The Forrest City times., 1902-11-21
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

 18th. and instantly killed. Seven fremen were severely burned in a fire at Chicago. on the 14th. by an explosion in a building into which they had gone to rescue two helpless comrades.
 The war department issued an order on the I4th. establishing a training school for farriers and bIacksmiths at Fort Riley. Kas.
 The mine buildings of the Psrke County Coal Co, at Rosedale, Ind, were destroyed by fire on the l4th, the loss being S5O.OO0.
 Richard Blaisdell was arrested at Freeport. H.. on the 14th. charged with Kidnapping his little daughter. al Oregon. III.
 Herr Lewald imperial German com missioner to the St. Louis Worlds fair. arrived in New York. on the i4th.
 Alonzo Ryan. If the United States signal corps. blew out his brains al Highland Falls, \. T.. on the I4th.
 Nels Erickson was arrested at Iron Mountain, Mich. on the i4th. on a charge of numbering his father
 What k believed To have been a shock of earthquake was felt al Me Pherson. ka~.. on the 18th
 The first carload of zine ore ever mined in Illinois was shipped from Pope county. on the 18th.
 At Chillicothe. O.. on the 10th, Will jam smith pulled the trigger of a gun, after he had induced Pearl Jus tice to smell the muzzIe, and blew Jus tice's head off. Smith claims he did not know the gun was loaded.
 Hugh Curran was killed and dozen men. women and children more or less seriously injured in collision be tween an electric car and a freight train. in Chicago. on the 10th.
 An assassin shot through the rear of private car. at Waukegan. Tex. on the l6th. and killed C. w Tate, master mechanic of the Gulf, Cobra do & santa Fe railroad.
 James Rose, young negro, shot and killed his wife, al Youngstown, O.. on he l6th. then went to his fathers house and blew out his own brains
 r. R. Thorp. fireman, was killed in q railroad collision at Rife. Col, on the 10th.
 There is a daily average of % cases of cholera in Manila.
 President Roosevelt and party spent a quiet Sunday at their hunting camp, on the Little Sunnower. in Mssi,sip- pi. The dinner included roast bear paws, 'pas>um and sweet potatoes.
 J. Frank Bean, all employe of The art department Of Louisville tKEJ newspaper. died, on the 10th. from an overdose of morphine.
 !. Il. QuthHaite, wealthy citizen of Cleveland O.. died in New York on the 16th, as the result of d surgical operation.
 George Alfred Henty, the we'll known author and war correspondent, died in London. England. on the 10th.
 In quarrel at Baldwin, Wis. on the 10th. Jena Nelson, II ycarS old. shot and killed Albert Ecken, aged seven.
 The high school al Marion. Ind, was destroyed by fire, on the 10th. with d loss of SGO,o00: partly insured.
 Prince Edward, of Saxe-Weimer, died in London. on the 10th. of ap- pendieitis.
 Not much credence is given the re- port sent out from Milwaukee. on the 18th, 10 the effect that an extra ses- sion of the Ffty-eighth congress will be called immediately after March 1 next 10 consider tariff revision.
 \ party of reporters. repulsed by the guards around the presidents s hunting camp in Mississippi, sought to approach it by water, and engaged small steamer al Nicksburg for the purpose, but were forced to give up the attempt on account of the low stage of water in the Yazoo and trib- utaries
 The Belgian government has as sured Mr. Thomas N. Cridler. former third assistant secretary of state of the United States. that Belgium will take an important part in the St. Louis World fair
 " ta' NNtt' a titAitG Nt+l4Ht lit4iat &ilG- gatens have been filed hv The attor- news for Albert r. Patrick. the law. yer. who is now in the death chamber in Sing Sing, N N., awaiting electro cution for the murder of William Marsh Rice
 Lafe Young, editor of the Des Meines (Ial Capital, has accepted m invitation To the annual banquet of the republican editors of Missouri. to be given at St Joseph. December ;. and will deliver an address.
 The man who attempted the life Of King Leopold, al Brussels. on the 18th, is Gennerro Rubino an advanced socialist ef anarchistic tendencies. His father fought with distinction in the Italian war for independence.
 Ira Stehbins, Of Morrison. IT,. is un- der arrest at CIintonIa. charged with disturbing the peace. He was caught in the act of embracing two young girls on the street, and is supposed to be the man who has been committing like acts the past few weeks.
 1t k now thought that the recent