The Forrest City times., 1902-11-14
CURREN T TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

J.OpJ spectators.
 The Missouri Press association Will hold its annual meeting al Columbia. January e2 md 2s.
 Gottleib Niecenfaa. the murderer of his wife.s father and mother. ~as sentenced. on the 7fh. ta be hanged at Pierce. Neb.. on March I5.
 Harry Nlemaug. d professional baseball player. wa~ fatally slat oE burglars whom he tried tl prevent robbing the post office at Mason. N. Na., on the 9th.
 Ernest Armstrong. q brakeman. fe.l from moving freight eff at L-Nias- ton, Ky. on the 9th aHd tHe heels divided his body iH tae parts from the chin down.
 \ large boiler at one of the pump ing stations of New YorE'- water s4F- ply exploded. oh thc rh. Killing ta5 men and totally areesIae tHe aulI- ing.
 George Miller, Alexander Cgr and Anthony Aoasor were drowned .B Hhi1efsh boz of AiH-Ht. Mich. cn the 9th, bl-the cap-izing # =sailogat.
 John snyder, an express messenger. uaa instantly killed in 3 railroad es.- lision near Williamson, H. Fa.. 0n the 2fh
 At Beaver City. Neb.. au tae 9-h. there was a drop in tn temperature of 70 degrees
 Francis Eorchere, one ef the oldest members of the Jesuit order in he Missouri province. died at Milwaukee, Wis, on The afb aged as years.
 In family roV at Narne Ia on the 9th, L. |. Giles. teh5 seas beating his wife. was shot and perhaps fatal ly wounded bF lis son
 ls is said the citj government of the Philippines eonfrmpIateS ealing upon the militaryto aid iu the exte-1a- nation of the ladroac>. uH0 have be- come exceedingly bold in several et the provinces of Luzon.
 There is at present. in uess of the approaching holiday trade, a steady demand on the treasury department for small coins. and it is feared the present limit of $lU0. .O0D.00u Will prove inadequate.
 It is estimated by conservative and expert traffic men that the demapC for ears to move the traffic of the country which k now being offered for transportation i, fully 500o0 in ex- cess of the supply.
 $. R. Caulesbury, a Colorado City T hu I | new gold field which promises to be- come an important camp. It is To- cated six miles southwest If Colorado Springs, in Bear creek canyon.
 Clinton J. Robbins, a distributing clerk in the post office at Dayton. O., was caught in the act of stealing let ter by Inspector Kyle. who was on watch. He confessed and pleaded guilty when arraigned.
 While excayating at Jamestown. R. L, the fashionable summer resort opp posite Newport, Samuel smith turned over several pieces of black rock which looked like coal X fire test proved il to be coal of a grade be- tween anthracite and bitmiuous.
 While preaching at the Methodist church at New Richmond. O.. on the evening ef the 9th. Rev. W. R. Rum van, D. D.. presiding elder of the Georgetown district, was suddenly stricken with heart disease and died almost instantly
 Commissioner Johnson. of Wash ington's St. Louis exposition commits sion, has arranged with State Fish Commissioner kershaw a fisheries ex- hibit at St Louis, which k intended to be larger and more comprehensive than the entire fisheries display of Eu- rope at the Paris exposition.
 !. W. Bailey. bachelor. governor. elect of kansas. wants wife. In fact, ii is absolutely necessary that Mir. Bailey should wed. as his word is al stake. he having promised to do SO if elected. The voters say he must make good"
 The British steamer EHngamite. bound from sydney. N $ w.. for Auckland. was wrecked on Thrce Kings islands, small group as miles northwest of New Zealand. Forty-one people on board were saved, but 96 are missing.
 Five hundred silversmiths employed at Tiffany X Co.'S plant. at Forest Hill, \. |, went on strike. on the l 10th, for a nine-hour working day.
 Fire broke out in one of the towers of the new East river bridge. at New 1 York, on the night of the 10th. and did damage estimated at $500 900.
 Robbers blew open the safe of s lumber company at Bancroft. s. D. on the 9th, and secured S2. .5Go.
 William Grant Roe, druggist, com mitted suicide at Washington, D. C.. on the 10th. by shooting.
 Capt. Winfield Tucker was shot anc fatally wounded at Norfolk, Va. or the 10th. by a motorman named Ca hoon. Tucker was attempting t> shoot Cahoon.