The Forrest City times., 1899-12-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


de Cuba and Don Juan de Austria. cap
tured from Spain at the battle of Ma
Mia bay. Commanding officers have
heretofore been assigned to the ves-
sells. and Admiral Watson has been en-
powered to complete the list of officers
from those with the Asiatic squadron.
A petition in bankruptcy of Moritz
and Charles Friedman, cloak manufac-
turers of New York city, was filed in
the United States district court on the
Path. The schedule showed liabilities
of Ss43 ,167, and assets of S743. 300, with
s41s,ss3 of the liabilities unsecured.
Ex-Congressman A. j. Hostetter
died at his home. eight miles east Of
Bedford, Ind, on the cath. of paralysis,
aged 81. He represented his district
in congress in 1850.
Congressman j. j. Esch, of Lacrosse,
Wis, has declared himself opposed TO
seating Congressman Roberts, of Utah.
Nearly half of the business portion
| of Weston, o., q town of loo inhabi-
| tants. was burned on the Goth. Twelve
buildings, occupied by about 20 bust
ness firms, were destroyed. Loss est.
mated at from $4,000 to 100000; in
surance, about half.
The State bank of Bluff City, Eas..
was blown up with dynamite and
robbed on the Goth. The robbers es.
Gaping with $1,000 in gold besides some
silver and bills. This was the eighth
bank robbery in the state of Kansas
| within three weeks.
Wallace Ross, the oarsman, died
at Charing Cross hospital, London, on
| the Goth, after brief illness. He had
been at the Earlscourt exhibition and
was just preparing to return home.
He was buried at Fulham.
Ii Hung Changes appointment as
minister of commerce, is regarded in
Pekin as distinctly step in the right
direction and as likely to tend to inn
| prove greatly foreign commercial re-
lations with China.
| Baron Paul Vietinghoff, repre-
sentative of the Russian government, ID
in Chicago buying horses for the
:zar's army and for breeding purposes,
A. +. Deifino, Venezuelan consul gen.
eral in New York, will be replaced by
Gonzales Estves.
Rev. DIR. Edward McGlynn is serious
~ ill at his home in Newberg, y. Y.
suffering from congestion of the lungs,
complicated with heart trouble.
The Zanzibar cable was again inter.
rupted, on the Goth, causing delay in
the transmission of dispatches from
South Africa.
Secretary of the Navy Long received
q cablegram from Admiral Watson, on
the Goth, informing him that the prov
ince of Zamboanga, Island of Min
danao, had surrendered uncondition-
ally to Commander Very of the Castine
The surrender was made on the 18th.
The last Filipino council of war was
held by the retreating leaders at Ba
yambang on November -, in the
house now occupied by Gen. MacAr-
thur. The council recognized the fu.
tilty of attempting further resistance
and agreed that the Filipino troops
should scatter and should hereafter
fellow guerilla methods.
The course pursued, lately by the
yellow French press in caricaturing,
sometimes indecently. Queen Victoria
has thrown the British public into d
i rage. and threats are openly made al
Y boycotting thee Paris exposition if i.
is persisted in. The people say: You
may attack our policy, but hands Of
our queen"
The Ninth brigade, under Lord
Methnen, went out on the morning OF
the 25th to attack the Beers, who
were said to be holding the hills in
the vicinity of Gras Pan. ten miles be-
yond Belmont. They engaged the
enemy. fought them four hours and
beat them badly, driving them to the
north.
During tt" fighting at Gras Pan. or
the 25th, Commander Ethelston of the
cruiser Powerful, with naval rri
gade. was killed, as WAS also Maj
| Plumbe, from the Doris, and Capt
Senser, from the Monarch, both OIL.
GERS of marines. Flag Captain Proth.
ers, of the Doris was severely and
Lieut.. Jones, also of the Doris, slight,
| wounded.
The London Telegraph says: "Mah,
dism has teen destroyed, root ana
| branch, end the seal of victory has
been set upon the sirdar's conquests
by the sequel to Omdurman. With the
death of the khalifa, and his emirs
and the utter annihilation of all that
remained of his savage hordes. Win.
gate stamped out the last vestige G;
Maldist terrorism in the Soudan."
j. w. Cathron, who was shot al
Johnscn's Crossing. Okla, by Al Clar-
dy. While attempting to rob Clardy's
store, is dead. A coroner's jury re.
turned a verdict that the shooting was
justifiable. Edward Cathron, who es.
capped at the time, has surrendered ant,
is in jail at Tecumsea.
DIR. Edith McCreary was found dead
in her bed at the Emporia hotel, En-.
pcria, kas., ON the s6.h. Death had oc.
cured some time during the night
caused By a dose of strychnine taken
with suicidal intent. The woman has