The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-07-12
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

vision of redemption, issued en- the
5th, showed: Available cash balance,
SITS. 49s ,63e; gold, sos. 2es,644.
At Louisiana, No., on the 18th, Dom
aid Nichols and Samuel Taylor, each
about five years old, were burned to
death locked in an cut-building. They
had been playing and probably set
fire to a can of oil. The door was
fastened and they were unable to es-
cape.
On the It'll Silveton Green, of Nc
Dowell county, West Virginia. fatally
stabbed his wife and beat out the
brains of his child with a rock be-
cause the wife refused him money
with which to gamble. Green es-
capped to Kentucky.
Gov.-Gen. Wood of Cuba who had
been suffering from mild case of ty-
lhoid fever. was reported, on the 18th,
as much improved.
w. E. Fitzgerald, one of the officers
of the American Ship Building Co.,
was fatally injured by an explosion of
acetyline gas at his summer home at
Lake Nagowick, Wis, on the 18th.
Emigration from Germany by way
of Bremen during the six month
which ended June 80 reached 65,742, AS
compared with 55,s21 during the cor
responding period of last year.
An accident to the train bearing
Barnum e. Bailey's circus at Beuthen,
Upper Silesia, caused the death of five
attaches of the big show, and the pos
sibly fatal wounding of others.
Several hundred persons were poi
soned at Ada, /. T., on the 7th, by
drinking Lemonade. Three children
were reported dead and many serious
ly i'll.
The total attendance at the Pam
American exposition at Buffalo, n. Y,
up to the 18th, was 1,779,S6s.
Prof. Ludwig Gaupp. of the Univer-
sity of Tucbingen, died on the 9TH.
Pierre Lorillard, the millionaire
turfman and tobacco manufacturer,
died, on the 18th, at the Fifth Avenue
hotel, New York city, where he had
been lying i'll of Brights disease since
his arrival from Europe on the steam
ship Deutschland.
The proclamations opening the Kio-
wa, Comanche and Apache and Wicbi-
ia and Caddo Indian reservations In
Oklahoma to settlement were given to
the public on the night of the 7th.
they provide for the formal opening
OF the reservations on August 6.
For the first time in the history of
South Carolina criminal courts a man
has been prosecuted for kissing a girl.
The offender was c. c. Hopper, mar
ried man, and an official of the Cliff
ton Manufacturing Co. of Spartan
burg; the victim was Miss Maggie
Cudd, aged 16, buxom and pretty. The
jury found him not guilty.
Senator w. A. Clark, Margaret
Daily of New York, Administrative of
the estate of Marcus DAILY: the Ana
conda Mining Co. and the Bitter Root
Development Co. must stand trial in
the federal courts for alleged irresu-
larities in timber lands in Montana
and Idaho, involving millions of dol
lars.
The Philadelphia North American
publishes an article to the effect that
the entire coal transportation east of
the Mississippi river will be divided
among the railroads controlled by
the Pennsylvania railroad, the Van
derbilt and the Morgan interests.
j. q. kalkes, st. Paul (Minn.) BIZ
cycle repairer, and Albert Smith, a
lad in his employ, We're convicted of
strewing broken glass and tacks on
bicycle path, ostensibly for the pur-
pose of increasing business. Both
were fined.
The steamship Queen brings news
that Dawson is experiencing the most
severe beer war in Klondike's history.
Beer had jumped from $75 to $3.50 per
barrel, and none was to be had at
wholesale. Large quantities are be-
ing shipped in.
Capt. McCalla, of the United States
cruiser Newark, greeted his wife and
daughter in New York, on the 18th.
after they had circumnavigated the
globe in different directions, after
saying good-by in China. Capt. Nc.
Gala will assume command of the
battleship Kearsarge.
iSouoIo ESFlanueZ, franciscan
friar, has been arrested at Manila
charged with embezzling funds be-
longing to that order to the amount
of $4,000. His trial has been re-
ferred to the court of first instance.
The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of
keddleston, telegrashed, on the sth.
that the rainfall in the Bombay Dec
can, central province, eastern Bengal.
Burmah and Assam, had been general
" sufficient for agricultural purposes.
In the suit at Santa Fe, n. NJ, of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. against
the United Mine Workers, growing
out of the coal miners strike at Gal
lup, Judge McFie, on the sth. made
permanent the injunction restraining
thes trikers from interfering with the
working of the mine by non-union
men.