The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

Turkey, in which %Oo Christians have been killed.
 Theo. D. Poole. United States mar shal for the northern district of New York; member of the Fifty-fourth congress from 1894 to 1896 and civil war veteran, died of apoplexy at Syra- cuse on the 22d.
 John Riley Chamberlain, veteran of the civil war and a graduate of Miami university at Oxford, O., died in Cincinnati, on the 23d. aged 72. He had been engaged in newspaper work in Cincinnati for 35 years.
 Prof. Carl Becker, the German his torical painter, whose eightieth birth day anniversary was celebrated on the 18th, and who was then the recipient of a congratulatory address from the Berlin academy of arts, died, on the goth, of influenza.
 It is reported in Wichita, Kas., that Frank Rockefeller is negotiating for the purchase of 10000 acres of land in Kiowa and Clark counties with view to stocking it with horses and high grade cattle. sheep and hogs, es- specially horses, for which he sees profitable future.
 We're Foster, who had been engaged for 50 years in assisting the emigra- ton of nearly twenty-thousand young women from the congested districts of the west of Ireland, and in the building or furnishing of over twenty two hundred national schools in every part of Ireland, died in Belfast, on the 21st.
 Advices from southern Luzon say that a lieutenant and 60 men of the Ninth United States cavalry attacked a large body of insurgents recently near Guinobatan, Province of Albay After the battle 45 dead insurgents were counted, together with many wounded. Only one American was wounded.
 J. G. Stowe, consul general of the United States to South Africa, with headquarters at Cape Town, arrived at New York, on his vacation, on the new Red Star liner Vaderland on the goth. He had not been in America for three years. He left for Kansas City, Mo, on the 21st, to spend Christmas with his family.
 The British secretary of state for war, Mir. St. John Frederick, an nounced, on the 21st, that, in view of the prolongation of the war in South Africa, members of the imperial yeo- manry will be paid five shillings in- stead of one shilling and two pence per day. Militiamen are promised priority of return over regulars.
 Capt. B. F. Horn, one of the oldest Missouri river steamboat men, died at his esidence in Pierre, $. D., on the goth. Capt. Horn made his first trip 10 the head of navigation on the Mis- souri in 1866, and has navigated the river continuously since then. with the exception of one year, when he served as pilot on the Yukon river.
 
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 At the request of the secretary of war, the house committee on insular affairs, on the 18th, reported a bill in- creasing the salary of the commission CT of education of Porto Rico from s. 900 to S4,o0o. Prof. Brumbaugh relin- pushed position paying 5000 a year, from sense of public duty, to accept the Porto Rican commissioner ship
 William W. Thomas, Jr.. United States minister to Sweden and Nor way on the night of the 18th. ad- dressed the English society in Stock holm on Scandinavian Colonization in America and its Influence on Ameri- can Civilization" The address was well received. and portrait of Pres ident Mckinley, handsomely framed, was presented to Mir. Thomas.
 Two newspaper reporters employed on the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald. on the 21st, located the house in which the kidnapped youth Eddie Cudahv was held prisoner for more than day. While exploring the premises with a lighted lamp they had narrow es- cape from being shot by police officers who had just arrived upon the scene and mistook them for the child-rob- bers.
 Dr. J. E. Tood, state geologist for South Dakota, has issued a warning to farmers on the possible exhaustion of the art:'sim water supply. He holds that the great basin underlying most of the state may be exhausted by wastefulness. and recommends smaller wells, checking the flow in winter and when not needed and re- striction of the number of wells in stated areas by legislation.