The Forrest City times., 1900-11-23
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED

The St. Paul Pioneer-Prcss sayi Gov. Lind will contest the election of Samuel R. Van Sant as governor of Minnesota. 9E ..&s
 An Omaha woman secured a divorce because her husband went to bed with his boots on. &f
 Fritz tanks, a St. Louis dairy la- borer, was electrocuted while trying to unravel tangle in electric wires.
 The grand encampment of Missouri Odd Fellows is holding its fifty-third annual session at Clinton.
 Count Cassini says the Russian gov ernment is for peace, and it's object in China is similar to that of the United States. lfa 1t is said that the ministers in Pekin have determined to advance negotia- tions for settlement much more rap idly from this time. F Insurance companies who do busi- ness in St. Louis have notified their agents to cancel policies on frame buildings, both in St. Louis and its suburbs.
 Eight warrants charging robbery in the first degrees have been issued at St. Louis against John Williams, alias Griffin, and Adam Wentzel, the dude highwaymen."
 Mrs. Annie Brodbeck, of Berne, Switzerland, is trying to secure the estate left by her husband, who died in St. Louis county, Mo, last August.
 A Shanghai dispatch says the em- press dowager has in secret edict commanded all governors to raise troops to attack the allies. R
 Dr. E. Wagoner is dead at Mattoon, Ill. He was twice mayor of Shelby vile, and it's postmaster during Presi- dent Cleveland's first term. He found- ed the Shelbyville Democrat and Sul- livan Progress.
 It is said on creditable authority that Chief of Police Devery of New York has been requested to resign by three of the police commissioners.
 Count Ademar de Castellane, a cousin of Count Boni, arrived in New York on IAquitaine. He is after a wealthy American wife.
 The cashier of the principal office of the Lima (Peru) salt monopoly has absconded. It is reported that the shortage is s35,0O0. It is believed he has gone to Mexico or the United States. wkf @# rE4 raj
 All the night men employed at the Newburg mill of the American Wire and Steel Go. in Cleveland, O., about 1000, have been laid off The conn pany officials refuse to make any ex. planation.
 Mrs. Sarah Henderson Floyd died at the residence of her son-in-law George A. Newcomb, in St. Louis Tuesday evening, at the age of g years.
 Ban J. Hamm, formely prominent Chicago commission merchant, and known as the turkey king" of South Water street, has been taken to the government insane asylum at Wash lington a mental wreck.
 The vestry of the Episcopal church at Sterling. Ill., according to a Clin. ton tIa.) dispatch, played a game oi seven-up to decide whether minister should be called to preside over the parish.
 | Foreign diplomats do not believe the proposed naval demonstration al Smyrna will have the effect the Unit ed States hopes for, but that the sul. tan of Turkey will continue to with. hold payment of the indemnity
 Edmond w. Gregg, aged 51 years, a wealthy wheat grower of Spokane Wash. was married to Miss Rachel Dorethea Barrett, aged 21 years, at l Knoxville, Tenn. Their first meeting was a few moments before the cere mony.
 Bishop Potter will not deal with the New York police department in the matter of vicious conditions in tho pro-cathedral district or in relation to insults offered, last September, tc Rev. George L. Paddock, of the pro cathedral. He will deal solely witt the mayor of New York.