The Forrest City times., 1900-01-05

Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

advantageous coigns and that the in
xesting force has not diminished in
strength or mobility. The reconnci'-
ering force was compelled TO retire.
A dispatch from Rensburg, Cape Col
ony, on the LIST. stated that Gen. Frene;.
had routed large force OF Beers with
great loss TO the latter and few casual
ties on the part of the British, and had
occupied Colesberg. entirely arouE'l
which the Beers position had extend
ed for six miles.
The Transvaal government, accord
ing to information supplied by Boer
l sympathizers in London. threatens TO
reduce the ration of British prisoners
il Great Britain stops the entry of food
by DeIagoa Bay
Hon. Ferd w. Peck, commissioner
general of the United States to the
Paris exposition of 1900. has name
Sousa's band as the official America.
band TO play at the exposition. The
engagement will cover eight TO tel
weeks.
Mary Beck, ~ years old, was found
by one of her four children dead in
her rocking chair at her home in FL
| lenwood. kas.. her throat cut and her
forehead bruised. One of the children
said he heard his mother say during
the night that she had killed some one
and would kill herself.
w. j. Milsap, prominent stocfmap
was seized BY two men when about te
enter the Klein hotel at Walsenhurg,
Gel. and robbed Of SIC, 900. No trace
of the criminals has been found. Mr..
Miisap was on his way 10 Mexico to
buy cattle.
| Salem Mason, colored, " no was born
near Richmond, Va, los years ago, and
was the oldest man in Tennessee. died
nj Nashville on the 2sth. He was
purchased with other slaves for
the corporation of Nashville in 1924.
He spent 20 years of his life AS an en-
ploye of the city.
The total catch of seals by Canadian
sealing vessels during the past season
was 1884 compared with a total for
the preceding year of 2s.552.
Maj. Hammer. chief paymaster of the
| department of the Missouri, received
telegraphic orders from Washington,
on the goth, TO proceed to Manila for
| duty. He expects to sail from Seattle,
| Wash, January s. The major only
lacks two years of the retiring age,
and the order, for this reason, came as
a surprise, as heretofore officers of
that age have not generally been or
dered to the Philippines.
Corporal Fair and Private Jockens,
of the regular army, who shot and
killed Private Morgan, deserter, were
arraigned at Papillion, Neb., on the
goth, on the charge of murder, before
Judge Edgar Howard. The defendants
plead not guilty, and the preliminary
examination WAS set for the I'd.
Smallpox has broken out among the
Indians on the south half of the Col
vile reservation in Washington.
\ manufacturer of cartridge belts in
/ Worcester, Mass, received an order
from the British government. on the
10Th, for $4,000 double bandelier cart
ridge belts. The order was a rush one,
and the belts viii be shipped to South
Africa in lots of several thousand each
as soon as manufactured.
A Berlin dispatch says that Kaiser
| Wilhelm enacted the role of Santa
| Claus" incogni;o ON Christmas eve, TAX
| ing long walk in Sansouci Park and
fotsdam city, presenting every child
CT poor person whom ne met with o
shining silver or gold piece, according
| TO their apparent needs.
One man was killed and ia persons
injured by the Cheyenne flyer running
/ into freight train on the Union Pa
cihc, at Brighton, Col, on the 29th
The conductor of the flyer was rrazed
by the accideot
a Cape Town dispatch says: NO
Christmas gift could have been more
welcome to Tommy Atkins than the
news of the coming of "Bobs." while
the officers who have gradually real
lied that the war on the frontier o.
Cape Colony is largely an engineering
war and war of organization, are
glad to see so brilliant an organizer as
/ Kitchener"
The use of the telephone in war has
been watched with considerable inter-
est by army officers, and Gen. Greely's
corps is probably the first in the world
TO demonstrate that il can be operated
successfully. 1t has been found OF
great value, when detailed instructions
had to be sent. and there was not time
TO telegraph as fully as the officers in
charge thought the case required.
Gov.-Gen. Davis of Puerto Rico and
Lieut.. Battle. his aide-de-camp, sailed
for the United States, on the 30th on
the steamer Ponce, bound for Wash
ington, orders having arrived, on the
2sth, for the genral TO report at Wash
ington for consultation with the secre-
tary of war.
The Seventy-fourth general assem-
bly, of Ohio met, on the LIST, and elected
the republican caucus nominees by a
strict party vote.