The Forrest City times., 1899-08-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


being wantonly destroyed, and furni-
ture piled up in the streets and burned.
The police were overwhelmed several
times, but finally gained the mastery
and a large number of rioters were
jailed
Miss Viola Horlocker. who is resting
under $1,000 bond charged with hav-
ing attempted 10 take the life of Mrs.
Charles A. Morey, of Hastings, Neb.,
by sending her n box of poisoned
candy on April 10 last. is now in the
insane asylum at Jacksonville. Ill.
On the Goth DIR. George n. krieder,
the attending physician. said that Gov.
Tanner was suffering from malaria and
his fever was high. He will probably
be unable TO attend TO the duties of
his Office for a week.
Mai. Russell Il. Harrison. inspector
| general at Santiago de Cuba, is criti-
cally iii with yellow fever. The disease
had progressed for three days before
being pronounced yellow fever on the
Goth.
The transport Garonne sailed from
Seattle, Wash, on the Goth, for Manila,
having on board 400 horses belonging
TO the Third cavalry.
| The schooner Hunter Savidge cap
sized, ON the Goth, in "A squall off Point
au Barques, Lake Huron. Five of her
crew were drowned She was COM
manded by Capt. Sharpsteen, of AL
pena, Mich.
The father of President n. f. Young
of the National Baseball league, died
at Amsterdam, y. Y, on the Goth, aged
81 years.
| Isaac III. Congdon, for many years
| superintendent of motive power and
mac hinery of the Union Pacific road.
| died at his home in Omaha, Neb., on
| the 2lst. He invented numerous APP
| plIanees for use on railroads, several
| OF which are in almost universal use
and from which he received large roy
| alties.
| Congressman w. L. Stark and Adjt.-
Gen. Barry left Omaha, Neb, on the
21st, for San Francisco, TO escort the
| First Nebraska volunteers home on
| special train at state expense. 1t will
require $4,000 to bring the regiment
home, and s., 900 in excess of that sum
had already been provided.
The subscriptions received by the
Porto Riean relief committee of the
| Merchants Association of New York
up to the 21st, amounted to s14,165. In
addition, the committee had received
SO barrels CT hard bread.
dispatch from London, on the 21st.
said There is now not the slightest
doubt at the colonial Office that war
is the only way to settle the contro.
versy between England and the Trans
vaal republic"
Serious disturbances have taken
place ut Gradlitz. town of Bohemia,
due to racial differences between the
Czechs and Germans.
The first national convention of the
Young Peoples Christian Temperance
union is called to meet in Chicago
September % and rs. This claims to
be the first temperance organization
to systematically unite the ability Of
women and the voting power of men.
The American Sugar Refining Co.,
on the 21st, announced a reduction of
SIG cents pound in all its refined
grades except No. XXXX. The cut
was met by the refners.
The anti-Dreyfus press of Paris is
resorting to all sorts of subterfuges to
eounteract the effect of recent dis
closures in favor of Dreyfus. La Pa
trie has the effrontery to announce
that English papers paid Esterhazy
$4,000 francs to declare himself the
author of the brodereau.
Lieut.. Alfred Drew, Twelfth infan-
try, who was major of the Third Texas
volunteers during the war with Spain,
was instantly killed during an attack
ON the Filipino insurgents in the vi
cinity of Angeles, Luzon, on the 10th.
1t was reported at Madrid, on the
goth. that case of the plague had
developed at Figuero, Portugal, and
there was rumor of a death from the
disease at Barcelona. 1t is feared that
the epidemic is spreading. Several
quarantine stations have been estab-
lished on the frontier.
FL Heraldo, of Havana, publishes a
letter, sent to Mayor La Coste By the
|
Arnauto and Augustin Ceramics, of
the recently suppressed Reconcentra-
do, acknowle dying that their conduct
of that journal was criminal, and ask
ing to be given an opportunity to re-
form.
Three of the newly-organized volun-
teev regiments have been ordered to
San Francisco, where they will go into
camp at the Preside to await trans
Tortation 10 Manila. The other regi-
ments viii follow them in rapid sue
cession.
| head-on collision between two troll
ley ears. occurred, on the Goth, on the
Norristown, Chestnut Hill d Roxbor-
ough railway, in Plymouth township.
Morton county. Pa. a few miles north
of Philadelphia. Thirty persons were
injured, three probably fatally.
l. Hart. of Missouri. arrived at Ard
1 4 -.