadership and internal dis
sensions of a minor character contrib
uted to the collapse of the society.
A DISPATCH from Cumberland, Nd.
on the night OF the 9th. said that the
body Of Gen. Fullerton, who went to
his death in the railroad disaster at
Oakland. Md, had been found eight
miles below the scene of the accident
by Dalton Hornell. the famous deer
hunter. The body was almost entirely
nude and badly disfgured.
The Greater New York charter has
been returned TO the state legislature
with the disapproval of Mayor Strong
of New York city and Mayor Wuerster
of brooklyn. Mayor Gleason of Long
Island City approved it.
or the Sc guests who were sleeping
in the Hotel Knox. at Knoxville, Tenn,
ON the morning of the sth, when the
fire broke out only IS have been ac-
counted for.
Miss ALICE A. HOLMES, of Jersey City,
y. j., who has been blind from the day
of her birth, has just fallen heir TO
$500, 600. lief, 10 her by brother, Will
lam j. Holmes. of Downieville, Sierra
county, Cal Miss Holmes is now in
her seyenty-seventh year. She will de-
vote the inheritance TO philanthropy.
THREE thousand irregular Greek
troops crossed the frontier and invaded
Turkish territory, on the 10th, and in
severalsngagementSwith Ottoman gar
risons either put the latter To fight or
sileneed their fire. An advance of the
Greek army was expected and declar-
alton of war thought 10 be inevita-
bile.
DANIEL WoLsEY VOORHEES,. ex-Uni-
ted States senator from the state of In
diana, died at a. m. on the 10th, at
his home in Washington city.
OK the 10th the associated banks of
New York city held $40, 10, 050 in excess
of the legal requirements