The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-06-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


upon the scene, and looted both burn
ing houses and those safe from the
fire. Thirty-five hundred persons
were temporarily driven from shelter
by the flames.
The Spanish Gen. Montero. while on
his way to Manila, ON the goth, with
the Spanish garrison from Zamboan-
ga, on the steamer Leon XIII. died of
wounds received in recent engage
ment with the Filipinos in Mindanao.
Senator Aldrich, chairmen of the
senate committee on finance. has is
sued a call for a meeting of that COM
mittee, to be held at the Fifth Avenue
hotel. New York, June 9.
An electro technic congress was
opened at Goettingen, Hanover, on the
e6th, with $50 delegates in attendance.
The United States cable ship Hook
er, from New York. May l, for Manila
arrived at Port Said on the 2eth.
The steamer Umbria, sailing from
New York for Europe, on the 9th,
took out $4,000 ounces of silver.
Paper money won't do for circula-
infested with ants, and they seem to
be particularly fond of United States
paper money. Only coin will be sent
out in future.
The Iowa supreme court has affirmed
the verdict of the lower court, in the
Frank Novak murder case. which was
Imprisonment for life. Frank A. No
IL -
convicted of burning a store building
and causing the death of Edward
Murray. at Walford, Ia, In 1897.
Gen. Brooke has issued decree, at
Havana, making editors and publish
ers responsible for libels. The Span
ish laws made the writer of an article
alone Responsible: and. therefore,
every Havana editor has had hired
substitute, paid to sign articles of a
defamatory character.
Grave fear exists that the scenes of
the Nez Perces Indian war of 1877, in
which so whites We're massacred. 13
volunteers and 105 officers and soldiers
killed and 120 wounded, are about to
be repeated about Lewiston, Idaho.
New York and English capitalists
have representatives in a dozen sec
tons of Kansas buying up all of last
years wheat they can get. More than
10000 bushels were sold for shipment
to Liverpool in Saline county in one
day.
The through train from Chicago ia
Minneapolis, Mimi, over the Rock ISL
and 4 Burlington and Cedar Rapids &
Northern railways, was wrecked on
the 2Sth, at 1:15 a. M. at the crossing
of Sink creek, about four miles south
east of Waterloo, la. Nine persons
were killed and % injured.
Many places in Nebraska and Iowa
were visited, on the 2Sth. by de-
structive cyclones and hailstorms.
Many lives were lost in the aggregate,
and a large number of persons were
injured, while the loss in crops and
other property reached up into the
hundreds of thousands.
A Chicago Great Western passen-
ger train was wrecked. early on the
morning of the 2sth, four miles north
of Oelwein, la. The Pullman ear por-
ter was killed and number of persons
were injured.
Among the passengers who arrived
at New York. on the 2sth. on the
steamer Lauenberg. from Matanzas,
were Gen. Joseph Z. Sanger and Col.
George II. Cecil.
Brig. Gen. George West died at his
home in Athol, Mass, on the eth,
aged 60 years.
Messrs. Fred Dumond and Lionel
Walden, American artists, have been
ut the Paris salon.
Lena Bouts, aged Il. and younger
brother, children of Frank Bouts. a
Burlington tie contractor of Penning-
ton county, ). d., are under arrest, the
girl being charged with numbering her
father. She shot him through the
head while he slept. The man was
cruel TO his family, who lived half
| starved much of the time.
A large proportion of the names on
the Cuban army rolls are found to be
| fictitious, and the rolls omit ma
| jority of the names of those rightly
entitled to share in the gratuity The
| object of this, apparently. is to dis
credit the entire proceedings and to
show the Cuban public that large
proportion of the troops refused to
| take American money.
Louis +. Bert, farmer of Oxford
township, near Sandusky, o., was
killed by lightning, on the night of the
9th, at barn warming near his
home. About 80 persons wer in the
barn, and all were FRUSTRATED, sew
eral of them being more or less in
| iured by the shock.
In the vicinity of Bijou Falls, S. d.
on the night of the eth, the wind blew
with the velocity of tornado over /,
path 200 yards wide and several miles
long. Seven persons, five of them mem
beers of one family, were killed, an,
two were probably fatally injured.