The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-09-08

Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

After a session at Omaha, Neb., last.
ing two days, the TransmissoUri
committee of the Western Passenger
association concluded IT'S labors on the
1st. The principal matter under dis
cussion was the question of military
rates.
The statement of the condition OF
the treasury issued on the LIST showed:
Available cash balance, $279.352, s72;
gold reserve, $24s,757,971.
The demonstrations organized, on
the Sd, in Cardiff, Hull, Bristol and
Liverpool, England, by the Sailors and
Firemen's union, were well attended.
At all the meetings resolutions were
adopted to go on strike unless the in
crease in wages asked for is granted.
"A special from Deadwood, S. D., OF
the Sd, said: "A fiere timber fire is rag
ing ten miles from this place and
TIN eatening wide extent of country,
and as everything is dry as finder and
a gale is blowing from the south, the
situation is very serious"
ohNCbtih dtIiCh " hCClCs dltdCuCu
to the East One Hundred and Twenty
sixth street station, in New, York city,
was fatally shot through the head and
chest, on the Sd, by Michael Farrell
in Farrelli's saloon, notorious dive
on Second avenue.
a pleasure yacht on the Maumee riv-
err capsized, on the night of the Sd,
near Ironville, o., and 1T is believed the
entire company aboard, consisting of
nine men and women, from Toledo,
were drowned.
His holiness, Pope Sophronius, pa
triarch of the orthodox church of Alex
andria, Lydia, Ethiopia, and all Egypt.
died at Alexandria, on the 3D., aged
1913.
The unknown woman who registered
at the Lindel hotel, Hastings, Neb., as
Mrs. w. L. Lee, and who died of poison
in the hotel at that place August 9, has
been identified as Miss Laura Lee
French, of Burlington, Ia, and it is al
most an assured fact that the girl did
not commit suicide, but was murdered
Two masked men, at four o'clock on
the morning of the Sd, walked into
Harry Green's gambling room, in the
very heart of the business district of
Spokane, WASH, and held up Is men,
looted the tills and safe, and escaped
with $1,000. A police officer was prob
ably fatally shot during chase of the
robbers, one of whom was captured.
Cotton experts say that there are
cotton fields in the Indian and Okla
homa territories that formerly YIELD
ed as much as a bale to the acre, in
which it will take ten acres to make
bale this year. This is especially so
in portions of the Indian territory
Both worms and dry weather are re-
sponsible.
r. ID. Free, treasurer Of Barnwell
county, S. c., reported to the governor
that his Free's) father was an embez-
zler. Frees father had been county
treasurer for seven years, and on his
death the son was appointed to the
place. The deficit is $16,754.
The thirty-third annual encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic be.
gan at Philadelphia, on the 4th, with
the parade OF. the naval veterans. The
city was magnificently decorated. and
the citizens of Philadelphia had made
every preparation for an ENJOYABLE
week for the old soldiers.
The Twentieth Kansas volunteers
embarked on the transport Tartar. at
Manila, on the Sd, and sailed the same
evening for home. The Washington
troops embarked the same day, and
the Tennessees and Iowas, the last of
the state volunteers, win follow in n
Few days.
The transport Morgan City, with 724
recruits on board, struck rock at
the mouth of the inland sea. while
putting into Nagasaki, Japan, and was
beached TIC save her. No casualties re-
ported. This is the first accident to a
troop ship en- route to the Philippines.
Pinconning Village, 20 miles north
of Bay City, Mich, was visited by
disastrous fire on the Sd. Thirty-two
frame buildings, including the Michi-
gan Central passenger station, Macca-
bee hall, 13 business houses and %
dwellings, were totally DESTROYED, with
their contents, in nearly every case.
August Scherk, Mic Eass and WILL
lam Hole, business men of Cedar
Grove, Wis, We're instantly killed. and
Albert Ike probably fatally injured, on
the Sd, by train running into their
wagon at crossing as they were re-
turning from Sunday outing. The
team was killed and the wagon de-
mohshed.
Much of the excitement which fol-
lowed the statement that yellow fever
had broken out at Key West, Fla. has
subsidized, due largely to the fact that
the type of the disease was mild. and
the announcement, on tie Sd, that an
epidemic had been declared. did not
add greatly TO the alarm. Every pre-
caution is being taken TO confine the
disease to Key West.
Herman Hundhausen, who. with
Richard Honeck, was arrested in Chi
sago, on the Sd, charged with the muir
der OF Walter Koelter, in his boardin,