The Forrest City times., 1898-06-17
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Belgian bankers turn deaf ear to
SPANS appeals for money.
Admiral Camara lacks confidence in
his fleet. He has asked for reinforce
ments.
Volunteers are enlisting rapidly to
fill the ranks of the First Missouri, at
St. Louis.
j. III. Piepcr, aged 81 years, promi-
nent brewery man of Paducah, KY,
died Tuesday of dropsy.
Joseph Jones, aged four years, was
drowned while bathing in the Ohio
river, near Greensboro, Ky.
J. +. Smith. prominent citizens OF
Texaskana, Ark, committed suicide by
shooting himself with a pistol.
A stream of bond subscriptions is
flowing into the treasury. Officials say
that the issue will be largely over-sub-
scribed.
The president recommended that a
liberal appropriation be made for the
United States display at the Paris ex-
position.
1t has rained every day this month
in the vicinity of Waxahachie, Tex,
and wheat is beginning to sprout in
the sheaf.
No new cases of yellow fever are re-
ported from McHenry, Miss, and two
OF the eight cases there are reported as
almost well.
Fifteen dead Spaniards, including
lieutenant, were found in fort cap
tured by Americans near Guantanamo
Sunday night.
John NJ. Jeffrey was killed in the
Gartside Coal Co. S mine No. at MUIR
physboro, ILL.,, by fall of coal while
drawing pillars.
Albert Bentz, a teamster, was in
stantly killed. at st. Louis, by falling
under the wheels of his vehicle, which
passed over him.
The secretary of the interior has or.
dered all porters arrested who sell
whisky on trains running through the
Indian territory.
A well-to-do young man of Illinois
enlisted for the war, and when his
sweetheart wanted him to stay home
he killed himself
VIM. Edward Frederick Seymour will
succeed Lieut.. Gen. A. G.. Montgomery
Moore as commander of the British
troops in Canada.
The commander of the Petrol saws
that SPANS troops ut Cavite. Manila
bay, were eager to surrender to the
first officer they met.
Two marines, including the sergeant
major of the battalion, were killed and
six were wounded by Spaniards near
Guantanamo Sunday night
Mother Angela, one of the nuns of
the Ursuline convent, at Alton, ILL.,. is
dead. She was a Miss Lings before
entering the convent in 1862.
Raleigh Rither and Albert Crissler.
of Hope, Ind, were drowned in Clifty
creek while bathing. They were the
only Support of widowed mothers.
Albert Throck morton, aged 81 a
farmer and school-teacher, living near
Barnard, Mo-, committed suicide by
shooting. He had been in bad health.
Gov. Otero of New Mexico has re-
ceived dispatch from Maj. Hersey, at
Tampa, Fla, saying so crack cowboy
volunteers from New Mexico are needed
20 fill the ranks.
The sentence of William +. Benson,
who was sentenced to hang in Fort
Bend county, Tex, next Friday, has
been committed to life Imprisonment
by Gov. Culberson.
b. NJ. Goldsmith, of Wavery, Ill. was
drowned in the Illinois river, opposite
Riverside park. He went to Havana
on an excursion, went swimming, was
| seized with cramps and was drowned.
Robert Lutterill, aged %, was killed
by Louisville. Evansville & st. Louis
train east of Princeton, Ind. Lutterill
was returning to his home from an ice
cream festival, and sat down on the
track to rest
c. A. Busch, butcher at Coal VAL
ley, H., shot and killed himself. He
had invested his savings in the BUSH
ness, and lately discovered that the
property he bought was incumbered
by mortgage.