The Forrest City times., 1901-09-20
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


 Emperor Francis Joseph has con ferred upon Count Von Waldersee the grand cross of the Order of St. Ste phen.
 Princess Victoria Louise, only daughter of Emperor William, cele- bTrated her ninth birthday, on the 18th, with her mother and her youngest brother, Prince Joachim, at kadinen.
 Gov Odell of New York announced, on the 18th. that he had declined to call a special term of the supreme court to try the murderer of Presi- dent Mckinley, because the district attorney had assured him that the grand jury would indict and the case be on trial within 15 days, and to call a special term and get jury assem- bled would take longer than that.
 \ society called the Societas Ameri- cae has been formed, with headquar- ters of the national secretary in Jop- lin. Mo, the purpose of which is to demand the deportation of all an archists from America and the cessa- tion of all foreign immigration.
 \ bad freight wreck occurred on the Chicago, Milwaukee X St. Paul railroad, on the 15th, near Angleston, Minn., in which a number of loaded freight cars were destroyed and two men killed.
 At the call of the common council of Detroit, Mich, 2o,0o0 citizens as sembled in mass meeting, on the 18th, and emphatically declared that the root of anarchy must be stamped out.
 At Buffalo, \. Y., on the 14th. Theo- dore Roosevelt took the constitutional oath as president of the United States just 13 hours and 10 minutes after the death of William Mckinley.
 Quietly, and without ostentation, Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office as president of the United States, on the 14th, at the home of Ansley Wilcox, in Buffalo, \. T., in the presence of members of the cab inet and a few others who had been invited to witness the ceremony. Judge John k. Hazel, of the United States district court, administered the oath.
 Assassin Czolgosz, in his cell in the Buffalo jail, heard distinctly the dirge by the Dand and steady tread of the soldiery as the body of his victim was escorted 10 the city hall, on the 15th and they conveyed to him the first positive knowledge that his bullet had killed and that he was indeed mur- derer
 The Dead March in Saul was played in hundreds of English | churches, on the 18th, while the wor- slippers reyerently stood and honored the memory of the late president. Nm. Mckinley. Westminster abbey was the exception to the rule, owing to the absence of the regular organ ist.
 Mrs. Mckinley was said, on the 18th, to be bearing up bravely under her great sorrow. At her earnest request it was arranged that the remains should be taken from Washington to Canton on the night of the Eth. so as to rest in the family home the night l preceding the funeral
 From the land of perpetual ice and cold, leaving her indomitable hus- band facing q long and dreary Arctic winter, Mrs. Robert r.. Pearv. wife of i Lieut.. Peary, arrived in Portland. Me, on the evening of ple Ijth. go- ing thence 10 Washington. She will accompany the Windward on the re. lief trip in the spring.
 President Boosevelt,on the 18th. sig nitied his intention to take up his residence, in Washington, with his sister. Mrs. William Sheffield Cowles. for the present, deferring his occu- l pancY of the White House until later in the fall, when the necessary ar engagements can be made without un- seemly haste.
 The great steel strike has come to an end, leaving the Amalgamated as sociation with an empty treasury and much ground lost. The exact terms of the settlement have not been made public as yet.
 In nearly every pulpit throughout ! 'tih NN'fAtttI ttl AAAt. l4t IT. AIttll lit~ We're east aside and the clergy joined in paying tribute 10 the manly virtues and correct living of the dead chief magistrate and imploriug divine help to sustain the stricken widow.
 \ St. Louis minister, in denouncing anarchism, in the course of sermon, on the 18th. declared that the saloon was the hotbed in which anarchists were reared. He also blamed vel low journalism as having had much 10 do in encouraging a spirit of dis loyalty and discontent among those not fully imbued with the spirit of our democratic institutions.
 The engineers appointed by the dis trict attorney, following the acci- dent to the Brooklyn bridge, on July 24, te examine the condition of that structure as to it's present safety. re- ported on the 10th. The report con- eludes as follows: We believe the