The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-10-25
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Of the committee are. Lord Mayor
Frank Green. Lord Charles Beresford,
Lord Llangattock. sir John Monck-
ton. Sir James Thompson aud I. p.
O'Connor.
1t is reported in government circles
in Munich that Count Won Buelow. 1t
the wish of Bavaria and Wurtemburg,
has decided to drop the minimal du-
ties from the new tariff bin.
The British war Office has ordered
the immediate payment to the yeo-
many Of arrears Of pay. thus rsmov-
ing q serious grievance.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund. exclusive
of the Sl5a.01O.001 gold reserve in the
division of redemption. issued on the
18th showed: Available cash bal
anees. SIes.5i4.O74: gold. SIoo.474.oSS.
In an explosion n the machine
shops OF fattin Brothers 4 Co.. At
Marietta. @. on the s9th. D. 7. PattiH.
one OF the principal owners. was
killed. and the building was complete
" DESTROYED. Mr.. Patrin mad lighted
a match TO find leak of gas and the
explosion followed.
Announcement is made of the APP
pointment OF Prof. J. w Henunger.
of jacksonville. 10 be superintendent
of the Western Illinois Normal. to be
erected al Macomb. The appoint
ment is effective July /. 1909.
Augusta de Forest. the weil-known
actress Who played leading roles with
Alexander salvini, John Mccullough
and Edwin Booth. died. on the goth,
at her home in New York.
Henry J. Lenderink, secretary OF
the United States legation in Santiago
de Chile, has resigned the position,
and VIII soon leave for home.
The current issue Of Simplissimls.
the comic paper. was confscated, on
the 18th, al Breslau. for an offensive
cartoon directed against Emperor
William.
Secretary Of State Hay, in a letter
to superintendent of State Prisons
Collins. at Albany, \. y, declined the
invitation TO designate an official rep
resentaliye of the government to be
present al the electrocution of Czol-
gosz, the murderer of President Me
kinley.
Arrangements for the visit Of Pres
dent Roosevelt to Pennington, Conn,
included the dedication of tree to
be planted on the village green by the
| townspeople and named the Mckinley
oak
Yale university began. on the goth
the celebration of the twentieth an
niyersary of the founding. at New
Haven, Conn, of Yale college. The
bicentennial OF the great institution
Of learning was ushered in with cere-
monies essentially religious.
The doctors of Vienna are puzzled
over the case of a young man, %
years old, who has just died after six
months of painful illness. which
proved 10 have been caused by swat
lowing blue bottles eggs which
Matched In his intestines and com.
+ pIetely riddled them.
The shortage in cotton al Liverpool
is becoming serious. There are only
q few cargoes on the way. II is al.
most inevitable that a part of the
machinery Mil be stopped. and that
there VIII be a repetition of the fam
inc Of a year ago.
Fire. on the 2oth, destroyed the
leather goods factory Of Heating
Smith & Shoemaker. in Chicago. c;,us.
ing a loss of 100000. While clingine
to the top rung Of high ladder anl
fighting the blaze five tiremen wer,
thrown to the ground and severely
injured.
The American hog has a European
rival Denmark has come into III,
field as producer and exporter o.
hogs and hog products. with growth
al least interesting. II not suggestiv,
10 American producers of com
modify whose export value grew
from 100, SOS in 1s91 TO sl1e,9G1.
500 in 1901.
Commander-in-Chief Torrance q
the Grand Army of the Republic ha.
named Gen. Henry NJ Duffeld. Of De
troit. Mich. as judge advocate genera
and Maj. \. Noel Brakeman. of Noun
Vernon, \. y, as chief of staff.
To crown a romance begun i'm Ger
many more than half a century ago
Meyer Selig of Ne. $50 East SIKH
street, New York, who is 81 years ola
married, ON the 205h, Mrs. Ros;
Reichman. of Newark. who is = wear.
old and grandmother
The state department has been in
formed by United States Consul Cald
well, al san Jose. that new duties oI
boots and shoes imported into Cost;
Rica have been imposed, which ar,
much in excess of any heretofore il
force and are practically prohibitive.
The American line steamer ST
Louis, which sails from SOUTHAMPTON
for New York, on the 26th. viii hay,
among her passengers Mr.. and Mrs
Andrew Carnegie and Lord Paunce
fote, the British ambassador TO tn,
United States, and Lady Pauneefote.
Two OF the leading banks OF Bos
ton, the Shoe and Leather nationa
and the National Bank of Redemption