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The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28
FOREIGN FACTS AND FANCIES.

Eight soldiers are located in Ire land to one in Scotland
 Over a hundred kinds of wine are made in Australia.
 Spheres of influence" embrace pretty much all that is worth appro- priating of Africa, territorially SIX sevenths of the continent.
 A man who has just died in East London retired some years ago on modest competence acquired by ser ing hot water at cent a quart,
 The celebrated Frankfort spring and autumn fairs have dwindled sdu, ly from their former proportions anu will soon be either abolished or rel'' gated to comparative obscurity'
 Prisoners in Morocco are coni' pelled to pay the officers for tnen trouble in arresting and escortine them to jail. This plan makes ,ns police watchful and always alert io' business.
 The Average height of the Brl.sA upper classes at 30 years old IS l' Sh inches; of the farm IaboIe,' feet : 3-5 inches. The criminal cia9 brings down the average. as 'h'N height is but 5 feet 4-5 inches
 Canada lacks only 1000 squ miles to be as large as the Who,O ao continent of Europe; it is nearS ' times as large as Great Britain a"s a,s Ireland. and is 30o.00O square mii'' larger than the United States.
 The Russian government grants subsidies for the purpose of helping new settlers. This money is spent i-' encouraging farming and frult r",s ing. Subventions are given Tor .ns first six years. During the tolio"ins ten years these subventions must repaid in yearly payments. since log 2,605, 800 has been spent in that "S''
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28
BRIEF MENTION.

James Price was caught under a falling platform at Junction City and killed
 The Little Rock board of trade adopted esolutions asking congress to aid the Texas storm victims.
 tie cutter near Green Forrest felled white oak tree from which he cut forty five cross ties
 John Davis, colored, shot and fatally wounded another negro named George Curril near Linwood, Jefferson county.
 Mir. and Mrs. $. A. Thomasson, aged 75 and IS, respectively, of Eureka Springs, took their first ride on a rail- road last week when they left for Texas to spend the winter with relatives.
 A man giving the name of Bob Young CT, and claiming to be a nephew of the famous bandits of that name, was ar rested by Little Rock detective on the charge of defrauding board bill.
 A bill has been introduced in con. 5ANHo PAOf lulAS lOI tue erection or q new federal building at atesville to cost s50,O0O.
 The river and harbor bill carries appropriations of s11O,O0O for i'm proving the Arkansas river in this state and $270,O0O to be expended on the upper White river
 Alex. Nolan. colored was found dead near Osceola. Everything in- dicated that he had been killed in T fight as he had an empty pistol in his hand, and there were two bullet wounds in his head.
 Capt. DeRosey Cabell, Sixth cay airy U. s. A, who is a nat gan county, is now with Gen. Chaffee in Pekin. China.
 The steam laundry and heating plant of galloway conege at Searev was destroyed by fire on the 21st The plant was only partially insured
 The effort to secure an appropria. tion by congress for improving the ouachita river was unsuccessful the committee on river and harbors holding that the amount of money re quired was so large that new i'm provements would have to wait.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28
To Meet In Iitfle Rock.

J. II. Hinemon, of Pine Bluff, presi. dent of the Public School Officers As sociation of Arkansas, has issued a let ter to county examiners and other pub lie school officers of Arkansas, in which he announces that the next meeting of the association will be held in Little Rock, Jan. 5. He says; ''ThIs body is composed of county examiners. town principals, city superintendents and members of boards of school directors. No interests of state are more i'm portant than those which pertain to her educational institutions, and no state in the Union has made more rapid progress during the last decade in the development of her school system than the state of Arkansas.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28
An Important Pardon.

The most important pardon granted by Gov. Jznes was the one absolvlng T. H. Musgrave, of Mississippi county, who was convicted at the fall term. 1900, of the Cross county circuit court, on change of venue, of manslaughter, and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. On March II, 1899, Mus grave shot and killed Luther Walker. a next-door neighbor, in Mississippi county. A trial in December, 1899, re- suited in hung jury, seven for convic- tion and five for aequittal. He was sentenced to three years, but took an appeal, now pending in the supreme court. and was relased on bond. At the same term of court judgment was rendered against him in favor of E. NJ. Huffman, administrator of the estate of the deceased, for s4, 900 damages for the wrongful killing of Walker The civil judgment has been settled in full
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28
Killed By a Switch Engine.

