The Forrest City times., 1902-11-14

invitation to be present and make al address at the Mckinley memoria banquet, at Canton, O., January P.
 The anthracite strike commission CTS completed a weeks tour of th, coal belt on the 9th, and adjourned |, meet again at Scranton, Pa. Novem Der i4
 The historic kimball homestead. al Kenosha. Wis. was destroyed by fire on the 7th. IL was the oldest resi- dence in Kenosha, having been built in 1886.
 Sidney Watcrlow, attache of the British embassy at Washington. was married al London. England, on the 10th. 10 Alice. daughter of Sir Fred erick Pollock.
 Joseph Simpson, for many years one of the leading financial men of western Iowa, and prominent in Sioux City in the boom days. died at Den. yer, Col, on the 9th.
 
 The report of the director of the mint, at Washington, shows the out put of gold in Alaska for the last ten months to be SiS,s70,015, against $l4.- 675,Cs5 for the entire year 19ol.
 John McAtee, clerk in a railroad office in Kansas City. Mo.. for whom officers had warrant of arrest on q charge of attempted robbery, commit- ted suicide by shooting, on the 9th
 The wheat harvest this year in New South Wales was very poor one, the shortage being estimated at l100Oo00 bushels Other states i'll the Nustra- han federation also had poor haryes.s
 The king of Siam sent a cablegram to President Roosevelt, on the 9th, earnestly thanking him for the kindly reception accorded to the crown prince on landing in the United States.
 President Mitchell, of the Mine Workers union, may be elected to succeed Samuel Gompers as president of the American Federation If Labor, which meets at New Orleans. Novem- Der IA.
 The total recorded cases of cholera in the Philippines. to the 10th, was 105,000 and deaths 67,00o. It is thought the actual number of cases is 20 per cent. greater than the recorded number.
 Contracts were signed. on the 7th. for the building of an interurban elec- tric line from Quincy H., to Boards town and from Quincy to Niota. the construction of which will require about $3.o00 GOO.
 The United States transport Sheri- dan arrived at San Francisco, on the 10th, from Manila, after very stormy voyage Gen ChafTee and wisr and number of civil and military of fcials were passengers.
 meeting of Illinois congressman at Chicago, on the 10th. indorsed Con- gressman Cannon. of the Eighteenth Illinois district. for speaker of the house of representatives to succeed Speaker Henderson, HeadquarterS will be opened in Chicago to further his interests.
 Six persons were injured, two of them internally, by Missouri Pacific passenger train running into switch engine at Jefferson City. Mo. on the 9th. Geo. r. Griflins. of Chicago. pres ident of the BrickaYers and Stone Masons' International union. was one of the wounded.
 George P Vest, son of Senator Vest of Missouri. was found dead in Lia room at the Columbia hotel. Wash ington. D, C.. on the morning of the 6th. He had been complaining of feel ing i'll the day before, and the imme- diate cause of his death was eonvul- s'ons, due to acute gastritis
 A reward of $l .o0o s offered for Benjamin F. Egan, if alive. or his body, if dead. Mir. Egan was a divi- sion superintendent of the Great Northern railroad at Kalispell. Mont. and disappeared from party If friends with whom he was hunting in the mountains near that place about November l.
 Residents of the towns of Hancock and Houghton. Mich. were greatly alarmed by terrible shock which oc- cured, on the night of the 7th, by which houses were rocked and win dows rattled as if by an earthquake. This is the second time the shock has been felt within three months, and no explanation of the phenomenon can be given