The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-04-14
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.


day.
The United States weather bureau
reports wheat and other crops in Mis-
souri, injured seriously.
All saloons in Lincoln, Neb., are
closed. Licenses have expired, and
prohibitionists have begun war on
dramshop keepers.
Frank b. Galloway, the St. Louis
wife murderer, is now trying to justify
his crime by Matchmaking the reputa'
ton of the mother of his child.
Gov. Tanner of Illinois refused to
withdraw the troops from :Pana after
a hot conference with delegation OF
citizens headed by Sheriff Downey.
Joseph Smith dropped dead, Tues
day, beside the grave of Senator Doug
las, of Arkansas. just as the coffin was
being lowered into the grave, at Al
ma. Ark.
The business Mems league of st.
Louis, at meeting Tuesday, protest
ed against the Farris bill, passed by
the legislature, to abolish boards OF
underwriters.
The Samoan joint high commission
has been completed by the naming of
Mr.. Trip to represent the United
States, Mr.. Eliot for England, and
Baron Sternberg for Germany.
There appears to be grave sus.
picion that the burning of idle Hour,
the Vanderbilt villa at Oakdale, Long
Island, was the result of incendiarism
Charles Dudley Warner, the we'll
known author and journalist, is lying
dangerously i'll, at New Orleans. with
an attack of pneumonia, resulting
from a relapse from the grip.
The Spring River mines at Alba. Mo-,
have been sold to an Ohio syndicate foI
$4,000. The owner was Capt. Bremen.
man, of Webb City. The mines are now
yielding from 81 900 to $500 a week
Bellamy Storer, at present minister
to Belgium, has been named as the
new minister to Madrid. The Due
d'Arcos is expected to be appointed
minister of Spain to the United States
The German press continues to in.
dulge in highly infiamed editorials,
calling upon the United States and
Great Britain to dsavow the acts OF
Admiral Kautz and Capt. Sturdee al
Apia.
Forty-five persons were drowned az
the result of collision in the Mediter.
ranean between the British steamer
Kingswell and the Greek coasting
steamship Maria. The Maria was
sunk.
Att'y.-Gen. Smith of Texas rules
that foreign and domestic corpora,
tons must clearly define their purpose
in their characters, and that each sep.
aratc line will require an additional
character.
Mining deals involving nearly $780,,
600 have just been closed at Joplin
Mo. The properties sold were the
Chatham mining lands, containing 44C
acres, near Carterville, to a Boston
syndicate for 100000.
= Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Sorrenson's ba.
by was literally roasted alive at Syra.
cuse, ILL.,, Tuesday. He was left alone
in the house while his mother went to
a neighbours. Returning in a few min.
utes, she found him in flames.
The diplomatic corps at Washington
Is divided into two factions in a most
unusual attempt to freeze out Senior
Aspiroz, the Mexican ambassador, be.
cause of his share in the prosecution
and execution of Emperor Macmillan
he island of Cuba has come to the
rescue of the lovers of early vegeta.
bles, and is now supplying our mar,
kcts with tomatoes, beans and pease
which unusually come from the south.
ern states at this season of the wear
The Aibatross, new type of tor.
pedo-boat destroyer just built at the
yards of Thornycroft & Co., at CHS.
wick, England, has attained speed
OF So knots, making this record on he1
trial trip, with the admiralty officials
on board
The police of ST. Louis and United
Stetes Marshal Bohle's force nre look.
ing for ID. NJ. Davis, cashier of the
Cross bank at Emporia, Kas.. in re,
spcnse to Geographic request for his
arrest received from United States Dis.
trict Attorney Lambert at Topeka
Kas.
The steamer City of st. Louis, Capt
Thorwegan in command, which Mics
between st. Louis and New Orleans
iies moored to the City of Providence
near the mouth of the River des
Peres, Carondelet, with over 100 nor.
sons on board, quarantined on ae.
count of smallpox.