The Forrest City times., 1900-06-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

/ X. G. Dun G Co. reported. on the
I 18th: Failures for the week have
/ been 162 in the United States. against
! 136 last year. and % in Canada, against
5 last year"
Twenty additional congregations
were admitted to membership in the
MINI of the United Norwegian church,
on the 18th.
The report of the signal defeat of the
! Colombian revolutionists in the State
Of Santander is confirmed. The rebel
general Tribe escaped alone, and is
now fugitive.
The big Union grain elevator. To-
Gated on the West liver bottoms but
a few blocks from the Union depot. Al
Kansas City. Mo-, was destroyed b.
fire. on the 18th. causing damage of
over one hundred thousand dollars.
| The building was valued at $4,000.
and it contained $4,000 worth OF
! wheat. all of which was destroyed.
The Des Moines Ga.) auditorium,
used for a convention hall and con
struefed a wear. ago at a cost Of $50
ore, WAS destroyed ny fire on the 18th.
Ii was insured for $4,000. The origin
of the fire is mystery. and the BELIEF
seems to be that it was incendiary. The
auditorium will be rebuilt immediate
~.
Three men were killed and IA per-
sons were injured in Philadelphia.
on the eth, by am explosion of gum
powder and dynamite used in the
manufacture Of fireworks.
The royal library al berlin has pnr-
chased the recently undiscovered CORE
spondence OF Alexander Won Humboldt.
covering the years from 1880 to 1910.
The Peruvian press continues TO urge
the appointment of a minister to the
United States of high political status.
the names most frequently mentioned.
being those of DIR. Candamo. former
President Fiercla and Viee-President
Billinghurst.
c. II. King. a stock broker of Omaha
Neb., shot and killed james Flood, "a
haekman. on the nth. The tragedy oc-
CURED while passers-by were numer-
Gus on their way to church, and almost
pane resulted.
TIE United States gunboat Concord,
with marines aboard. sailed from Ma
Mia. on the 18th. under sealed orders,
supposedly for China.
y dispatch from Manila, ON the 18th,
said: ''Thc Ninth regiment has been
ordered TO Manila, whence it will pro-
coed TO China"
The Richmond spinning mill. at
Chattanooga. Tenn. the first fine yarn
mill of any consequence to he built in
the south, has begun operation with Il
mules in full working order The mill
runs 10000 spindles, and makes only
fine yarn for hosiery. 1t cost $250. 700,
and was built with local capital.
The Kansas penitentiary binding
Irvine is on the market in competition
with the trust Irvine. and there is
big demand for ii among the farmers
since they have learned it can be pur-
chased direct from the dealers. The
Irvine, while a little heavier than the
trust article, is giving good satisfac-
tion.
Gen. Alejendro Rodriguez, national
ing 1903 votes against 6.03l east for
Senior Estreda Mora, independent. The
total vote fell about 1906 below tine
registration. The national party elect
ed its entire ticket.
\ dispatch TO the London Daily Tele-
graph. on the Eth, says: "a Chinese
report states that ADMIRAL Seymour
(British) is fighting with the Chinese
regulars. and the foreign forces have
seized the Taku forts"
Tie European capitals as well as
that of the United States were. up to
the morning Of The 18th, in state OF
unrest over the impossibility of get
ting direct news from China. The air
was full of rumors of massacres and
burnings, but, owing to Chinese cen
sorship, nothing definite could be
| learned.
Francis Of Orleans, Prince of Join
vile. son of the late King Louis Phil,
| ippe, is dead, aged 81 years. He COM
manded the French fleet which bonn
barded Tangier in 1914. and accom-
panied Gen. McClellan's staff during
the American civil war.
So many extraordinary charges have
been published in the United States
that Gov. Wood of Cuba has de-
cided to appoint special commission
consisting of one American army off
Ger and Two Cuban civilians to hear
testimony of those WHO desire To make
specific charges. local papers which
publish charges Will be required to
| substantiate them.
The London Daily Mail correspond
ent at Shanghai cabled ON the 18TH
smoke and the reflection of fires
| burning in pekin are visible from Lang
Fang. The column can not proceed
until the Russians, who are now being
landed, arrive with food and am
munition."
1t is said 10 be extremely problemat-
! zeal whether the Eoers will retire TO
the Lydenburg hills. II is more likely
that they viii stick 10 the main line of