The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-11-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Scurcea
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


the 10th. The men will join between
November Il and 20.
The war department received d.
patch from Gen. Otis, on the 10th, stat
ing that hope of saving the transpor:
Hooker had been abandoned. der
supplies will be taken of, and the hulk
will be sold at auction at Manila. The
vessel was worth about sl50.OO0.
1t is asserted in Berlin that Maj. Won
Reitenstein, winner of the long-dis-
lance military ride from Berlin TO Vi
emma. has gone to the Transyaal to join
the Beers
An explosion occurred. on the 18th.
in the glazing house of the California
powder mill at Santa Cruz. Cal. -Four
cylinders. containing 10000 pounds of
powder. exploded. wrecking the mill.
blowing down miles: of fencing. de-
stroying the saitpetre warehouse.
breaking panes of glass in Superin-
iendent Peyton's residence, some dis
lance away, and extinguishing the
electric lights in Santa Cruz. Patrick
Hughes. night Waterman. was killed.
The Allan line steamer Sardinia.
from Montreal and Quebec. with the
Canadian contingent for South Africa.
arrived at the Verde islands on the
18th.
The Tennessee volunteers landed at
San Francisco, on the 18th. and went
into camp at the Preside preparatory
TO being mustered out.
Two more of the whaling feet ar
rived at San Francisco, on the 18th.
from the North Pacific. They were
the Alexander and karluck. The Alex
ander brought $4,000 pounds of whale
bone and the Karluck $4,000 pounds.
The leading feature of the annual re-
port of Assistant Secretary Allen to
Secretary Long relative to the naval
militia is his strong Endorsement of
the plan for the organization of q ma
tional reserve.
Fifty privates of Co. X of the Forty
second infantry, at San Francisco.
were the victims of ptomaine poison
ing ON the 18th. The poison is sup
posed to have been in the hash.
Col. Bells regiment and a small
force of cavalry entered Tarlac. the
seat of the so-called Filipino govern
ment, ON the 18th. without opposition.
Aguinaldo had fled.
Walter Mitchell. confined in the
Leayenworth (Kas.) Jail under indict-
ment for the murder of a fellow con
Wet in the penitentiary, committed
suicide, on the 18th, by hanging hin.
self from the top of the cell door. He
made rope out of a part of blanket.
Senator Cullom has announced his
intention of reintroducing. on the
opening day of the Fifty-sixth con
gress. the bill providing territorial
form of government for Hawaii He
will urge action upon this measure
before congress gives serious consid-
GRAFTON to any Legislation for our othe.
insular possessions.
DIR. Richard j. Calling. who revolu-
tionized methods of warfare by in
venting the rapid-fire gun that bea.-s
his name, has invented an automobile
plow- DIR. Calling says il will do the
work of eight men and twelve horses.
The propulsion power win be eithe-
gasoline or oil.
81. Louis and Kansas City capitalists
having large mineral leases in the
western part of Garfield county. Okla,
are finding good copper indications
and deposits. Al depth of 60 feet
q vein of peculiar rock and clay. four
to ten inches thick. is found, which is
of almost pure copper.
The Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune says
interlined with thin, paper-like sheets
that some arrangements have been
made between Representative-elect
Brigham II. Roberts and the republi-
can members of congress TO allow him
to be sworn in and then to resign
without further action in the matter.
Col. Bell, with his regiment and a
small force of cavalry, entered Tarlac,
the Filipino insurgent capital. on the
evening of the i2th. He found moth
ing destroyed except some railroad
rolling stock. Where Aguinaldo and
his army has fled to is not as vet
known.
Nice-President Hobart passed a IA
bidbit HiSut< anu tit Improvement
that had been observed for several
days continued on the 18th. He are
solid food with relish. and il promptly
assimilated. With his meals he took
milk and between meals was given
mild stimulants.
Philip Holzinger. a farmer residing
near Pesotum, H.. and Miss Catherine
Stalhut, friend were driving over
the Illinois Central track short dis
tarce south Of Pesotum. on the 18th.
ON the way home from church. when
they were struck by the New Orleans
special. the new fast train, causing the
death of both.
\ miner lately returned from Cape
Nome 10 Chicago declares that last fall
man 10 i'll 10 work was carried 10 his
cabin, and who. when he thought he
was about TO die, comics sed that he was
Tascott. the murderer of Millionaire
Shell. in Chicago. He got better. how
ever, and disappeared.
The United States supreme coart,
on the 18th. advanced the hearing of
the ease on its docket involving "A con-
fiict between the ChoctaN and Chieka-