The Forrest City times., 1902-06-13

The 6th.
 King Victor Emmanuel, on the sth, received George Von l.. Meyer. the United States ambassador. who is about to leave Rome. by way of Ham, burg, for home.
 Several strikes are imminent in Ma nila. the employers having refused the general demand for an increase of 50 per cent. in wages put forward by the workmen.
 Senator Perkins. on the 9th. intro- duced bill authorizing the secretary of war to favor American-built ships in traspeytiog supplies for the gov ernment to the Philippine islands.
 Jessie D Gillett has purchased three lots in the village of Elkhart. III. upon which she will erect a slo.- GOO public library building. Tie structure will be a memorial te her mother. Lemira P. Gillett, wife of John D. Gillett.
 Queen Alexandra has sent an auto- graph letter to Lady Curzon of ked- leston, wife of the viceroy of India. expressing her great pleasure at the beauty of the Indian dresses, made under the direction of the vicerine, for the queen to wear at the corona tion fetes.
 Nhitelaw Reid. special envoy of the United States to the coronation of King Edward. will have the honorary degree of doctor of laws conferred upon him by Cambridge university at the same time that this degree is given to Prof H. W. Parker. profess sor of music at Yale university.
 King Edward and Queen Alexandra held the fourth court of the season at Buckingham palace on the night Of the 9th, Unfortunately, as upon the three previous occasions when court was held. rain and a cold wind marred the spectacle for the crowd which had assembled outside the pal ace gates.
 The president. on the 9th. sent to the house the report of Col. Crow der. who made the investigation of the charges of Gov. Heard of Louisi- ana that the neutrality laws were being violated by the British officers at Chalmette, La, accompanied by abundant evidence that no viola ion had been perpetrated.
 II is expected that Lady Paunce- fote and the honorable Misses Pauncefote will leave Washington on the 18th, sailing the following day from New York for England, to make the necessary preparations for the reception of Lord Pauncefote's re mains at the late ambassadors an cestral home at Preston.
 The bill to protect the president, vice president. members of the cabi- net, foreign ministers and ambassa- dors and to suppress the teaching of anarchy was passed by the house. on the 9th, by vote of 175 to 3s. \ mo- tion to recommit the measure with instructions to strike out certain sec tions was defeated, T to 123
 Gov. Jefferson Davis of Arkansas. on the sth, accepted the invitation of the Baptist church of Russellyille. his home, and reioined that church The governors friends claim that this is vindication of him by his home peo- pie against the action of the Second Baptist church of Little Rock in withdrawing fellowship from him.
 All speed records on Colorado rail roads were lowered. on the 9th. by the Pueblo Real Estate Exchange special, run by the Colorado X South ern railway over the santa Fe tracks. The train covered l13 miles in 2 hours and 3l minutes. the actual running time being 2 hours and r minutes. A portion of the run was at the rate of sO miles an hour
 The suggestion that Lord Kitchen CT, with the connivance of the govern ment, entered into a secret compact with the Boers. to induce them to surrender. was denied by the govern ment leader, A. ]. Balfour. in the house of commons, on the 9th. Mr. Balfour declared that so far as the government was aware. no pledges and no assurances were given by Lord Kitchener, which had not been published.
 At meeting of white and Indian citizens of the Osage nation. on the 9th, petition to the secretary of the interior was drawn up and signed. asking that franchise to build through the reservation be re- fused the Missouri. Kansas X Texas Railway Co.,, unless the company con structs its line through Pawhuska. the Osage capital The present sur vey of the road misses Pawhuska by six miles
 In the trial of Peter Mortpnsen at