The Forrest City times., 1902-01-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Plans for 4 100000 lee re hall for
Harvard university were filed with
the Boston superintendent Of build
ings on the I'd. Its auditorium will
accommodate 700 students.
The Pennsylvania Gas Co.'S plant ut
Ludlow. Pa, was wrecked. on the
night Of the 5th, by an explosion. 1t
is reported that one man is missing
and that another was fatally injured
Prof. Rudolph Nirchow, the aged
and eminent pathoIogist, slipped
while alighting from a street ear il
Berlin. on the 9TH, and seriously in
jured his thigh.
Very stormy weather. with the ten,-
pcrature 80 degrees below, is report
ed from Dawson. Two persons haye
died as the result of the severe
weather.
The Beers ambushed n force Of
the Scots Grays, on the 4th, near
Bronkhorstspruit (about forty miles
east of Pretoria on the railroad).
The British casualties were six men
killed and ten wounded.
In the future. no more society
men-not even those possessing mil
lions Of dollars-can obtain a com
mission in the Twelfth regiment o.
the national guard of New York
without enlisting first as privates an ].
shouldering rifles like any other or.
binary enlisted man.
tpnnrtS raaaiX.1
the Kansas wheat belt say that the
new crop is suffering greatly for
rain. There has been very little rain
in the state since the last crop was
harvested and as result, the big
wheat fields are very dry
Because of the many crimes thai
have been committed in Denver. Col.
within the past year or two, which
have brought terror to residents. the
latter have organized committee Of
safety for the purpose of protecting
the people against criminals.
Mrs. Chauncey NJ. Depew, on arriv-
ing in New York, will hear that she
is one of a score or more of heirs to
an estate valued at $4,000 900, LEFT
by Casper Cronlhite in Holland.
The man who spread the charges
against Prince Henry of the Neither.
lands. husband of Queen Wilhelmina.
which caused a worldwide scandal.
has been discovered and arrested. He
IS a Dutchman. and had been guilty
previously of similar otfense.
Official statistics show that of 300.
SIS emigrants who left the British
isles, in 1901. for places outside Of
Europe. 194,SSS came to the United
States and 1908 went to British
North America.
Reports made to the Marine hos.
pital service show that the health
conditions in the Cuban capital are
the best it has been in 80 wears.
Yellow fever has been practically
eliminated by the persistent war on
mosquitoes.
The American Missionary associn-
tion has issued an appeal to the con-
9regations and churches of the coun-
try to observe Sunday. February o.
as memorial of Abraham Lincoln.
whose birthday anniversary is Feb
ruary u.
Morgan Bates, author and we'll
isnown newspaper man, died at Ira
verse City. Mich, on the 9Th. of pu
monary paralysis, aged "a. He was
the author of many high-class liter
airy productions, and numbered
among his associates many of the
leading writer's of the country.
Another Schley resolution was in
PRODUCED in the house, on the 9th, Nv
Representative Schirm, of MARYLAND
II provides an appropriation of ST..
ooo Tor bronze tablets commemora-
ting six great naval victories, begin
nlng with that of John Paul Jones
in 1877, and closing with the battle of
Santiago Bay, Commodore Winfield
Scott Schley, commanding" in 1898.
The creation of another assistant
postmaster general, to have charge
OF the free city and rural delivery
service, is contemplated in a bill
shortly TO be introduced in the house
by Representative Watson, of IN
diana. The new officer. if the bill
should pass, will be the fifth assistan.
postmaster general.
King Edward, on the 9th, conferred
the order of Knight, Grand Cross Of
the Bath, upon Marquis Ito, the Jap.
anese statesman.
At the Inauguration of the new
city government of Everett, Mass.
on the 9th, Robert II. Jenkins fen
dead while making a speech accept.
ing the office of president of tho
board of aldermen, to which he had
been elected.