The Forrest City times., 1900-08-17

FORREST CITY, ARKANSAS.
II has been decided. according to
dispatch to the London Times from Or
toshoop. TO concentrate Gen. Sir Fred
erick Carrington's force at Mafeking
Field Marshal Count von Waldersee
according to the Berliner Tageblati
will go on a special mission TO ROM
before sailing for China TO assume
the command of the internationa
forces.
All the Beers in the field credit
rpmor circulated by their leaders tina
Lord Roberts is dying. Roberts, how
ever. is now in excellent health, is dis
playing wonderful energy and ride
daily long distances
Mrs. Booth-Tucker, wife of Com
mander Booth-Tucker, of the Saliva
tion Army, who has been i'll at Sprini
Lake, near Asbury Park, n. j., an,
was reported dying, was. on the 18th
said to be greatly improved and ou
of danger.
A dispatch from Gen. Chaffee, re
ceived in Washington on the 18th, sale
that the international troops hac
reached Ho-Si-Nyu on the 9th. At the
same rate of progress they should
have been near the capital city by the
time the dispatch reached the state
office.
IL is understood that the question
of the American Delsgoa Bay railroad
claims is on the point of settlement
though not actually settled. The par
ties interested have arrived at q
practical agreement, but there are
still some matters of detail to be ad
justed.
The state department received q
dispatch, on the 18th, from Gen. Chat.
fee, including telegram from Minis.
ter Conger, in which the latter says:
will hold on until your arrival. Hope
it will be soon" The government;
will use every means to push forward
the relief column.
Il. III. Ferrcll, former empioye o:
the Adams Express Co, was arrested
on the 18th, aud confessed to the muir.
der of Express Messenger Lane and
the robbery of the safe on the Penn
sylvania east-bourd train, on the
night of the 10th. One thousand dol
lars of the money stolen was recov
cred.
The Montana conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, in SEES
sion at Helena, on the 10th, passed
resolutions enthusiastically indorsine
the president, the army and the navy
and the nation in carrying the benef
icent institutions of our glorious
country to the uttermost parts of the
EARTH
Nine persons who hurriedly soughl
shelter under some trees and bushe.
in the woods in the Bronx section o.
Greater New York, during a storm, or
the 18th, were struck by the same
flash of lightnin. Physicians saic
fifth could only survive to become in
sane.
The German foreign Office, on tn,
9th, referring to the presence of tn,
Boer ENJOYS and Of DIR. Leyds in Der
lin, said that the delegation was Their,
in an unofficial capacity only, an,
that it was not likely that any powe'
would endeavor to secure favofabl,
peace terms for the Beers in the fina
settlement.
The Philadelphia Evening Star,
daily newspaper in which the lat
John Russell Young was financial.
interested, was sold at auction, on tn,
9th, in order that a settlement of tn,
estate of Mr.. Young might be effect
ed. The property was knocked dow,
to William c. Greiner, of Philadelphia
who bid $4,000.
The dispatch sent, on the sth. I,
the Chinese government through
Minister WI, is not in the form O.
nature of an ultimatum. 1t insists
however, that the firing on the lega
tons cease, and that the imperial gov
eminent, if it desires TO show it
friendliness. shall, cooperate with III
relieving column.
Baron Russell of killowen, Tor,
chief justice of England, died on tn
10th. He had been i'll for some time
On the sth an operation was per
formed, which the patient is reporte
to have passed through in good con
dition. AT six o'clock on the evenin
of the 9th, however. he took q tur
for the worse, soon became uncon
fcious and passed away peacefully a
3 a. III.