The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-08-30
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

& turning Il. on.
J. A. Blodt. formerly secretary Ct
he Guarantee Savings and Loan Co.
.. Cleveland. O. was. on the sd.
bound over TO the grand jury on the
charge of embezzling funds Of tina :
c ucern.
The Marquis Ito has abandoned his
proposed American tour.
On the 23d r. 6. Dun d. Co. report
ed: Failures for the week number
20j in the United States. against III
last year. and IS in Canada. against
% last year
According TO a dispatch to the Lon
don Daily Mail from Simla. India, b
inches OF rain fell there during the
three days ended on the 23d.
The gunboat Machias. which is IN
her way 10 Colon. arrived at Kings
Ton. Jamaica. on the I'D.
In the city Of Manila there are nos
less than one thousand effective sol
dier>, and it has been decided 10 in
crease this number by four companies
of infantry. The official reason given
for the increase is that the guard
DUTY is too heavy for the present
force. As a matter OF fact, however,
there is feeling that. although there
Is 10 apparent uprising in the future
such a. is always possible among the
Malays. it would be better to have
sufficient body Of troops available.
Prince Chun, brother of the EN-
peror of China and the members Of
! he Lipasa ttaissitr, -,
20 Berlin 10 apologize for the IN. rider
Of Baron Won ketteler. German min
lister in Pebin, arrived at Basel, Switz-
erland. on the 25th.
The French sugar bounties having
occasioned a deficit of 1900, 900
francs. the minister of fnanc-. NJ.
taillanX, has issued a decree reducing
them by IS per cent. with view of
covering The deficit.
The body OF Albert Nalincourte. one
of the victims Of the crib No. , dis
aster, at Cleveland, O. was recovered.
on the 10Th, by divers. The body was
found in the air shaft 80 feet below
the surface.
Gen. Robert Williams died, on the
24th. at the Hotel Netherwood near
flainfield, \. J., from apopleNy. aged
- y Years. lie had been spending the
summer with his three daughters. his
home being in Washington, D. c.
Byaid Simon, father Of Omitted
States Senator Simon, Of Oregon, died,
on the 18th, at Portland, of old age
lie was in his eighty-second year.
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a statement in which he asserts that
the patients in the state insane aSv-
lum, instead of being provided break
fast bacon are fed bulk pork, and
that while the state is paying for
very best beef. an inferior article IS
IS provided, which is hashed up with
beans and vegetables.
Forest fires are doing great damage
on the timber belt along the Columbia
river on both sides the Washington
and Oregon shores. MoorsviIle. four
miles back from Columbia, Wash, is
cut off by fires, and grave fears are
entertained for its safety. Ranchers
are fighting the fires.
Henry Noles. the negro who Grim
man ''F7oHiA'h anu Niiot III Ntd II
Mrs. Williams. wife of prominent
farmer. near Winchester, Tenn, on
the 23d. was captured an burned at
the stake near the scene of his crime,
on the 2ath, after having confessed.
in the presence Of several thousand
people
The announcement is made from
( Dal-ip Ia. haa+
Try Of the Illinois Sugar Refining Co.
located At Pekin, has been perma-
nently abandoned, and that no more
beets Will be grown.
Miss Maidie Stuart. summer opera
chorus girl. AT suunysidc park. Chi
cago, has been notified that land
owned by her near bakersfield. Cal,
has been sold by heI agent for $50
coo cash. The money has been placed
10 her credit.
An audience listening to Mrs. Car
RE Nation at Atlantic City. y. j.. on
the 18th. voiced their disapproval ny
Kisses when she declared that Presi-
dent Mckinley ran The government in
fear of the liquor element and that he
never mentioned the liquor traffic in
any of his messages.
Adolph Robert kraus. one of Amer
ca greatest sculptors, and one whom
Massachusetts has especially honored,
is now an inmate of one of her insti-
tutions=the insane asylum at Dam
vers, Mass.
dispatch from Vienna says that
Matthew IIackey, a Mormon mission
AIRY from Salt Lake City, has been ar
rested at Teinesvar, Hungary, for
seeking to make converts Hackey
will be expelled from the country.
The aggregate collections of in
ternal revenue daring the month of
July We're $40, So $50. This Was de-
crease from July of 1909 of S77.494.
Bureau officials have been much sur
priSed at the small decrease. as il