The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1902-08-08
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


take place at Newbury, y. H., sep
TENDER 80.
Gen Jacob H. Smith has accepted
an invitation to attend the reunion Of
the National Society Of the Army CT
the Philippines, at Council Bluffs. Ia,
August 10.
Mrs. Julia C. Howell. OF Chicago,
committed suicide in Denver on July
30, but her body was not discovered
until the LIST
Forest fires are destroying valuable
timber in different sections Of Colo
RADIO.
Judge Dunno, at Chicago, on the
LIST. continued the hearing Of the case
of Chas. ". Spaulding, the ex-banker,
for two weeks, and remanded him TO
Jail.
San Francisco is preparing to en-
terrain 10000 visitors at the Pythian
conclaye between August II and 90.
The price Of hard coal was adj
vanced ten cents a ton in Chicago on
the list.
The body Of Mrs. George W3it, who
has been missing since last June was
found near Chippewa Falls. Wis. on
the Cd, buried in the sand, with marks
an the face which indicate that death
was inflicted by heavy piece Of iron
or stone. Her hus band has disap-
peared and his whereabouts is I'M
known.
Fire at Chicago. on the Sd. dam
aged the elevator owned by John J.
Badenoch & Co. to the extent Of S15,-
600, and completely ruined the stock,
worth 100000.
At FL Reno, Okla, on the Sd. Joseph
Podawosk stabbed and probably IA
tally injured his wife and daughter
and then committed suicide.
r. r. Taylor shot and killed his
brother-in-law. Frank L. Shader,
railroad brakeman, at Colorado
Springs, Col, on the 3D.
David Morris, a farmer. was killed
| by being hit on the head with club
| by his son, on the I'd, near Pratts-
Vile. O., in a quarrel
Mrs. Margaret Uzzell, better known
as Mother" Uzzell. noted charity
worker in the west. is dead a Denver,
Col, aged Is years.
Four people We're killed in a coll
! lision between milk trains at Hor-
tons, Delaware county, y. J., on the
Sd.
John Francis Duncombe a pioneer
settler of Fort Dodge, Ia. died at his
home in Des Moines on the 2d.
Several persons were severely in
iured in a collision between street
cars at Elgin, Ill, on the 3D.
Three boy bathers were drowned IN
the Allegheny river at Pittsburg, Pa.
on the Sd
Masked men are conducting re-
lentless war on the sheep industry in
! Wyoming. Herders are assaulted and
robbed OF their effects, and thousands
of sheep ruthIessly slaughtered. One
herder is reported killed.
Mrs. and -nrs. Henry r. Linebaugh
celebrated their golden wedding at
their home in Windsor. H.. on the
I'd. Mr.. Limbaugh is - years old
and Mrs. Limbaugh. who was former
~ Sarah nm Templeton, is 90.
William CIotfelter, who was play
| ing right field for the Tavlorville
(Ill.) team in game against the ST.
Louis Pastimes. on the Sd, was IA
tally injured by being struck on the
head with pitched bail.
Intense heat prevailed in the south
west on the Sd, the temperature av-
eraging near the 100 point, With hot
winds in parts Of Kansas thar caused
more or less damage TO crops. ~
some points in Kansas he temporal
ture ,eached l07.
Russell Sage celebrated his eighty
sixth birthday anniversary at his
country place at Lawrence. Long Is
land, on the 4th. His health is still
rugged; in fact, more so than that of
many men of 65.
The Cuban government, it is said.
is already neglecting the sanitary
measures inaugurated by the United
States officials during the temporary
occupation, and already there is fear
of an outbreak of yellow fever in Ha-
vana and Santiago.
The Northwestern states are now
in the midst of the greatest harvest
ever known. Minnesota. North Dako-
Ia and South Dakota have produced
more wheat, oats, barley and flax
than crop estimaters have credited
them with.
Twenty thousand people were on
the grounds of the Rock River assem-
| bly, at Dixon, H., on the Sd. Ellen NJ.
Stone was present and told the story
Of her capture by brigands at the
morning service in the tabernacle.
Arb Mcdonald dropped a stick of
dynamite into the river at Clinton.
Ia, for the purpose of killing fish.
but it exploded under his boat and
Mcdonald was blown to atoms.
w. +. Hillegross and Miss Mabel
Strong, two young people o. Mattoon,
Ill, were h.led, on the 4th. by being
struck by Big Four train at a cross.
ing at Shelbyyiiie, III