The Forrest City times., 1902-10-03
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Joseph Il. Lindsay, republican nomi-
nee for congress in the Sixth Missouri
| district, has Withdrawn from the race
! on account of i'll health.
DR.. George Beatty. of Kiowa, 1. T..
charged with completely in the muir
DER of Gyp Rally, Cincinnati sales
man, last spring, was admitted to
bail, on the Goth, in the sum of SIC, 900
j. VI. Parsons, of Rock Rapids, was
| nominated for congress, on the GOTH
by the democrats of the Eleventh
Iowa district.
Unknown parties, on the night of
the 9th, made an attempt to destroy
the family of Columbus Walton, of
South st. Joseph. Mo, by exploding
several sticks of dynamite under the
steps of the house. The building was
destroyed, but the family miraculous
~ escaped.
Tom Clark, alias Will Gibson. a ne
gro, was burned at the stake by a
mob at Corinth, Miss, on the 2Sth,
| he having confessed to the assault
and murder of Mrs. Carey Whitfield,
white woman. in August last.
Alice Bibeau, a seven-year-old child.
fell into a steam-condensing well at
Anoka. Mimi, on the night of the
2sth, and was literally parboiled
death resulting before she could be
rescued.
Unknown parties shot through
window, on the night of the 2Sth, at
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and killed Ed Chapman, the railroad
ticket agent at that place.
Because she refused to marry him,
Joseph Emers shot and seriously
wounded Miss Rosa Borodofsky, at
Nicksburg, Miss, on the 2Sth, and
then fatally shot himself.
\ life statue of Louis Kossuth, the
Hungarian patriot, was unveiled at
Cleveland, O., ON the 2Sth, in the pres
ence of $4,000 people.
Three earthquake shocks were felt
on the night of the 9th in the de
partment of Savoie, France.
The body of Edmund Jellinek, the
defaulting official of the Vienna
Laender bank. has been found in the
Danube river. His embellishments
amounted to $1,150,00O.
+. S. Coburn, a mining engineer,
committed suicide in st. Louis, ON
the 2sth, by shooting himself through
the head with a revolver.
Fire started, on the 2sth, in the
agricultural pavilion at Stockton,
Cal. and the structure, with all its
contents and two residence blocks,
were burned to the ground. The loss
is, approximately. half a million dol
lars; less than half insured.
GOV. Bliss of Michigan has notified
Gen. Russell a. Alger of his appoint
ment as United States senator to fill
out the term of Senator James Me
MILAN, deceased, which expires in
1907.
The second operation on President
Roosevelt's leg was found necessary
by a slight injury to the bone, which
was not discovered at the first opera
ton of drawing off the accumulated
serum. 1t it not considered as in any
sense as involving permanent in
jury.
AS the result of a fire in the up
holstering establishment of A. T..
Kennedy ON Connecticut avenue,
Washington, on the morning of the
2Sth, $1,000 worth of furniture be-
longing to the White House, placed
in storage pending alterations, went
up in smoke.
Determined warfare by the quar-
antine officer, against rats, which are
conveyors of bubonic plague bacilli,
has resulted in the total eXtermina-
ton of that disease in Manila. Hun
dreds of thousands have been slaugh-
tered.
The final reports on the Indiana
corn crops show the yield will run
from IS to - bushels per acre The
average is placed at 40 bushels. On
this basis the crop will approximate
172,000,000 bushels This will be the
greatest crop in the history of the
state
With the end of the twentieth
week of the anthracite miners strike
the estimated losses to all con-
cerned reached the enormous aggre-
gate of $l23 100000, and the end is
not in sight
Owing to the Tsolongation of the
anthracite miners strike factories in
many parts of the country which de-
pend on that class of fuel are being
forced TO close, entailing additional
suffering and privation to the en-
ployes.
The comptroller of the currency
has discovered that about 90 per
cent. of the reserve banks of the
eastern cities have less than the law
full money reserve in bank, and he has
notified them to increase their cash
holdings at once.
The impression is gaining ground
in Washington that there is close
connection between the failure of
the government TO adopt the Nicara-
guam canal route and the revolutions
that have been waging in Colombia
ever since congress decided to com
| plete the Panama canal.
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