The Forrest City times., 1900-10-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sou, ces.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

archiStS Tn the United States.
 Mrs. Alexander Davis, of St. Joseph, Mo-. dreamed that her husband had died, and when he awoke, on the morning of the 7th, she told him of her dream. He heard the story through, and then fell from the side of the bed, where he was sitting, to the floor, dead. The coroner's jury decided that death was due to heart disease.
 Cant. Frank West, of the Sixth cav airy. acting superintendent of the Se- ouoia and General Grant national parks, in California, has submitted his annual report to the secretary of the interior. He makes a strong plea for the protection by the government of the giant Sequoia trees contained in the reservation.
 A pension plan for old employees, similar to the one adopted last Janu- ary by the Pennsylvania road, east of Pittsburgh, will go into effect on the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburgh on January 1, 1901.
 The comptroller of the treasury has rendered decision to the effect that the government is not liable for the expenses of a wake" held prior to the interment of pensioner who leaves no estate.
 Ada Hess, the 19-year-old daughter of Mrs. Mary Hess, of St. Louis, was burned to death, on the 7th, by the explosion of a coal oil can from which she was pouring oil on fire.
 The Red Boy mine, near Baker City, Ore, has been sold to an English syndicate. It is said the purchase price was in excess of two million dol lars.
 A plan is on foot to show in various German cities, beginning with Berlin, the German exhibits at the Paris ex- position.
 Seven thousand five hundred pounds of dynamite in the powder magazine at the Spruce mine, about half a mile from Eveleth, Minn., blew up on the evening of the 7th. A large number of persons were injured, and all glass within radius of two miles was shat tered.
 On leaving Trinity Dutch Reformed church, in Chicago, on the 7th, Gov. Roosevelt was assailed by a crowd of newsboys, who exhausted their album. dant repertoire of vile epithets on the republican vice-presidential candidate in the presence of the departing wor- shippers.
 William J. Bryan, on the 7th, rested in the city of his birth and spent the Sabbath with relatives at Salem, IL. He arrived about noon and dined at the residence of Mrs. Mollie Webster, his cousin. Thirty of his relatives gathered at the residence and partook of the dinner.
 The tornado which ragged in the vii cinity of Biwabik, Minn., on the even- ing of the eth, was the most violent ever experienced in that section. The storm cut pathway 150 feet in width Nine persons were killed and large number injured.
 1t is, estimated, according to the Pietermaritzburg correspondent of the London Daily Mail. that from 4,000 to 5000 Boers have retreated from Pilgrims Rest. northeast of I.yden- burg, with four long toms and % oth- CT guns. Their artillery ammunition is said to be running low.
 Bourke Cochran, upon the advice of physicians, has cancelled his speaking dates and will consult throat spe- cialist. He can scarcely talk above a whisper. It is probable that he will not be able to make any more speeches during the campaign.
 Lovil Walker, a peddler of potato peelers, who shot and killed David Roebettom, during a quarrel over a girl, was convicted at Lincoln, Ill.. and sentenced to Is years imprison- ment.
 A dispatch from Shanghai says 20O,- GOO Chinese troops, armed with modern weapons, are marching from all provinces to join Tung Flu Hsiang at Signan-Fu. where the Chinese court is sojourning.
 At conference of strike leaders at Hazleton, Pa, on the 7th, it was de. termined to call convention of min CTS, probably at Scranton, and allow them to determine whether they will accept the terms offered by the op- orators.
 In an edict issued at Tai-Yun the emperor of China hlames himself. the Manchu princes and his ministers for causing the rupture with friendly powers by encouraging the Boxers and outlaws of the empire and soeom- peaing his flight from Pelin. The ediet was evidently inspired by the dowager empress.
 An extensive survey of the south side of the Island of Cuba is to be begun during the coming winter
 Twelve hundred union men are idle at Seattle. Wash. work having stopped on over thirty residence buildings and six large brick business block- under process of construction. as the result of fight between the trades council and builders exchange of Seattle.