The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-12-29


3c-gsg thomas Crittenden. 81 Nis
s@aIi. ias offered to be ono OF ~ re-
SIS 20 raise total Of I.eOD Tor the
fEnd for the family of the late GeI.-
Lsasy IS. Iawton-
Fer the first time in - years Queen
Victoria and the royal family pa sed
GMisfr,ss at Windsor castle. The dHSss
ar ssrchcss cfConnaught and tie Chi
srer II Princess Henry of Battonberg
WI, q the party.
Tie automobile Club OF Chicago has
b. organized and articles Of moor
cation Sled at Springfield. The new
eiLu Les fer its objects the promotion
@ saciai relations among users OF the
h. s.tss vehicle.
- Zen. Corbin said. on the 25tL.
t..st the Lawton fund. including sun
s. iIt.cas received and pledged,
a carfcd TO $4,000. 1t had beer ,ie-
cod ~ the committee having tire
rats~r il charge TO have the fund
reacn saac00.
Tse National City bank of New YORK
eity las been designated as the de-
possscry of internal revenue receipts
Though which the distribution OF
frs VIII be made TO I'll banks which
accept the offer of the treasury de-
Tastment and pledge United States
beds to secure such moneys.
The Yellow fever hospital. located or
Al island across the bay from Santi-
seC de Cuba, Was destroyed by an in
centlary FIRE on the Goth. During The
el:aef-ic last summer many hundreds
OF AIaerican soldiers and civilians were
trs siad there Large quantities of hos
pii;sl supplies tents, cots and blankets
wtfr destroyed
The supreme court of Ohio, on the
ed. gave out the syllabus of its deer
eica Ia the case of the State against
u IL. Halliday, auditor of Frar kim
county, in which il held that fele-
phones Of the Bell company should be
taxed at their rental value, which ia
aoout oHe hundred per cent. above the
commercial value
III the instance of the secretary Of
the navy. Senator Hale. on the 18th.
iDtrodEeed bill providing for the
Classification of the vessels of the navy
Ito four classes, torpedo boats except-
ed The bill provides that vessels of
more than 5000 tons displacement.
shall DE first class. and provides for
graduation downward.
Bushrod Underwood, who achieved
fame as a scout in the army of nortn-
err Virginia, died in Washington. On
the 25th, aged So years. Many deeds
requiring great GOODNESS and courage
were credited to MIN by Gen. X. l..
Lee and Col. John S. Mosby of the
Forty-third Virginia cavalry, to which
command he belonged.
Gov. Mount of Indiana said, on ,he
2ixt: ''Of course the wishes of Mrs.
Lawton should be consulted, put it
would be most fitting and appropriate
that Gen. Lawton should be buried in
the National cemetery. near the seat
OF the government he served TO long.
1t would be grand thing if all CIR
heroes could be buried there"
Gov.-Gen. Wood says he intends t.
begin work at once upon the highways
of Cuba, which are greatly in need of
repair. This win also serve to rive
employment to large number of men.
The school system will also be inme-
diately recognized. Alexis Frye, GU
perintendent of Cuban schools, will bs
reinforced with two or three assist
ants
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist
whose fame was worldwide, died al
his home in East Mortified, Mass, OF
the 22d. His family were gathered IT his
bedside, and the dying mans last mo-
ments were spent in comforting them
His last joyous words were: II see
earth receding; Heaven is opening,
God is calling me-" moment later be
expired.
MAJ. -Gen. Leonard Wood formally
took charge of the governor generals
Office in Havana, at nine o'clock on the
morning of the 2ist. His first act was
20 accept the resignation of the mem
bers of the advisory cabinet of Gel.
Brooke, who, almost without excep-
ton, had rendered themselves partica-
larly obnoxious to a majority of the
Cubans.
The home of Luke Darss. of Cheshire
O., was burned ut midnight or til.
2lst. Darst and eight children wer.
asleep in the second story. The fathe.
flushed from the house and babe his
children to jump from the high win.
dows into his arms. Seven of tnem
were rescued in this manner, bat Clar-
eLce, a ten-year-old boy, was burned
10 death.
Many portions of California were yis-
tied, on the 25th christmas dasl By
severe shocks of earthquake-th Sc
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