Chas. Youngblood was instantly killed and c. B. Wellington badly in jured by a switch engine in North Little Rock. The men were walking on the track when struck. Young blood was caught under the wheels and terribly mangled, while Yelling ton was thrown down an embank ment and in that manner escaped death.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

A dispatch to the London Daily EX- press from Vienna reports recent Mos lem excesses against the Christian population in the central provinces of Turkey, in which -Oo Christians have been killed
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

We're Foster, who had been engaged for 50 years in assisting the emigra- tion 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.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

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 a view to stocking it with horses and high grade cattle, sheep and hogs, es- profitable future.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

Theo. D. Poole, United States mar shal for the northern district of New York; member of the Fifty-fourth congress from 1s94 to 1896 and a civil war veteran, died of apoplexy at Syra- cuse on the 22d.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

Pine Bluff authorities propose to en. force compulsory vaccination to pre- vent the spread of smallpox Those re- fusing to be vaccinated will be prose euted, and physicians will make a house to house canvass and personally inspect every occupant.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

The Canadian Pacific will open a school in Winnipeg, Man., for the teaching of shorthand and telegraphy to its juNior employees to enable them to qualify for more important posi- tions
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

Advices from southern Luzon say that 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.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

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.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

The isint note to China was signed by the foreign ministers in Pekin on the 22d, and was transmitted to the Chinese enyoys on the 24th.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28
The Three Mile Law

An important ruling was made in supreme court on the three mile law. The opinion was delivered by Justice Riddick.
 s. J. Morton and others filed a petition with the county court of Gle burne county asking that the sale of liquor be prohibited within three miles of the Heber high school. The county judge made this endorsement on the petition, viz: Ignore en- tirely." On appeal to the circuit court the petition was granted and the sale of liquors within that dis trict was prohibited. The circuit court refused to make the county party to the proceedings on petition of the county judge, to which refusal the county excepted and appealed to the supreme court
 In his opinion MT. Justice Riddick said. The county judge had the right to appeal. as by section 1270 of the digest it is provided that the | county judge shall defend appeals from that court to the circuit court This includes the right of appeal. Nor was it necessary that either the county or the county judge should be made party to the proceedings in the circuit court in order to exer- else that right. It is contended that the circuit court had no jurisdiction of the case because the county court did not make an order in the case that could be appealed from and be cause the record does not show any affidavit for an appeal.
 "As to the affidavit the county jgdge could defend the appeal in the circuit court within being formally nlade party, so it was not necessa ry. As they failed to move the cir. cult court to dismiss the appeal for want of an affidavit. it is too late to make the objection here
 'lt seems doubtful if the county judge made final order in the case. hat we hold that in endorsing the pc. tition ignored entirely he refused the prayer of and rejected the peti- tion. But it is said that if he did reject the petition the order of re jection was never made a matter Of record. and hence the appeal to the circuit court was premature: but our statute provides that appeals shall be granted to the circuit court from all final orders and judgments of the county court, at any time within six months after rendition of the same. distinction is made between the rendition of the judgment and it's entry, and it is not absolutely es- sental under this statute that the Judgment should be entered of record before an appeal is taken. The or der of the county court should have been placed on record but no objec tion having been made on this ground in the circuit court it is too late to make it here.'
 Jack Patterson, white, was thrown from hand car near Malvern and killed.
 A serious shooting affray took place near Hot Springs between Lee Waters and Doc Owens, resulting in the wounding of Love Gentry. who tried to make peace between the bel ligerants
 Hamp Thompson. colored. was shot and killed at a negro cabin near Hamburg. It seems that the deceas- ed was on the war path and had de ciared his intention to kill another negro. who got in his work first.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

While Marvin Wilson. young white man. was en route to his home from Pine Bluff Christmas eve, hs was held up and robbed by two ne- gro men and a negro woman.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

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.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

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 Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

The death of former Gov. Roger Wolcott makes a vacancy in the elec- toral college that is to cast the votes of Massachusetts for president and vice-president of the United States.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

Marshall Nelson, the famous scou: of the late Gen. Lawton, has been summoned by Gen. Wood to Cuba for services under secret instructions.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

Harry Furr and Gus Swain. two Arkansas boys now in the Philip. pines in letter to a friend at Lo- noke say that they will maAe a trip around tue world when their term in .-.e army expires.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

The capitol commission passed res. oiutions thanking Supt. F. T. Nc. Connell, of the state penitentiary, for the kind manner in which he has always united with the commis. sion in the work of the construction upon the capitol building. feeling that without his free and continued coop. eration the progress made upon this great enterprise would not have been so Tar advanced. We thank him for ms assistance and recommend him to the good will and esteem of the general public as a man of en- ergy. honesty and usefulness, and whose record as superintendent of the Arkansas penitentiary has never been excelled and erhaps not equaled"
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

