The Forrest City times., 1902-09-19
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Taylor shot and killed Pat earn v,
believed to be insane, who had been
running about the streets shooting at
every one in sight.
| President Roosevelt, on the 18th,
appointed Prof. Andrew Draper, pres
ident of the University of Illinois, to
be a member of the board of Indian
commissioners.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
L. Fair were inferred at Laurel Hill
cemetery, San Francisco, on the 18th.
The body of ePter Cauley, a one
armed man was found in the river at
St. Louis, on lie 18th, standing up
right in the water, the legs held fast
in the sand. He came from Cincin-
natl.
Fire at Sonora, Sutton county, Tex,
on the 18th, destroyed an entire bust
ness block. with an estimated loss of
100000.
The republican congressional con-
yention for the Twentieth Illinois dis
trict, on the 18th, nominated James
IL. Danskin, of jacksonville, for con-
gress.
The troops sent to Eldorado, ILL.,,
by Gov. Yates, to protect colored
people there, had serious encounter
with mob on the evening of the
12th.
At Sioux Falls, S. D., on the 18th,
j. L. Harrington shot and killed his
divorced wife and then sent a bullet
into his own brain.
|
been on hunting and fishing trip in
the west, returned to Oyster Bay on
the 18th.
The board of education at Salt Lake
| City, Utah, has ordered that hereafter
no married women shall be employed
as teachers in the public schools of
that place, and those who get mar
ried will be requested to resign.
Earl Caldwell, "strike-breaker" at
the Union Pacific shops at Omaha,
| was killed on the morning of the 14th
by a party of men alleged to have
been pickets of the strikers.
James Oliver, who at one time con-
Quoted seminary in RoXbury, n. y,
at which he had the late jay Gould as
pupil, died at his home at Burlin-
game, Kas.. o1 the 18th.
Joseph Watkins, farmer of Beaver
county, Okla, was killeu by Doe E.
Cravens, neighbor, in a quarrel over
a tax levy which had been made by a
school board.
Col. William A. Rafferty,, of the
Fifth cavalry, L. S. A., died at San
Felipe, p. L., on the 14th, from Il
jories sustained by fall a week be-
fore.
A non-union miner was accidentally
shot and killed by deputy at Mosque
honing, Pa, on the 18th.
Samuel ID. Babcock, a wealthy New
York banker, aged 81, dropped dead
on the street at LenoX, Mass, ON the
14th, from heart failure.
In the forest fire that DESTROYED the
town of Palmer, Ore, two boys named
Hamilton were caught in the flames
and burned to death
The street car strike at Ottumwa,
Ia, was settled on the 14th.
Rev. DR.. Francis f. Clark, president
of the united societies of Christian
| endeavor. who has just returned from
a six months tour of Europe, saws the
societies abroad are making rapid and
gratifying progress.
Green Driver, a resident of Greene
county, Ill.,, for more than seventy
years, died, on the 14th, at his home
north of Carrollton, aged 80 wears.
| lie had lived on the farm where he
died since 1897.
The auxiliary cruiser Panther.
which sailed for Colon on the even
ing of the 18th. carried. in addition
to battalion of marines numbering
$40 men, field battery of Colt rapid
hre guns, two field pieces and an am
pie supply of ammunition.
Hon. Ho Vow, the imperial consul
general of China, has practically con
Guided arrangements with the St.
Louis Worlds fair officials for space
IN which TO display an immense ex-
hibit of Chinese products. and has
also selected ST. Louis as the center
of the proposed Chinese industrial
| museums.
Rev. DR.. Washburn, of Oyster BAY.
~ - on the I4th, In complying with
the request of President Roosevelt.
spoke briefly of President McKinley's
life and good work and then launched
into an eXtravagant eulogy of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and TRADE against cor
| porauons, much to the disgust of the
| president.
1t is believed by the naval officers
assembled at Norfolk, Va, with their
various craft, preparing for the ma
neuvers in southern waters, that
the enforcement of the Monroe doc
trine against all foreign powers which
might make aggressions of the plea of
the disturbed condition of affairs in
| Colombia is intended
After So hours of hard fighting the
fire among the oil properties on Spin
die Top, Beaumont, Tex, was