The Forrest City times., 1901-03-08
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED

George W. Parker, substantial business man, was nominated for Worlds fair mayor of St. Louis by the republicans in open primary.
 Frank D. Layman was shot and killed by Peter Hartman, St. Louis saloonkecper.
 A reception will he given 10 ex-Gov. Francis and his fellow Worlds fair workers to St. Louis from Washing ton.
 The stockholders of the Tom Big bee cotton mills in Columbus, Miss, have sold their holdings to a syndi- cate.
 Gen. A. s. Daggett, recently ap- pointed brigadier-genera in the army, has been retired.
 The Burlington hes issued circu- lar containing much practical infor- nation for Epworth leaguers..
 King Edward has empowered the duke of Cornwall and York to confer knighthood during his visit to the colonies.
 B. s. Poulson, secretary of the bu- reau of associated charities of Peoria, Jll., is missing, and his absence is con sidered mysterious.
 The old Hot Springs rfailroad. known as the Diamond Joe" road, has been sold to the Missouri Pacific.
 Mrs. George W. Bedford. Sr., died at Holden. Mo-, aged about 75 years. She belonged to 'ioneer family.
 Twelve Irish members of the British house of commons were removed from the chamber by policemen. they hay ing refused to obey ar order of the speaker.
 Former Gov. Pingree. of Michigan, spent half an hour, Tuesday evening, with Mr. Chamberlain, the British CO., lonial secretary, discussing the war in South Africa.
 The mystery surrounding the sud den disappearance of C.. A. Sexton from Paducah. Ky, a month ago. was cleared up, Tuesday, when his body was found floating in the mouth of ls- land creek.
 Mrs. Eveline Sites Caldwell, wife of Isaac H. Caldwell, died at Carbondale, H., aged 77 years. She was sister of the late Judge Henry J. Sites, of Louisville, Ky.
 Father Joseph Just, teacher in the St. Edwards college about three miles south of Austin, Tex, was found beneath a third-story window one Tuesday morning with his neck broken. Several committees of the national house of representative. will make trips to gulf ports, Pacific harbors and the new insular possessions in or der to inform themselves first-hand of conditions.
 The preliminary trial of Edmond Palmer, president of the defunct bank, at Ashley. H., has again been postponed until Saturday in order to give him time to make settlement. Mrs. Ida Smith was arrested at Poplar Bluff, Mo-, on charge of big amy. She was married, last Friday, to George Sypher, and it is charged she has husband from whom she has never been divorced. John E. Searles, the New York financier, president of the American | Cotton Co.,, and an officer and director of many of the largest corporations in the country, has filed an assign ment.
 The appellate court at Chicago has held that the fact judge has slum bered lightly on the bench during the trial of a case is not sufficient grounds for granting a new trial. The failure of congress to pass the river and harbor appropriation will cripple work between St. Louis and Cairo, throw 2,500 men out of work | and entail an expense of S1 ,0OO, ,0OO on | the government.
 Fire which broke out in the wards of the Knapp~Stout Lumber Co.,. al St. Louis, consumed several piles oi lumber and partly destroyed others entailing a loss amounting to several | thousand dollars.
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