The Forrest City times., 1901-04-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Influenced by the protests of the
Evangelical church council and the
Catholic bishops, Emperor William
has withdrawn from the great hall
Of the blind asylum at Wursterhausen
he mosaic paintings representing the
empress as St. Elizabeth and himself
,s the saints husband.
"A party of four persons, while
crossing the tracks of the Lehigh Val
ley railroad, at South Wilkesbarre,
Pa, at an early hour on the morning
Of the 18th, were run down by the
Buffalo express going north. Three
Of the party were killed and one in
jured.
1t was reported at Bloemfontein, on
President Stein has broken down. 1t
was also said that he had advised all
Beers on commando to surrender i'm
mediately.
According to the st. Petersburg COR
respondent of the London Daily Mail
the Corean government has promul-
gated a law enforcing the penalty of
ItdtH loT opium sihohlitS.
Gen. Daniel Butterfeld, who is suf-
fering from an attack of paralysis, in
New York. was slightly better on the
t4th.
The government of Corea, according
20 a dispatch to the London Daily
Mail from st. Petersburg, has decided
to build 81 coast fortresses to resist
a possible Japanese invasion.
The executive board of the federal
soldiers home sent to East Tennessee
to select location for the branch
home provided for by an act of the
last congress, decided on the Lyle
farm, of 200 acres, two miles west of
Johnson City, in Washington county.
Drunkenness among the private sol
diers of the army has been alarmingly
increased by the operation of the law
abolishing the sale of beer in the post
canteens. This is the information that
comes to the war department from
every part of the country where
troops are stationed.
The kiowa and Comanche Indians
are, previous to taking their allot-
ments, holding their last annual beef
ssue. Several hundred are at Fort
sill and Anadarko in attendance. The
ceremonies attending the issue will
asst perhaps two or three weeks.
c. II. Andrews has been placed in
the United States jail at Guthrie,
Okla. charged with impersonating a
United States officer and participant
ing in a swindling plan to defraud old
soldiers and others who desire to settle
in the Kiowa and Comanche country
soon to be opened to settlement.
Since the Lucas petroleum geyser
was struck January 10 last, &c oil COM
panies have been chartered in Texas
and four in other states, with an ag-
gregate capital of ~2S, 537 900, to de-
velop the oil resources of Texas
principally in the Beaumont field.
Since the failure to enjoin the ship
ment of horses and mules for the
British from New Orleans, Gen. Pear
son, the Boer agent, has given out
hints that privateers may ere long as
sail British commerce at sea.
Since the changes were made in the
collector of customs force in New
York and the closer inspection of pas
sengers' baggage, there has been an
enormous increase in receipts. mainly
from the class of passengers who
ought to be above attempts to swim.
die the government.
DIR. Victor c. Vaughan, dean of the
medical department of the University
of Michigan, and one of the most
noted psychologists in the country
appeared before the State board OF
health, at Ann Arbor, and practically
acknowledged that the case of Stu
dent Charles b. Hare is one of bu
bonic plague.
Col. John II. Musick, author, jour.
apartments in Omaha, Neb., on the
14th. Injuries received while rescuing
the injured after cyclone at Kinks
vile, Mo-, were causes which ulti.
mately led to his death
Manufacturers of cigars in Chicago
are in state of CONSERVATION as a
result of the announcement that the
American Cigar CO., combine close
ly allied with the Tobacco trust, is
about to enter the Chicago field.
The president and members of the
cabinet were photographed, on the
18th, in the cabinet room. 1t is the
custom as soon as a change in the
cabinet occurs, to have a new set oil
photographs of the cabinet taken
The entry of Attorney-General Knox
into the presidents official family
was the occasion for the new cabinet
pictures.
By vote of IL to I, the Arkansas
senate, on the 18th, passed a bill max
ing it unlawful for any person t.
drink any Intoxicating liquors as 6
beverage unless he shall have first OBJ
tanned a license as dram drinker
The license is fixed at five dollars pei
annum.
Frank. A. Vanderlip, ex-assistanr
secretary of the United States treas
ury, is in ST. Petersburg, investigat