The Forrest City times., 1900-02-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Senator Depew introduced bill, on the 9th, granting to the public land stGt tes q percentage of the proceeds of the sales of public lands for the Aa- enlargement of mining interests.
 The steamer Prairie sailed, on the 9th, from Baltimore, for Newcastle, England, with a crew for the cruiser Albany and government exhibits for the Paris exposition.
 The body of Elisha Cone, one of the oldest newspaper men in Fond du Lac, Wls., was found frozen in the river in thet city on the 11th. Mr. Cone had been missing for 4s hours. Up to the time of his disappearance he was edi- tor of the Fond du Lac Daily News. He was graduate of Yale college.
 All Feeroun Bey. the Turkish minis ter to the United States, arrived at New York on La Gaseogne, on the 10th, and left at once for Washington. Min ister Feeroun was accompanied by his wife and sister-in-law, who were dressed in Turkish fashion.
 Benton G. Boone, attorney general of Missouri in 1884, and formerly a mem bsf of the legislature. died at his home in Clinton, Mo-, on the 1lth, of heart disease. He was born in 1888, in Gallo wtr county, Mo.
 The funeral of L. NJ. Fairbanks, ia ther of Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, was held, on the 10th, at the family residence in Springfield. 0. The in- terment was in Fernclff cemetery.
 Nathaniel A. Boynton, the inventor Of heating apparatus and president of the Boynton Furnace Co.,, of New York, dieo. on the night of the 11th, aged '7 years.
 The Mexican government now pro- hbits the entrance of arms and ann munition into the state of Sonora, ow- ing to the revolution now in progress there. This order was issued because it was reported that Americans were pouring into Sonora in the guise of miners, while their real object was to assist the rebelious Yaquis in gaining their freedom.
 Tie week ended February 10 wit messed an increase of nearly three million dollars in the gold held by the United States treasury, reaching a to- tai of St06, ASS, GAS.
 The ambulance corps, % in mum. Der, recruited and equipped by the United Irish societies of Chicago, left for New York, on the 11th, cn its long journey to join the Boer army on the battlefelds of South Africa.
 Tho recent jump in cotton is eN- plained by a St. Louis cotton man as due to the failure of the crop in India. England and the far east buyers came to the American market for cotton, and the Americans popped up the price. When the buyers had got all they wanted, the price went down, and then the American mills bought. You Americans will do." said an English buyer in St. Louis. when he go: all he wanted, and awoke next morning and found the market lower.
 Rewards aggregating $10,00O have been offered for the capture of Goe- bets assassin or assassins. The detec- tves are working on the theory that a conspiracy existed.
 The Canadien government is equip ping large SIT eying party for an eN- animation of tle immediate territory lying between the Great Slave lake and tluoson bay. This stretches from the Rockies to the Atlantic It is 2,00o miles wide and is supposed to contain rich mineral stores.
 \ bill was introduced in the senate, oa the t2th, by Senator Foster, of Washington, providing for the con- structioa of a government cable from the United States to the Philippines.
 It is expected that at dinner 10 be given at the Hotel Manhattan in New York early next month, John D. RoclSe- feller win announce further gift of sl.5oo.000 to Chicago university, mak- ing his total contribution to that inst,. tution Ss,500,000.