The Forrest City times., 1899-06-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Several sewer pipe manufacturers or Steubenville, O., who returned from New York, on the 4th, reported the trust unorganized. They said the pros poets for its formation were poor.
 The queens birthday was officially celebrated in London on the 3d. The chief event was the trooping the col ors on the Horse Guards parade.
 A severe wind and rain storm, on the 4th, seriously interfered with wire communication between Omaha and St. Paul. Telegraph poles were blown down at different places in Iowa and Wisconsin.
 Mai .-Gen. Lawton has been conduct ing movement, with three columns, under Generals Hall and Ovenshine and Cal. Whol!ey, with the purpose of trapping Gen. Pic del Pilar's force of Filipinos on the Morong peninsula. The movement was only partially sue cessful, owing to the obstacles to their advance met by Gen. Halls men,
 The French court of cessation issued it's decree, on the 3d, annuling the conviction of Capt. Dreyfus and or dering a new court-martial, to be held at Rennes, away from exciting Pa isian influence. The court, also, pre- scribed the lines upon which the new trial should be held.
 tornado swept the country west of Dyersville, Ia., on the evening of the 4th. At some points the path of the cfa n To x.-,l ka @-r Thorpe, Ia., reported buildings and cars being blown over. The neighbor- hood of Kellogg, Ia., also suffered.
 Mrs. Johanna Schilling, 35 years old, and her daughters, Gertrude, aged 10, and Edna, aged 8, were found dead in their home in New York city tene- ment. All had been asphyxiated, the gas doubtless having been turned on by the mother with the idea of mur- dering her two children and commit ting suicide. There had been domestic difficulty.
 The famous old St. Charles theater, New Orleans, was destroyed by fire, on the night of the 9th, together with adjacent buildings; loss estimated at $75,OOO.
 Isaac Beck and daughter, Mrs. Mary J. Cope, while standing on the P. r. w. X C. crossing at Alliance, O., were run down by a light engine and in- stantly killed, the remains being man. gled beyond recognition.
 Sherman NJ. Reese, assistant super intendent of the Ducktown sulphur and copper works, was shot down from ambush and killed by unknown par ties, on the 5th, near Isabella, Polk county, Tenn.
 Many burglaries have been commit ted recently in hotels, stores and pri- vate houses in Havana, and the police believe an organized band of American crooks is at work.
 Due d'Arcos, the new Spanish minis ter, and his wife, called upon Mrs. Me Kinley at the White House on the 5th.
 On the 5th the British house of com mons voted Gen. Lord Kitchener a grant of { 39,35:.
 Earthquake shocks were felt at Colon, Colombia, on the 4th and 5th.
 Gen. Russell A. Alger, Mrs. Alger and party passed through Montreal, Can., on the 5th, on their way to Grand Mere. where Gen. Alger's son resides.
 Gov. Mount of Indiana was reported ill, on the 5th, and threatened with bronchial pneumonia.
 A Cayenne dispatch of the 5.h stated that Capt. Dreyfus had been re- leased from his confinement on Devils island by order of the French govern ment, and that he had been trans- ferred to Royal island, to await the arrival of the French warship Sfax, from Martinique, that is to convey him back to France.
 Open threats to overturn the repub- lie were made in the French chamber of deputies, on the 5th, and there were scenes of great excitement. The gov ernment is taking energetic measures, and will be prepared to meet any at tempt on the part of the royalists.
 Three young ladies, two of them students of McKendree, college, were drowned in Silver creek, two miles north of Lebanon, Ill.,, on the 5th. They were Miss Ruth Jepson. of Lebanon; Miss Florence Spies, of St. Jacob, and Miss Hallene Jack, of Beaucoup, Ill.
 Joseph Meyers, the travelling repre- sentative in Asia of the Pabst Brew ing Co.,, met horrible death in the harhor of Hong Kong May l. While in the act of visiting some naval off cers aboard the United States cruiser Charleston he was instantly killed by a boat which fell from the warship.
 Charles l.. Beeler, the Wells Fargo express messenger who absconded, on December 2s last, with S50,00O. was convicted in the Thirty-seventh dis trict court, at San Antonio, Tex, or the 9th, and sentenced to term of five years in the state penitentiary.
 Gov. Savers of Texas has issued a formal call for an antitrust conven- ton, to meet in St. Louis on Septem- Der 20 of this year. The governor sai l that he had selected St. Louis because he felt that it was more centrally To- cated, and that the attendance will be much larger than if held in a Texas