The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-09-26
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


Ter died at Springfield, ILL.,. on the
! 2lst, from the effects of gunshot
wound inflicted by an unknown per-
son, he refusing to make any state
ment in regard TO the shooting.
Peter Olsen. who shot and killed
his sweetheart, Mary Peterson, at
/ Omaha, on September S, was killed by
a posse near Bancroft, Neb.. on the
21st. after refusing to surrender.
Thirty-eight victims of the panic in
the negro church were buried at Bir-
mingham. Ala. on the 21st. The death
list is known to number 105. but it is
thought there may be five more.
Speaker ID. j. Henderson passed
| through Chicago, on the 21st, on his
way east. He denied having any in
tention of retiring from congress be-
fore the end of his term.
At San Antonio, Tex, on the 21st
Adolph Toepperwein made a new
worlds record at wing shooting by
breaking os6 of 1000 clay targets
thrown from traps.
While protecting his mother from
BONN, aged 30 years. shot and killed
his father at Slatersville, X. L., on the
21st.
Gus Hale. night Waterman, was
shot and killed by burglars at Gold
field. Col, early on the morning of
the 21st.
J. Charles Collins, at one time
IL.
room, in New York, on the 21st, hav-
ing been suffocated by escaping gas.
Forty delegates, representing as
many cities, met at Chicago, on the
21st, and organized the International
Union of Commercial Photographers.
David Gouchner shot and seriously
wounded a young woman at Cone
maugh. Pa. on the 21st, and then
shot himself through the heart.
Heavy rains extinguished the forest
fires in southern Wyoming and north
ern Colorado.
The expected production of rice this
year in Louisiana and Texas is 3,100,-
019 bags.
In a drive about Detroit, Mich, on
the 21st, two little girls had a narrow
escape from being trampled upon by
the horses attached to the presidents
carriage. They had darted out sud
dnely from the curb, almost under
the horses feet.
Rev. J. Z. Jenkins. pioneer minister
of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church. at Princeton, Ind. is dead,
aged II years. He was pastor 10
year, but resigned a few years ago.
Judge II. Horner, the Oldest and
one of the most prominent citizens of
Lebanon, ILL.,. died suddenly at his
old, being born where that city stands
in 1921.
AS expected. the trunk shipped by
William Hooper Young. from New
York to Chicago, was found to con-
tain evidence that connected him in
contestibly with the murder of Mrs.
Anna Pulitzer. Young has not yet
been arrested.
The bank deposits of the people Of
the United States aggregate $780,
100000, an average of Sos per capita.
Ten years ago they aggregated ST.
232 100000, or just half the amount
of to-day, and twenty years ago they
than one-quarter of those of to-day.
Militiamen on guard at Eldorado,
ILL.,, were attacked and fired on, on
the night of the Goth, by unknown
parties, who escaped in the darkness.
Many shots were exchanged, and sew
eral of the guards had narrow es-
capes.
1t has transpired that the unknown
donor of $500, three years ago. to lift
the debt on the Advent Christian
church at Jeffersonville. Ind. was
Winfield s. Stratton. The mining
magnate's mother was a devoted
member of the church, and Stratton
attended its Sunday-school when a
10y.
Capt Frank s. Clark has been APP
pointed acting adjutant general of
the SpanishAmerican War Veterans
association. vice Gen. !. W. {. Liller
removed under charges of insubordi-
nation. The annual encampment
convened at indianapolis, Ind, on the
23d.
The London Daily Mail says the
government has decided that the new
South African colonies are TO be re-
quired to pay $5Oo.000,O00 toward the
cost of the South African war. The
colonies are, however, 10 be allowed
ample time.
Att'y.-Gen. Knox returned to Wash
ington, on the 2lst after his trip to
Paris, where he conferred with Off
cials regarding the sale of the Pana-
ma canal property TO the United
States. The attorney general declines
to discuss the matter.
While walking with his wife on the
sea front at Etretat. France, on the
22d, NJ. David, a well-known Paris
stockbroker, was shot and instantly
killed by an artist named Syndon. No
motive for the murder is known.
Many acts of 1-wlessness on the
part of the striking miners in Penn