The Forrest City times., 1900-05-04
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Arrangements for the Dewey recep tion at St. Louis are about completed
 Saturday. May Dewey Day), has been declared holiday by the mayor of St. Louis. #A
 John ;. Galloway, a retired farmer dropped dead at the breakfast table at Carthage. III. M sh sks Hf
 Mrs. Evelyn Frost Hope, daughter of Gen. D. R. Frost, of St. Louis, died in southern France.
 Theobald Goerber was adiudged in. sane in the county court at Waterloo III. He is prominent farmer
 Mrs. Elizabeth Spots. aged 2s. oi Audubon, H., dropped dead at Pans while attending an aged sick sister
 Thomas A. Hayes. aged 70. died al Harrisburg. III. He was soldier in Co. F. Sixth Illinois cavalry. in tn. civil war.
 The flood news from Texas indicates that the waters have reached the high. est stage likely to be registered during the present overflow.
 The Structural Iron Workers union of St. Louis were granted their de. mand for increased wages without pro. test by the employers. . Maj.-Gen. Otis has issued an order which will have the effect of stopping evasions of the Chinese immigration laws in the Philippines.
 The verdict of the coroner's jury at Granite City, H., found that Mrs Will. jam Corrigan came to her death by poison self-administered. German cruiser has been ordered to Venezuelan waters. The purpose announced is that the Germans in that country require protection.
 Mrs. Marian Schrader, wife of Ed. mund Schrader. of Carlyle. Ill.,. died of pneumonia. aged 51 years. She had been resident of the city for 90 years.
 The Rock Island Railroad Co.,. has notified the Western Passenger associ- alton that it will take independent ac. tion on giving special excursions this summer.
 Mrs, Margaret Frost was arrested in New York, on a coroner's warrant, charged with causing the death of her husband. Charles Frost, by administer ing poison to him.
 A terrific explosion occurred in one of the buildings of the Marsden eel lulose works at Owensboro, Ky, Tues day afternoon. Four employees were seriously injured.
 The last meeting of the eeumenical n FssI- ar1o h.I ~. New York city, Tuesday night, there being fully as large. an attendance as on the opening nigh4
 The democracy of the Eighteenth IT, iinols congressional districg, at Ed wardsvillc, nominated Congressman Thomas. N. Jett, of Hillsboro, as a can didatc to succeed himself
 4 Baltimore X Ohio freight train ran through the Olaw river bridge at Cowden. III. Twelve cars of grain and merchandise fell 70 feet to the river bed. Nobody was injured.
 The North German Lloyd Steamship Co. has just placed an order with the Vulcan Shipbuilding Co. of Stettin. for new ocean dyer which shall maintain an average speed of 25 knots.
 Mrs. Caroline shelton was granted a divorce at Little Rock. Ark, from Res. T. J. Shelton, the former Chris tdr minister, on the grounds of de- sertion. Shelton is now residing in Colorado.
 James s. Law. aged 70. son of Thomas Law, postmaster at Lincoln, la., in lit Of insanity. clubbed his mother over the head with d guE bar rel, injuring her so severely that she can not live.
 The United States transport Buford. cn which the remains of the wife of Gen. Wilson will be borne north. ar rived at Matanzas, Cuba, Tuesday evening, when the body was placed on board with due ceremony