The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-04-21
GENERAL NEWS.

Queen Victoria evidently believes
in the efficacy of blarneying the Irish.
The Interoceanic Canal Company
was organized in New Jersey last
week with acapitalof $1O0, 600, 600.
/ Wonders never cease, Otis SAYS he
has the Philippines whipped into sub
mission; but he needs more troops
to keep them whipped,
Those who had the Beers all dis
posed of must have been very much
surprised at the news of the past few
days, showing their aggressive sue
sesses
Black Chief a Poland China boar
belonging to Joseph S, Young, of
Richards, Mo, was sold last week
to E. A. Ware, of Douglas, Ill.,, for
$1,000,
The British have shipped General
Cronje and 900 Boer prisoners to
St. Helena, the island made famous
by the imprisonment of Napoleon
Bonaparte.
Official reports from the Honolulu
health board show there were
seventy cases of the bubonie plague
there up to March &c, sixty OF them
proving fatal.
The city council has adopted a
resolution exempting the Waxah ach-
lie, Texas, cotton mills, if built in the
city limits, from city taxation for a
period of ten years.
"The man who uses every op-
portunity to keep himself and his
business in the public eye saws the
Farm and Ranch may be a humbug
and fraud but he is not fool"
Major Shields, General Wheaton's
brigade surgeon, who has returned
from Manila, says that if the present
policy is continued in the..Philippine
Islands it will take ten years to
paeify them.
The careful housewives OF the
country, who realize every day how
hard the trusts pinch by increasing
the prices of necessities, are by their
continued kicking doing good mis-
sionary work for the democratic
party.
The transport Sheridan, which ar
rived in San Francisco last week
from Manila, brought 10 army
prisoners, lightweight sick and
eleven insane soldiers. The Sherman,
which sailed the same day from Ma
Mia, carries 175 military prisoners
and twenty-five insane.
Judge John H. Reagan, the surviv-
ing member OF the Confederate Cabi-
net, has declined the offer of Texas
friends to keep him the rest of his
days in order that he may retire
from the office of chairman of the
railroad commission and devote his
time to writing a history Of the Con
fcderacy, but when he does, it will
be at his own expense. He is 80
years old, and has been constantly
in public life for over sixty years.
Arkansas Democrat.
Prospecting for mineral in Carroll
county and Immediately around
Eureka Springs is still being done by
a number of people. Nobody has
ever gone deep enough yet to settle
the question of mineral in paying
quantities, 60 feet being the deepes
shaft yet sunk. The shines, -
though near the surface are abund-
ant and very hattering. There
is no doubt in the minds of mineral
ogists but what at a depth of $50 to
200 feet, quantities Of fine zinc and
lead will be found. A drill is badly
needed here and the one who gets
one here will do a "land office bust
ness There is work enough in sight
to tax half dozen drills to their ut
most capacity,-E. S. FlashHght.
The Kentucky court Of appeals has
decided against Taylor's claims to
the goyernorship of Kentucky, and
decided that j. c. w. Beckham is the
legal governor. The vote in the
court stood six to one, two OF the
republican members concurring. The
pith OF the majority opinion is that
the judicial branch of the State gov
ernment cannot encroach upon the
prerogative of another branch Sc
long as it keeps within the limits Of
the constitution and that the journal
Of the legislature cannot be
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