The Forrest City times., 1900-03-30
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Tcxarkana (Tex.) men are arrang. ng to build a cotton factory.
 Smallpox is raging at Elrtvillc, Mo- but the patients have been quaran- tined.
 The spring cleanup at Dawson, it is estimated. will run from SIP ,0c0.000 to S30. .O00.o 900.
 Mrs Nathan Webb, ore of the oldest residents. died in Pittsfeld. Ill.. Tues day. She was born in 1s22.
 The Greek parliament has passed 3 law imposing heavy tax on all bach. elcrs g years of age ard over.
 The war department. it is said, is making preparations for the return to this country of Maj.-Gen. Otis.
 The Australian federation delegate. we're received in audience by queen Victoria at Windsor castle. Tuesday.
 Corn is pouring irto St. .Iosenb- Mo-. from Kansas and Nebraska farms al the rate of a million bushels week.
 Newton !. Harvey, a wealthy retired farmer, was found dead on the floor oi the dining-room in his home at St Joseph, Mo.
 Forty deputy sherifss at Boonville Mo. are on duty to protect the life of a negro. who killed city marshal while resisting arrest.
 The St. Louis board of police of com. niissioners has made arrangements to have all members of the department drilled in the use of reyolvers.
 Trouble is expected at Pana. Ill. where the coal operators declare that then can not pay the miners the new scale, and lockout may be the re. suit.
 Counsel for the memorialists in the oase of Senator Clark, of Montana have submitted their brief to the sen. ate committee on privileges and cleo. tons.
 The secretary of war does not ap- prove the recommendation of Gen Wood that about 2,o0o troops should b. returned to this country from Cuba
 The Clover Leaf railroad was sold Tl esday. for S12,20o,000 to Messrs Hartshorn and Peyton, representa-. {. the bondholders' reorganization com. mittee.
 After having searched constantly for eight years. Andrew Weber found. in Maryville. Mo-. Tuesday, his daugh- ter, from whom he had been separated 15 years.
 Mayor Ziegenhein of St. Louis has taken steps to investigate the charges made by the grand jury in it's repor. against F. C. Meier, commissioner of supplies.
 A shipment of s1 ,393 .0s0 for pay. ment of soldiers in the Philippines left the New New York subtrt asury Tues day, and was placed on board the transport Sumner.
 Representative Carter, of Kansas. has introduced a bill in congress to establish a bureau of criminal in. formation in connection with the le partment of justice.
 Hoke Smith, former secretary of the interior and owner of the Atlanta (Gs.) Journal. has sold his interest ir that paper to Harry M. Atkinson, of Atlanta; F. J. Coolidge, of Boston, and associates.
 The funeral of H. H. Taubeneck .whc dieG in Seattle. Wash. on she 10th irst., was held at Marshall. Ill.,. Tuas. day A funeral oration was delivered at the grave by A. l.. Maxwell, oi Lawrenceville.
 secretary Hay, it is said, has spoiled nice little scheme of would-pe :n termediaries. in New York. for the ac quisition of the Danish West Indies They expected to make fat fee, but tine fats in the fire.
 Eleven ward workers were indicted at Louisville. Ky. Tuesday, for un lawfully and focibly obstructing an election: three election officers wer, indicted for refusing to give cert;i- cate of returns, and two were indicted foi unlawfully destroying ballots.
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