The Forrest City times., 1901-08-09
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| other members of their party and
suddenly found themselves going in a
deep hole. The ladies became fright
ened and on finding themselves going
down. grabbed their male companion,
who was good swimmer, and
dragged him down with them.
The Anchor line steamer Astoria,
which arrived at New York, from
| Glasgow, on the 4th, brought the
spars and gear of the cup challenger
Shamrock III. The great mast, lower
and topmast. which is in one piece,
was dashed securely to the spar deck
on the port side. This mast is 169
feet 9 inches in length
| The center converter of the smelter
Of the Detroit Copper Mining Co., at
Morenci, Ariz., blew up. on the 4th.
seriously injuring eight men.
| \ dispatch from kroonstad Orange
River Colony, dated the 9Th, said:
Two Beers came into the British
lines to-day under flag of truce. with
a letter from former president
Steyn.'
The British torpedoboat destroyer
Viper struck a rock off the Island of
Attorney. in the English channel. on
the 18th, and was totally wrecked.
There was no loss of life.
! The report comes from Washington
| that eX-Secgetary of the Navy Chan
der is after Eear-Admiral Robley =.
Evans scalp on account of certain
The Log Of a Sailor recently pub
matter, rejecting on Chandler, in
lished by Admiral Evans.
james II. Blount. who represented
the Macon (Ga.) district in congress
for 20 years, and who was sent by
| President Cleveland to Hawaii as com
missioner paramount, at the time of
the revolution in the islands. is in Il
critical condition. from a stroke of
| paralysis, z his home near Macon.
! y dispatch from Cron berg, Prussia.
on the sth. said that the condition of
the DoWager Empress Frederick was
the occasion Of grave anxiety. All of
the members Of the imperial family
i had been summoned. and King Ed
ward of Great Britain had made prep
arations to go to his sisters bedside.
| Experimentation competition has
driven thirty small merchants of Chi
cago to cooperate and open a great
department store of their own. The
store Will lave a capital stock of
100000 and viii be open a hours
every day, and viii sell anything, from
a tooth brush TO a coal hod.
George GoEid's yacht. the Sybarite.
which has been cruising off the New
Jersey coast, looking for the stork,
during the heated spell. found him,
on the morning of the 4th. bearing
a little daughter to the family, max
ing the siNlh child, three OF each kind.
Au negotiations for an amicable set
! Element of the troubles between the
United States Steel corporation and
| the Amalgamated Association of Iron,
| Steel and Tin Workers having failed.
a general strike of an union men in
the employ OF the steel corporation is
imminent
King Cotton made his best record in
| the fiscal year recently closed, The
figures of the treasury bureau of sta
tisties show that the value of the raw
cotton exported in the fiscal year
| 1901 (S3l3,61' ,443) was more than in
any previous year in the history of
the country, and the total value of
cotton and its products. 1866. 405, 70s.
United States Senator Benjamin F.
Tillman. in the course of an address
on The Race Question, From
Southern Standpoint" at Marinette.
Wis. condemned Booker T Washing
tons scheme of educating the negro
along industrial lines as an attempt
10 place him on an equality with the
white artisan,
Much dissatisfaction is felt both at
the war department and the depart
ment of justice over the delay in the
prosecution of Estes q. Rathbone and
c. F. Nicely, charged with postal
frauds in Cuba. At every turn the
government is met with the retera-
ton of 'Manana, manana," and de-
mands for witnesses of the most
trivial details, even the arrest of the
accused.
The navy department is preparing
to test, at Sandy Hook, the Gathmann
gun, which, it is claimed can DESTROY
an entire battle ship with a single
shell. 1t is larger than any gun now
in use IN the navy.
a frightful explosion supposedly
OF gasoline) occurred in Philadelphia.
on the 9th. which caused the wreck.
ing of six buildings, and loss OF
life estimated at over twenty, with
twice as many more or less seriously
injured. The wreckage caught fire,
and despite the heroic efforts of the
crowd. it is feared many of the i'm
prisoned victims were cremated.
The secretary of the treasury. or
the 5th, purchased short-term bonds
az follows: $1,000 tours, at s1l3.12O4;
500 fives, at Slos.0l43; $500 threes, al
slos.4037