The Forrest City times., 1902-07-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

PERSONAL AND GENERAL
The twentieth national convention
Of the North American Yurnerbund
| opened in Davenport. Ia. on the 9th.
| At Grand Forks, y. D., on the night
of the 9Th, Charles J. Mccormick, q
Great Northern conductor, and his
wife were found dead in a bath room.
No explanation of the tragedy could
be given. although indications point
ed to poisoning.
Miss Jennie Harrison was gored TO
death in Odemah, Greer county. Okla,
on the 9th. the animal knocking her
| down and running it's horns through
| her body.
At Clinton. y. c. on the 9Th, fire
destroyed AZ stores and residences,
causing loss Of 100000, on which
there vas little insurance.
The plant Of Swift & Co. at Chica-
go. suffered loss of 100000 by fire
on the night Of the 9Th. The loss is
covered by insurance.
Alexander Yost, chief of police of
Catlettsburg, Ky, died of sunstroke
on the 9th.
The departure of the colonial and
| East Indian troops now in London
has been indefinitely postponed 1t is
expected they viii participate in the
parade in honor of Lord Kitchener on
his return-abeut the 18th.
a terrific rain and wind storm
swept western New York at an early
hour on the 9th. Rivers and creeks
rose rapidly. OVERLOOKING their banks
ard sweeping away houses and barns
and live stock. The losses will be
very heavy.
The eighth week of the anthracite
coal miners strike ended on the 9th,
cerned during that period is about
| $46,000.000. The situation was prac-
ticully unchanged with no settlement
in sight
Mrs. William HIT. wife of highly
respected farmer living in Merritt,
H., committed suicide on the evening
of the 9th. No particulars could be
learned, but the supposition was that
it was the result of family troubles
HC sultan VI IbdColdU, MlfitldHdp,
las sent an insultingly-worded letter
to the commander of the American
expedition to Lake Lanao, in Minda-
mao. in which he threatens to begin
offensive operations in August.
Mrs. B. II. Yates, formerly of On
tario. Canada. was burned to death
at Mountain View, Okla, while at,
tempting to light the kitchen fire
with kerosene. Her father-in-law
was burned severely in trying to save
her. Mrs. Yates was married there
recently.
The vatican is striving to find a
compromise between satisfying the
desires of Washington. as set forth
by Judge Taft. governor of the Phil
ippines, and relieving the holy see
from direct responsibility for the
withdrawal of the friars from the
Philippine archipelago.
Ada Gray, the actress who made
East Lynne" famous, died in New
York on the 9Th, aged 80 years 1t is
a fact not generally known that Will
, lam Jennings Bryan played with her
one season, taking the part of Sir
Francis Levison.
The bill providing an appropriation
of $4,000 for the protection and
preservation of American bison, or
buffalo, is now a law. This was a
part of the original bill drawn up and
proposed by buffalo" Jones, of To-
peka, Kas.
Mrs. Fleming and a Mr.. Jenkins,
living near Laurel Bluff, Tenn,
are suspected of being implicated
in the poisoning Of Mrs. Fleming's
husband and Mr.. Jenkins wife. Mr..
Fleming and Mrs. Jenkins both died
suddenly few weeks ago, and in less
than three weeks Mrs. Fleming and
Mr.. Jenkins We're married.
Two sons of Stanley Beggs, a
prominent farmer of Johnson county,
Ill.,, aged 10 and II years, and a
cousin, were found near the tracks
of the Illinois Central railroad on the
eth. The Beggs boys were dead and
the cousin was in dying condition.
1t is supposed they had laid down to
rest.
Aguinaldo is coming to America.
He will have headquarters in Boston,
and purposes to give a series of lee
lures through the country.
A washout near Beatrice. Neb.. on
the eth, caused great loss to the
Union Pacific and Burlington roads.
In New York, on the 18th, Karl Won
Boeckmann shot and killed his wife,
fatally wounded o. F. Farewell, a
friend of his family, and then sent
a bullet through his OWE head.