The Forrest City times., 1900-11-30

Trinity college, the newly-founded Catholic institution for the higher ed ucation of women, was dedicated, at Washington, on the 22d, with impos- ing ceremonies.
 The official vote for governor ofMis- souri, as announced on the 21st, gives Dockery, democrat, a plurality over Flory, republican, of 32,147. The total vote was, Dockery, 350,049, Flory 3l7,- o02.
 Gen. Horace Porter, the United States ambassador to France, has ar rived at Tangier. It is said that his visit is in connection with the set clement of the American claims against Morocco.
 The official count for Nebraska. made public on the 21st, shows that McKinley's plurality in the state is 7,s22. The total vote of the state was ,99s. Of these Mckinley received 121, s35, Bryan 114,013.
 At the Old Bailey, London, on the 1T 1T ish yice-consul at Bremerhaven, was sentenced to IS months penal servi- tude for trying to sell foreign office code book to an agent of a foreign power.
 The gold deposits at the Seattle as. say office from July 1 to November 15, this year, amounted to S19,s27,000. For the entire fiscal year ended June 30 last the deposits at that office were $13,630,326, and for the previous fiscal year $6,504,905.
 Mir. Kruger passed the Sabbath with his family at the Hotel Scribe, in Paris, observing the day in accordance with the customs of his fatherland. His apartments were closed to vis- itors, and he remained within them, indulging h.mself in perfect rest.
 The semi-ofiicial Berliner Post de- mands that the fifth cable between England and Germany, the funds for which were long ago raised, shall be laid immediately, asserting that "enormous damage is resulting to German trade from the want of it'
 The PansGerman association has taken up the cause of several hundred Germans who were expelled from the Transvaal by the British. It an nounces that it will force the gov ernment to make an energetic demand upon Great Britain for adequate dam ages"
 The London Daily Mail, indorsing an article in it's columns from the pen of Mir. Frederick Greenwood, founder and first edItor of the Pall Mall Ga zette, advocates meeting the war budget by a tax of from five to ten per cent. on foreign manufactured inn ports.
 1t was rumored in St. Petersburg. on the 23d, that Emperor Nicholas was threatened with lung complica- tions which, if they exist, would ma. terially diminish his chances of recov- cry. Inflammation of the lungs is a common complication of typhoid in Russia
 The annual report of Gov. Brady of Alaska to the secretary of the in- terior urges congressional Legislation on the extension of the general land laws to Alaska, giving the natives the same legal status as the whites. and the representation of Alaska by a del egate in congress.
 Mrs. Thomas Flournoy died at her home in Philadelphia, on the night of the 22d. in her one hundred and first year. She was the wife of Gen. Flour noy, an officer in the war of 1872, and her father was Maj. Roding Howell, of Philadelphia, distinguished sol dier of the revolution.
 The official vote of Ohio for secre. tary of state is as follows: Laylin, republican, 543,3 ,3S9; McFadden. demo- crat, 47S,0s0; Laylin's plurality, 69,- 509. Blackburn, republican, for dairy and food commissioner, received the lowest plurality of the candidates on the state ticket, 63,077.
 
 Later reports from the cyclone which struck northern Mississippi and middle and western Tennessee, on the goth, show long and constantly growing list of dead and injured one statement being 64 dead and 100 injured-with great loss in buildings, timber and other property.
 United States Ambassador Choate made representations to the British foreign office, on the 21st, on the sub ject of the Filipino junta at Hong Kong. The foreign office said it would investigate the matter, and reply soon as the reports of the authorities at Hong Kong were received.
 The Shanghai correspondent of the London Standard says that a terrible famine is prevailing in the province