The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-10-11
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

On the trip downward
Purser Brce was custodian of over
five hundred thousand dollars worth
Of gold dust belonging 10 passengers
on board.
\ gang OF highway robbers. on the
night OF the 5th. successfully held mp
and robbed the occupants ef three
carriages. including several prominent
business men from Madison. :. D.,
while presumably en- route 10 Lake
Herman, three miles west of Madison.
\ pitched battle was waged. but the
tourists were relieved Of their valua-
bles, about five hundred dollars in
cash and all their jewelry.
Four Panhandle trainmen met
death near Onward. Ind, on the 9th,
in a rear-end collision of freight
trains. The bodies of three were taken
out badly mutilated, and the fourth
Was almost entirely consumed before
the wrecking crew could subdue the
flames of the burning wreck sufficient
y 10 permit work i'll that portion OF
The debris.
The semi-annual conference of Nor
mon missionaries in London came 20
a close. on the 9th, with three services
in the Finsbury town hall. which was
crowded at each.
y dispatch from Sian Flu, on the
eth. announced that the imperial
Chinese court had started for kai
Feng Flu.
The Lezeart coal mine. about y
miles from Evanston. WNo.. Is on fire
in the lower workings The mine is
down about FIVE hundred feet, and the
fire has been raging for several
days. \ new shaft has been opened
and operations resumed.
Ere. on the 9th. in the Pittsburg
clay pot works IN Allegheny, Pa, dam
aged the plant to the extent OF
$2sooo0. injured six men and enforced
an idleness Of several months upon
force of los workmen.
Edward II. Green, husband Of Hetty
Green. is lying dangerously i'll Al Bel
lows Falls, Vt. and his physicians say
he can not possibly recover. Mrs.
Green. with her son and daughter,
are with him
James Talent, aged s. years, has
Just married a second time. at Knox
vile, Tenn. He has - grand and %
great-grandchildren living and 81
grand and greatgrandchildren dead.
For 20 years the French academy
is supposed 10 have been at work on
a revision of the dictionary The unit
ed efforts Of 40 immortals during that
time has resulted in the dictionary
being completed TO letter c. At that
rate il Will take two centuries to COM
plete the work
President Roosevelt has discarded
the stationery headed Executive
Mansion" and has had a fresh lot
prepared headed white House. He
SAYS there are A. executive mansions,
while there is but one White House.
Glavinoyitch, an anarchist who re-
Gently arrived in Rome from Dalml-
tia, has been arrested. He had been
heard to threaten the lives OF the
pope and of Cardinal Rampollo. pom
tihcal secretary of state. Boschieri,
another anarchist. has been arrested
IN Milan
A report comes from Washington
that "A rev treaty has been negotiat-
ed with Great Britain regarding the
isthmian canal question which win
meet the principal objections to the
HayPauncefote treaty.
The rural free delivery division of
the post Office department is turning
its attention to the establishment Of
the system in entire counties in dense
ly-populated portions of the various
states, especially where good roads are
maintained.
Five thousand persons saw Capt.
William Andrews, and his bride of a
few weeks. start from Atlantic CITY.
\. j., on the 9th, on their trip across
the ocean. They left in 14-foot
boat, sloop-rigged, called the Dark
Secret"
The six-story building al the foot
of Michigan avenue, Chicago, used by
the Barry Bros. transportation Co.
as warehouse. was destroyed by fire
on the 9th. Loss on building and
contents. 100000.
William \. Heidecker. representing
Murray \. Werner, of Pittsburg. Pa,
has presented To the municipal coun-
sill of st. Petersburg a memorial Of
isring 10 take over the entire sur
face traction system OF that city, and
TO form a company, under Russian
law. with a capital of 100, 00O, 600
roubles TO operate the same III.
lines will be largely extended and
electrified. The prospects OF a favor
able answer are excellent.
The county courthouse at AlexaL
dria. ;. d., was burned, on the 9th. 10
ge1her with nearly all the county rec
ords. The loss on the building wa.
about thirty thousand dollars. The
lost records can not be replaced. in
many instances, and the damage viii
be irreparable.