The Forrest City times., 1900-11-30
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED

Dr. D. K. Pearsons, the Chicago Philanthropist, has announced his in- tention of giving s50,0Oo to the Colo rado college on January l.
 Secretary of the Navy Long has is- sued his annual report, in which he recommends an increase of the navy personnel.
 King Oscar of Sweden is steadily improving. He took a long walk Monday in the royal garden.
 Mrs. Joanna Robinson, a second cousin of President Mckinley, is dead at her home in St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. Robinson was 75 years old, and was born in Scotland.
 David B. Hill is in Washington in the interest of great insurance com panies, working to secure an annul- ment of the war tax on policies.
 The administration has decided to hold the Isle of Pines, just south of the western end of Cuba, as it is of great strategic importance.
 The new army proposes to give the president discretionary power to fix the size of the regular army, the minimum to be 52,00O and the maxi mum 100000 men.
 The Berlin National Zeitung semi officially denies that Germany is seek ing to acquire the island of Curacoa, Dutch West Indies.
 Dr. J. W. Brock, one of the pioneer physicians of Leavenworth, Kas., died Monday. Dr. Brock was 70 years old, and was a surgeon in the union army during the civil war.
 A Kansas clairvoyant has written a letter to Jessie Morrison's father pro- posing to hypnotize and control the jury, which will try the girl for mur- der, for S1 500 cash.
 Jim Franklin, who jumped his bond IS years ago, was recognized on the street at San Angelo, Tex, by a for mer bondsman and rearrested and taken to Tunnels county, where he is wanted.
 A negro serving a years sentence Tn the St. Louis workhouse has been arrested charged with burglary while abusing his privilege as ''trusty.'
 An Illinois society was organized in St. Louis, Monday night, with about fifty members.
 London bric-a-brac dealer. through representative in New York, IS trying to tie up the Gas tellane income until his claims are settled.
 S. Pearson, commissary general of the Transvaal army; Commandant W. Snyman, of the Orange Free State: II. Snyman, Jr., o. Liebenberg and Hercules D. Valjoen. of Snyman's com mando, arrived in New York Monday
 Ii Hung Chang, according to the Shanghai correspondent of the Lon- don Morning Post. is seriously i'll, and has telcgraphed for his adopted son. Ii Ching Fang.
 Corn King Phillips forced the Chica- go corn pit to recognize him as its master, Monday, by forcing the price of corn up to 50 cents. and keeping it in that neighborhood, although sell ing more grain than he bought. Victor Johnson, a farmland com mitted suicide by hanging himself in the hedge near Goddard, Kas. He had inst been discharged from his posi- ton.
 Workmen engaged in clearing away | debris at Galveston, Tex, Monday, dis | covered ten bodies under the ruins of two houses. Six of the bodies were | those of women and children. Dr. H. A. Hamilton, a prominent physician of Marysville, Ia.. was shot and killed ny Alfred Ain, who had ac- | cused the doctor o1 causing the sep | aration of Ain and his wife. The discovery of vein of rich cop | per on stare school lands near Sierra Blanca, Tex, on the Rio Grande bor- der, is reported. The ore, it is said, assays A per cent. copper and three ounces of silver