The British secretary of state for war, Mir. St. John Frederick, an- nouneed, 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. NIilitiamen are promised priority of return over regulars.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

Dr. J. E. Food, state geologist for South Dakota, has issued a warning 10 farmers on the possible exhaustion of the art:'sian 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.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

The Mississippi county election contest cases have been decided in circuit court in favor of the demo cratic incumbents. The contests were instituted by John A. Lovewel and J. w Rhoades. independent candi. dates for sheriff and clerk. respect. lively. against Sam Bowen and c. s. Driver who were given certificates by the election commissioners. Later on they were commissioned by the gov. ernor. Lovewell and Rhoades won in the county court and an appeal was taken to tke circuit court presided over by Judge Taylor.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28
Caoked to Death,

Willie White, aged years met death in a peculiar manner at Pine Bluff. While eating peanuts q nlay. mate tickled him and he threw his head back and laughed. One of the nuts was in his mouth and when he threw back his head the nut slipped into his windpipe and thence ipto his throat, where it lodged, causing death after several hours of suffering
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

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 to 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.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

At the request of the secretary of war, the house committee on insular affairs, on the 18th, reported 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 a sense of public duty, to accept the Porto Rican commissioner ship.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

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 m America and it's Influence on Ameri- can Civilization" The address was well received. and a portrait of Pres ident Mckinley, handsomely framed, was presented to Mir. Thomas.
The Forrest City times., 1900-12-28

Two newspaper reporters employed on the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald, on the 21st, located the house in which the kidnapped youth Eddie Cudahy 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.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-10-11
A Painter Of Fame.

In these days of very personal jour-
nalism, Rudolf lehman, who attained
the age Of 81 on Aug. 10, can not be
said to be very we'll known to the man
in the street. Yet the veteran is tho
most illustrious portrait painter liy.
ing, and the number Of distinguished
people who have sat to him is simply
amazing. For example, there is the
Prince Of Wales. who smoked a great
deal while undergoing the ordeal; and
other sitters have been Mr.. Gladstone,
the Duke Of Cambridge, Pope Plus
TX, Lord Tennyson, Cardinal Man
ming, Browning, and the present Lord
Warwick, who was then years old.
Mr.. Lehman also painted Lord Leigh
ton, when the president of the Royal
Academy was about % years old. Lord
Leighton was born IL years after the
veteran artist and died four years ago.
Mr.. Leamann was born at Hamburg,
and It was not till 1866 that he set
tled;inj London. For 16 years previous
" he had lived Id Rome, where some
Of his pictures had become well known.
London Tit-Bits.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-10-11
Asa Matter Of Course.

''Now, boys, when ask you ques-
ton you mustn't be afraid to speak
right out and answer me-" said Sun
day school superintendent. when you
look around you and see all those fine
houses. farms and cattle, do you ever
think who owns them all now? Your
fathers own them, do they not?"
eyes, SIR" answered hundred
voices.
'Well, where will your fathers be
thirty years from now?"
"Dead!" shouted the boys.
"That's right. And who will own the
property" y
Gus boys!" shouted the urchins.
Right. Now, tell me-did you ever.
in going along the street, notice the
drunkards lounging around the saloon
door, waiting for some one to treat
theln?"
eyes, sir, lots Of them"
'WeI, where will they be thirty
years from now"
''Dead!" exclaimed the boys.
"And who will be the drunkards
them"
"Us boys!" shouted the unabashea
oungsters.-scottish American.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-10-11
Ri1ex,s storx Of the Twins,

Oliver Herford repeats with great
delight a story James Whitcomb Riley
tells about twins. These particular
twins lived near Mr.. Riley out in Indi-
annapolis. Once, not very long ago, one
Of them was naughty, and to punish
her, her mother made her stay indoors
all day. To add a, keener edge to her
dasgrace, favors were showered upon
her sister. Sister was dressed UP In
her very best. Sister was given new
parasol, and went prancing up and
down the front walk in the greatest
glee. Presently zone of the neighbors
came by and paused at the gate to
speak to the child.
You're one Of the Brown twins,
aren't your asked the neighbor.
.'':Yes'm answered the little girl.
(Which twin are you?" the netghbos
inquired.
The child gave her skirts a prouc
toss.
..oh,'' she said, complacentfy, 'I'n.
the good little twin that's out walk,
ing,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-10-11
CLAD IN AsHRouD, HE SAT UP.

