The Forrest City times., 1902-02-07


 islature. through Mrs. Kimbreugb of Greenwood. to sell the old Davis home at Beauvoir. to be used as home for indigent confederate sol diers, for $loooo
 At meeting of the executive com mittee of the Southern Educational association. held in Chattanooga, Tenn. on the 2d, it was decided to hold the next annual meeting of the association in Chattanooga. The date fixed upon for the meeting is July l to i.
 At Toledo. O., on the 29th. Mrs. Horace (. Allen. wife of the United States minister to Corea. slipped and fell on the ice, breaking one Of the bones in her leg. Mir Allen and she were to have started. on the 30th, on their return to Corea via London. St. Petersburg and the Siberian railway
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 The man To whom Abraham Lincoln presented a iackknife because his face was homlier than his own. died at East Liverpool, O.. on the 31st He was Rev. William Hastings. of To- ronto. O. Rev. William Hastings was powerful and distinguished preach CT, but he was not q handsome man.
 The house committee on territories gave hearing. on the 3lst. to del egation from Arizona. including Gov Murphy. Chief Justice Street. l. G. Ainsworth and Delegate Smith. in ia vor of it's admission as a state. The readiness of the territory To assume all the obligations of statehood was set forth.
 The work of transplanting the trees at Forest park. St. Louis, in or der to save those that interfere with the construction of the Worlds fair buildings, is being systematically un- dertaken by corps of experts. They will be so disposed as to further beautify the Worlds fair site and the great preserve.
 The report that Commandant krit- ginger, who was captured by Gen. French, December r, had been con- demned to death. was not confirmed in London up to the 30th. IL was an- nounced from South Africa. January 20. that kritzinger's trial would be- gin soon. but nothing had since been heard of his case.
 A. Il. Patterson. convicted of em- bezzling S4,o00 in city funds from the City of Clyde, Kas., of which he was treasurer. was sentenced. on the 31st, to three years in the penitentiarv. Patterson admitted taking the money. but alleged that as it was collected from joints he could not be held ac- cOuntable for it.
 Senator Lodge. on the 30th. intro duced bill authorizing the inspec- tion of trains coming into the United States from Canada and Mexico with the view of determining whether there arc on board aliens who are not residents of those countries. The object of the measure is to prevent illegal immigration.
 The Treasury club. an organization of officials of the United States treas ury department, gave a farewell din ner, on the 31st. at the Shoreham ho- tel, to Hon. Lyman J. Gage, the re- tiring secretary. Covers were laid for 65, the guests including Hon. Leslie NJ. Shaw, who succeeds MT. Gage, and other notables.
 
 Rudyard kipiing, writing from Cape Town, south Africa, in a letter to friend in England, again pro- tests emphatically against any am- nesty being granted the rebels, which, he fears from the attitude of the home people, may be done Mir hipling declares it is a question of life or death for the colony.
 The president has approved the rec concentration of the secretary of war that the sentence of dismissal inn posed by court-martial in the case of First Lieut.. Preston Brown. Jr.. Sfcond infantry, be commuted to the loss of 36 numbers and forfeiture of his pay for nine months. Lieut.. Brown was charged with having killed Filipino who refused to rescue a drowning soldier. Manila is intensely interested as to what action congress will take con- cerning the Philippine islands. Or dinary local politics have been forgotten and two parties have been formed, the optimists and the pes simists. Some think that life and property are unsafe outside of the towns of the islands, while others ridicule such ideas and consider life | and property to be assured.