The Forrest City times., 1902-03-14

THE FORREST CITY TIMES
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 At Duluth. Minn., on the 9th. James Mckusick was Killed by a shock of electricity. while talking through a telephone.
 It is stated that the Dominion gov ernment will send contingent of over one hundred school teachers to South Africa within a month or so.
 Dr. Scholtz, the principal witness in the ease. at Cape Town. against Princess Radziwin. charged with forgery in connection with notes pur- porting to have been signed by Cecil Rhodes, died. on the 7th, of pneu' monia.
 The Montana state supreme court on the 10th, decided that ihe anti gambling law applies to uickc.-in-ihe- slot machines where there k an ele- ment of chance The decision is clear as to the law being esnstitu- fionaI.
 Adyices received from Aux Caves. Hayti, announce that nearly thirty citizens. accused of eonspiriHe against the Haytien government. have been imprisoned there and many others have sought refuge in various con salates. The other towns of Hayti are quiet.
 Mrs. Dunsmuir. wifeof Premier Duns- muir. of the Dominion. received a letter, on the 9th. from an anonymous writer, warning her that if she did not keep her husband at home he would be shot. The premier handed the letter to the police, but took no other notice.
 The body of Benjamin F. Stevens. the American Bibliophile. who died on the 5th. at Surhiton. England. was buried in kensal Green cemetery on the 10th. Mir. Choate. the United States ambassador. and the members Of the United States embassy attend cd the funeral services
 
 Several property owners in Victor. 'rfr | l. s,1 l. received. through the mail. letters signed Committee. warning them not To lease buildings to buser> of stolen ore. \ number of asSaAers also received warnings. which thet declined to make public
 
 The London Daily Mail. on the sth. published letter from it's Madrid correspondent stating that all the important Spanish newspapers are discussing the possible necessity of prolenging the regency. owing to the ineapacity of King Alfonso to exer- else the functions of sovereign.
 The commander of the department of the Potomac. c. \. R.. on the eth. invited the president To deliver fhe principal address at the Memorial day exercises 10 he held at Arlington, May 90. The president thought it might he possible for him to accept. '. and promised to give the commander his answer within short time
 The British SIfr, I&.v,, l- os the siorm-bound feet of the entran, Q 10 the Straits of Euca, arrived a Port Townsend. Wash. on the qth. es day ys from Iquique, 34 days of which she was storm bound off the straits. Sev- en times the Bann got inside Cape Flattery, but as no tug was there 10 pick her up she was compelled to put back 10 sea.
 The United States has received fresh pledges from Russia and also from Germany as to the conSerya- tion of the commercial rights of oth- CT nations in China. within the zones of influence If the above-named pow CTS. The Russian promise had been repeated at short intervals. and is re- garded as quite as binding qS any written statement can be made
 Word was received. on the nth. that Cornelius Van Ness. the octogenarian millionaire of Port Iersis. N Y... for merly of New York city. had been haptised in the River Jordan b, Rev. William K. Hal. of Newhureh. \. Y. Mir. and Mrs. Nan Ness sailed on the steamer Celtic, for trip to the orient. his desire being to eratifv an ambition of years to be hapti>ed in the Jordan.
 The stage driver. r. O. Austin. who drove the stage running between onray, lronton and Red Mountain Col, hich left Ouray on the 26th uit. for those points. returned To Ourav on the 9th, on snowShoes. The stage
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