The Forrest City times., 1900-08-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

tnat Ucdtn Is possible, WAS the casualty
list up to the 2sth, in New Orleans,
which began with the attempt of Po-
licemen Day and Lamb to arrest the
negroes Charles and Pierce.
X. G.. Dun d Co.'S Trade Review, on
the 27th, reported: Failures for the
week were 231 in the United States,
against Isl last year, and rs in Cana
da, against 20 last year."
Berlin button, feather and hosiery
manufacturers complain of loss of
business, owing to the Chinese situa-
ton.
Section one of the Buffalo Bill Wild
West shows train suffered severe
collision near Milwaukee junction,
Mich, shortly before daylight, on the
10Th, resulting in the smashing of a
show employees sleeping car, contain
ing some 40 sleeping inmates. One of
the latter was killed. and nine others
were sent to hospitals in Detroit, Mich,
suffering from more or less serious in
juries.
Lewis Harvie Finney, private secre-
tary 10 Secretary Long, died at Warm
Springs, Va, on the Goth. He had been
private secretary to Assistant Secre-
tary Solely and to Secretary Herbert,
III d was highly thought of by naval
officers and public men.
The Nicaraguan government has re-
considered its decision not to exhibit
at the Pan-American expo sition, and
commissioners will be appointed to
represent Nicaragua
A special dispatch from Shanghai,
dated the goth. says that the English
mission station north of Ming Pc had
been destroyed, and IL missionaries
murdered.
The Official Journal of Rene publishes
royal decree prohibiting the exporta-
ton of arms. ammunition or other
munitions of war to China.
Heavy rains, on the 2sth and goth, eff
fectually broke the hot spell, the long
est and most severe that Paris has ever
known.
A Pretoria dispatch of the 2sth
says that Gen. French has occupied
Middelburg. Commandant General
Botha is reported to have fed to the
east. 1t is said that he is followed by
only 800 dispirited burghers. Gen.
Pole-Carew, with the guards brigade,
has arrived at Brugspruit, 20 miles
west of Middelburg.
La Discucion (Havana) says the con-
stitutional convention decree is one of
the most important documents in the
history of Cuba. 1t should convince
every one of the honest intentions of
the United States.
While members of Battery A, of
Danville, were loading the sunset gun
at Camp Lincoln, Springfield, ILL.,, on
the goth, a cigarette smoker tossed the
lighted stump into the powder charge.
n premature explosion followed. Two
artillerymen were MORALLY wounded,
and a score of militiamen and by
ISLANDERS were more or less seriously
burned.
The annual report of the chief of
the treasury bureau of statistics upon
the foreign commerce of the United
States during the year ending June 80,
1900, shows the total imports of mer-
chandise during the year were $780,
714,67o; the total exports, s1,394, 1885,
ST..
Humbert, king of Italy, while seated
in his carriage, at Monza, where he
had just distributed prizes, the result
of gymnastic competition, on the
evening of the goth, was shot through
the heart by an assassin, who gave the
name of Angelo Brissi, n Tuscan, and
died in few minutes. Bressi narrow
~ escaped lynehing.
The Chinese general, Ii Ho Kel, is
reported to be marching on Pekin. He
has ordered his troops to exterminate
all Christians. One French priest and
from 1000 to 5000 natives have been
slaughtered.
What is promulgated at Shanghai as
an imperial edict makes acknowledge
ment that the foreign ENJOYS are be-
ing held as hostages to prevent an add
vance on Pel<in by the allied army of
internationals.
Nittorio Emmanuel Ferlandino Ma
ria Gennaro, who succeeds his father
to the throne of Italy. is the only son
of King Humbert. He was born on
November IL, 1869. and has the repu-
tation of being a liberal, scholarly and
soldierly man. He is a general in the
Italian army, and patron of art and
literature.
i. G. Rathbone, former director of
posts in Cuba, has been arrested under
charges of misapplication of public
funds and, at last accounts, was held
in the Vivas, pending efforts to secure
bail.
The Universalists' national summer
meeting, of which Rev. DIR. Q. II. Shinn,
of Cambridge. Mass, is president,
opened its nineteenth annual gather
ing at Saratoga. \. Y, ON the s0th,
with public reception.
The comptroller of the currency, on
the s0th, declared second dividend of
ten per cent. in favor of the creditors
of the First national bank of New LA
bon. o., on claims of Sl3l,es5.