The Forrest City times., 1902-05-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The Gillian minister of foreign af- fairs, Senor Nargara. and the Argen- tine minister to Chili, Jose Antonio Terry, are completing the details of the agreement which limits Gillian and Argentine armaments, and which provides for the general arbitration of disputes between the two coun- tries. Owing to this favorable situa- ton, securities and bonds in Chili are very firm. Gold is falling
 Frank NJ. Sturgeon, one of the old est mail carriers in the Kansas City tkas.1 service, was arrested by post office inspectors, on the 25th, charged with stealing bundle of letters Sturgeon was caught in the act in the post office He confessed. say ing that his stealings had covered period of eight months. and that debt had prompted the theft. He has family.
 The cholera record in the Philip pines, to the 25th is as follows: Ma nila. LAC cases and 619 deaths. The provinces, 3,922 cases and 2.774 deaths. Joseph Hubbard an ex-conyict, l kicked Louis Cunningham to death in saloon fight at Washington, Ind, on the 25th. Cunningham was | farmer and a son of Michael Cunning | ham. one of the wealthiest men in the | county.
 Lord Pauncefote of Preston. Brit ish ambassador to the United States, l died at the embassy in Washington. l early on the morning of the 24th, after an illness lasting several days. | Arrangements were made for state l funeral to be held on the 2Sth | Mont Pelee, on Martinique island, on the 24th, again belched forth tor rents of lava and boiling mud, which | rushed down the northern slope of the mountain and swept away what was left of the town of Basse Pointe New Assures have opened in the side | of the mountain.
 As a result of the destruction of three business houses at Marion, Ill. George Parker is dead, three men are nursing injuries and Moses Boles is missing, supposed to have been 1 crushed under the ruins.
 l Gen. Chaffee has disapproved the | action of the court-martial in ac- l quitting Maj. Waller and Lieut.. Day of the charge of killing natives of Samar without legal process. Gen. Chafree says that the verdicts are a mircarriage of justice and the find ings are opposed to the evidence.
 Daniel Hill. wealthy real estat :. owner of Morris, H., and a partner in the firm of George II. Phillips X; Co.,, on the Chicago board of trade. was shot by burglars. and seriously wounded, on the morning of the 25th, as he lay in bed in his residence. in 1 Chicago. Six shots were fired, three taking effect.
 Members of the c. A. R assem- bled at various churches throughout the country, on the 18th, and listened to memorial sermons for the departed heroes who offered their lives. on their country's altar for the perpetu- ity of the union.
 Six persons were killed and num- be injured by tornado which swept over Union, $. C., and vicinity on the afternoon of the 18th. Numerous buildings were wrecked
 With passengers locked in the cars to keep them from leaping to death. with the engineer driving his engine at a speed of 50 miles an hour. north bound passenger train No 466 ran a race with tornado from Arkansas City to Winfield, kas., on the 18th, and won by bare fifty feet.
 The huge bronze eagle that is 10 surmount the gilded dome of Missis- sippi's new million-dollar capitol building has arrived at Jackson. and will be placed in position in few days. The bird is a magnificent piece of workmanship, measuring Is feet from tip to tip of the wings, and weighs about three tons.
 Henri Greville (Aliee Marie Celeste Durand), the French authoress, died in Paris on the 2Gth.