The Forrest City times., 1900-08-17

Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

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Late advices from the north assert
that single shipment of s1,000,o0o in
Il easrre viii soon De made from Daw-
son to Seattle, WASH
7 The post Office department has or
| dered the establishment of rural free
| delivery service, on the 18th, at Shell
don, Ia. Portland and Cumberland,
/ Ind, and Weldon, ILL.,. and additional
service at Belleville, Has.
Fifty-two cases of yellow fever
were under treatment in Havana on
the 10th. OF the victims, Is were
| Americans, Thus far the mortality
rate has hcen about 25 per cent. of
those attacked.
For insulting the new queen of
Servia, Gen. Belimarkowiteh, -,ao
vas one of the regents during the mi
nority of King Alexander, has .'een
placed under arrest.
Joseph Phelpot and Franz Craig.
wealthy stockmen, were fatally shot
three miles from Nodaway, No., on
the 18th. by two men who attempted
to rob them. The stockmen had Just
returned from selling cattle at st.
Joseph, but had deposited the pro-
ceeds in the bank.
Several persons were killed and 10
injured, on the 18th, by the wrecking,
at Iowa sta ton, La, of the west
bound fast passenger train on tn.
Southern Pacific road The trucks Of
the engine left the track. and the en-
tire train. except the sleepers, was
ditched.
Fifteen persons were killed and
number injured three miles east of
Slatington, Pa, on the 18th, BY the
omnibus in which party of IS were
returning from funeral, being run
into at crossing by train on the
Lehigh & New England railroad.
In Philadelphia the heat, on the
18th, resulted in II deaths and Is
prostrations. The maximum temper
allure was 80 degrees. A storm at
night caused fall of "a degrees.
In storm which passed over
Greensboro, n. Y, on the 18th, four
persons were killed outright and two
were probably fatally injured.
Memorial services for King Hum
bert of Italy were held, on the 18th,
in Carnegie hail, by the United Italian
societies of New York. s1'he hall was
crowded to It's utmost
Franz Betz, the well-known Wag-
merriam singer, died in Berlin on the
18th.
The allies are pushing on to Fel<in
with all possible speed. Minister Con-
ger is safe, and believes he can hold
out until the relief force reaches him,
although he urges that no time be
lost. This was the news brought by
the cables to the government OH the
18th.
In his confession of the murder Of
Express Messenger Lane, Charles Fer
reil, of Columbus, o., says he needed
the money to pay his wedding ex-
penses, and that the killing of Lane
was one of the incidents of his plan I.
secure it. ,
President Mckinley has notified Chi
ma that the United States can pursue
no negotiations with the imperial gov
eminent until the demands he has al
ready made have been complied with.
The effect of this is that America re-
fuses for the present to treat with Ii
Hung Chang, as China's peace envoy.
The English and Russians made a
bad mistake during the assault on
| Yang Tsung, confounding the Four
teenth United States infantry, in the
night, with the Chinese and Smelling
them. with the result that ten of the
| Americans We're wounded before the
mistake was discovered.
The main building of the Holbrook
Normal college was totally destroyed
by fire, on the 18th, at Knoxville,
| Tenn. The loss is about 1000, in
Guiding valuable college library. The
origin of the fire is unknown. The
building was erected six years ago, by
Josiah Holbrook, of Ohio, who estab-
| lished the school.
| At New Kensington, Pa, on the
18th, the plant of the Pittsburgh Re
| duction Co.'S aluminium works was de-
stroyed by tornado. The loss is es.
| timated at not less than 100000, and
it will entail the closing down of the
works for an indefinite period.
| The long-continued hot spell
gland was broken, on the 18th, by vio-
| gland was broken on the 18th by vic.
lent storm, which left behind it nu.
merous victims of its fury. Pleasure
seekers were struck by lightning OF
drowned by the capsizing of theiI
boats. There were many heat pros
trations before the break came.
Gen. Macarthur cabled, on the 18th
that Col. Grassa, on August -. in the
vicinity of Tayug, surrendered his com
mand to Col. Freeman, Twenty-fourtt
infantry, consisting of one major, 81,
captains, six lieutenants, 100 men, 10t
rifles and so bolos.
Gen. Roberts cabled, on the 18th, tc
the British war Office: THE enemy j.
fleeing in front of Kitchener's anC
Methuen's forces. Early this morning hs
was trying to cross the railway al
Wolverdien station, where he was en-
gagged by Smith-Dorrien."