The Forrest City times., 1901-05-17
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


votes for rejection, instead of 1925,
as ut first announced.
Gov. La Toilette, on the 10th, sent q
long message to the Wisconsin senate
vctoing the Iagemeister primary e!ec-
ton bill.
The cooperative store at American
/ Fork, Utah, was entirely destroyed
by fire on the 10th: loss, $4,000.
The branch appellate court of Chi
cago, in a decision handed down, on
the 10th, denied the right of striking
workmen to picket" a shop for The
purpose of dissuading others from en-
tering tie works. The decision was
| given or appeal from Judge Holdom's
court in contempt proceedings brought
against sti ikers who had violated an
injunction prohibiting them from
| ''picketing" the Winslow Bros. Coz
works during the strike two years
ago.
Lord Salisbury, rronzed and looking
exceedingly we'll. returned to London,
on the 10th, from Beaulieu, in the
south of France.
Sudden illness of Mrs. Mckinley has
caused an unexpected change in the
| itinerary OF President Mckinley. He
arrived in San Francisco quietly, on
| the 18th. several hours ahead of the
| time scheduled, where the attending
| physician ordered a weeks absolute
rest for the invalid, which, he pre-
dioted, would result in her complete
Incorporation.
The Hamburg marine board de-
elared, on the 18th, that the Hamburg
schooner .Arina, Capt. Mack, had been
lost with her entire crew. The vessel
left Hamburg May 2. 1900, for Matupi,
on Henderson island, in Blanche bay,
| German New Britain, and has not been
heard OF since.
| Tucker Woodson Taylor, aged 10.
was found dead in his room at Green
castle, Ind, on the 18th. 1t is believed
to be case of suicide. Mr.. Taylor
was for years confidential secretary
of John Clark Ridpath, the historian.
lie was also a poet of some reputa-
ton.
NJ. Henri Francois Charles de Yer
| T
senate, died in Paris on the 18th. He
was born May Is. 1871.
Famed by -mile-an-hour wind.
fire. on the 18th, swept the west bank
of the Rouge river. in Delrav. a
suburb to the south of Detroit. Mich,
for three-quarters of a mile, and de-
stroyed over eight hundred thousand
1 al
Nearly the whole of the business
portion OF Dumont. Ia, was DESTROYED
by fire, on the 18th. Eighteen business
houses were destroyed, entailing a
loss of $4,000.
j. Pierpont Morgan left Paris, on
the 18th, for London.
dispatch from Brunkhorst land
ing, above Grand Tower, H.. on the
morning of the 13th, announced the
sinking of the steamer City of Pa
ducah, while backing out from the
landing. Several lives were said to
have been lost.
The fatigues of the transcontinen.
tai tour have roved TO much for Mrs
Mckinley, and on the 18th. she was
|
Francisco, on a special train, where
she will remain, at the home of Hen.
| ry /. Scott, until she recuperate s
The president accompanied her. and
on her condition win depend the re-
mainder of the presidents itinerary.
Merritt Chism, one of the wealth..
est men of White Oak township. Me
| nf
of land. and worth nearly a quarter
of million dollars, after trivial
quarrel, on the 18th, cut and be at his
wife TO death in the most fiendisl
manner and badly wounded her son
who tried 70 save her.
Charles Il. Eastman. professor in
paleontologN at Harvard college. was
acquitted, N Cambridge. Mass. of tie
charge of numbering Grogan. The
jury deliberated for five hours. The
verdict was received with evident 81,
isfaction.
After beirg in Jail two morths on
the charge of numbering her hus
hand, Mrs. Sallie Il. Admire is agar
a free woman. The ease occupied an
entire week at Carrollt0n, H.. anC
the jury rendered n verdict of ac
quittal, after being out about ar
hour.
William Davis Williams. stenoe
rapher for Col. Edwards. chief of III,
insular bureau at Washington. ha.
been dismissed, in disgrace, for at
tempting 10 negotiate the sale Of
copies of papers in the Neely case +,
counsel for Nicely, The latter prompt
~ notified the authorities.
The war department has been mott
fed OF the opening of the dry docl
at Newport News. Va. which is one
of the largest in the world. The two
largest hattleships aioat can fine
easy berth in the dock at the same
time.
\ genegal strike involving directly
10000 machinists. and indirectly 500
600 men in metal working trades
| fhroupbpug the cnunt,~x- - a.-..-. 1