The Forrest City times., 1899-07-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


 gratifying to government officials. Rear-Admiral Pallizer, lately in com mand of the British North Pacific squadron, stationed at Esquimault, has been placed on the retired list. Allen Thomas Wells, general freight agent of the Denver & Rio Grande rail- road, died at Denver, Col, on the 24th, of diabetes. He was born at Memphis, Tenn, January 15, 1854, and has been engaged in the railroad business since 1876.
 The reports regarding a Japanese Chinese alliance, which have been per. sistently denied for some time past, have now assumed definite form, and are causing great excitement in Rus sian circles in Shanghai.
 senor Qucseda and Mir. Horatio s with the president concerning the pro. posed census of Cuba.
 The Dominion government telegraph line is now completed to Five Fingers, and is progressing so rapidly that messages may be sent over it to Daw- son in less than two months from date.
 The Epworth League convention at Indianapolis, Ind, formally adjourned, on the 23d, to meet in San Francisco in 1901.
 It is announced in Paris that the Dreyfus court-martial at Rennes will open on August z.
 Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, left Venice, on the 23d, ostensibly for Austria.
 A Filipino priest named Gregory Agripay, with the insurgents, is trying to lead movement for the indepen- dence of the church in the Philip. pines in the Spanish priesthood. He has issued proclamation declaring himself the vicar general of all the Filipino priests in the district outside of American control on the Island of Luzon, and is melting the priests to disobey the regulations of the church and brotherhoods.
 President Diaz of Mexico and his cabinet will be formally invited to att tend the ceremonies of the laying c1 the cornerstone of the new federal building in Chicago on October 9, by committee of representative men. who will leave the city for that pur- pose on August 5.
 Hon. Elihu Root, vho is to succeed Secretary Alger at the head of the war department, called on the president on the 24th. Mir. Root desired to have a conference with the president re. specting the duties of his new office before the latter left for Lake Cham plain.
 The Popolo Romano, of Rome, re. ferring to the recent lynching of Ital- ians at Tallulah, La., says the United States has given assurances that it will prosecute vigorously all who were concerned in the commission of the crime.
 One of the boilers of the Austrian torpedo boat Adler exploded, on the 23d, while the vessel was off the Island of Torcoa, in the Adriatic sea, killing a lieutenant and four members of the crew.
 Timothy Hogan, the notorious mail box robber, who escaped from the Ohio penitentiary May s, last, was returned to that institution on the 22d Gus Willis, an oldtime Philadelphia actor, died suddenly of heart disease at Salt Lake, Utah, on the 21st. A Paris correspondent of the New York Journal says: "The next French officer who interferes in the Dreyfus matter will go to jail. That is we'll understood throughout the army. | Hence the sudden silence where all was jngling spurs and clanking swords.
 Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, although en- toying an income of fully $50, ,00o ayear, lied comparatively poor. It was said in | this connection by New York paper that he had left life insurance to the amount of S10O,00O, but this is an exag- | geration.
 | The war department, on the 23d, re- eeiyed from Gen. Otis another dispatch | giving additional particulars of the | fight between Capt. B. A. Byrne, with 70 men of the Sixth infantry, and rob- Der bands in the Island of Negros It shows that the victory of the soldiers was greater than that reported in Sen. Otis dispatch of July 21, and that the loss suffered by the robbers was considerably larger than before stated. | The Rome correspondent of the Lon- | don Daily Mail says that Mascagni's aymn in honor of Admiral Dewey was sung at Pesaro, on the 23d for the first time before an audience of 2.OO0 persons. It was greatly appreciated and is considered one of the finest hymns Mascagni has written. | The formal tender of the war port | folio was made to Elihu Root. the New York attorney, on the 22d, and prompt | acceptance was received Mir. Root went to Washington, on the 24th, to confer with the president previous to the latter's leaving for Lake Cham | plain for his summer vacation.
 Reports received by Adjt-Gen. Cor .sia from the coloneis of the new vol tnteer regiments show that about one | thIrd of the provisional army has been