The Forrest City times., 1900-05-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The strawboard and paper box fac.
tory of the Utility Paper CO.. cover
ing five acres, at Hartford City, Ind,
was burned on the night of the 18th.
Loss. 100000; covered by insurance.
A lone highwayman entered the cor
ridor of the Coates hotel, one of the
leading hotels in Kansas City. Nc, at
.l:30 2. M, on the goth, and Selling
the strong box from the cigar stand,
escaped The box contained diamonds
valued at sl,5oo, $3.50 in gold, currency,
and silyer,and checks to the amount of
500. A number of persons were pres
ent, but before they realized what had
happened the robber had escaped.
In July the Hamburg American
Steamship Co. will establish an indie
pendent service to the northern oorts
of Brazil.
Samuel Wyatt, young Englishman,
who had preached in a number of Chi
oago mission churches, disappeared, on
the 20th, leaving letters in which he
said he would kill himself. He said
Re was brother of Rev. Paul Wyatt,
one of the queens chaplains. Chapel
Royal, Savoy.
Gardiner S. Williams. emeritus pro-
lessor of science and art of teaching
IN Cornell university, died of paraly
sis, On the Goth, aged ~ years.
Up to the 2lst the Mansion House
fund, in London, for the relief of the
victims of the Hull-Ottawa fire had
reached 10000.
Serious rioting occurred in Berlin.
on the Goth, incident to the strike of
In one instance a mob, numbering fui-
~ 10000 people, was charged by tic
police and dispersed, after score or
more had been wounded. including
several women and children.
The most important news for the
moment, from South Africa, is the re-
ported willingness of the Beers to sue.
for peace. As Yet the offers of SUBJ
mission come only from the Free
Staters, whose properties are covered
by the British occupation, but they
the accompanied by conditions which
the British decline TO entertain.
Washington dispatches say that
President Mckinley is highly indi2-
nant at the conduct of those involved
in the Cuban postal scandal, and to be
determined that all concerned shall suf-
fer punishment, regardless of who it
hurts.
:. Cape Town dispatch says: "A tel
egram from Durham asserts confidently
that plot has been disclosed at Pre-
toria, which has as an object to depose
Kruger and his executive council and
surrender the Transyaal to Lord Rob-
erts at an early day"
Commandant Pet De Wet, with 900
men, is laagered on his own farm, IS
miles north of Kroonstad, on the
banks of Rhenoster Spruit. He says
that he in rendering his submission on
condition that his men are allowed to
return 10 their homes.
Sheriff Mount of Tazewell county,
H., armed with requisition papers
from Gov. Tanner, started for Salt
Lake, Utah, on the Goth. to bring back
Samuel Moser, who murdered his wife
and children near fremont, Ill.,, on
the 18th, aud fed
An audience, remarkable for its size
sympathy and enthusiasm, greeted
the Boer ENJOYS at the reception given
i'm their honor, on the night of the
goth, at the Grand opera house,
Washington, under the auspices of the
congressional ana citizens committee.
The monument erected 20 the men,
DRY of Comrade L. 5. Grant, by Is
cent subscriptions of members OF the
organization. and placed in the rotun-
da of the capitol al Washington as =
present to the nation, was unveiled,
on the 18th. in the presence of Mrs. L.
5. Grant Mrs. Sartoris and Miss Sar-
toris. The latter pulled the cord that
released the draping.