The Forrest City times., 1901-04-12

Former Congressman John B. Gll- Allan, of Minneapolis, has given the University of Minnesota S5O,000, the income from which is to be used to help worthy students through the university.
 The naval ship Supply is to be over hauled and refitted as station ship for the Island of Guam. She will take the place of the collier Brutus, which is now on her way to the United States to be laid up for repairs.
 Dr. George A. Reisner, who is in charge of Mrs. Hearst's excavations in Egypt for the archaeological muse- um of the University of California, has cabled that he has discovered rich collection of archaic gold jewell ry.
 The ticket brokers of Pittsburgh, Pa, are all idle as a result of de- cision of the supreme court, on the Sth, declaring constitutional the law prohibiting the sale of tickets by any one not authorized agents of railroad companies.
 The officials of the agricultural de- partment are closely watching all re- ports from abroad regarding the ex- tent of the foot and mouth disease, a fatal malady that is raging among the livestock in almost every country throughout Europe.
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 The Toledo (o.) Bee publishes a story to the effect that Dr. Ash, n former resident of that city, has just sold to John D. Rockefeller, for S1,. 100000, 160 acres in northern Wiscon- sin, which Dr. Ash purchased in 1884. for $1.000, on speculation. The tract is said to include a natural harbor.
 A special dispatch from Cincinnati says: "A gigantic amalgamation of four railroads has just been effected. The roads are the Southern railroad, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville and the Cincinnati Southern. J. Pler- pont Morgan is the reputed backer."
 The Mexican ambassador, on the 9th, received from the secretary of state draft for s2,0o0, paid out of humane consideration and without reference to the question of liability, as full indemnity to the heirs of Flor entino Suaste, Mexican citizen, who was lynched in LaSalle county, Texas, in 1885.
 Probably ten thousand persons par ticipated, on the 7th, in the dedica- tion of the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, at Wrightwood and Pine Grove avenues, Chicago. So great was the assemblage that quadruple service was held, the church being as often filled with new and different congregations.
 Fifteen hundred pounds of dyna- mite were used by the authorities Of the port, on .he 26th, in blowing up the forward superstructure of the sunken United States collier Merri- mac, which has long impeded entrance to the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. The explosion was plainly heard in the city, five miles away.
 Congressman R. B. Gordon, of the Fourth Ohio district, and other mem bers of congress, will visit the Phil ippines this summer. They will leave the first of the month. Congressman Gordon says it is his desire to make . study of the actual conditions, and <I,.o l. la+ .l1 S~ ID pine matters in the next congress.
 Mrs. Carrie Nation says she will sue the city of Topeka, Kas., for some of her hatchets which are now Tn the possession of the police department. The hatchets were taken from her on the occasions of several arrests dur ing saloon smashing days. She made demand on the chief of 1olicc for the hatchets, cn the sth, but was re- fused.
 The so-called radical element in the Cuban constitutional convention, in, cluding Senors Juan Gomez, Portuon. do, Aleman and Manduley, held a con. ference, on the 4th, with Gov.-Gen. Wood, who set forth the provisions of the Platt amendments in new and satisfactory light. The delegates re. tired apparently pleased with the in teryiew.
 In the volunteer cyclists maneuvers ordered by tbe British war office, the attack on London, on the 7th, proved that the military value of wheelmen is largely dependent on the weather. The attacking force outgeneraled the defenders, put lost so many men in the rain and owing to the bad roads that it was unable to attack in force at the proper time.
 As reported oy K. c. Dun & Co.,, commercial failures in the first quar- ter of 1901 were 3,3s5 in number and s31.T03, ,4s6 in amount of defaulted lia- bilities of which TO were in manufac.