The Forrest City times., 1900-03-02
Delight at Garrison Towns.
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Joplin, Mo-, has contributed ss3 ard Gov. Stephens $17 to the Goebel Inonu- ment fund.
 In the senate, the property qualiIi' cations provision in the Hawaiian bill was stricken out.
 Joseph Chamberlain, British ,ecrc- tary of state for colonies, is confined to his home with illness.
 Smallpox has been declared epidemic In Columbia county, Ark, by the gov. ernor, and T board of health appoint. ed.
 President Mckinley has accepted an invitation to attend the Ohio society banquet in New York Saturday even. ing.
 Texas farmers are preparing to plant an immense acreage of cotton, as a result of the good prices prevail. ing this year.
 A dispatch from Asmara says that the Anglo-Abyssinian convention for frontier delimitation has been signed between Emperor Menelik and Great Britain.
 The departure of Lumsden's Horse from Calcutta to South Africa, Mon. day, was a brilliant event. Immense crowds assembled to bid the troops farewell.
 Mrs. Mary Hadschmidt, of St. Louis, attempted suicide by cutting her throat with butcher knife. She may recover. She is the mother of five lit- tie children.
 George Lopez, a member of the St. Louis house of delegates, died at St. Iuke's hospital, following an opera ton for appendicitis. He had been ill only three lays.
 Leslie l.. Sloss, of St. Louis, division superintendent of the Chouteau avenue division of the St. Louis Transit Co.,, IS one of the heirs of Dr. Leslie L. Keeley, who died recently.
 The great necessity for additional officers of the navy has compelled Sec retary Long to ask congress to author ize the graduation of all cadets who have been at the naval acoderny for four years.
 United States Marshal Lon Lewis has arrested Frank Ialiey. of Fry, l. T., charged with the almost inconceiva- ble crime of burning six-year-old boy to death to get his allotment of Indian land.
 The Jury at Joplin, Mo-, in the case of Mrs. Thornton, charged with be- ing an accessory to the killing of her husband, returned a verdict of guilty and fixed her punishment at ten years in the penitentiary.
 Millionaire Carnegie has made a proposition to Jefferson City, Mo, to give the city $25,O00 for the establish ment of a library that is to be free. and steps are being taken to take ad- vantage of the offer.
 Howard Gould has announced that he will be one of four men to sub scribe $25,OoO each to the Dewey arch fund. to be paid on December 21, 19uO. provided up to that time the subscrip- tions amount to $400,0O0.
 At Chenoa, Ill., James Sample was found dead in bed. He had endeavored to perfect rotary steam engine. He was one of the prominent men of Che noa, and brother of Judge Alfred Sample, of Bloomington.
 Mrs. Evrill E. Synon was found dead in her home, at Chicago, Monday night. Her skull had been crushed by heavy blows from some blunt iu- gashes on her neck. Her husband, Michael, has been arrested.
 Archdul<e Francis Ferdinand, eldest nephew of the Austrian emperor, and heir presnnptiye to the throne, has been married to Countess Sophie Cho- tek, widow of an Austrian and daugh- ter of a Hunganria nobleman.
 In the presence of m immense as- semblaee on the river front, Rex, King of the Carnival, made his entry into New Orleans Monday. He landed from his royal yacht after a trium- phal journey mp the river