The Forrest City times., 1899-10-27
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED
Hog cholera is raging along Kicks.

100 creek. near Bloomington. III.
 Oklahoma will hold a convention to consider plans for early admission to statehood.
 The magnificent school building of Tarkio, Mo-. was partially destroyed by fire Tuesday evening.
 Robert Daley. two years old. fell into tub of boiling water. at St Louis. and was scdlded to death.
 The insurgents in Luzon are reoc- cupying towns from which they were routed by Gen. Schwan's advance
 The Clay county (Ky.) feud is again raging. and another death has been added to the bloody record of that sec tion.
 The sword that Admiral Dewey wore during the battle at Manila has been on exhibition in Washington, attract ing many visitors.
 Clarence Kenamore. son of the Mis- souri state beer inspector, narrowly escaped death by being caught in d folding bed at St. Louis.
 A coal famine confronts the mining district Of southwest Missouri. Ar rangements are being made by the operators association to build smelt- CTS.
 President Steyn of the Orange Free State has issued proclamation annex ing all the territory north of the Vaal river, including the diamond fields at Kimberley.
 Among the passengers who arrived on the Ward liner Havana. from Cuba. were Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and Col. E. C. Rathbone, in charge of the postal ser. vice in Cuba.
 X telegram from Chihuahua. Mexico, says that Grant Gillett. the cattle plunger. who fled from Kansas a year ago, is very ill with what is believed to be smallpox
 The requests for the payment of in terest on the public debt in advance of its maturity have proved very few. Only two have been received from pri- vate individuals.
 Beginning al Stromsburg under rainy skies. W. J. Bryan began his tour of Nebraska, Tuesday by address, ing a total of about 12,0o0 persons in a half dozen small towns.
 Flag Lieutenant Brumby of Admiral newey's flagship. Olympia. arrived at Atlanta, Ga, Tuesday night Thor- sands of people were waiting at the depot and gave him rousing recep. tion.
 vein of crude petroleum has beer GfGNG1vAFad k. Harms, eight miles northwest of Yer. sailles, Mo. The oil was struck at q depth of s1 feet while drilling fer water.
 The department of agriculture has organized sections of climate and crop service in Porto Rico and Cuba. It is now issuing weekly bulletiss which give the climatic and crop conditions in those islands.
 stephen o. Lawrence. d first-year student in the Yale law school, at New Haven. Conn.,. was sentenced to 15 days in jail for kissing May Carroll in the street. \ like sentence was i'm posed upon the girl
 Gne hundred southern music teach CTS, representing Alabama. Tennessee. North Carolina. South Carolina, Geor- gia and Florida, are assembled at At. lanta, Ga, to organize the Southern Music Teachers association.
 Mir. and Mrs. Sylvester Rainville. Of BTaidwood. Ill.,, celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage. They were married in St. Marie district of Montreal. Can.. October %, 1889, and moved to Braidwood in 1873.
 The Sixteenth and Seventy-eighth IT, linois volunteers held their annual re- union at Macomb Tuesday. There were 34 of the Sixteenth and 65 of the Sev- enty-eighth present, besides several hundred from other regiments.