The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1900-06-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs. Gilbert, wife OF the late NJ n.
Gilbert, Episcopal bishop coadjutor for
Minnesota, died in ST. Paul on the 10th.
Mrs. Gilbert had been in feeble health
since the death of her husband several
weeks ago.
BY gas explosion at the Ellsworth
mines at Ellsworth, Pa, IL miles west
of Monongahela, on The 10th
Thomas Forsytne and William Rodgers
were killed and three others were
wounded.
-Four persons were killed and about
twenty-five injured, of whom three are
probably fatally hurt, in collision at
aWrwick, X. l., on the suburban line
of the Union Railroad Co. on the 10th.
new airship, invented by Herr
Weissmann, mechanic, has been tried
at Berlin. 1t assembled 90 meters and
few IS, landing safely.
John Hendricks stabbed his stepfa-
Their to death at TT. Worth, Tex. on
the 10th. AS a result of this tragedy,
Hendricks mother died an hour later
from fright.
All telegraphic lines between Tien
Tsin and Peldn are interrupted.
Envoy Vessels, in a confidential
talk with one of the best-known men
of Ohaha, Neb., on the 10th, said the
I,oers would make a proposal to the
United States looking to annexation
of the South African republics.
The British losses in the operations
in South Africa up to May 26, are stat
ed officially at 377 officers and 5,799
men killed in action and died of
wounds and disease; 712 officers and
1854 men wounde4, and IFS officers
and 4,37s men missing and prisoners.
Ip addition, 10,4s1 officers and men
have been invalided home.
The Beers have destroyed the rail-
way, in Gen. Roberts rear, from
America station, which is about ten
miles north of Kroonstad, for some
% miles as far as Roodsvaal. They are
said TO be in three columns, and are
apparently well directed.
The more serious the conditions
grow in China, says a Washington dis
patch, the more decided and definite
becomes the policy of this government
not TO be drawn into proceedings for
the dsmem berment of the Chinese
empire. Grants policy is the guide of
the present administration.
| A severe hailstorm visited portions
of Kansas on the morning of the 10th.
Reports from the vicinity of McPher-
son indicate damage to the wheat crop
to the extent of rs or 30 per cent.
Two negroes, Henry Askew and Ed.
Russ, were strung up to tree just be-
hind the railroad station at Mississippi
City, Miss, on the 10th. The better
element of citizens were opposed TO
| the lynching, though determined to
prosecute the negroes, who had been
seen in the vicinity where acrime had
| been committed.
Farmers of Oklahoma are in the
midst Of tremdous wheat harvest.
| Wheat men say that no such wheat
crop was ever raised in the west as is
being harvested in Oklahoma, south
ern Kansas and the Indian territory
and southern Texas.
| The Garfield national bank of New
| York is to be investigated by Comp
troller of the Currency Dawes as
Consequence of the testimony of Mayor
Van Wyck, given before Justice Gay
nor, in New York, concerning the
manner in which he got the money to
pay for his Ice trust stock.
Unofficial word comes from London
that Mr.. Reginald Tower, secretary of
the British embassy in Washington,
| will shortly become first secretary of
] the Brjti,h legation at Pekin, which
| is Just now an important center.
Senator Platt, of New York, said, in
an interview on the 18th: IF / live I
will serve out my term as senator. But
after 1908 / shall retire from public
life and from active participation in
politics"