The Forrest City times., 1901-05-31
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

taking them along?'
On the 2ith II. G. Dun e. Co. report
ed: Failures for the week num-
oercd $50 in the United States, against
1ss last year, and % in Canada,
against 20 last year"
The anti-German agitation in the
province of Posen has assumed alarm
ing proportions, and the Prussian gov
eminent has forbidden all Polish H.
door or outdoor meetings for the PEN
tecostal holidays.
The live stock industry of Wyoming
is face to face with a grass famine.
Trouble between the cattle men aud
sheep men is feared.
The gunboat Scorpion arrived or
Memphis, Tenn, on the cath, and was
received with salute of 81 guns,
which was responded to by the war
ship. The Scorpion will remain there
until after the confederate reunion.
At their next meeting, directors of
the Pullman Sleeping Car Co. will be
asked to pass upon plans for pension
ing the 10000 or $4,000 employees of
the company.
The merchants and clubs of Hayai,a
have contributed literally for the re-
lief of the Jacksonville fire sufferers.
The steamer Tactician cleared from
New Orleans for Cape Town yester-
day, with LOO horses.
Five persons were killed outright
and 40 others were seriously injured,
on the goth, in collision between
trolley cars, moving at 40 miles an
hour, two miles from Greenbush, n
Y. 10th motormen were among the
victims. The scene presented after
the wreck was awful to behold. The
kindlingwood to which the two cars
were reduced was mixed with blood
and mar gled bodies.
Up to the Goth 80 bodies, some If
them terribly mutilated, had been re-
covered from the Universal colliery in
Senghenydd, in the Rhonda valley, in
Wales, where the recent explosion oc-
Cured. The gruesome work pro-
ceeded very slowly, and many painful
scenes were witnessed at the pits
mouth.
Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Hen
ry of the Netherlands will witness the
spring parade as guests of Emperor
William, spending few days at the
new palace, Potsdam.
The village of Esparragosa, Prov
ince of Badajoz, Spain, was almost de-
stroyed by storm on the Goth. One
woman was killed
The elections to the Spanish senate
resulted approximately in the return
of 100 ministerialists and 80 members
of the opposition.
The refusal of the other powers TO
| join in the suggestion of the United
| States with regard to scaling down
| the indemnity demanded of China is
great disappointment to the admin
istration, though it could hardly be
said that it was entirely unexpected.
Owing to the bitterness engendered
in the present campaign, both Sen
ators Tillman and McLaurin, of South
Carolina, have placed their resigna-
tions in the hands of Gov. McSweeney
to take effect September Is next, and
have asked for special primary to
test the popular sentiment.
The statements published in the
| United States to the effect that the
| private fortunes OF the German EN-.
peror and empress and other members
of the royal family had been almost
entirely swept away by the operations
of swindler, are emphatically denied
from Berlin.
corps OF surveyors in the employ
of the Standard Oil Co. has beer
driven out of West Calcasieu parish
La, by 15e armed and determined
| planters.
The forty mortormen employed by
the Paducah (Ky) Street Railway
Co. organized union, on the night Of
the 25th, and the next morning found
new men in their places.
The body of an unknown man wa.
found on the top of wild and desc
late hill known as Buzzard's Roost
and overlooking the Vermillion river
near Danville, Ill. From the fact thai
the head was cut off, it is thought
that he wasm ordered. He hal beer
dead six months or more.
| The funeral of John r. Tanner
former governor of Illinois, al
| Springfield, on the Goth, was the
largest ever held in that city since
the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, il
1865. Several thousand people from
abroad were in attendance.
The event of the many memorial ex
ercises held in Chicago, on the Goth
was the presence of Brig. Gen. Ere
ID. Grant at the services of U. S
Grant Post veterans before the statue
of their old commander in Lincoln
park.
Broom corn valued at 100000 was
burned, ON the night of the Goth. in
a fire that destroyed warehouse n,
Eighty-first and Wallace streets. Chi.
cago. The broom corn was owned bv
w. L. Rosenberg, Chicago manufac.
turer. The building was valued al
| $4,000.
Gov. Nash of Ohio has been advised