How an Unconscious Contractor
Came to Startle His Friends by
PostpOning His Death.
Henry Ganzert, contractor thirty
six years old, was struck upon the
head by a forty pound hammer at the
Richmond locomotive works early last
week. He was unconscious until Fri
day, when the doctors pronounced him
dead. His brother, who lives in the
North, was telegraphed to come to
Richmond. a.
Friends went to work to prepare the
body for burial, and the coffin was or
dered. While they were engaged in
the work of shrouding the suppos9d
corpse signs of life were discovered,
and very soon Ganzert was able to sit
up, in semi conscious condition, but
could give no account of the expert
'ence he had suffered.
He lived until Monday morning, bur
did not regain consciousness. The body
will be buried tomorrow afternoon
Richmond (Va.) Special to Philadelphia
Record
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-10-11
! alulR|MARlNR FIGHTER.

Eystsrlous Torpedo-Boat In Csar.s os
Construction &C stamford 4:
For nineteen months q submarine
|torpedo-boat has been in process of
construction at Ware Island, on Siam
lord, Conn. Great secrecy has been
maintained by the builder and COM
|paratively little is known of the plan
Of the boat or what she is expected
to accomplish. To casual observer
the boat looks like a great cigar paint
I'd bottle green. It's length is given as
fifty feet over all. The bow is sharp.
the stern rounded. The boat Is Atted
with heavy ram made Of maple and
tapers from six inches to perhaps
twenty-five in diameter. It is four feet
six inches long and fitted on the end
is steel plug which tapers to a point
The shell OF the. boat is Of yellow
pine, bound with iron hoops, covered
with coatings Of ship felt and pitch.
Galvanized iron covers the coatings
Of pitch and felt. On the top Of the
craft is deck conforming to the shape
of the boat. There is also coming
tower, with two torpedo loops. The
machinery is connected with the con-
ming tower. Electricity is the motive
power used. It is said that three men
will compose the crew. The torpedo
loops are made water tight by prep
aration Of rubber and copper. A rub
Der cap also screws down over the top
Of the tower outside and encircling the
deck are several exhaust pipes. The
craft will be propelled by water taken
in through openings, one on each side,
about four feet from the stern Of the
craft and we'll down toward the princi-
pal keel. These openings are connect
ed with pumps which are operated by
two engines Of 1000 horse power each.
From the pumps run four seven-inch
copper pipes, two in each side Of the
boat. The water forced through these
pipes passes out through two openings
in the blunt stern of the boat and,
coming in contact with the body of
water in which the boat rests. forces
it ahead. It is not calculated that
very great speed will be attained. To
the stern is fitted a cap of iron bolted
with wood to make it tight. This cap
is connected with lever on the inside
of the boat and when it is desired to
back the vessel the cap is placed
partly over the vents in the stern.
This gives the water emerging through
the opening backward movement and
causes the boat to go back. There are
two dynamos, which are operated by
the two engines mentioned. Kerosene
is used as fuel. There are fourteen
tanks in the bottom of the boat, capa-
BILE Of holding f1fty-five barrels Of oil.
This 2,700 gallons Of kerosene also an
swers the purpose Of a balance. When
tank has been exhausted provision
is made to take in sea water to refill it.
The interior Of the boat is divided into
three sections In the rear is the en-.
gine-room. in the center are the lock-
ers and apartments for the crew and
in the bow is store-room. The in
terror is braced by an octagonal frame
of wood and iron. The craft will be
lighted throughout by electricity. So
far as can be learned there is no pro-
vision made for leaving the boat when
1t is under water.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-10-11
For Long Necks,

1t is no longer fashionable to have
any trimming at the back Of the collar,
but women Who have long necks, or
whose necks are beginning to look thin,
find it a great advantage to tie a piece
of tulle around the neck with bow at
the back. This gives pretty finish to
stiff ribbon stock collar, and is all
most invariably becoming. Only white
or black tulle should be used. For
evening". the same thing is often seen
worn even with a jeweled collar or a
handsome necklace, and it seems to
soften any hard lines in a most salts
factory fashion. Boas and ruches worn
around the neck are very soft, but not
very full, unless intended for quite
cool weather. A pretty one is made Of
liberty satin or chiffon, trimmed with
bands of white lace, and with little
pleated edge of chiffon. This fastens
at the throat, and has long ends with
edged with lace that hang down in
front of the gown.-Harper's Bazaar.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-10-11

had not needed the words TO shape his
thought already she had read It. Far
ther and farther she shrank away from
him, and this hideous alternative he
had presented to her.
A new feeling Of almost loathing took
possession Of her. She put up her hands
as If to be sure that he would not ap-'
proach nearer her by q step.
Wait! wait!" she gasped. GIVE me
time!'
ST am waiting" he replied.
But he answered with a cruel smile
upon his lips.
(To BE Contlnued1