The Forrest City times., 1900-06-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

mont supreme court, died at his home
at Irasburg, on the 22d, of pneumonia.
He was So years of age, and had been a
supreme court judge since 1ss6.
Augustus Lowell. a. NJ, died at his
He was a vice-president of the Ameri-
can Academy of Arts and Sciences.
President Kruger's sons. who sur
rendered TO Gen. Baden-Powell, are
back on their farms, and working
peacefully.
1t was announced, on the god, that
the British war Office had bought 40
batteries of Krupp field artillery.
President kruger's principal condi-
ton for immediate peace is that he be
allowed TO stay in the Transvaal.
The meat inspection bill passed the
German bundesrath on the 22d.
passenger train on the Macon
branch of the Southern railroad ran
into washout one and half miles
north of McDonough, Ga. on the night
of the ed, and was completely wrecked.
The wreck caught fire, and the entire
train, with the exception of the sleep
er, was destroyed. Every person on
the train, except the occupants of the
Pullman car perisheo. Thirty-five per.
sons in all were killed.
The city of Cologne was visited, on
the cath, by a cyclone which demol-
ished many buildings and threw down
number of factory chimneys. Sew
eral persons were badly injured.
The celebration of the five hun
dredth anniversary of John Gutten-
berg's birth began at Mayence, Ger
many, on the Esd. with the opening Of
the typographical exhibition.
Admiral Kempff advised the navy
department, on the cath, that Walters
command had been ambushed near
Tien Tsin, four men being killed and
seven wounded.
In Shanghai il isofficially stated that
the dowager empress has issued en-
phatic instructions for the exterInina-
ton of all foreigners in China
Severe fighting is reported to have
taken place between Taku and Tien
Tsin, China. The detachment of 400
command of Maj. Waller, sent from
Taku to relieve Tien Tsin, was re-
pulsed and compelled to return. Four
Americans We're killed and seven
wounded. The Russian loss was con-
siderable.
A second relief column was sent out
from Taku, several thousand strong,
largely japanese, for the relief of Tien
Tsin. This force was driven back after
sanguinary engagement, with loss
of several hundred men. The Chinese
loss was heavy.
Secretary of the Navy Long has or
dered Rear-Admiral Remy to go with
the cruiser Brooklyn from Manila to
Taku, and to tender to Gen. MacAr-
thur conveyance of any troops which
the Brooklyn can carry
A Chicago & Northwestern train,
loaded with excursionists to the saen-
gerfest at Green Bay, Wis. collided
with freight at De Perc River, five
miles south of Green Bay, on the cath.
| Eight persons We're killed and SO in
| jured. Several of the latter may die.
a strike has occurred among the la
borers employed by the Havana Flee
trio Co. The Cubans and Spaniards
enjoyed claim that the Americans re-
ceive 40 cents n day more than they.
To this the contractors reply that
Americans are worth far more than
Cubaps as workmen.
| Dispatches of the oath, from various
points in Illinois, Missouri and Okla
homa report much damage to the
wheat and corn crops from cloud
bursts and severe windstorms, while
western and central Kansas is suffer
ing from extreme drought. In Okla
homa tornado swept a path OF de-
strrction for 80 miles, killing three
and injuriDg four persons.
Recent heavy rims have done great
damage in Alabama. 1t has rained
every day this month at Birmingham,
the fetal rainfall, since April /, being
24.92 inches, as compared with ansaver-
age annual rainfall of about As inches.
Cotton is badly damaged.
Rev. DIR. LowenIhal of the Fifth
Street synagogue. New York. was a
Very busy man OH the cath. He united
ten young people in one hour and
twenty-five minutes, breaking all
previous sir liar performances on rec
ord.
In the case of Brigham II. Roberts,
found guilty, at Salt Lake, Utah, of UNI
lawful cohabitation, the Judgment of
the court was that he pay fine in the
sum of $3.50, or, in lieu thereof, that
he be imprisoned in the county Jail for
a period of $50 days. A bill of ex-
ceptiuns was filed.
The president. on the 25th, COM
muted to five years the sentence of life
Imprisonment imposed on Alphonse j
Jennings, convicted in Chickasha. |, T..
in February, 1900, of train robbery
The attorney general considered the
sentence of Jennings unjust, as Others
convicted with him at the same time
received lighter sentences.
Five-dollar silver certificates of the
new design made their first appear.