The Forrest City times., 1900-04-13
lTHERWISE UNNOTICED.


 John Jefferson Owens, aged s2 years. lied at his home, near Pana, H., Mon- lay.
 Isaac Ewing, residing near Sidney, Mo-, died of hydrophobia caused by a sa' bite.
 The naval prize court released 24 captured vessels and declared 27 ships lawful prizes.
 It is now asserted that the man. moth Carnegie-Frick and Cramps works will be combined.
 The Indian appropriation bill, shorn of the contract educational amend ment, passed the senate.
 Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria Hungary will visit the German em- peror at Berlin in a short time.
 James Crow. prominent farmer. of Nergennes, H., was thrown from his wagon, Monday, and instantly killed. Forty-two persons are known to have lost their lives in the Texas Hoods and many more are reported missing.
 Former Congressman Charles X. Towne. of Duluth, Minn., is candidate Tor the democratic nomination for vice president.
 The ladies of St. Louis have an- nounced their desire to have their sex represented on the Dewey reception committee.
 The Russians and French are pro- testing against Britain's use of the Beira route, and may make representa- ticns to Portugal.
 An amendment to the Alaskan bill. to deprive aliens of mineral rights in Alaska, was introduced in the senate and caused much debate.
 Dr. Emil G. Hirsch told Jewish congregation at Chicago that the Jew lsh union college may be removed from Cincinnati to Chicago
 Col. F. c. Oxley, one of the best known men in the commercial world Of the south. died, Monday night, at Bridgeport, Ala, of heart trouble.
 In the case of Petit vs. The State of Minnesota the United States supreme
 
 ing law for barber shops to be valid. Hugh Wallace, ore of the oldest men in Mclean county, Jll.. died at Bloomington, Monday, aged 9 years. He was born in Mercer county, Pa. Lady Roberts will remain at Cape Town. The duke of Westminster, the duke of Marlborough and Lord Henry Cavendish Bentinck have gone to the front.
 Fifty-two prisoners who were cap tured at Boshof have arrived at Kim berley. Only three are Dutch, the others being Frenchmen, Germans and Russians.
 Police Sergeant James J. McGlynn, of St. Louis, was fined $50 by Judge Spencer, for contempt of court, in as- sarlting prisoner within the pur- lieus of the court.
 Secretary w. W. Johnson has issued Il call to the cattle growers of North America to meet in St. Louis next fall 10 organize an international cattle growers association.
 The estate of Joseph A. Maurer, a St. Louis barber, who was killed in the tornado of 1896, is claimed by two women, each of whom alleges she was his common-law wife
 The secretary of agriculture has sent to the senate an interesting sta tistical report on cotton consumption and exportation relative to America ano foreign countries.
 Henry Love, negro, detected in robbing a secondhand store on the levee, at St. Louis, ran into the river in an attempt to evade arrest. He was dragged out, almost drowned.
 Rev. William F. Junkin, of Mont clair, x. J., died, Monday, of pneu- Inopia. He was born in Philadelphia @ years ago. He was chaplain in the confederate army, and was with Stone wall Jackson when he fell at Chancel- lorsyilIe.