The Forrest City times., 1899-08-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
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| GTOWneu uedr fog fSlanu, near isock-
 away, on the 9th. He was in the water | giving an exhibition of swimming
 when he suddenly disappeared from
 sight. He did not rise, and it was sup posed he was showing how long he
 could remain under water.
 The second trial of Capt. Dreyfus
 began at Rennes, France, on the 7th. | No new cases of yellow fever were officially reported in Santiago de Cuba | on the 9th.
 Leonard Gould, of Chicago. dropped dead on the Spring House piazza at Block Island, k. l., on the 5th. of heart l trouble.
 The battleship Texas and the cruiser Brooklyn of the North Atlantic squad, ron arrived at Rockland, Me-, on the 9th.
 The supreme court-martial, at Madrid, before which Generals Toral and Pareja were tried, charged with surrendering Santiago de Cuba to the United States forces without having exhausted all means of defense, has ac- quilted both officers on the ground that they acted on the orders of their superiors. < By collision at Juvisy. a suburb of Paris, on the southern side, between the Paris and Nantes train, and the Paris and Lyons Mediterranean train, IT persons were killed and 8 injured. The accident happened during ter, rife thunderstorm.
 During severe thunderstorm, on the evening of the 5th, in Paris, the lightning conductor on the Eifel tower was struck ten times. A thunderbolt set fire to the Jeanot factory, many buildings were slightly injured and scores of fine trees along the boule- wards were destroyed. Wiley Bunn, the self-confessed mur- dercr of Allen Martin, in Calhoun county, Ark, in 1893, who was being taken back from East St. Louis, H.. by the sheriff of Calhoun county, cut his throat while on the train at Jones' boro, Ark, and will probably die. The United States steamer Badger, with two of the Samoan commissions CTS, arrived at San Francisco, on the 9th, 10 days from Apia. United States Commissioner Bartlett Tripp and the representative of Germany, Baron Sternberg, came from Samoa without their conferee, c. N. E. Elliot, British commission, who went the other way. Near Okarche, Okla., three little girls, children of J. F. Pinkright, while sitting on the sill of an open barn door, were kicked by horse. One of the girls skull was crushed. another had an arm broken, and the third was badly bruised about the chest. Capt. Dreyfus was safely landed in the trial room in the Lycee hall at Rennes, on the morning of the 7th The passage from the prison was quickly and quietly effected. The crowds were kept back by soldiers and mounted police.
 Rev. George w. Pepper, D. D., died | on the 9th, at his home in Cleveland o. Dr. Pepper had been in ill--health for several months. He was ordained | Methodist minister in 1850, and had | been prominent in that church in Ohio.
 London advices are to the effect that the young duke of Manchester is pay ing devoted attention to Miss Gertrude
 Elliott. This charming woman is the
 sister of Maxine Elliott, Nat Good
 wins wife, one of the beauties of the
 stage. Miss Gertrude Elliott is San
 Francisco girl.
 The passenger steamer City of
 Grand Rapids, with 200 passengers OF
 board, sprung leak when 35 miles
 out from South Haven, Mich., on the
 night of the 5th, and narrowly escaped
 laundering, as the pumps were not
 rsgged. One was got in working or
 der just before the water reached the
 furnaces.
 At Barbourville, Ky, on the 7th, the jury in the case against James Baker,
 for the murder of Wilson Howard. re-
 turned verdict of not guilty on the
 first ballot. There was general
 handshaking when the verdict was an-
 nounced. The Bakers will not return
 to Clay county, and say the feud is
 over on their part.
 The annual saengerfest of the Unit
 ed Polish Singers of America began
 in Bay City, Mich., on the 7th, with q
 business meeting. Delegations were
 present from several of the larger
 cities. The grand concert of the oc-
 casion was given in the opera house on
 the evening of the sth.
 The refrigerating ship Glacier ar
 rived at Hong Kong on the 7th.
 Free delivery postal service has been
 ordered established, on November I, al
 Prescott, Ariz., and Reno, New.
 A three-year-old daughter of Law
 renee Hanley, the actor, was crushed
 to death under a trolley ear at Los
 Angeles, Cal, on the 7th. The child
 was crossing the street with other
 children and, becoming bewildered at
 the rapid approach of the car,ran upon
 the track. Mir. Hanley is filling an cn. gagement at St Louis.