The Forrest City times., 1900-03-09
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

me conferences report on me nnance bill was adopted by the senate, A to 26.
 Lebanon Qll.) citizens are making an effort to build an electric road to St. Louis.
 The American Sugar Refining Co. has reduced the price of all it's su- gars ten cents per 100 pounds.
 George Higgens, of Olathe, Kas., w;rs killed at Bowling Green, Mo, by a train on the Chicago & Alton railroad-
 Veterans of the war of 1864 at So- lingen, Rhenish Prussia, will present to President Kruger sword of honor. Damascus blade.
 Mrs. Thomas F. Dorsey, formerly of St. Louis, buried the wrong man, sew eral weeks ago. and now discovers that she is not a widow.
 The British house of commons, in committee of the whole, adopted a res- olution to authorize a loan of E35,- 000,o 1000. The vote stood 161 to 26.
 Isaac Gordon, the famous modern Shylock of England, is dead in Birm- ingham. Though painfully i'll, he made a unsurious loan two hours before he died.
 Pruno Leupold killed himself with revolver at Kansas City, Mo-, because he believed he was to be taken back to Germany by force to serve in the German army.
 Two suspects in the Goebel assas- sination case were held for trial, at Frankfort, Ky. It is the theory of de- tectives that Goebel was the victim of a gigantic conspiracy.
 A movement is on foot in Berlin to present a sword of honor ot Mai. AL brecht, the German artilleryman who surrendered to Lord Roberts with Gen. Cronje at Paardeberg.
 While the faculty and students of Howard Paine college, at Fayette, Mo-, were at the opera house. thieves en- tered the college and ransacked. the rooms of the young ladies.
 Gen. Albert Shaw, commander-in- chief of the c. A. R., addressed large audience at Norfolk, Va, Tuesday night. There were many union and confederate veterans present. at
 Col. Jack Chinn has filed suit, Tt Frankfort, Ky, for $25,000 damages against Mrs. Kate Banta on the charge of malicious libel. She is the woman who said that Chinn shot Goebel.
 Building material firms which SUD- ply the Chicago market have decided to close their plants until conditions in the building industry of the city shall have changed for the better.
 Dr. L. L. Landon, a dentist, aged s years, was run over and instantly killed by a switch engine in the Kan sas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs railroad yards at St. Joseph, Mo.
 All Japan is discussing the ap- preaching marriage of the prince im- perial. and interesting gossip is being published concerning the betrothed pair. The wedding is fixed for April
 The Big Four bridge over the Wa bash river, at Terre Haute, Ind, which recently collapsed and was repaired, was struck by the broken ice gorge Tuesday morning and knocked al- most foot out of line.
 John C. Pettis, found starving and frost-bitten in a freight car, at St. Louis, said he had been placed there six days ago by Arkansas Inoonshin- CTS, into whose still he had unknow- ingly wandered, thinking it barn. A warrant charging perjury has been issued against Mamie Stadler. the states star witness in the trial of James Beachum, Allen Brown and Jo. seph Greer, negroes accused of mur- dering William Posten Scote at St. Louis. rs h4r ae.rzsafi. ttaa t,t
 The Missouri democratic state com mittee decided to hold three conven- tions, as follows: State nominating, at Kansas City, June 5; national dele gates, Jefferson City, June IA; judicial, Sedalia, July r. The holding of the state nominating before the national convention is departure from demo- cratic precedent. A majority of the nar rl dnfa