The Forrest City times., 1902-09-12
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

] between the parties of long standing. i The ody CT man found in a fieId i near the town of Lowther. la. on l the 9th, with a bullet hole iH his head l has been identified as that of William Bartholin. who murdered his mother and sweetheart, in Chicago. He had committed suicide. but left a comics 1 sion of the crimes of which he was 1 charged in which he says he had no assistance of any kind from any one.
 Gen. James \. Williamson who was commissioner of public lands under President Grant, died in New York, 1 on the 7th.
 Large volumes of flame were issu- ing from Mount Nesuyius on the morning of the 7th.
 Federal Judge Clayton denied bond to Charles Collard and George Beat ty. prominent citizens of kiowa. L. T., indicted for the murder of Gyp Raiiey, travelling salesman of Gin cinnati, at kiowa, last May.
 One of the powder magazines at old Fort Winthrop. in Boston harbor, blew up on the afternoon of the 7th, killing one man and injuring five oth- CTS.
 Mrs. Helen C. Henderson. a resident of Joliet, ILL, since 1855. died in that city on the 1th. Judge Henderson. her husband, died in 1854. William \. Roach, who was United States senator rom North Dakota from 1893 to 1899, died in New York. l of cancer. on the 7th
 The little steamer Maid of Patuca. with every man on board armed. sailed from Baltimore, Md, on the 9th, ostensibly on jetty-building ] expedition in the Patuea river in Hon duras, but believed to be carrying munitions to the Colombian rebels. Capt. Pershing. who has been inves- 1 tigating the causes of the recent at tacks upon the Americans in the is land of Mindanao. reports that the l Moros reject all offers of friendship. and that all hope of an adjustment of the difficulties with the natives has been abandoned.
 Chas. W. Duval of Annapolis, Md. and Victor II. Basset. of Aledo. Ill., medical students. under the direction of Dr. William H. Welch. of Balti- more, have discovered and isolated the germ of the infantile disease known as summer complaint"
 During the month Of August the Philadelphians received 10000, ,00a more eggs than during the corre- spending month last year. and the Produce exchange has charged the statistical committee to discover the wherefor
 Harmon Smith. of War Ridge. W. Va. one of the pioneers of that part part of the state, died a few days ago at the age of 90 years. He had been married three times, and was the ia ther of 36 children, of whom 31 at tended his funeral.
 Good progress is being made with the picking of the cotton crop in Mis- sissippi. anr the fields and gins pre- sent scenes of the greatest activity. Complaints are being made of the scarcity of competent labor
 Dave Murphy, a thrifty negro farm CT. who purchased the services of Fisher Million, vagrant negro. at Shelbyville, Ky. for one year for $4. says Million will have to work or he will try the persuasive effects of a blacksnake whip.
 At the close of the seventeenth week of the anthracite miners strike in Pennsylvania an account of loss. direct and incidental footed up the { n and still piling up.
 The carcasses of 3S,000 New Zealand sheep taken to London by steamer were condemned by the authorities as unfit for human food. and the ship was ordered 10 go to sea and throw overheard the entire cargo.
 \ large posse of men with blood hounds are pursuing Frederick Garnes. the slayer of Sheriff Strain. of Whiting, Ia. Carnes is armed with n rifle and has plenty of ammunition
 The seventeenth national encamp- ment of the Union Veterans union will be held at Washington. D. C.. on October Q. 10 and II, at which time the c. X. R. also meets there.
 Two Italian striking miners were mistaken for non-union men by pick cts at the mines near Wilkesbarre. Pa, on the sth. and one was killed and the other fatally injured.
 Maj. Daniel O'Driscoll, a prominent lawyer of Washington, D. C.. was killed near that city. on the sth, by being struck by railroad train while driving across the track
 At Knoxville, Tenn. on the sth. President Roosevelt visited Mrs. Vim. C. Brownlow, widow of Tennesse ee' s famous editor, former governor and United States senator.
 Maurice Brennan. an aged actor. was stricken with apoplexy while playing at the opera house in Tcrre Haute, Ind, on the sth, and died Il few minutes later.