The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-04-26

dispatch, on the 22d, saying that DR..
Leyds had sent to the German foreign
Office a formal protest against thu
supplying of arms and guns to Eng
land by Germany.
The French foreign minister, NJ
Delcasse, arrived at st. Petersburg
on the 22d, from Paris. A series of
dinners has been. arranged in his
honor and the car will receive him
in audience at Tzarskoe-Selo.
The president, on the 10th, signed
and ratified the treaty amendatory of
the Brussels convention for the pro-
lection of industrial property, and
the document has been forwarded to
Brussels, where il will be deposited.
Mrs. Elizabeth il. Ward died in
Kansas City, Kas., on the 22d, at the
home of her son after brief illness.
She was the daughter of Maj. Chas.
Wheeler, who served with distinction
in the war of 1872 and in the Mexican
war.
The work of cutting the Nile sudd
Floating vegetable matter that forms
in the river and obstructs navigation)
has been so successful that navigation
will shortly be practicable from Relal
to Omdurman. distance of 1,200
miles.
In reply to a dispatch of il 1uiry
Gen. Macarthur, on the 18th, cabled
the adjutant general that press re.
ports of peculation in the commissary
department at Manila had been great
1y exaggerated and were entirely mis-
leading.
Thomas Shelton, editor of The
Christian, a monthly publication of
Denver, Col, was arrested, on the 22d,
on an indictment returned by the fed
eral grand jury, charging him with
using the mails to defraud. Shelton
processes to cure all mental and ply
steal ills by sending vibrations"
Incessant snow and rain for many
hours in the valley of the Ohio caused
almost unprecedented floods in the
Ohio river and its tributaries on the
goth and 21st. Immense damage was
done at many points, the city of Pitts
burgh alone reporting losses esti-
mated at between 100000 and 3d.
0OO, 900.
The quartermaster generals depart
ment has purchased transport at
Manila to carry animals from that
port to various island stations, reliev-
ing the larger transports of that
duty. The new transport has been
named the Liscum, in honor of Col.
Liscum, who was killed at the battle
of Tien Tsin, China.
Sidney c. Newsom, teacher of En-
Elish and Latin at the manual train
Ing high school of indianapolis, Ind,
has accepted the position of super
lntendent in one of the nine divisions
of the Philippine islands. Mr.. New
som will leave to assume his new
duties in few weeks. He will be ac-
companied by Mrs. Newsom.
The National Academy of Science, at
its meeting in Washington, on the
18th, elected Arnold Hague, of Wash
ington city, home secretary, and also
the following new members: +. III.
Moore, Chicago; Edward II. Nichols,
of Cornell university; George f. Beck
er, of Washington City; Joseph Mex.
Cattell and L. NJ. Prudden, New York
Fifty million dollars of Great Brit
aims new loan has been placed in the
United States. The National City
bank, j. p. Morgan g. Co., Barring,
Magoun & Co., and the New York Life
Insurance Co., comprise the syndicate
that mas taken the loan. American
subscriptions will probably aggregate
much in excess of the S50,000,000 ar
ranged for.
The hotel and bath house at the
historic Steamboat springs, Nevada,
which, III the palmy days of the Com
stock mine. was a watering place
where more money was squandered
In night than at most any other re-
sort on the Pacific slope, We're de-
stroyed by fire on the 2lst. The loss
is heavy, and, it is understood, no in
surance was carried.
The Continental Creamery Co., OF
Topeka, has purchased nine additional
rreameries in Kansas. This makes a
total of 1875 creameries owned and
operatedsby the Continental company
Nine of these are in Oklahoma, three
In Colorado, two in Nebraska and the
remainder in Kansas. The company's
output at present is about twenty
thousand pounds of butter day.
Col. James Hayr, chairman of the
Grand Army standing committee on
free quarters, announced, on the 2lst,
that he and his colleagues of the COM
mittee had secured free quarters in
the school houses and halls of Cleve-
land, o., for $1,000 veterans at the en-
campment in that city September to