The Forrest City times., 1898-07-22
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED

David Mayfield. of Quincy, ILL.,, while
insane from heat, cut his throat.
Crop reports from western and south.
ern states show the need of rain.
James II. Anderson, of Quincy, Ill,
has eloped with his brothers wife.
Admiral Sampson has been ordered
to cooperate with the army in the ex-
petition to Porto Rico.
Those troops at Tampa not going to
Porto Rico will be moved to Fernan-
dina, away from malaria.
Tobacco growers object to the or.
ganization of plug and smoking tobac.
co manufacturers trusts.
St. Louis shippers will resist pay
ment of war revenue tax added to re-
ceipts by express companies.
Wholesale grocers probably will con-
test the new revenue law in SO far az
it places an additional tax on tobacco.
w. w. Cole, contractor. committed
suicide at Van Buren,, Ark, by taking
40 grains of choral and two ounces OF
laudanum.
At Columbus, Miss, Thomas and VIII
Gunter shot and killed Dan Gillian for
attempted assault on Thomas Gunters
little daughter.
Fifty families were rendered home.
less and property to the amount OF
Sl95,0oo destroyed by fire at Newport,
KY, Tuesday evening.
Dr. +. Poe Harris, one of the most
prominent citizens of the Indian terri
tory, is dead. He was an Indian agent
under President Lincoln.
At the new town of Geary, Okla.
Ben Moore, gambler, formerly of Ok
lahoma City, knitted to death another
gambler named Baldey Hughes.
Warren Springer, Chicago million
aire, is reported to have been arrested
at Fairbury, Ill, charged with forgery
of 81, 500 notes in real estate deal
John I. Finch, a wealthy resident of
Kewanee, ILL.,, died Tuesday at the
age of 20. He went to that city in
1862, and had resided there continuously
since.
There are dark hints at Houston,
Tex, that the negro murderer of the
Meyers family will not be seen again.
1t is believed he has been caught and
Ign ched.
Rev. Asa Smell, an aged and we'll
known Methodist divine, died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. John II.
Glass, in Edwardsville, ILL.,, in his sew
entieth year.
Mrs. Anna Elizabeth burst, mother
of Lieut.. Harry burst, of Company X,
Second Missouri volunteers, died at her
home in Springfield, Mo-, from the bite
of centipede.
A proclamation will be issued by
President Mckinley extending the
blockade now confined exclusively to
the port of San Juan to the entire coast
line of Porto Rico
Frank g. Lott, one of the letter-car-
riers of Albuquerque, N. NJ, has disap-
peared. His alleged shortage to Hose
Company No. and his other debts will
foot up over 81, O0O
Senators still in Washington favor
the prosecution of the war vigorously,
with no thought of peace, on the idea
that when it gets too warm for Spain
she will cry enough.
Inc strateglsts, military and naval,
are agreed in the view that the taking
OF Porto Rico is primarily military
undertaking, and Admiral Sampson
orders for the cooperation of the fleet
are on these lines.
Gen. Miles plan in preceding the
army of invasion to Porto Rico with an
advance guard is apparently to seize
r
which the main body of troops can be
expeditiously landed.
Many of the Spanish soldiers surren-
dered at Santiago are said to believe, as
they have been told SO, that the United
Statef has purchased the island of Cuba.
and that our government will pay them
their arrears of pay and return them
to Spain. They repudiate the idea that
they have surrendered.