The Forrest City times., 1899-10-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


York, on the Goth, aged 81. He WAS
labor reporter on an evening newspa-
per in New York and had formerly
been employed as a newspaper man in
Chicago.
A party of Germans who were del
egates TO the commercial congress at
Philadelphia are touring this country
for the purpose of investigating Amer
lean methods of manufacture and agri-
culture.
The Berlin Freissinige Zeitung says:
The debt of the empire has enorm-
ously increased since the death of Will
lam l., and all TO further Germany s
welimatch. Ii is time to call halt"
An unknown steamer ran into and
sank fishing schooner in Boston har-
Dor on the night of the Goth. OF the
nine men aboard the fisherman only
two are thought TO be saved.
William Nilxe. aged 10. died. on che
night of the 22d, one hour after receiV
ing blows on the nose. jaws and Tit
of the stomach in a prize fight with
Charles Chelius. aged 10, in the base
ment of the Wilke home. The boys
belonged to amateur clubs, and fought
for IS purse. Chelins was arrested.
1t is stated that within another year
at least $500 more men will be en-
plcyed in and about the copper mines
in the immediate vicinity of Calumet,
Mich. 1t is also said that of this num-
Der the Calumet and Hecla Co. viii,
employ no less than 1900 new men be-
fore the middle of next summer.
There will be no strike of telegraph
operators on the Big -Four railway. a
strike is impossible without the con-
sent and cooperation of the affiliated
organizations of trainmen and firemen,
and these have positively refused their
consent.
The registration in Greater New
York was completed on the 22d. The
total registration was 476,717.
The Forty-fifth volunteer infantry,
Col. Dorst commanding, left St. Paul,
MINI, on the 22d.
Hon. George w. Higginbotham, II
pioneer of Kansas, died at his home in
Manhattan, Kas.. on the 22d, of heart
disease. He was extensively known
throughout the west.
The lombard Italian Grand Opera
Co. has disbanded at Kansas City, af-
ter trip through the west, because of
poor business.
Gen. Otis declined to receive a Fill
Pine delegation, headed by a major
general who entered Angeles recently,
under a flag of truce, TO treat for
peace, because their proposition in
vclyed recognition of the so-called
| Filipino government.
Old-timers about Helena, Mont, are
agreed that nothing like the recent
| fail of STOW has been seen in 20 years.
/ 1t covered a wide scope of country in
| northern Montana, and reports tell of
serious losses of life and stock. In
Teton county alone 20 persons lost
their lives.
| Gen. Ciprano Castro, the successful
revolutionary leader. made triumphal
entry into Caracas. Venezuela, on the
22d, and took possession of the Yellow
/ House, the official residence of the
president. Gen. Castro rode at the
! head of the conquering army.
\ business block in South Chicago
was burned,on the 22d. entailing a loss
of 100000 and painfully injuring 10
persons. Fourteen buildings were
burned. An old landmark was de-
stroyed in the burning of the Grand
| Central hotel. 1t was a frame build
4 iur- an1 .x1s al ovfIlx-
The foundation for the new govern
ment printing Office will be completed
within a few days. and work will he
! pushed forward When finished. the
new building will be the largest print
ing Office in the world, as well as the
most fully equipped.
The battle At Elandslaagte, Natal.
was veritable slaughter After the
British had carried the Boer position.
a white flag was raised. whereupon
several hundred Beers attempted to
flee. They were pursued. and most of
them persisted. The Boer loss is esti-
mated at 400 killed and thrice that
number wounded. The British lost
! 100 killed and wounded.
twenty girls escaped from the state
Industrial school for girls at Mitchell
vile. Ia. on the night of the 20th
They were pursued and captured and
those remaining in the school, about
100 in number. broke out into violence,
clicked the windows out and destroyed
property generally.
There was much rejoicing in Des
Meines. Ia, or the night of the 22d.
over the safe arrival of the Fifty-first
Iowa regiment at San Francisco. as
there had been some apprehension that
the tran.port Senator. which carried
them. had suffered in typhoon.
The commissioner of internal rev
enue is rapidly returning to tax pay
| ers taxes collected on beer on hand
June IA, 1895. and produced and tax
paid prior to that date OF the $50
claims presented from the Cincinnati;
district 300 have been allowed, and the
amount claimed paid. The taxes now
being returned were assessed and col
leeted under the act of June 10, 1895.
Nj meeting of the board of direc-
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