The Forrest City times., 1900-05-04

missionaries are working were ex- plained in detail.
 Admiral Dewey, accompanied by Mrs. Dewey and his private secretary, Lieut.. Caldwell, left Washington, on the 29th, in a special train over the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, en route 10 Chicago to participate in the celebra- ton of the second anniversary of the battle of Manila.
 Emperor William has empowered the Trussian minister of educa tion, Dr. Latin in all university and faculty de- Crees, assigning as a reason the inn rortance of a more general use of the German tongue" An order to this eff feet has been issued.
 The state department received con- frmation, on the 27th, of the press rercrt that Cartagena had fallen into the hands of the revolutionists. The taking of the town is regarded as d matter of the greatest importance, for Cartagena is the principal seaport of Colombia, and collects most of the cus- toms revenues of the country.
 Shag Rock, a large rock protruding from San Francisco bay and long a menace to shipping, and especially to vessels passing in and out of the Golden Gate, was blown up on the 1cth Five tons of nitro-glycerine were Ustd to remove the obstruction, 300 cubic feet of rock being displaced Thousands of fish were killed.
 Gen. Cronje and his wife, accom- P: Died by the generals private secre- tary, were permitted to attend re- igious services, on the 29th, at Dead- wood Camp, St. Helena, after which they had their first ride around the country, an experience which seemed ta give Gen. Cronje much pleasure. The famous commander was received with cheers.
 Gustave H. Schwab, manager of the North German Lloyd lines American agency in New York, said, on the 27th, In reference to the action of Prince Von Hohenlohe in interdicting the inn portation into German, Dutch or Bel giap ports, of pork and dairy products by the Northern Lloyd company. tha. the edict did not apply to American provisions.
 Representative Needham, of Cali fornia, on the 26th, sent to the presi- dent, members of the cabinet and senators and representatives in con grcss, invitations from the board of trade of Visalia. Cal, to join in 30- day camping party, which is to visit Mount Whitney and the Sequoia na- tional park in the Sierre Nevada mountains, about July Is.
 The United States ship Dolphin, bearing Mir. Charles Herbert Allen, the rewly-appointed civil governor of Porto Rico, dropped anchor off San Juan at ten o'clock on the mornin 2 of the 27th. Gen. Davis, military goY- ernor, visited Mir. Allen on board the Dolphin at half-past eleven o'clock. Gov. Allen and family landed at noon and took breakfast with Gen. Davis.
 Before leaving Ireland, on the 26th, Queen Victoria distributed titles among the great and cash among the poor, with an equally liberal hand. She also declared her purpose to pre- sent a piece of plate to the corpora tion of Dublin as a memento of her visit, and published a feeling expres- sion of the great pleasure her stay among her Irish subjects had afforded her.
 By the collapse of bridge at the Paris exposition, on the goth, about fifty persons on the promenade below were caught under the ruins of the falling structure. Six of them were taken out dead, and 10 We're more or less severely injured, several of them dying soon after. The bridge had that morning been condemned as insecure, but for some reason no warning Ina l Teen given the public.
 Five square miles of territory burned over; more than twenty-five hundred dwellings, factories, mills, stores and other buildings destroyed, entailing n soss estimated to reach $20,000,000, an between 12,O00 and 15,000 men. women and children homeless, is a summing u of the havoc wrought by fire which devastated Hull, Que, and Otta- wa, Ont. on the 26th. The cisies are separated by the Ottawa river, over which the flames swept.