The Forrest City times., 1901-12-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


 Is last year.
 The Italian foreign office has been informed that the consul general of the United States to Cairo, Egypt, John c. Long. had withdrawn his charge that the Italians have enc"ur- aged slave trading in tie Italian col ony of Eritrea.
 Policeman George Hanlon. of Louis vile. Ky. was. on the 22d. found guilty of the murder of Police Cor poral Fred Bichterkessing. and his punishment was fixed at life impris- onment. Corporal Richterkessipg was shot and killed on the night of April l. He had reported Hanlon to the chief of police at different times for violating police regulations.
 The steamer Nnnehaha, which ar rived at New York. on the 22d, from London. brought 2 fine thorough bred racing horses. Twelve are for Wishart and Baker. and are going to Chicago. the other are consigned to II. l.. Leigh.
 The United States battleship In diana left Kingston, Jamaica, on the 221. for La Gaavara. Venezuela. Secretary of War Root. on the 21st. addressed a communication to Lieut. ] Gen. Nelson \. Niles which was also given to the press. strongly eensur- . ing that officer for expressions. ut i tered publicly. al Cincinnati, in con nection with the resulz of the sehles court of inquiry.
 Secretary ef the Navy Long. on the 2lst. approved the majority fnd- ines of the sehlev court Of inquiry. practically ignoring the individual l opinion expressed by Admiral Dewey. president of the court and then de- l clared the court dissolved. By order of the president an order was issued. on the 2.st. calling for the resignation of Edgar Stanton l Maclay. the author of the history If the United States navy. in which Ad- miral Schley is characterized as a coward and charged with having turned in -eaitiff flight" at the bat tle off Santiago.
 An operation was performed. on the 22d, at Detroit. Mich. on Gen. R. A 1 Alger. former secretary of war. for the removal of gall stones. from which he has been suffering for a long period. The general rallied well. and while his condition was consid- cred serious. the surgeons were hope ful of his recovery.
 Two professors in the University ! ,f T,1 ! have discovered an absolute anti i septic for all intestinal diseases. such as all forms of cholera. typhoid fever i and dysentery. The name "benzo- zone" is given the preparation, but its exact composition is not yet made l public.
 Theodore Thomas conducted his or 1 chestra al Chicago. on the night of l the 2Ist, under the Knowledge that his son had just died at Pensacola, Fla. His grace and gentleness in the ! direction of the funeral march in "Parsifal" is said To have reflected the grief under which he suffered.
 The authorities at Beyrut. Syria, notified naturalized American eiti- zens. on the @2d, that they must re- nounce their naturalization within l5 days, otherwise they will be expelled l from Turkey.
 Nothing else is talked of in army. navy and congressional circles. m Washington. than the sensational re- buke to Gen. Miles, the dismissal of Historian Maclay. the rejection of 1 Admiral Dewey's opinion that Schley i was in command at the battle of san 1 tiago. and approval of the findings of the court against Admiral Schley.
 Capt. John <. Parke. Jr. with % men of the Twenty-first infantry, en- countered 60 insurgents. last week. at Alaminos, in Laguna province, Luzon. Four of the enemy were killed. several guns were captured and their barracks was destroyed Two priests have been arrested in ! Batangas province, Luzon They are charged with aiding the insurrection. l They were found To have hidden. be- hind the altar of their church. applf- ances for counterfeiting money. They are charged with manufactur. ing silver dollars to pay the insur- l gent soldiers.
 , At Jeffersonville, Ind. on the 23d. l Newell (. Rathbun was found guilty of manslaughter for the killing of i Charles Goodman. by giving him poi son. and his punishment was fixed at two 10 twenty-one years imprison- men,
 By writ of habeas corpus. on the 23d, Thomas r.. Hagen, sentenced from North Dakota for solieitino 6ribes while deputy collector of GUS toms, secured his release from the i Sioux Fails penitentiary.