The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-10-18


FORREST CITY. ARKANSAS
No passengers are now allowed TO
sail from Cape ports without military
permits.
Mrs. Hannah Powderly. wife of
Terence V. Powderly. commissioner
general of immigration and formerly
grand masterworkman of the Knights
of Labor, died at her home in Wash
ington on the 18th.
A dispatch from Constantinople, on
the 14th. said: Neither Mr.. Baird
nor Mr.. Haskell, the missionaries. has
vet been able to get in touch with the
brigands in order to arrange as to the
amount of ransom for Miss Stone.
"
The committee that has been inves-
tigating the affairs of the embar-
raised MeckIenburg-Strelit Mort
gage bank of Berlin reports a deficit
of 10000, 900 marks upon capital of
l., 0o0. 900 marks. and that the annual
loss from interest on mortgages will
be 794, 900 marks.
The Manila railway authorities have
received word that Gen. Miguel Mall
var, the insurgent leader, is believed
TO have left the Province of Batangas,
Iuzon. and to be planning operations
In the Province of Bulacan. where in
surgent CONSUMPTION has been pre-
crossing recently.
Edwin Longenecker, aged 81 years,
quarterback on the football team of
the Brown preparatory school, of
Philadelphia, died. on the 18th, in a
hospital as result of injuries re-
ceived in game a few days before.
Longenecker was heavily thrown and
fractured his spinal column.
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The Russian naval budget for 1902
Is said to have been completed, with
a total of o.. 300. 900 roubles. of which
the ordinary expenses are $1,000, 900
roubles; construction. 10000. 600 rou-
bles: Port Arthur improvements, B.
100000 roubles, and Nladiyostock i'm
proyements, 100000 roubles.
An official bulletin. dated from Bar
ranquilla, Colombia. makes the fol-
lowing statement. but gives no details
of the event referred to: The French
steamer Fournel brings news that
Gen. Cribe-C ribe was utterly routed
at Tachira and arrived at Maracaibo
on the morning of October g."
AS a result of the annual mission
airy sermon preached. on the 18th. in
the Gospel tabernacle. New York city,
by DIR. \. 3. Simpson. the missionary
fund solicitor. the sum of 500. 900 was
collected during the day. This is an
increase of $4,000 over the collections
of last year on similar occasion.
Gov.-Gen. Wood, on the l4th. pro-
mulgated the Cuban election law. Sew.
eral changes have been made in the
draft that was adopted by the eonsti.
tutional convention. The presidential
and senatorial electors will assemble
in the capitals of the provinces to
elect the president, vice-president and
senator's
III. {. Henderson. who had been in
the Dallas (Tex.) Jail for year and
half. and who claims he assisted in
the kidnapping of Eddie Cudahy al
Omaha, Neb., in December. 1900, was
sent, on the 18th, to the state peni
Tertiary. Henderson was, a year ago
convicted of swindling, for which he
gets - years.
Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of tn,
church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints. better known as the Mormon
church, died Unexpectedly at hi.
private residence, the historic BE,
Hive house, in Salt Lake City, Utah
on the 10th, after an illness that hat
been serious only one day. The inn
mediate cause of his death was by
postatic congestion, superindueed by
aggravated bronchitis.
Laurent Tailhade, editor of Liber
taire, the anarchist sheet. was. on tn.
10th, tried before the correctional pc
lice tribunal of Paris. for the articl,
he published in Libertaire, during tn,
visit of Emperor Nicholas to France
melting 10 the murder of the ear
President Loubet and the French min
listers as 'Tyrants and oppressors o
the people" He was sentenced TO i'm
prisonment for one year and TO fin,
of 1000 francs.
The department of agriculture an
nounces that the three most import
ant estimates of the worlds wheat
crop is larger than that OF either o.
the two preceding years. The esti
mates are: Hungarian ministry OF
agriculture, 2,67l, 360, 900 bushels of &
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