The Forrest City times., 1900-10-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

received information of a definite na- ture to the effect that President Me Kinley will visit San Francisco next April to witness the launching of ths battleship Ohio, which is now nearing completion at the Union iron works in that city.
 The department of education in the Philippines has decided to place some natives in United States schools so that they may come in contact with American social and political usages. The first lot of students probably will not be sent over until next summer.
 The duke of Tetuan, Marquis Villa verd, Senor B. Olivier, director gener- al of the civil register, and Senor Tor res Campos, have been appointed members, on the part of Spain, of The Hague international arbitration I board.
 It is announced that the immedi- ate danger attaching to the illness of King Oscar has passed, but that he will require a long rest.
 Rabbi Heyman Schwarz, a we'll known Jewish litterateur, died at Houston, Tex, on the 18th, aged 76. He had an international reputation as a writer on the Jewish religion. | A home for women students at the Berlin university will be erected, fol- lowing the general plan of college | dormitories in the United States. l All the London morning papers di- late upon the high importance of the Anglo-German agreement. The Daily | Telegraph describes it as 'the most remarkable success scored by British diplomacy since the Berlin treaty" | Mir. Robert Buchanan, the novelist, 1 had cerebral hemorrhage in Lon don, on the 21st, which was followed by paralysis of the right side and complete loss of speech. His condi- fSion is very critical.
 l Advices received from Hayti, on the 21st, assert that the revolution in Santo Domingo is not ended, and that fighting was proceeding in the in- terior, although the revolutionists were weak.
 | Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood, military governor general of Cuba, arrived in | afternoon he called at the White House and had conference with the president.
 The new British minister to China, Sir Ernest Mason Satow, arrived at Pekin on the 21st. l Lord Salisbury went to Balmoral. on the 22d, to consult Queen Victoria l rp rfin m ho nth important matters.
 1 The Berlin municipal council has ap- pointed committee to investigate the scarcity of dwellings in that city.
 Johanna" Barnum & Bailey's fla nous gorilla, died of pneumonia, on the 21st, at Nuremburg, Germany. | While digging a we'll on the prem ises of the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark, at a depth of 30 feet, the diggers were astonished at striking bold stream of hot wa ter, the heat of which was so intense l that they were compelled to abandon | the well.
 l The president and Mrs. Mckinley, accompanied by Secretary Cortelyou, Dr. Rixey, and one or two clerks. left Washington, on the evening of the 22d, for Canton, where they will re- main until election day. According to I present plans the party will leave Canton soon after the president has deposited his vote,
 Charles Dudley Warner, the eminent author and lecturer, died suddenly, on the 20th, in the home of Mrs. Rob- ert Smith, colored woman, at Hart ford, Conn.,, where he had sought per mission to lie down to rest from what he supposed was temporary fa- tigue.
 George K. Somerby, widely known among Christian Endeavorers as d chorus leader, and who had charge 1 of the great chorus at the Christian Endeavor convention held in Boston, three or four years ago, died suddenly of heart trouble.
 There were So cases of yellow fever in Havana on the 21st. Sixty-six of the patients are Spanards. Of Il new cases reported on the goth, eight were of persons who have been less than a month in the island | The most disastrous fire that has visited Paducah, Ky, for years broke | out in Morton's opera house on the morning of the 2lst, and that building and several stores were destroyed, involving loss of S2o0.o The origin of the fire is believed to have been in- cendiary.
 l The jury in the case of Henry Yout- sey, tried at Georgetown, Ky, for complicity in the murder of William Goebel, returned verdict of guilty, on the goth, assessing his punishment at imprisonment for life A motion in arrest of judgment has been laid over until the February term of court.
 An Anglo-German alliance has been formed having in view the main- tenance of the territorial integrity of China and the carrying out of the American policy ofthe "open door" in the treaty ports of the empire. A tornado swept a path 200 wards