The Forrest City times., 1902-11-14

invitation to be present and make an address at the Mckinley memorial banquet, at Canton. O.. January 27.
 The anthracite strike commission CTS completed a weeks tour of the ocal belt on the Gth, and adjourned To meet again at Scranton, Pa, Noyem- Der t4.
 The historic Kimbar homestead at Kenosha. Wis. was destroyed by fire. on the 7th. It was the oldest resi- dence in Kenosha, having been built in 1886.
 Sidney Waterlow, at'ache of the British embassy at Washington, was married al London. England. on the 10th. 10 Mice, daughter of Sir Fred erick Pollock.
 Joseph Simpson. for many years one of the leadng financial mcn of western Iowa. and prominent in Sioux City in the boom days, died at Den yer. Col. on the eth.
 The report If the director If the mint, at Washington, shows the out rrt of gold in Alaska for the last ten months to be Sis,s7o,675, against Sl4,- 675.C75 for the entire year lgol.
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 John McAtee, q clerk jn a railroad office in Kansas City, Mo. for whom officers had warrant of arrest on q charge of attempted robbery. commit ted suicide. by shooting, on the 9th.
 The wheat harvest this year in New South Wales was a very poor one. the shortage being estimated a' 1t,ooo,o11 bushels. Other states in the Austra- Han federation also had poor haryes $. The king of Siam sent cablegram to President Roosevelt. on the 6th earnestly thanking him for the kindly reception accorded to the crown prince on landing in the United States President Mitchell, of the Mine Workers union, may be elected to succeed Samuel Gompers as president of the American Federation of Labor which meets at New Orleans, Novem- Der 14.
 The total recorded cases of cholera In the Philippines. to the 10th, was 900 and deaths 67,000. IL is thought the actual number of cases is 20 per cent. greater than the recorded number.
 Contracts were signed. on the 7th. for the building of an interurban elec- tric line from Quincy Ill., to Boards town and from Quincy to Niota. the construction of which will require about 5000 600.
 The United States transport Sheri- dan arrived at san Francisco, on the 10th, from Mana after very stormy voyage e-a eHafee and wife and number af a.#I and military of fcials were passengers.
 A meeting of Illinois congressman at Chicago. on the 10th. indorsed Con gressman Cannon. of the Eighteenth Illinois district. for speaker of the house of representatives to succeed Speaker Henderson. Headquarters will be opened in Chicago to further his interests.
 Six persons were injured. two of them internally, by Missouri Pacific passenger train running into a switch engine at Jefferson City. Mo, on the 9th. Geo. P. Griflins, of Chicago. pres ident of the Bricklayers and Stone Masons International union, was one of the wounded.
 George P Vest, son of Senator Vest, of Missouri. was found dead in ris room at the Columbia hotel. Wash ington. D. C.. on the morning of the 9th. He had been complaining of feel ing ill the day before. and the immc. diate cause of his death was convul sjons, due to acute gastritis.
 A reward of SlO00 ;s offered for Benjamin F. Egan, if alive. or his body, if dead. Mr Egan was a diyi- sion superintendent of the Great Northern railroad at Kalispell Mont and disappeared from party of friends with whom he was hunting in the mountains near that place about November l.
 Residents of the towns of Hancock and Houghton, Mich. were greatly alarmed by terrible shock which oc cured, on the night of the 7th, by which houses were rocked and win dows rattled as if by an earthquake This is the second time the shock ha. been felt within three months, and nc explanation of the phenomenon cal be given