The Forrest City times., 1900-04-27
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED

me treasury department warns peo- pie throughout the country again.t interruptions parties who are gulling the unwary with references to vast amounts of money held by the govern. ment awaiting claimants. The government will make rigid investigation of the influx of Jap anese.
 The Arkansas crop report states that the nights have been too cool for the early-planted cotton crop.
 The Cape Town authorities have listed the names of 12,O00 alleged reb- els in Cape Colony and Natal.
 Admiral Dewey has decided to go before the Kansas City convention on his record.
 The Boers are making presents to the queen of Swaziland, and are ask. ing permission to pass through to No Hans Land.
 Mrs. Jacob Patton, aged 25 years, wife of a Bloomington Cll.) hack driver, fatally poisoned herself with concentrated lye. She was mentally unbalanced.
 United States Senator Horace Chil. ton, of Texas, fails to improve, and his friends are becoming very much alarmed.
 $. $. Jones, who was shot in pistol duel with his son-in-law, Frank Blankenship, at Ashley. H., is still alive. but in critical condition.
 In attempting to save her husbands coat from being destroyed by fire, Mrs. Mattie Lambert, 20 years old, was probably fatally burned at St. Louis.
 Michael Farrell, working on the Pe- oria & Pekin Union railroad, was killed by the falling of a large piece of sand. stone from up the hillside.
 "kajah," the man-killing elephant. owned by circus company, died at the winter quarters near Argentine, kas., of brain fever.
 Harry Putnam, of St. Louis, 24 years old committed suicide in South St. Joseph, Mo-, by shooting.
 As result of the break in the gov ernment levee at Portage, Wis. 200 feet of track of the Chicago, Milwau- kee & St. Paul road have been washed out.
 The worsted slippers which were knitted by Mrs. Mckinley wife of the president, for the hospital fair in Pat erson, N. J., have been sold at auction for $125.
 Hail fell in the vicinity of San An gelo, Tex, Tuesday, destroying the fruit crop in it's path. In its sudden advent chickens were killed before they could reach cover.
 The Little Rock (Ark.) board of trade adopted resolution urging the Arkansas senators and representatives to favor one-cent letter postage.
 Sergt. W. C. Milliken, of Company c, Twentieth Kansas regiment, has de. cided to become minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and has been given charge of the Bartlett church.
 The state department has agreed to give the sultan, to settle the mission ary claims of about S100,00O, not much time, but sufficient to relieve the situ- ation of its alleged warlike quality.
 Tuesday being the anniversary ,f the death of Field Marshal Von Moltke, who died April 24, 1891, Em- peror William caused wreath to De deposited on the grave of the famols German general.
 Edward Gray, a theatrical advance agent, 25 years old, of Chicago. at- tempted to end his life by swallowing morphine at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Agnes OConnell, at St. Louis.
 The most remarkable religious re- yival in the history of Bloomington, H., has just closed, having continued seven weeks. It was conducted oy Rev. Thomas Harrison, the evangelist.
 The weekly crop report says much replanting will be necessitated by the southern floods, and corn planting n southern Missouri, eastern Kansas and Nebraska has been retarded by heavy