The Forrest City times., 1900-07-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
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 Brig.-Gen. Thomas Barry passed through Chicago. on the eth, on his way to the Philippines, where he IS to be chief of stal1 under Gen. Mac Arthur.
 l A special from Glen Park. Col, says that Prof. Dickson. of Washington uni i "ersity. st. Louis. was thrown from his ] bicycle, on the sth. while desee1ding a steep hill. His head struck bridge. causing a serious concussion of the brata.
 The Chicago Chronicle, on the sth, i said: It is now reported that the 1 Chicago X Alton. the Kansas City & Southern and Union Pacific systems, are to be amalgamated and placed un- , der one management" i Three more bodies were found on 1 the steamer Saale on the Sth. This makes 29 bodies that had thus far been taken from the wreck of the vessel since the Hoboke (N. J.) fire, anI 146 l bodies in all recovered. l It was announced. on the sth. that l Gen. Dodds, the hero of the Dahomev campaign, had been appointed to the command of the French expedition to China.
 The granting of a charter to Havana will doubtless be followed by the i granting of charters to other Cuban cities as soon as the documents can be prepared.
 A letter from Sir Frederic Mitchell Hodgson, governor of the Gold Coast colony, dated at Akwebus, July l, has been received, announcing his safety.
 Imports of dry goods and merchant disc at the port of New York, for the week ended on the 7th, were valued at $s,496, POT.
 The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Daily Mail says a rela- tive of NJ. de Giers, the Russian min- | ister to China, has received confirma. 1 ton of a report that the minister is dead. The Russian government ap- parently is without advices on the sub i ject.
 The consuls at Shanghai report that the Pekin legations were safe on July 4, and that the Chinese had ceased
 
 | that time, according to the reports of the consuls, was regarding the food supplies.
 The London Times of the 9th says: We learn from a private message from Canton that Iii Hung Chang has cabled direct to the Chinese minister in London urging him to request the British government to approach the i United States government with a vlew to joint invitation to Japan to CO., ! operate in the maintenance of the Chi nese empire and the establishment of a strong government on a solid bdsIs. the three then to unite in an appeal for the support of all other powers"
 A destructive storm visited .ArCola. H., and vicinity, on the night of the 7th. A regular cloudburst flooded the streets with water. The oats crop is fattened and almost worthless. while a great per cent. of the Indian and broom corn is felled to the ground. Lightning struck in more than a dozen places about the city.
 One man was killed and two men mortally wounded. on the sth, in bat tie in Menefee county, Ky, between a United States marshal's possn and men accused of violations of the inter- nal revenue law.
 The circait court convened at 1 Georgetown, Ky. on the 9th, in spe- cal session, for the trial of the men indicted for the murder and for com plicitN in the murder of William Ooebel. It was intimated that Henry Noutsey would be first placed on trial.
 Members of the executive committee of the Democratic national committee. gssert, in answer to criticism over the income tax clause being omitted from the Kansas City platform, that it was unintentional. The discovery was not made until after the platform had been edopted
 The last weeks scouting in Luzon resulted in II Americans being killed sEd i6 wounded. One hundred and sixty lilipinos were killed during the week. and eight Americans, who had beer prisoners in ;he hands of the rebels, were surrendered, and 100 rifles were turned over to the United States officials.
 While crossing the Baltimore & Ohio tracks in buggy at Columbia, Ill.,. on the evening of the Sth George Schoeping and William Grob, both of Columbia. were run down bv a paSsen- ger train and fatally injured Fred Fiegc. who accompanied them. sus- tained fractured skull. lis recovery is considered doubtful.
 A delegation of full-blooded Indians waited on the president at Canton, O., on the 9th. and were rewarded with very cordial handshaking. They are connected with the Pawnee Bill Wild West show, and were accompanied by the man whose name the show bears.