The Forrest City times., 1899-08-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The quartemaster at Chickamaugs Park, Tenn, on the 2Sth, started . shipment of 4s2 horses and mules for the army in the Philippines via San Francisco. in compliance with an order from the war department.
 Honest" John Salisbury, former m, mber of the board of city aldermen at Kansas City. Mo-, and for many years a prominent live stock commis- sion man. committed suicide at his res- idtnce in that city, on the 2sth, cut ting his throat with pocketknife. He had been mentally unbalanced for sev- erdl months.
 The census in Cuba will be placed under the supervision of persons fa- niiliaI with census work in the United States. This means the selection of a general supervisor for the Cuban cen sus.
 Mrs. Margaret Foraker, mother of United States Senator Joseph B. For aker. died at her home in Hillsboro, O., or the 2sth. She had been i'll for . long time.
 
 n;.u., with companion named Pol lock, started in balloon from the Crystal palace, in London, on the goth, at 2:30 p. m., and arrived at Dieppe, France, a mile and half in land, at P. m. of the 30th. The bal locn reached an altitude of 12 ,OO0 feet.
 The pope, in letter to Queen Will htlmina of Holland, expresses the hope that he will soon be able to establish harmony between the two South American nations which have submit ted their dispute for his arbitration.
 By the capsizing of small boat in tue Delaware river at Philadelphia, on the 30th, Otto Kampf. aged 37 years, his son Albert, aged s, and Christian Osterage. Kampf's brother-in-law, aged 30 years, were drowned.
 Secretary Hay left Washington, on the 30th, for a vacation in New En- gland.
 The newspapers of Cape Town, South Africa, hail with delight the assur- ances of unanimity in the imperial parliament. which they consider as presaging an effective settlement of the crisis.
 Elaborate celebrations were held throughout Austria-Hungary, on the seth, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the na- tional poet, Sandeo Petorfi.
 There are 30 cases of what is be- lieyed to be genuine yellow fever at the national soldiers home. near Hampton, Va, and three deaths from the disease were reported on the 3Oth. There were several other deaths at the institution, on the 29th, but it can Rot be stated that all of them were caused by yellow fever.
 The Filipinos, on the 30th, made an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the town of Calamba, on the shore of La. guna de Bay, which the forces of Gen. Hall captured on the 26th. The rebels was made simultaneously from the north and south.
 IT storm near Oliver. in Posey county, Ind, two men of gang of threshers were instantly killed and two fatally injured by lightning. The dead are William Pitcher, aged 70, and James Barnett, aged 32. The injured are Joseph Wilson and Ben Davis.
 Two men were killed and score or mere of persons injured by the wreck of an express train on the Erie rail- road near Lackawaxon, Pa, caused by a landslide. Four vestibuled cars, nine freight cars and two engines were de- stroyed by fire.
 About the beginning of Septembe, the North Atlantic squadron, under command of Rear-Admiral Sampson, will rendezvous at Newport. R. l., where coal and provisions will be taken on board for the voyage across the Atlantic to meet Admiral Dewey and escort him back to New York. According to private letter recent ly received from an officer on board the Newark, the cruiser started through the straits of Magellan with 200 tons of coal in her bunkers less covery was made after the vessel was we'll under way. The shortage is ai- legged to be due to cheating on some body's part.
 The scarcity of farm labor in ths great wheat fields of the northwest has made itself apparent, and the vari- ous railroad offices have received ap. peals by wire and mail asking for their | aid in behalf of the farmers, whose crops are threatened because they can not secure laborers to harvest the grain.
 k. C. Young, the murderer of 1. (. Bush and John Cooley, near For: Gib- son, I. T., and who is now in iai, at Muscogee, has confessed the crime to the officers, including Deputy J. c. c. Rogers, who arrested him. Two automobiles, cn the 30th, beat the Paris-St. Mole express in race be- tween the two French cities, a dis. tance of 226 miles, making the best time ever recorded for an automobile, covering the distance in hours and a5 minutes. The time of the train was ]