The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-05-24
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE rEEs IN BRIEF.
pERsoNAL 49, eENeRAl..

/ pHGu kNieGs we've result Oh 81 Ntfth~
o. Iorbmen f four or the tcxfile
factories for increase of wages.
Fa strikers several noisy meet-
ing aud threw stones at the windows
o. he factor
Mrs Gage, wife OF Secretary Lyman
D. Sage OF the treasury partu,an0
died at her residence in Washington,
city. or BE 18th. ut $3.50 p. M.
President Nick Young, of the Ma
tional baseball league, has ruled ihat
ihe time within which the clubs Of
tha' organization shall reduce the
number Of their players to Is may be
extended to June j 5.
Failures for the week ended on the
nth numbered III in the United
States. against II last year, and 10 in
Canada, against 50 last year.
Louis 6allott, United States pris-
ouer IN the Ohio penitentiary. was re-
leased. by pardon from President Nc
Kinley, GA the 10th. Gallott was sent
up from New Orleans for embezzle-
ment
The Oregon Christian Endeavor
union closed its state convention at
Salem OF the 10Th. Francis T. Clari..
of Boston, president Of the National
Union of Christian Endeavor societies.
was present at the convention, aud
| delivered several addresses.
y cabinet crisis jan Peru is reported
to be imminent. 1t IS said that the
minister OF finance, Domingo Amen
ara. has threatened 10 resign as he
disagrees with his colleagues on the
details OF the salt monopoly.
According to adviees from Seoul
the Corean government has leased 10
Japan $50 acres of land to form a set
| tlemeut al Ma san Pho. The laud
in question was formerly anxiously
sought b5 Russia.
Gen. Chaffee, at midnight of the
18th. issued his farewell order ending
the American relief expedition in
| China.
~. Pichon, the French minister, left
Pellin, on the 10Th, for home.
The steady progress of Mrs. McKin-
ley's recovery had advanced so far, on
the 18th, that the president was be-
| ginning seriously to consider the date
on which he would start on the re-
turn to Washington.
The irrigation dam on Holiday
creek, six miles west of Wichita Falls,
Tex, broke on the 10Th, flooding the
| whole valley near Wichita Falls and
doing considerable damage.
Because he imagined that w. c,
Garrison had got the best of deal
with his father, Everett Conway
killed Garrison ana Garrison's wife,
at Evansville Ind, on the 10th, at
tempted the life of his own father,
mortallv wounded Policeman Wallis.
slightly wounded two others and com.
Initted suicide.
At the National Steel Co.'S plant in
Youngstown, O., OF, the 18th, the
cover of a mammoth converter be-
came detached, allowing thirteen tons
of molten metal to flow over the mill.
Two hungarian workmen were al
most instantly killed and three 9TH
ers fatally burned.
John Marshall Wilson, former treas
urer Of Shelby county, Ind, convicted
of defrauding the county, and serv-
ing an indeterminate sentence in the
Michigan City prison, has been made
defendant in an action to recover
S539,0o0 by officials of Shelby county.
The Bloomington Qll.) jubilee, to
fifty celebrate the rebuilding of the
city after the eontiagration of June
10, 1900, which destroyed property
worth $2,000,o00, will last five days,
and is being laid out on elaborate
lines. 1t will open June Is, and will
end. including Saturday night, June
%.
Weston Rowland. the discoverer OF
the method of refining petroleum. died
at Fair Haven, Mass, on the 10Th, aged
Sc years. In 1860 he tried his expert
ments with petroleum, which had Just
been found in Pennsylvania in large
quantities, and was about to give ur
the problem. BY accident he solved
the secret of refining, and fame and
fortune followed.
Exercises in honor OF the confeder.
ate dead, who rest in the cemetery
near Camp Chase, Columbus, O.. were
hNiu, on tue AJtil, ny tNc southern
members of the sovereign camp OF
Woodmen of the World. II. f. Sim
vrall, of Mississippi, presided, and
many addresses appropriate to the
occasion were made.
While in the midst of friends, All
members OF an exclusive dinner pa
~ given in the palm garden of a.
Auditorium Annex, Chicago. on the
l9th, Mrs. Tdngle. wife of II. d. lin
gle prominent merchant Of Hopes
tom, H., was robbed Of diamonds val
aed AT $500. presumably by q "social
li.hwayman."
Mr.. Elmer Culmby, wife of farm
CT living near ST. Louis. Mich. on tie
night Of the 18th, gave morphine 10
her two children, boy aged seven
ane girl Of nine. Both children died
next day. Mrs. Quimby took the
drug herself, but she viii recover
Family trouble is said to has induced
the woman to commit tae crime. She