The Forrest City times., 1901-04-12
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Prof. F. w. Huffurt of the college of law at Cornell university, has de- clined the position of dean of the law department in Iowa State university, which was recently offered him. The navy department. on the 5th. awarded the contract for the building of the 23-knot protected cruiser Mil waokee to the Union iron works of san Francisco. The contract price is g, ,s25, ,000.
 Prentice Tiller and J. H. Grant, alias A. E. Chase, alias A. F. Martin, who were recently arrested in Ne braska, and who were wanted by the federal authorities in Cincinnati and other cities for robbing the United States mails, made a sensational dash for liberty in the Union station at Chicago on the 7th. Grant made his escape, but Filler was recaptured.
 Mrs. Isabel Thompson, aged 67 years, was fatally wounded in Kansas City, Mo, on the night of the 7th, by a footpad, who, in attempting to rob the woman, crushed her skull with coupling pin. She was returning home from church when assaulted, at Seven teenth and Holmes streets, an unfre- quented part ot the city.
 | According to the St. Petersburg cor respondent of the London Daily Mail, import duties for Vladivostock have been raised on all American iron, steel and machinery.
 | The St. John schooner Wendall Bur pee went ashore on the cape near Portland, Me, about noon on the 7th, and the mate only was saved. | The three-ma sted schooner Hyena, of Calais, Me, bound to that pert from Perth Amboy, went ashore at East Gloucester. on the 7th. and became a total wreck. Capt. k. B. Dix, of West Fremont, Me-, and Steward Fuller, residence unknown, were lost.
 Charles Rpg, IFS, who shot and killed his father-in-law, Milburn Baty, ami 1 seriously wounded his wife. Angeline Rogers, on March 10, was given life sentence by jury at Terre Haute Ind, on the 7th.
 Thomas X. Edison has obtained patents in England for his new stor- age battery. By using cadmium, a metal hitherto little known, the wiz ard of Menlo park has solved puzzle which has for years defied electricians,
 Instructions have been cabled by Secretary Long to Rear-aumiral Re- mey, commander of the Asiatic sta- ton, authorizing him to enlist 500 na- tives in the Philippines for service on board the former Spanish gunboats and other small vessels which are to be maintained exclusively in the Phil ippines.
 Miss Maggie Riggers, milliner, while preparing her Easter toilet at Ava, Minn., was burned to death. IT. some manner her hair caught fire, and in her endeavor to extinguish it the infiammable millinery stock, and the building and its contents were destroyed.
 The California supreme court ha. decided that the action of Wells Far go X Co. in compelling shippers to pay the war tax in addition to the regular rate for shipments was it. legal. Two justices non-concurred
 Augustus B. Moulder and George B. Cheesman, composing the we'll known and hitherto large brokerage company, the Moulder-Cheesman com pany of Colorado Springs, Col, are re. ported missing. Heavy defalcationr are alleged.
 An agricultural departments tray. cling representative has shipped from Greece 400 of the young trees which bear the Pistachio nut, used largely in this country for the favoring of ice cream and candies. The trees will be replanted in Arizona and New Mexico. by way of experiment.
 The Pekin correspondent of the Lon don Morning Post says it is stated on good authority that Russia is willing to give Japan a free hand in Corea in order to prevent the Japanese act ing against the Russian policy in Manchuria
 Mrs. A. NJ. Deeds. aged CT, who re- rently went to Oklahoma from Iowa, was burned to death at Ripley. She was helping her little granddaughter curl a dolls hair. when her dress acci- dentally caught fire.
 | Hc hcNiN -lIlSldlleu eiectFlc-DgnL- ing plant at St. Peters, in Rome, was inaugurated Easter Sunday. The eff feet was most brilliant. There were | s0.000 spectators present, including many tourists.
 The gigantic task of recovering to l the government the money owing to it by the various Pacific railroads will soon be completed. Up to date S126,- | 000.000 has been deposited in the treasury, and the sale of the govern ment's lien on the Sioux City X Pacific railroad, soon to be made, will com | plete the task.
 Thelma Taylor, the four-year-old daughter of Chas. Taylor, Fort | Wayne Qnd.) railway conductor, re- siding in Chicago. died at Laporte, Ind. on the 7th, as the result of ar. | senical poisoning caused by eating