The Forrest City times., 1899-11-03


 The Fortieth infantry broke camp at Fort Riley, Kas.. on the 30th, and proceeded to San Francisco by way Of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads. The regiments strength, on leaving will be about 1900 officers and men.
 Since January 1 the Seattle (Wash.) assay office has received for treatment S11,61l ,204, and since the office began business, July 15, 1898, $17,2s0.36l During last week the office made three shipments of assayed gold to the Unit ed States mint of total value of $i, 500,000.
 The Russian cruiser Nariag. which is designed to be the fastest armored yes- sel of her class ever constructed by the Cramp ship building firm. was launched. on the 31st, with unusal dis play Prominent Russian naval at taches and government officials were present at the christening.
 The Dawes commission has comp,et- ed it's enrolment of the Chickasaw ln- dians. The enrolment shows 17.000 In. dians and 4.000 freedmen, the latter being former slaves and their descend ants, taken to the territory from the south by the Indians. The enrolment ot the Creeks is progressing.
 
 Heuyv finhfinn nc.urrad aro,tp T Ladysmith, Natal. on the 30th. The British under Gen. White drove the Boers back several miles, but were compelled to retire again upon the town. The losses on both sides were heavy, and there are vague reports o. whole battalions of English soldiers missing.
 IT, official and diplomaic quarters ir Washington attention is being direct ed to the question of Pacific cable linking this country with the Philip pines and points beyond, and it is un- derstood that this government aad the foreign governments which would be affected by the cable are now active " thC SdpJCCt.
 Peter NJ. Gideon, one of the best known characters of Excelsior Nina, died, on the 27th. aged 79. He was the originator of the Wealthy apple, which he named after his wife. Wealthy Hall, whom he married in 1S4o. In 1878, when the state established an experi- ment fruit farm, he was made super intendent, and continued in that ca pacity for several years.
 The members of the Fredericksbury National Park commission called upon the secretary of war, on the 2Tth, to lay before him the plans of the com mittee for a memorial park, which will include the battlefields of Fredericks- burg, Characteristic, Tebbs Tavern and several other fields comprised in an area of 12 miles square on the south side of the Rappahannock
 Admiral Dewey. on the 30th. au- nounced to some of his more intimate friends the fact of his engagement to Mrs. w. R. Hazen, of Washington city. Mrs. Hagen is the widow of Gen. Hazen. formerly chief signal officer of the army, who died about ten years ago, and is a sister of John K. Mclean, democratic candidate for governor of Ohio. She is childless and wealthy.
 The convention of the cotton states commissioners of agriculture at At lanta, Ga, on the 27th, passed reso- luuons inviting capital and immicra- tion to the south, urging southern sen atorS and congressman to use their nl- fiuence in increasing the merchant the rural schools; the erection of cot ton oil mills in every district, and in. dcrsng farmers institutes.
 Henry C. Harris, supreme judge of the Choctaw nation. died at his home near Harris, l. T., or the 2Sth, from Rheumatism. He was one of the dele. gates to Washington that collected about S2.000,000 lease money from the United States for the Choctaw nation, He has held many positions of trus: ana was one of the best friends the white people of the country had among the Choctaws.
 The resolutions adopted at mass meeting held in Carnegie hall, New York, October II, urging the president to offer the friendly offices of the Unit. ed States in mediation between Great Britain and the Transvaal and Oranca Free State republics, were presented to the president, on the 26th, by del egation from New York headed bx Tunis c. Bergin, president of the HoI land society. The president said he. would consider the matter, but point, ed out grave difficulties in the way.
 On the 26th Senator Depew gave ott R statement of the terms of the will ot the late Cornelius Vanderbilt. It shows that the fortune is estimated as s10,OO0,000. Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt will get about $50,00o.OO0. He thus be- comes the head of the family Thu will gives Cornelius Vanderbilt about