The Forrest City times., 1899-06-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| Eight cadets from the fourth class
 were found deficient and discharged
 from the military academy at West | Point, N. Y.. on the gth. Among
 them was a son of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
 and son of Brig .-Gen. Williams, vh3
 died recently in Havana.
 | A complete investigation establishes beyond all doubt that Tom Baker,
 leader of his faction in the Baker | Howard feud. and who was assdssinat- | ed. at Manchester, Ky, on the 10th, was shot by someone in the house of | Sheriff White. The latter is under ar rest.
 Thirty-six buildings, comprising al-
 most the entire plant of the Nordlin- ger Charlton Fireworks Co.,, at Gran iteville, Richmondborough,N N. r.. were | blown up, on the Sth, and the entire
 plant was practically wiped out of ex- istence. Of the 115 employees not onc
 was killed, and only three were in- | jured. Loss, S30,000.
 Capt. r. Jansen and six men of the schooner Edward Parke arrived at San Francisco, on the 9th, in a small
 boat after having spent four days on l the ocean at the mercy of the ele
 ments, which, fortunately. were unusu- | ally benign. The schooner sprung a | leak and was abandoned.
 In his testimony before the sena- 1 torial committee which is inquiring into the pure food question, on tha 9th, Capt. Fred Pabst, of Milwaukee. said rational law covering a govern ment inspection of beer would be q very good thing as it would protect the honest manufacturer and the hon. est consumer.
 The Edison-Portland Cement Co.,, | with an authorized capital of $11, 1,OO0,- 900, was incorporated at Trenton, x. J., on the 9th. Among the incorpora- tors is Thomas A. Edison. Mark Twain Samuel l.. Clemons)
 was banqueted, on the 9th, by the Savage Club of London and made an
 honorary member of the club. A posse of Lander (Wyo.) officers | were reported, on the 9th, as hot or the trail of three of the train robbers | Implicated in the recent Union Pacific
 hold-up near Wilcox, Wyo. The Buffalo (N. Y.) police stopped the | baseball game between the Buffalos and Kansas Citys, on the 11th. in the las; | half of the ninth inning, and arrested | the IS players. The men were taken tc
 the station and charged with violating | the Sunday law. President Franklin | went security for the appearance oi
 the players.
 Three of the largest shops connect l ed with the eArmstrong-W Whitworth ord nance works at Newcastle-on-Tyne | England, were destroyed by fire on | the 11th. The damage is estimated a, | 100000.
 Company F, Seventh infantry, which
 has been garrisoning Fort Thomas, O.. | left for San Francisco, on the 10th, via | St. Louis, on orders to go to Alaska | Capt. Charles A. Booth in command Two officers of the Chaeseurs were
 arrested at Nice, on the 11th, foI | shouting "Vive rarmee," and "Abas | les traitors"
 | A tornado, on the afternoon of the 11th, struck two miles southeast of tn. little town of Salix, la, and killed
 John Malloy, Mrs. John Malloy and | their 16-year-old son Harry. Miss
 Bessie Malloy, aged Is, was fatally in. iured.
 John Taylor Mount, late trustee oi | Finley township, and one of Scott
 county's (lnd.) most prominent resi. | dents, fatally shot his wife, on the | 1lth, and then turned the weapon on
 himself, dying almost instantly from the wound. The decd was commit | ted in barn.
 When the yacht Columbia was
 launched, at Bristol, R. l., on the nigh.
 of the 10th, an explosion occcurred
 in the fiashlight apparatus. A boy
 was killed, another possibly fatally | injured, and six others severely hurt The daring robber band which loot.
 ed the Union Pacific express at Rock Creek, recently, and escaped to the | fastness of their dens in the Hole ir
 the Wall in Wyoming, in spite of the
 fact that they were closely pursued
 over plain and mountain. are to be sys | tematically hunted to their death | There is n reward of $3,000 for each dead or alive.
 4 respectfully dressed, elderly man who gave his name as J. C. Dickev
 was arrested in front of the White | House, at Washington, on the 18th
 and locked up. 1t was stated that
 he was arrested because he answered
 the description of man who had es
 capped from the insane asylum of Wash
 ington county, \. |.
 As the Chicago, Rock Island X Pa
 cific west-bound express train pulled
 into Geneseo, Ill.,. 160 miles west ot Chicago. on the 18th, three cars left
 the track and crashed into a stocL
 train standing on siding. Fifteer
 persons were injured and the thre, passenger cars were demolished.
 With the conclusion of the negotia
 tions pending for a Franco-Americar | raf= tfar St