The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1900-10-05
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


pines. who proceededto China to join
his regiment. but broke down there,
owing to the climate and hard work,
is returning to the United States OH
the supply ship Celtic.
Sexto Lopez, formerly secretary
and confidante of Gen. Aguinaldo, ar
rived at New York, on the 30th, on the
Campania. Lopez is said to have come
at the invitation of Fisk Warren, and
he expects to explain to the people the
Filipinos' side of their fight with this
country.
Hon. s. n. Parent has accepted the
premiership of the province of Que
bee. Can, to succeed the late Premier
Marchand.
Russia hasimitated the United State.
and the withdrawal of it's troops
from Pekin has already commenced.
The car has gone even a step further
than the United States. He has or
dered his minister to retire from the
Chinese capital, and M. De Giers &C
cordingly left, on the 30th, for Tien
Tsin.
The motion for a new trial in the
case of James Howard was overruled
by Judge Cantrill at Frankfort, KY,
on the Goth, and Howard was SEN
fenced to be hanged December z. 1t
was agreed that the attorneys should
be allowed to file their bill of excep
tions to the appeal to the court of
appeals any time before the third
week in October.
Field Marshal Sir Garnet, Viscount
Wolseley. whose five years. term as
commander-in-chief of the British
army expired on the 1st, will be sue
ceeded by Lord Roberts, whose APP
piontment was gazetted on that date.
Lord Wolseley will continue to Off
ciate until Lord Roberts return to
England, about November 1.
Orders from Washington directing
the withdrawal of the bulk of the
American troops were received, at
Tien Tsin, China, on the 30th, and
preparations to comply were begun
immediately. Gen. Chaffee is there di-
recting the movement.
For two years William Carter, of
Derby Conn, has remained in the
county Jail because he will not pay
n 81 tax. He said that it was against
his principles to support the militia
and so he refused to pay the nominal
tax levied for the support of tha'
body.
William Vernon Wolcott, the Bos-
ton millionaire, who was stricken
with apoplexy while en- route to In
dianapolis, on the Goth, and who died,
on the 3oth, in that city, was found
to have. in his valise, 100000 in gov
eminent bonds and $4,000 in cash on
his person. He owned large interests
in Missouri zinc mines.
Rev. DIR. Gilbert II. Gregory passed
away, on the 30th, in the presence of
his congregation at the morning serv-
ice, in st. Stephens NJ. T.. Church,
Marble Hill, at the upper end of Man
haitian Island, n. Y. He was 63 years
of age.
The post Office at Bowling Green,
Ky, and robbed, early on the morn
ing of the 30th, of between $4,000 and
$4,000 in money and stamps. The rob-
bers are supposed to be experts who
have been operating in that section
for some time.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt, whose father
left him S5o,o0o,ooo, announced at
Newport, II. L., on the 30th, that he
would quit society and, on the NOR
left him S5o,000,000 announced at
of the New York Central Railroad Co.
The Russian war Office announced,
on the list, that dispatches from
Khabarovsk and Kharbin said Gen.
Tschitehagoff sent Col. Kopeiken, with
q detachment of Cossacks. railroad
troops and volunteers to engage q
force of Chinese who had occupied the
railroad at San Chakan. The Russians
won two obstinate fights. Forty-three
dead Chinese were left in the trenches
after the second engagement.
The Austrian steamer Syria Lloyd
sailed from Lorenzo MARQUEE, on the
LIST, having on board 400 Transvaal
refugees, part of them being Irish
Americans. All of their expenses had
been paid by the Transvaal govern
ment. Each man had received 80
ahN Will bS PdtQ = GU
on landing at any port which may be
elected by them.
Several hundred employees of the
Reading Iron Co., of Danville. Pa, de-
cided, on the LIST, to accept the %
per cent. reduction in their wages.
which went into effect on September
i0, and against which they struck.
The men agreed to resume work as
soon as the plant could be placed in
operation.
The Quincy (nl) Jail holds Fred
Truman, ex-alderman; George G.
Blunt, ex-Sunday-school superintend-
ent, and Capt. Henry. ex-postmaste-,
all charged with embezzlement from
fraternal societies.
Over nine hundred men of the Tween
ty-fourth and Twenty-fifth infantry
(eoloredl sailed from san francisco
for Manila, on the LIST, on the trans
port Hancock.