The Forrest City times., 1901-11-01
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

David White. a chaplain in the
United States army. from 1s66 until
1852. when he was retired, died at
Lawrence, Has, on the 2jth. aged -
years.
The civil service commission. on the
25th. notified the postmaster general
that il had modified its regulations in
accordance with his request TO waive
certain physical requirements of fe-
male applicants for positions as post
Office clerks. including that making
them hop on one foot for a distance
of IL feet.
The navy department received d
cablegram from Rear Admiral Re-
mey, on the 25th. announcing his ar
rival at Nladisostock aboard his flag
ship. the Brooklyn.
Since the establishment of the new
system OF customs collections at the
dock at the port of New York. on
March /. 1901. there has been collect
ed total of s655.04s in duties on the
baggage of 99.6s6 passengers. against
total of s152.454. collected at the
docks from 95.l25 passengers during
the same period last year.
Tobin Hanson. Dane. 50 years of
age. surrendered TO Montreal po-
liceman, on the 27th, saying: Il
killed boy for money. and only got
50 cents. That is not enough. so l
came TO give myself up
Several Beers caught wearing khaki
uniforms. have been court-martialed
and shot as spies.
The town of Bobruisk. in the gov
eminent of Minsk. has been destroyed
by fire." says dispatch from 81. Pc
tersburg. on the 9th. Ind several
lives have been lost
"A trustworthy report Is in circula
ton here" says a dispatch from
Sofia. dated the 27th. that Miss
Stone is in the village Of Belitza. close
TO the frontier"
\ Uniontown pa dispatch Of the
27th said: The western slope Of the
Allegheny mountains. through Fay
cite county. ere ablaze from the
Yough river Il rough into West Nir
ginia. and moLntaineers are fleeing
from their doomed homes with their
families. Careless hunters started tie
fires.
\ big foreS, FIRE was raging on the
mountain ran-e in the vicinity Of Gar.
field mountain. directly south Of
Pixies Peak. Col. on he 27th The
FIRE started ZEN an unknown cause
and. driven By high wind. spread
over big area.
Alfred y. Carpenter. who has a
brother living at Fulton. IL. was
/ found dead in 4 cabin boat at Quincy.
/ H., on The 9Th. He died Of a pistol
shot. He Is supposed TO have been
dead five or a. DAYS.
Although no formal announcemer
/ is yet ready. Il has been deci led thai
F the launch Of TIE battleShip Missouri
/ shall take plTre at Newport New
Va, in January. The work on =
great fighter is progressing NOR.
rapidly than during the first stages OF
+ construction.
The jury at Georgetown, Ky :. in the
case Of former Secretary of State
Caleb Powers, charged with com
piicity n the ;osassination OF William
i Goebel. returned a verdict Of guilty
on the evening CT the Goth An an
+ peal VIII be taken. one of the ground,
+ of which Will lie that the Jury wa.
packed TO convict.
The campaign in Maryland has as
Sumed a dirt phase \ Hthograpf
has been put ont covering the Roolzel
I. Washington incident AT the Whit.
House. which not only carica,ure,
President Roosevelt, bu, deseendS 4
the inclusion Of Mrs. Roosevelt in a,
offensive manner in the picture.
Reynolds Weekly Newspaper. pub
! hshed in London. asserted in It's issu,
of the 9th, that King Edward is SUI
fering from cancer of the throat ant
that since his majesty's accession
three operations have been perform,
for the removal of papiiloma on III
left vocal cord.
The court of common pleas. i
Florence county, :. C.. has decide,
that marriage contracted in Soutl
Carolina between a white man and
negro woman. in 1861. was invalid
and that the children born OF sucl
marriage do not inherit from an Is
tate left TO the lawful grandchildren
of the testatrix
The penal authorities OF the stat
of New York determined that the as
sassin of President Mckinley shoul
have no post mortem notoriety $
far as they could prevent il. and to tha
end made arrangements 10 destro
everything possessed by the prisone
Immediately after his execution.
Leon F. Czolscsz. who shot and ia
tally wounded William Mckinley
president of the United States. dur
ing a reception al the Pan-Americal
exposition, in Buffalo. y. y. Septem
Der 8. Was put 10 death, by electrocu
tion in the state prison Al Auburn. \
y, at n. m. on the e9th. in the pres
ence OF the warden. prison official
and the persons who were special,
invited TO Witness the final Soena :