The Forrest City times., 1899-05-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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 Private dispatches received in Lon- don say that the forces of Generals Macarthur and Lawton were rein forced. on the 18th, by fresh troops from Manila, and fighting had been re- stunned.
 Tod Sloan. the American jockey. was presented to the prince of Wales by Lord William Beresford, at Newman ket, on the 18th. He was not a bit fiastered at the honor.
 Four men were instantly killed by the slide of a portion of large culm bank at Centralia, Pa., on the 18th. Several were badly injured.
 The Empire Steel and Iron Co.,, of Cincinnati, which has recently secured number of plants in the middle states, bought the Victoria furnace at Goshen, Va. on the 18th, and all of what are known as the Potts Valley coal properties, including over 1000 acres of coal land.
 Former Gov. Roswell F. Flower, of New York, died, on the night of the 18th, at the Passport Country club, at Passport, Long Island. MT. Flower was taken ill early in the day with a severe attack of acute indigestion. In the afternoon symptoms of heart fail- ure supervened, and he grew steadily worse until the time of his death.
 A movement is on foot in London for the suppression of Sunday newspa- pers.
 NJ. Henri Becque, the French dra- matic author, died in Paris on the 18th.
 Capt. James A. Buchanan, Eleventh United States infantry, has been ap- pointed treasurer of the island of Por- to Rico, in addition to his duties a collector of customs at San Juan.
 The Belmont mill of Wheeling, w. Va, and Benwood blast furnaces, of Martins Ferry, O., four of the largest iron works in that section of theOhio valley, all of which are the property of the Wheeling Steel and Iron Co.,, of Wheeling, have granted 5000 employees an advance in wages of ten per cent.
 Donald Mclean, aged G6, western railroad promoter, fell over the bal ustrade on the fourth floor of the Pal mer house, in Chicago, on the 14th, landing on the stone flaging. two floors below. His thigh was badly in- jured and his skull fractured. He died soon afterward of his injuries.
 The Catholic Knights of American, at their convention in Kansas City, vot- ed unanimously to endow a chair at the Catholic university in Washington, likely to be the chair of English liter ature.
 The Manitou Park hotel and casino at Colorado Springs, Col, which were to have been opened for the season June l, were destroyed by fire on the 14th. The loss is estimated at 0,000.
 The flooded era of the Leadville (Col.) basin is now practically unwa- tered. Eight large mines, which were closed down in 1896, on account of the strike, will resume operations by June 1, furnishing employment to TOO men and producing about 500 tons of ure daily
 Sixteen South American archbishops and bishops arrived at Geneva, Switzer- land, on the 14th, on their way to Rome, to attend the forthcoming con- sistory.
 In the pro-cathedral on Stanton street, New York city, on the 14th, Rev. Dr. Charles A. Briggs, who was suspended for heresy by the Presby- terian assembly, was ordained a priest of the Episcopal church by Bishop Potter. The little church was crowded
 President Mckinley is taking per- sonal interest in the claim of Archie McCarter, an American citizen, who asks the United States to compel the Republic of Colombia to pay him $780, 00c indemnity for false imprisonment and fearful tortures inflicted upon him by Colombian officials.
 A satisfactory conclus,on is expected by administration officials to follow the conference which will be held by the American Philippine commission with the commission which Aguinaldo proposes to seua 10 Manila to arrange terms of peace.
 John l.. Dessner, an old resident of Belleville, Ill.,, and one of the oldest Lutheran teachers in the west, dropped dead at St. Johns Evangelical church, near Milwaukee, while he was waiting to hear, for the first time, a sermon preached by h,s son, Rev. H. Dessner.
 A New York banker who knew the late Mir. Flower intimately gives it as his opinion that the dead financier left an estate which would yield SIC, ,000, 900 at a forced sale. The estate, if left un- disturbed for a year or two, he thinks, would realize S20 0,Oo0,O0O.
 Prof. Will H. Barnes, of Sioux City, Ia., had two performing ells at Day ton, O., giving exhibitions. They would dive into a lake from a high platform ana swim out. While exhibiting to large audiences at Fairview park, on the 14th, Ring" the larger elk, be- came tangled in the harness and was drowned.
 A rumor gained currency, on the 14th. that ex-President Cleveland had