The Forrest City times., 1899-10-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Admiral Dewey has elected 10 accept structed, instead of having one built for his occupancy.
 Munir Pasha the sultan of Turkeys grand master of ceremonies. died on the sth. He is succeeded by IbrahiIn Rashich Bey, the introducer of am bassadors.
 Sir Percy Sanderson, British consul general at New York, arrived from Liverpool on the steamer Umbria on the Sth.
 The jubilee convention of the Chris tian church meets in Cincinnati from the 18th to the goth.
 Wm. H. McGinnis, the train rob- Der on trial at Raton, N. M.. for the murder of Sheriff Edward Farr, of Walsenburg, Col, was found guilty, on the sth, of murder in the second degree.
 The annual meeting of the Grain Dealers association will be held in Chicago. October IS and 10, at the Grand Pacific hotel.
 It is announced at Madrid that. the Filipino government has given full power to Agoncillo to treat for the re- lease of the Spanish prisoners now held by the insurgents.
 Friends who spent Sunday, the Sth, with Vim, ]. Bryan, at the farm of Fred E. White. democratic candidate for governor of Iowa, three miles from Webster, are afraid that Mr. Bryan may have temporarily to abandon his campaign work. He was suffering from an ailment of the throat and lungs.
 George Smith, better known as "Chi- cago" Smith, one of the richest men in England, died on the night of the 9th, at the Reform club. London, his home for many years. He was 92 years of age and was worth S1O,000, ,0O0, made largely in Chicago real estate
 A third attempt was made. on the 9th. to sail a race between Shamrock and Columbia. but as on the two pre- vious trials the wind. which had been promising at the start. failed, and the yachts were unable to finish within the time limit of five and a half hours.
 Congressman-elect Roberts. of Utah. who, as is well known. is a Mormon with three wives, is preparing for the fight which he sees ahead of him. He has already retained counsel. and the precedents which will likely influence action upon his case are being care fully gathered.
 Freeman Strait, well-known New York business man. is under arrest for traffic in washed revenue stamps. Agents of the treasury department who arrested him say that he heads a gang that has been cleaning up S2 ,0O0 week, and was $100,OO0 to the good when caught.
 Four members of the family of Will 'am Barnes, of Ledbetter, Tex, are i'll with malady which the attending physician says resembles Asiatic chol, era in its symptoms. There is small hope for the recovery of any of the children. One child died recently from the same complaint.
 Countless millions of grasshoppers fell in great showers over wide sec tion of Georgia on the morning of the Sth. The insects poured down like hail, and many persons were awakened by the batter of their fall on window p;nes and against doors and roofs. In many places the ground was covered with srasshoppers, some of great size, md the unwelcome visitors soon spread over the farms, playing havoc with everything green.
 During the ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the federal building in CbiCago, cn the 9th. five women. caught at various times in the crush, tainted, and were taken to the hospitals. The cases were not serious. Harry F.. Pot ter, while watching the parade from third-story window of the Illinois Central station. fell to the pavement, receiving prabably fatal injuries. He was Is years of age.
 Senor Mates, the special envoy sent oy President Andrade of Venezuela to the insurgent commander, Gen. Cipri- ano Castro, has returned to Caracas. He reports having had prolonged in- terview withS Gen. Castro and he as- sured United States Minister Loomis that there is no danger of further hos tilities unless new and unexpected complications arise.
 United States Judge Townsend, at Ardmore, l. T., on the 9th. sentenced Pat and Morris O'Malley and Frank Jennings, members of the Jennings gang of train robbers, to five years each in the United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kas., for com olicity in the Rock Island railroad rob- bery of 1897.
 Forty persons are reported drowned by flood, following severe rains, in the province of Salerno, Italy, on the 9th. A number of small villages and fac tories were also destroyed.
 It is reported from Yokobama that probably 50 persons lost their lives ts the typhoon of the 7th.