The Forrest City times., 1899-11-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


 received from President Mckinley, Secretary of State Hay and Mrs. Hay, and Gen. Wesley Merritt. Among tfe callers at the Hobart residence was Att'y.-Gen. Griggs.
 Francis r. Deweese died in Washing ton on the 9th. He was an assistant attorney general from 1885 to 1893, since which time he had had an exten- sivc practice in the court of claims. Four men were killed, two seriously injured and one had narrow escape from death by rush of dirt in the mine operated by Lawrence X Brown near Mahoney Plane, Pa, on the 4th.
 The Fifty-irst Iowa volunteers, re- turned from Manila, arrived in Coun- cil Bluffs, on the 9th, where elaborate preparations had been made to receive them.
 After blockade of two days, Puer to Cabello, Venezuela, surrendered, on the 5th, to Gen. Castro and the officials of the defacto government.
 Under cover of heavy artillery fire, on the morning of the 2d inst, a British column from Gen. Whites army at Ladysmith, Natal, surprised a Boer camp at Besters hill. The burgh- CTS, fled, leaving their entire camp equipment in the hands of the British.
 Lieut.. Egerton, of II. NJ. $. Power fuI, under whose direction the naval guns were taken to Ladysmith, and who was so badly wounded that both legs had to be amputated, failed to rally from the shock and died. He had previously been promoted to com mander.
 Two columns from Gen. MacAr thurs division sallied out from AI,- geles, on the 5th, and captured NIaga- lcng. Col. Smiths column killed II insurgents, wounded 12s and captured 30. as well as taking a lot of insur- gent transportation. Major O'Brien's column killed 40 insurgents, wounded many and took 2S prisoners. The Americans had Il men wounded
 James Gosnell, well-to-do farn1e, near Mount Pleasant, O., was assasGi- mated, on the night of the 4rh, by some unknown person, who fired two re- volver shots into his back as he sat in his home reading newspaper.
 The jury at Moscow, Idaho, returned a verdict of guilty in the case of ten and not guilty in the case of three of the Couer d'Alene miners, who have been on trial in the United States conrt on charge of conspiracy and stopping United States mail train ay Wallace on April % last.
 Judge T. !. Stafford. wealthy man and lawyer of Pawnee, Okla. died re- gently, and just before his death re- ncunced infidelism, of which he had been an earnest advocate for mary years. He had fought the churches vehemently and on his dying bed said that he had been wrong.
 The treasury department at Wash ington, has thus far succeeded in put ting into the money market Sl.s17,7Si l as the result of the offer to prepay in- terest on the bonds up to June %. The l bonds presented for advance interest | have now exceeded seven per cent. of | the total amount outstanding.
 Persistent reports were current in | Lisbon, cn the 9th. that the British | force under Gen. White, at Ladysmith, | had surrendered to the Boers. Nc | could be secured from other sources.
 The transport Ohio brings tidings of n shortage of food supplies at Guam island, both among the natives and Any price was offered Purser Hedges of the Ohio for flour, potatoes and onions, but he was un- lhle to spare any.
 The famous Scots Greys embarked tt Glasgow, on the 9th, on the troop ship Rance for Africa. As they rode through the streets, magnificently mounted, the Greys were cheercd by ,ncrmous crowds. The docks were ined with the wives and sweethear:s If the soldiers. The ship sailed amid he cheers of men and the weeping of 
 A municipal yawnshop, operating inder law passed by the last legis- ature, was opened in Chicago, on the 'th, and judging from the number of applications for loans, will be sue cess. The institution is operated un- Ter state charter, and loans money 1t one per cent month instead of the five to ten per cent. and up- wards charged by pawnbrokers.
 Maj. Count Esterhazy, the reputed author of the bordereauwhichb brought about the conviction of Capt. Dreyfus on the charge of treason, was sen- fenced in Paris, on the 9th. by default, on his cousin Christians charge of swindlifg, to three years imprison- ment andsto pay a fine of 50 francs. He was also ordered to refund the 35,00c francs claimed by Christians
 One of the passenger elevators in the Phoeniy building in Minneapolis, Minn.. fell four stories, on the 9th, se- riously iniuring eight or ten persons.
 Queen Victoria has contributed. Gf.- DOC and the prince of Wales [ 2G2 10 the Transvaal war relief fund.