The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-04-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

entered the service in July, 1868.
Mrs. NJ. a. Radcliffe was exonerated
at Denver, Col, on the 10Th. from the
suspicion of having voted illegally at
the city election on April 2. Justice
Haynes, after hearing all the evidence
in the case, dismissed the complaint.
The contamination of the project to
consolidate all the independent cereal
plants of the country is now assured.
The various properties, ten in num-
Der, will be turned over to the Great
Western Cereal Co., at Chicago, on the
25th. The new company will compete
with the American Cereal Co., better
known as the Oatmeal trust"
The list of officers accorded promo
tions and honors for services in South
Africa, prior to November %, 1900.
when Lord Roberts gave up the COM
mand of the British forces in the
Boer war, fill 16 pages of the Gazette.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances IN the general fund, exclusive
of the S150,000.000 gold reserve in the
division of redemption, issued on the
10th, showed: Available cash balance,
1852, ,91s; gold, S95,601,95s.
A high wind which struck Chicago,
OH the 2lst. loosened huge iron wa
ter tank from its fastenings on the
roof of the Galbraith building, Madi-
son and Franklin streets, causing il
to crash through the six floors to the
ground, injuring five persons and re-
sulting in damage to the building es-
timated at $4,000. The tank contained
10000 gallons of water.
The London Daily Mail says it un-
derstands that the managers of the
Metropolitan district railway have de-
cided to adopt the electric tractioa
system used by surface lines in New
York city.
Joseph Hume. the pioneSs salmon
packer of the Pacific coast, died, on
the 21st, from heart disease. Mr..
Hume established the first salmon
cannery on the Columbia river in 1874.
The snow and rain storms that pre-
vailed along the northern tier of
state, from Chicago to New York, on
the goth, and 2ist, are said to have
been without precedent, for April, in
the territory visited. Floods and
much loss of property followed in
their wake.
Samuel Brown, one of the oldest
members of the Milwaukee chamber
of commerce. and perhaps at one time
the best-lnown dealer in wool in Wis
consin. died, on the 21st, of old age
and general debility. aged IS years.
The Egyptian government, accord
ing to dispatch to the London Daily
Express from Cairo, has granted
concession to an American company
to ply passenger boats between Khar
toum and south Soudan.
The jury in the case of Capt. Gar
net Ripley, at Frankfort, Ky, charged
with being implicated in the conspira-
cy which resulted in the assassination
of William Goebel, returned a verdict
of not guilty.
According to the Vienna correspon-
dent of the London Morning Leader, n
Jew Insurer named Urban was lynched
Mt Sobodel. hungary, by five of his
ruined victims. Many arrests have
been made in connection with the af-
fair.
The recent cold weather has Sc.
riously damage. growing cot. ION in
Georgia. In some fields every plant
has been killed. and replanting will
be necessary. Orders for cotton seed
for replanting are numerous.
Charles Brown and f. L. Candy,
president and cashier, respectively. of
the First national bank of Vancouver,
Wash, who had wrecked their bank,
committed suicide with the same re-
volver in u clump of bushes two miles
from the city
Gen. James Il. Campbell, of Illinois,
is in Washington, at work in behalf
of soldiers of his old command. to Sc
cure for them homesteads on the
kiowa and Wichita reservations.
One of the most severe April
storms experienced in many years
swept the Ohio valley, and the.ce
eastward, on the 20th and 21st, doing
incalculable damage and threatening
serious floods from the rapid rising
of the overburdened rivers. Trans
portation and wire service were al
most paralyzed.
The volunteers will soon be of the
past. Twenty-Five regiments were or
ganiZed Five of them have returned
to this country and have been mus
tered out. Six more of them have
left Manila and nine are under or
ders to sail
a Paris dispatch of the 22d says
that Mount Nesuvius is again in a
state of active eruption, and many
people, scientists, students and the
curious, including American tourists,
are leaving Paris by every train for
Naples.
The gates of the Pan-American ex-
position grounds were closed on the
21st and every available man was put
to work to offset the effect of the
great April snow storm. The damage
to the buildings is slight and can be
quickly repaired, but the delay in the
landscape work and the building OF
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