The Forrest City times., 1900-11-02
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.


 Gen. Benjamin Flagler, of Niagara Falls. N. r.. died in the Fifth Avenue hotel. New York city. Tuesday.
 James. alias "Cockeye" Walsh was sentenced to life Imprisonment. at St. Louis, under the habitual criminal law.
 It is denied in official circles al Caracas that Venezuela contemplates leasing a port on Margarita island to Germany.
 James o'Donnel. aged 76. one of the old pioneers of that section. died at his home near Unionville. Mo.
 Miss Mary Gore compelled George overacker. of Bloomington, Ill.. at the point of revolver, to keep his prom ise to marry her.
 A Franco-Belgian convention has been called to devise q plan to protect common interests in China.
 Harrison Wilcoxson, one of the old est and wealthiest citizens of Carol ton, Mo-. died Tuesday. Wilcoxson was a native of Kentucky.
 Chief Sanitary Officer Charles w. Francis of St. Louis reports that there are 39s cases of diphtheria in the city. Is of them reported Tuesday.
 The refusal of girl to take the place of a union member has pre- cipitated the greatest strike in the history of the cotton mills in North Carolina.
 A socialist was elected to the Ger man diet at Coberg. The German gov ernment is dismayed at the growing strength of that party.
 The Tammanv hall executive com mittee in New York is planning a grand finish to the campaign to be held Saturday night in which, it is claimed. 250.000 men will participate. The family of Lewis DeHatre, of Bridgeton. St. Louis county, Mo-. has been considerably startled by re- port that he had been shot and killed in a fight at Cape Nome.
 The London Telegraph makes a spread on an announcement that Lord Salisbury has decided to resign his post as minister of foreign affairs, but to retain the premiership.
 Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, who is now at his home near Richmond, Va, de- clares himself well pleased with his assignment to the department of the Missouri.
 Henry Giesing, aged 50 years. and for over thirty years an employe of the Collins blow works, at Quincy, H., was ground to death at the works by getting caught in a pulley.
 Former Congressman James Bu- chanan died suddenly at his home in Trenton. N. J. He had been subject to heart trouble. MT. Buchanan was 61 years old.
 Louis Mofson. 15 years old, tried to end his life, at Chicago, because he became convinced he was homely, un- attractive, and because his sisters made his facial features the object of ridicule.
 A colored man who assaulted a white man at Albia, la, was arrested and lodged in the Des Moines county jail, at Burlington, for safekeeping, threats of lynching having been made by angry citizens of Albia.
 Several members of the Monclova. Rough Rider club. were seriously in jured in an assault by hoodlums, as they were boarding train at Grand Rapids, O., after a political demon stration.
 Orders have been sent to Pekin. de- taching Gen. James K. Wilson from duty as chief-of-staff under Gen. Chaf- fee and directing him to return to the United States.
 The railway franchise, which the executive council of Porto Rico grant ed to the North American company. IS very valua ble. It will permit the construction of veritable network of lines in the island.