The Forrest City times., 1900-03-23
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Admiral Dewey had severe attack of indigestion at Savannah, Ga. Tues Jay. sr
 Two young ladies are making a po- litical fight for the city clerkship at Coffeyville, Kas.
 Miss Hattie E. Edenberg, of East Dubuque, la, was run over by a Bur- lington train and both legs cut of.
 The American Federation of Labor, in session at Washington, decided to aid the striking machinists at Chicago.
 Henry Wise, aged so years, died, Tuesday, at Bunker Hill, III. He had been a resident of the place for the past 30 years.
 In the United States district court at Guthrie, Okla, John Curtis. charged with the murder of Peter Thompson, was acquitted. H4l
 A dispatch from Constatinople says Plevna, is dead. He was Turkeys greatest soldier.
 Former President Harrison has re- ceived from the secretary of state of Illinois a complimentary license to hunt in that state.
 Dr Hunter Mcclure, the eminent Virginia surgeon, who was Stonewall Jackson's chief medical officer, was paralyzed Tuesday. t4
 James A. Leroy, Detroit newspaper plan, has been appointed secretary to Prof. Dean C. Worcester, of the United States Philippine commission. M
 Frank w. Elliott, editor of the Troy (Kas.) Times was shot by an unknown assailant as he aiighted from Grand Island passenger train at Troy.
 George Finch, day laborer living in Austin, a suburb of Chicago, while beating his wife, was shot and in- stantly killed by his 16-year-old son, Albert.
 Daniel J. Trombley was convicted, at Bay City, Mich., of murder in the first degree for killing his wife and infant child in 1895. This was Trombley's second trial.
 Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, has appeared in court at Lucca, Italy, and renounced his Spanish citizen ship. He declared that he was an Austrian subject. ttfH
 Gov. Tanner, of Illinois, who it at Palm Beach, Fla, and whose condi- ton was such that much anxiety was manifested when the first went there, is recovering rapidly.
 A man claiming to be Schlatter, the divine healer, has made his appear ance in Springfield, III. He makes some wonderful predictions. concern ing the Twentieth century. sg
 Gen. Otis has recommended the pro- motion of Maj. B. F. Cheatham, to be colonel of the Thirty-seventh United States volunteers. Maj. Cheatham went out in the First Tennessee.
 The secretary of the interior has promulgated an order which reduces the royalty on coal in the Choctaw aud Chickasaw nations from ten cents on screen coal to five cents on mine run.
 John Kelley, a stonemason of Bloom ington, H., was killed. at Godfrey, Ill.,, by being hit on the head with fall ing stone while working on the Chica- go & Alton bridge across the Piasa bottoms.
 On Marrowbone Creek, 20 miles from Pineville, Ky, John Langley and Moses Stopper had an altercation, in which Langley and Sopper were both killed and man named Johnson was seri. ously wounded. s., sa tas ,.t. s.-N
 A log train on the Arkansas 8s Choc- taw railroad was. ditched, 20 miles north of Texarkana. Ark, capsizing two log cars. The contents of one GOV. cred a brakeman named Harris, kill ing him outright. 3tek ~3A 9t
 William w. Thomas. the United States minister. and Mrs. Thomas gave q dinner. Tuesday evening, at the United States legation at Stockholm with the crown prince of Sweden as the guest of honor.
 Two of the most valuable dogs ex hibited at the bulldog show in Madi son Square garden, New York, were found dead, and it is believed they were poisoned. The dogs were Della ware and Highland Mary.