The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1900-07-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,


manche and Apache Indian reserva-
ton for the purpose of acquiring
mineral lands will be elected as "Soon.
ers" and kept off the reservation unit.
it is formally declared open TO settle.
ment by presidential proclamation.
Prof. Ferdinand Won Ritchoffen has
been appointed director of the newly.
established Museum of oceanography
at Berlin.
At the permanent automobile eX.
position in Berlin, applications for
space have been so numerous that an
enlargement of the original area was
necessary.
When the British ship Hudson leaves
the port of Philadelphia, for Japan.
within few days, she viii carry an oil
plant. the first ever shipped to that
country.
Queen Victoria will present to the
municipality of Dublin, in memory OF
her recent visit, a gold loving cup.
weighing 16O ounces.
The California and Hawaiian 6ele.
gates to the democratic national con
vention at Kansas City, Mo-, started
east from San Francisco on the 10Th.
The delegates were escorted to their
train by the Iroquois club of that city.
A large consignment of fruits and
wines had already been shipped to the
California headquarters in the conyen-
| ton city.
a landslide occurred at Eartsell Hill,
l..
Louisville d Nashville railroad, on the
goth. 1t is known that three men, one
negro and two whites, were killed. and
it is thought several others shared the
same fate.
1t is estimated there are 10000 per-
sons at Cape Nome. Newcomers are
reported all at sea on account of the
wholesale jumping of claims, and
trouble is predicted.
r. Dun q Co. reported, on the29th:
Failures for the week have been POI
in the United States, against ISL last
year, and p in Canada, against % last
year.
Thomas Flannelly was hanged at
| San Quentin, Cal. on the goth, for the
murder of his father and Sheriff Nc
Evoy of San Mates county. He made
no statement from the scaffold
For the first time in nearly ten years
cotton, both spot and the July future.
sold at ten cents pound in New ork
on the goth. In the three leading cot
ton markets of the world the fluffy
staple jumped at a lively rate. The ex-
citement attendant upon the uplift to
the high figure was intense
Benjamin E.. Warfield, president of
Princeton theological seminary, will
not serve on the committee of revision,
to which he was named by the last
general assembly of the Presbyterian
church held in st. Louis.
Gen. Estrella, Filipino leader was
captured by secret service officers at
Manila. The unconditional surrender
of Gen. Aquino at Angeles with GA
rifles is announced by Gen. Grant. who
adds that the officers and men of Gen.
Aquino's command have agreed 10
surrender later.
Up to the goth nothing was definite
ly known concerning the whereabouts
of the foreign ministers to Pekin. 1t
is fntimated that they are still in Pc
kin, perhaps sequestered in the i'm
perial palace to protect them from the
Chinese mobs.
The Nonsectarian College of Primary
and Secondary Education was opened
in Manila, on the Goth, in the presence
Of Judge Taft, president of the civil
commission, and his colleagues. Five
hundred pupils were enrolled as a
starter.
Eear-Admiral John w. Philip, COM
mandant of the Brooklyn navy yard,
was at the point of death for several
hours early on the morning OF the 29th,
and at last accounts was still very i'll,
ana under the constant care CT a ply
Stefan.
Young Cornelius Vanderbilt is an
| inventor. He has just succeeded in
making a successful application of the
principal of the marine boiler to the
locomotive engine, which promises to
make the running of locomotives much
| less expensive.
An awful confagration visited the
docks of the North German Lloyd
Steamship CO., in Hoboken, n. j., on
the @oth. The docks, with all the val
liable freight piled thereon, were com
| pletely destroyed; several of the
ralatial steamers OF the company and
more than score of other craft were
destroyed or greatly damaged. causing
losses aggregating $1O,0O0,O0o. The
horror of the catastrophe, however,
was found in dreadful loss of life
zoo persons being supposed to be
drowned or burned to death, while
hundreds of the rescued crowd all the
hospitals in the vicinity of the fire.
/ Scenes, horrible beyond description,
were witnessed during the conhagra-
ton.
The imports of specie for the week
ended on the 30th were S75,136 gold
and S1s2.1s4 silver. The exports were
S1,l7l,llo, silver bars and coin, and
S55.910 gold.