The Forrest City times., 1901-03-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

cred with blood.
 The trial of the most prominent rebel in the colony of Natal, South Africa, a man named De Jager, has been concluded at Pietermaritzburg. He was sentenced to five years i'm prisonment and 10 pay fine of ( s. | 900. De Jager was Boer command | ant.
 The will of former Secretary of State Vim. Evarts was filed for pro- bate in New York on. the 14th. All of the estate is left To the family.
 The California state supreme court. on the 14th, granted a new trial to Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, who was con victed of the murder of Mrs. J. r.. Cunning, in the summer of 1898. and sentenced to life imprisonment. A French torpedo boat which had been sent to meet an incoming trans port, the Lerhin, at Brest, sprang a leak. on the 14th. and suddenly began to fill, sinking in q few minutes. The crew narrowly escaped in the boats. China has strenuously objected to the limitations of the Manchurian convention respecting the importa tion of arms, the reorganization of the army and the practical control by Russia over Chinese officials.
 Fire in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 17th, destroyed the felt factory of the Hi- ram W. French Co., in which it origi- hated; the main building of the expo sition, two extensive lumber yards and three small dwellings. One fire man was killed and three badly in- jured by a live wire coming in con tact with the nozzle of the hose. The property loss is estimated at S250, 900; we'll insured.
 The prohibitionists of Denver, Col, have nominated ticket composed en- tirely of women for the city offices to he filled at the election on April ? next. Their candidate for mayor is Mrs. A. A. Hawley. president of the State Women's Christian Temperance union.
 Harvard and Yale, American, have challenged Oxford and Cambridge, English, for a regular set of track games, to be held in New York during the early part of next July. The transport Fitzpatrick with 400 sick soldiers arrived at San Francisco, on the 17th, from Manila. Four pri- yates died on the voyage. Patrick Donohoe, publisher of the Boston Pilot, died at his home, on the 17th. He had just reached his nine tieth year. Since the 18th he had been at the point of death, and the eff forts of his physicians were to keep him alive for his birthday anniver- sary.
 A Washington dispatch says: "Suc- cess of the St. Louis Worlds Fair leg islation came through the ignoring of party considerations. Any attempt in St. Louis to make political capital out of the result must distort and mis- represent what took place here"
 The London Daily Mail, which makes bid for tariff protection, de. clares editorially that "the real causes of America's wonderful com. mercial success may be summed up ir the words tariff and great alert ness.
 George Hunt, attorney-general oi the state of Illinois from 1884 to 1892 and veteran of the civil war, died on the 17th, at his home in Riverside near Chicago. He was brought into Iprominence during his two terms as attorney-general by several big cases which he handled for the state.
 Mrs. Carrie E. Cabus fell in an epleptic fit at her home, in New York city, on the 17th, and a pet fox terrier, which became excited or was angered by what it could not under, stand, seized her by the throat, open ing the jugular vein. She was dead when doctor arrived.
 The Pullman sleeping-cars Tabita and Elmer, on Plant system train from Tampa to Jacksonville, Fla. were completely burned, on the 17th at Buffalo Bluff, seven miles from Palatka. The sleepers were filled with sleeping tourists, who lost al their personal belongings
 Previous to celebrating a pontificaI mass in St. Patrick's cathedral. New York, in honor of the patron saint, or the 17th. Archbishop Corrigan formal. ly blessed the handsome new statue of St. Patrick, recently presented to the cathedral by John D. Mannin.
 During the progress of a fire in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 17th, at the corner of Duquesne Way and Fort street, one man lost his life and three others were badly hurt. The property loss will be fully S250,o0o; well insured.
 The first move for the erection oi a statue of Andrew Carnegie, in par. tial recognition of his generosity in offering to give New York city $5.. 100000 for libraries, will be made in the city council when Councilman Francisco, of Brooklyn, will introduce resolutions to that end.
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