The Forrest City times., 1901-03-29
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

VIII ulf.
 Judge l.. W. Seney. a prominent
 attorney of Toledo, O.. died suddenly
 on the 22d. He served on the bench a
 number of years ago.
 A Japanese squadron, Admiral | TsuShima commanding, left Nagasaki,
 on the 23d. for Corea. The general opinion in Yokohama is that the sIt
 nation is serious. Urgent instructions
 have been issued by the minister of war, Gen. katsoura, to the command CTS of forts to attend conference in Tokio to consider questions of home defense.
 Judge Jos. NJ. Bartholomew. for ten years justice of the supreme court of
 North Dakota. dropped dead on tine 24th. in Bismarck He was recog-
 nized as an able lawyer and iurist and
 was one of the best public speakers in the state.
 Gen. Weyler, Spanish minister of war. is preparing extensive army re- forms. a number of which will be car ried out by royal decree. The food of the soldiers will be improved and economies will be realized in the war
 budget.
 A dispatch from Manila. on the 24th | said: The attendance at the serv- ices of the Evangelical church in Ma nila is not diminished. ProtestaRism is spreading rapidly in the Province of Pampanga.
 Frank F. White, publisher of Chic and connected with Cincinnati papers for 20 years, died suddenly, on the 24th. aged 42 years. few hours after
 the death of his wife from the game
 malady.
 The bubonic plague continues to spread in Cape Town. Cape Colony. | There is an average of six fresh cases officially reported daily. Most of the victims are colored persons. II is reported in Geneva that Mr. | Kruger. if his health permits. will visit | the United States next month. Mrs. Carrie Nation visited the sol diers home, at Leavenworth. Kas., on | the 24th, with the intention of smash
 ing the canteen, but was escorted
 from the home grounds. by order of
 Gov. Rowland. whom she roundly be- | rated.
 | In the Province of Cavite four in-
 surgent officers and B men. with 56 rifles have surrendered to Lieut.. Col. Frank D. Baldwin of the Fourth Unit
 ed States infantry, and one insurgent
 officer and 12 men, with 16 rifles, to | Col. Walter $. Schuyler of the Forty.
 sixth volunteer infantry. | KY n EyanS rnlI;,. ,.,.u
 ton of Versailles, Ky, was found
 stretched on the floor of his room at
 the Palace hotel. at Lexington, dead,
 on the 24th. His nose was broken.
 The coroner pronounced the injury due to a fall Evans was aged GO and | came from Wales in 1885. Secretary of War Root ana Aoit.- Gen. Corbin expect to make a trip to the Philippines for personal investi- gation of the conditions there Col.
 Sanger, assistant secretary of war.
 will have charge of the department l in their absence.
 | A Washington dispatch says that
 ex-Representative Wm. A. Rodenberg, of East St. Louis, Ill.,, has been se- lected to succeed the late Mir. Brewer on the civil service commission, and | that he will probably be made presi- | dent of the commission.
 In view of the improving conditions in the Philippines the administration is seriously considering the advisabil- | ity of curtaiiing the enlistments for | the army. \ definite conclusion will
 be reached within the next month. Following a freight wreck at Glen | Gardner. \. J.. on the 24th. ten oil | tank ears exploded, sending q river of flaming oil down the main street of the town. setting fire to many
 buildings and causing a loss of about
 Sl0O000
 l Eddie Hoffman. a small boy gave Charles Callahan a humping. on the 24th, at Louisville. Ky. because the latter made remarks about Hoffman's sister. Callahan died a few hours later, and Hoffman was arrested cn a charge of murder.
 Fifteen Spaniards who came ever to become shepherds in Idaho, and who were stopped by the immigration | authorities at New York, are to bc deported, having been brought to this country in violation of he contract | labor law.
 Booker T. Washington announced in New York, on the 24th. thar as a result of the meeting held. week previously, by the Armstrong isso- eiation for the TusLegce institute S20,500 had been given or promised,
 including $l0.O00 from Mrs. (. P. | Huntington, which may be used for the endowment fund.
 Ii was announced. on the 25th. that Prof. II. R. Gaylord. of the University of Buffalo. who has been conducting tch New York state pathological lab oratory for the last two years. with the object of discovering the cause of cancer, has succeeded in his object. He will not make public statement. however, until his report has been sent to Albany.