The Forrest City times., 1900-10-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

tNN N0MilNAuAaIA ab nt AoAaho navy yard. has been selected to sue cced Rear-Admiral Albert Kautz as commander of the Pacific station upon the latter's retirement in the near future.
 William ZeiEler. a weil-known and wealthy citizen of New York. has an- nounced that he will purchase two vessels. fully equip and man them, and send them tn quest of the north pole during the summer of 1901.
 Albert R. Green. of the general land office. has been selected as chief of the new division Of forestry of the interior department authorized by the last congress.
 It Is asserted In Rome that Arch bishop Martinelli wili be raised to the eardlnaiate at the next eonsistory.
 The Modern Brotherhood of Ameri- ca will hold it's next convention at Sioux Falls. $. D.. in 1901.
 Failures for the week ended on the i2th. as reported by R. c. Dun < Co. were aas in the United states, against fei last rear, sad s2 Ia Canada, against sT last year.
 \ Shanghai dispatch. dated the iith. says the Chinese Customs bank has remitted a00. .0o0 taels to the imperial treasury. and Is preparing to send more.
 The Presbyterian synod of North Dakota elected Andrew Christy Brown. D.D.. of Omaha. synodieal missionary for North Dakota.
 Sir Alfred Miner. Che British high commissioner at Cape Town. has gone to Blocmfontein.
 While the crew of the White Star liner Oceanic. Capt. Cameron, were lowering an anchor. at Liverpool. on the l4th. the chain broke. tearing of the left leg of one of the carpenters and fracturing the right. He died soon afterwards. Another man had his left leg fractured.
 The mosquito fleet of five small gunboats belonging to the United States navy, left Cramps ship yards. Philadelphia. on the l3th. for Cuba. with Felix H. Hunicke, chief Of the revenue cutter service. in command.
 While digging a sink hole in the rear of a residence in Omaha. Neh.. on the 18th. sewer gas overcame three worlmen, and two of them were sui located before they could be rescued.
 Some Chinese soldiers desecrated the cemeteries for foreigners at Nam Shih-Tu, near Canton, and the vice roy had the offenders deeapitated and dismissed their commander.
 Lieutenant-Commander William II Beecher, naval attache of the United States embassy in Berlin. is suffering from pneumonia.
 Maj. Francis s. Lodge, paymaster of the division of Cuba. is down with yellow fever.
 Eight former professors of the Uni versity of Havana have been granted pensions of s1.20O per aunum each during the term of the military oe- cupation.
 Capt. Devereaux Shields, who. with 5f men of Company F, Twenty-ninth volunteer infantry. was captured by the insurgents last month, in the ASA1AANA Ol W A& AEE0NFEEtss ss on the 18th, by the American rescue force with all the members of his | party.
 Jimmy Adams left Berkely Springs. w. Va, three years ago, on a freight train, with nothing. On the 18th he returned in a private car. hauled by leased locomotive, and brought with him nearly s2o0,00o in gold and papers representing Klondike mining posses sions worth s5.oOO, 900 and prospective | ly worth ten times as much. From ocean to ocean and from the | great lakes to the gulf. in every city, town and village in the country. dem ocratic meetings will be held October 27, and will be addressed by the ablest speakers that the scope of this gi- | gantic plan will permit. Mrs. Anna Hart, the woman upon whom William Schreiber lavished the greater part of the sI09. 900 which he stole from the Elizabethport (N. J1 bank, has eluded the vigilance of the New York detectives, who were watching her, and fed to parts un- known.
 The miners convention, at scran ton, Pa, agreed to accept the ten per cent. advance provided it was coupled with other concessions. The operators have not yet been heard from. conse- quently the strike is still on. There is considerable dissension in the ranks of the national party iu | Cuba. At recent meeting many of the most prominent members of the party were denounced as traitors President Rodriguez has resigned from the cSmmittee appointed to eff feet reorSShization of the party.
 Charles Evanston, alias Charles Rus sell, arrested at Lincoln, Neb., on the charge of robbing the Union bank, oi Richland, Mich, of S6.000 in cash and S4,o00 in securities, has made a comics : sion of connection with the robbery which occurred two years ago. l The Kansas State Millers' associa. tion was called to meet at Topeka. on the 18th, to denounee the Minneapolis