The Forrest City times., 1899-05-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

nnd1ng OF Grooming DaDy out III u
field far from any house. The child
was scarcely scratched. Another baby
was found where it had been bruised
to death by the violence of the wind.
Neither had been identified or claimed
"a hours after the storm.
The main part of the business por-
ton Of San Francis, Kas., was de-
stroyed by fire on the 2Sth. Thirteen
business buildings were burned. There
was no loss of life, but County Attorney
Finlay was badly burned.
Adjt.-Gen. Corbin says the Filipino
peace overtures will not bring about
any change of plan in this country as
to forwarding ships, supplies and
troops to the Philippines.
The governor of Sinaloa, Mexico, in
order to give greater security to life
and property, has suspended the con-
stitutional guarantees in cases of kid
mapping, patricide, premediated muir
Ger and highway robbery. A similar
measure regarding persons guilty of
putting distractions on railway tracks
was taken few years ago with emf
nently satisfactory results. That class
OF offenses died out. 1t is the Mexican
substitute for mob law and lynching
ant works well in practice.
| Three persons were killed, more
than dozen badly injured and so
less seriously hurt as the result of a
wreck, on the 30th, on the Rochester
& Lake Ontario railroad at Rosebaur's
| Corners, one-half mile north of the
Rochester On. W city line. when two
| cars on an excursion train filled with
| passengers left the track while round
ing curve at full speed, and were
| completely wrecked.
All the saloons in the north part Of
Terre Haute, Ind, were closed, on
| Sunday, the 30th, for the first time in
| years. The closing was brought about
by the clergymen in that portion Of
the town, and meeting of the minis
| tiers has been called to effect Sunday
Observance throughout the city.
The committee arranging for the
United Commercial Travellers meeting
in Toledo, o., May 81. are planning to
take special action on trusts, which
a:e cutting off the travelling statesmen.
| Vigorous measures will be taken in
| TIE matter.
A dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 30th, told of material advance in
the wages of about $1,5OO,OOO en-
ployes.
| One of the worst sand storms in
several years prevailed in central and
western Kansas on the 3Oth.
The comptroller of the currency, on
the list, declared a dividend of 40 per
cent. in favor of the creditors of the
| First national bank of New Lisbon, O.
The following customs and taxes
were collected at the ports named dur
icg April: Manila, S457.O02; Iloilo,
s45,5S4; Cebu, s3o,757; total $533,2s3.
The latest returns from the sena-
torial elections in Spain show gov
elImental majority of 40 over the
combined opposition parties.
There was a heavy snow storm, on
TIE LIST, in Perthshire, Scotland. The
unreasonable weather killed a great
number of sheep and lambs.
| On the LIST the United States supreme
court adjourned until the 18th, when
the court will meet to deliver opinions
and hear motions.
Secretary Gage has gone to the Hot
| Springs in Virginia for two weeks
vacation. He was accompanied by Mrs.
Gage.
| 1t is estimated tina, over $500 me-
chanics of Cleveland. o.. are receiving
increased wages dating from May l.
Addison johnson, of Port Chester, n.
y. has succeeded o. V. Sage as war;
den of the Sing Sing prison.
| five-story brick building on Dover
street, Boston, Mass, occupied by a
number of manufacturing firms. ana
IN the ground floor bv the Boston fire
department for storage of extra app
paratus, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
| 100000.
A prairie fire burning in the hay
fields along the northern tier of coun-
ties of Nebraska, ten miles from Coler-
idge, passed into the track of tor
nadc and was swept with the speed of
the wind diagonal,y across this conn
~ for Is miles, destroying everything
in its path. The lives lost, so far
"a known, were those of Mrs. Rolla
Livingston and her five-year-old boy.
The report of the Nicaragua canal
commission will be presented to the
president sometime this week. Rear
Admiral Walker, Gen. Peter c. Haines
and Prof. Haupt, the members of the
commission, have been hard at work
upon their report for six months. 1t
viii be the most exhaustive govern
mental contribution to the mass of
matter bearing on the inter-oceanic
waterway yet presented.
Sixty-two miners were killed in the
kt Shnar gold mine, in Germany, on
the goth, by the thrush of water
caused by the collapse of a shaft.
Ninety-fve men We're at work in the
shaft at the time, and those who were
! not killed were seriously wounded.