The Forrest City times., 1899-02-17
OTHERWISE UNNOTICEn.

Mayor James M. Jones of Kansas City, Mo-. has filed suit for divorce.
 At meeting of broomcorn holders, in Chicago. it was decided to advance the price $50 per ton.
 In order to look older. the law stu dents at Missouri university have formed a Whiskers club.
 The fears of general crop damage in the south are substantiated. Deaths from the cold are numerous.
 Thirty-six marriage licenses were is sued in St. Louis Tuesday. making new record for St. Valentines day.
 John D. Ellinghaus. a wealthy sa- loonkeeper at Peoria, lll., was awak- ened and fatally shot by an unknown man.
 Charles J. Summers, letter carrier. aged 62 years. and Joseph Evans, aged 60, were frozen to death at Philadel- phia.
 Quo warranto proceedings have been instituted in the Missouri SUI preme court against the Plug Tobacco trust.
 The Nebraska legislature will inves- tigate the charges of Irregularities made against the insurance depart ment.
 Gen. Hale says that the conduct of the Filipinos has been turned from ir.. science into difference for the Amer jeans.
 Aguinaldo was student at Munich, Bavaria. in 1894, and was associated intimately with the polytechnic en- gineer students.
 Gen. Wood has recommended the ap- pointment of Demetrio Castillo for the position of acting civil governor of Santiago.
 A dispatch from Appleton, Wis.,. says: A paper bag trust has been floated. with capital stock of over $25.O0O,O ,O00.
 Correspondent Burnside, at Paris, the representative of an American journal, died suddenly while prepar- ing to fight duel.
 A number of merchants and manu- lecturers of St. Louis have been sum- moned to appear before the Major Investigating committee.
 Admiral Dewey says that if the Fili- pinos were ordinary people the in- surrection would be broken, but with Filipinos you can never tell"
 Christian Neideck, a railroad sec ton hand, was burned to death in a fire that consumed his dwelling at St. Joseph, Mo. Neideck lived alone.
 Herr Rafael, formerly president ot the municipal council of Apia, and tn. most disturbing element in the Samoa situation, has left Apia for Germany.
 The Italian minister of war and chief of the navy have expressed their admiration for American men and arms in strong terms to Ambassador Draper.
 St. Louis millers say that the four trade with Cuba has been demoralized by the heavy sales of flour by the commissary department of the United States army.
 William J. Bryan. of Nebraska, was the guest of honor at banquet given by Minnesota democratic and populis- tic politicians at the Ryan house, St. Paul, Tuesday night.
 The Arlington apartment building at 462 Forty-frst street, Chicago, one of the most fashionable apartment buildings of Grand boulevard, was de. stroyed by fire Tuesday night,
 A Spanish prisoner who escaped from Malalos reports that Baldero Aguinaldo. a cousin of Gen. Aguinal do, and minister of war, was killed in the fighting at Caloocan on February 10.
 Holman's Washington cafe, on the Central Park, Havana has been or dered closed by Senor Federico Mora. civil governor of Havana, because of the refusal of the proprietor to serve drinks to Gen. Ducasse, Cuban mulatto.
 The Missouri senate voted to appro- priate S30000 to defray the expenses of mobilizing the Missouri troops at Jefferson barracks during the recent war. It seems the state can not col. lect this sum from the government until it is first paid by the state.
 THE JOINT COMMISSION.