The Forrest City times., 1902-01-24

THE FORREST CITY TIMES
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 FORREST CITY, :: ARKANSAS.
 Gov. Smith of Maryland has issued proclamation calling on the people of that state to observe January 2. as Mckinley Memorial day.
 
 United States Minister Wilson at Santiago, Chilli. eabled the secretary of state. on the 18th. that the govern. ment of Chili had adopted the extra dition treaty submitted by the gov ernment of the United States.
 The volcano of Colima. Mexico. is again active. and scientific men con meet this fact with the prevalence of seismic phenomena. Renewed earth quake shocks were reported from va rious parts of the country on the 18th. l.
 Capt. Joseph B. Eaton. at present captain of the Boston navy yard. has been selected to command the bat tleship Oregon. which is now fitting out on the Pacific coast. The ship will be permanently attached to the Pacific station.
 On his return to St. Louis from Washington, on the 18th. Ex-Gov Francis. president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co, stated that the agitation of the question of the postponement of the fair was a closed ineident-that there would be no postpoaement.
 Judge William II. De Witt. dis bar. died at Butte, on the 18th. of acute heart trouble He was associate justice of the Montana supreme court for several years. and in 1900 was a member of the national repub- lican committee from his state.
 St. Louis is in the throes of new secret order. It is part and parcel of the Worlds fair. St. Louis is known as the Mound City" because of the mound builders. who. ages ago. are believed to have inhabited this sec tion. The new mystic order will be known as the Mound Builders"
 The president, on the goth, trans mitted to congress the supplemental report of the isthmian canal com mission. in which il is unanimously recommended that the offer of the new Panama Canal Co.,. to sell all its rights, property and unfinished work to the United States for $40,000. GOO, be accepted.
 The jury in the case of George Klein. accused of the murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Caroline Klein, in Baltimore. Md. on the 10th, acquit- ted the prisoner on the ground of in sanity. Klein knocked the woman down and kicked her to death because she threatened to have him arrested for abusive language.
 \ dispatch from Constantinople asserts that an American syndicate has submitted an offer to the porte to build the Bagdad railroad. The syndicate does not ask for mileage guarantee. but desires that the sur plus tithes from the districts to be trayersed by the railroad be applied to the work of construction.
 At Cheyenne, Wyo., on the goth, Peter Bergerson, member of the Cheyenne Rifle club, broke the worlds record for 100 consecutive shots, off-hand, 200 yards range standard American target. Berger. sons average was s9is. That of the previous champion, Kelly. of the Wal nut Hill club, of Massachusetts, was sS 9-10.
 A conflict of authority between the mayor and the city physician ot Ogden, Utah. over a supposed case of smallpox has involved the mu- unieipal authorities of the city. the state board of health and the police force of the city. The city physician sent a policeman to arrest the may or, but the latter declined to submit to arrest.
 Luther R. Marsh, the well-known spiritualist, preached two sermons at Christ Uniyersalist church in Middletown, \. Y.. on the 18th. on "Jesus, the Christ" He affirmed his belief in the divinity of Christ, and declared that rDnGarD eufr;t,.l;e,