The Forrest City times., 1900-09-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The National Municipal League con-
vention at Milwaukee closed, on the
2lst, with banquet at night at the
Hotel Pfister. The place of the next
meeting will not be chosen for several
months.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive
of the Sl50,000,000 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
21st, showed: Availsb BILE cash balance,
$i32. Ssh, 040; gold, $74, ,9s7.
There was another death from bu-
bonic plague and an additional case
of the disease reported in Glasgow
on the 21st.
An article in a Los Angeles (Cal.)
paper advocating the annexation of
Mexico TO the United States caused
the Herald of Mexico City to deny
that Americans in that country are
conspiring against the political in
tegrity of Mexico.
The amalgamated wage schedule at
S4.75 per ton, based on one-cent card
rate, was signed, on the Esd, by both
committees. Fires were ordered by
wire in the mills everywhere. All that
were ready started up on the cath.
A dispatch from Lorenzo Marquee,
on the 23d, said: THE British have
occupied Komatipoort without oppo-
sition.'
Marshal Arseno Martinez de Cam
pos died, on the Esd, at Zaraus, near
San Sebastian, Spain.
Mr.. George Joachim Goschen, first
lord of the admiralty and member of
the house of commons for St.
Georges, Hanover Square, London,
announces that he will not seek re-
election to parliament.
The earl of Clarendon has been APP
pointed lord chamberlain in success
sion TO the earl of Hopetoun, recent
ly appointed governor general of the
Australian commonwealth.
Thirty-one new cases of yellow
fever were officially reported in Ha-
vana, from the 21st to the 23d, max
ing nearly one hundred patients under
treatment.
A tornado passed through Neode.
sha, Kas., on the evening of the 23d,
wrecking two dwelling-hou three
barns, and slightly damaging half Il
dozen others. Mrs. John Ford was
seriously injured, and her little son
was slightly hurt.
The United States does not accede
to Germany's proposition for the
powers to punish Chinese leaders of
attacks on legations. Russia is told
that the United States legation will
remain in Pekin protected by strong
guard. Minister Conger is empowered
to inaugurate negotiations for peace
The American squadron in Asiatic wa
tiers will be reinforced by six war
vessels.
The Marseilles (France) Mission
board has received news of the mas
sacre, in South Yunnan, of Bishop
Fantosalli and Father Quirine. The
eyes of the bishop were gouged out
and he was impaled on spears. The
Chinese poured kerosene oil on Fa-
ther Quirine and, setting it on fire,
burned him to death.
kilograms from Lorenzo MARQUEE
assert that 1900 Beers, including
Commandant Pienner and 13 leading
officers who had crossed the border,
surrendered, with their arms and am
munition, to the Portuguese on the
Esd. All of them were placed in
durance.
Grand Portal. the principal scenic
attraction of the famous pictured
rocks on Lake Superior, has been de-
stroyed by a NORTHEASTERN. Grand Por-
tai was 100 feet high by no feet
broad on the water line. The cliff in
which it was cut rose 30 feet above
the arch, and a great mass of rock
fell, crushing it in.
George D'Vys, the last surviving
member of the government relief ex-
petition which rescued DIR. Kane, the
American arctic explorer in 1855, died
at Worcester, Mass. on the 23d, of
pneumonia, after an illness of four
DAYS.
The United States treasurer. dur
ing the week ended the 22d, sent out
nearly $4,000,000, largely in silver. to
the western and southern sub-treas-
uries for use in moving the cotton
crop. He says that the amount re-
quired this year is much larger than
in previous years, and indicates that
the cotton planters are receiving bet
ter prices and have better crops.
The International Railway congress
is in session in Paris. 1t is being at
tended by many of the leading rail-
way officials of the world. All the inn
portant railways of the United States
are represented.
The partisans of Howard, on trial
at Frankfort, KY, do not believe he
will be convicted, as no direct evil
denee has been brought out showing
that he was in the secretary of states
office at the time Goebel was shot.
The prosecution rests mainly on the
testimony of Bowen Gaines and other
witnesses, who testified that they saw
Howard running out of the state
house yard after the shooting.
Carl Melehers, an American painter.
whose special collection of paintings
is feature of the Berlin art exhibit