The Forrest City times., 1902-09-05
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS " BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

 across. and never gave himself any leisure.
 The eeneentrator of a smeiting works al Butte Mont. was destroyed by fire on the 2sth. and loco men are thrown out of work. Mrs Jack Frost. wife Of a promi- nent business man and politician of Blackwell. Okla, was arrested. on the goth, charged with poisoning Mrs. Alice Combs and her eldest son, by putting arsenic in the coffee in the absence of the Combs family.
 Walter Lemarand, of Monroe, Mich. on going to his home. on the goth, found man in the house with his wife. After a quarrel the man ran from the house into the street. where he was pursued by mob and shot to death in a corn field.
 While Harold Pierce, who was ar rested at Sylvia. Kas., on a charge of forgery, was being taken to Hutchin- son for trial, he leaped from train running at the rate of 10 miles an hour and made his escape.
 The bodies of Bruce and Lewis. the missionaries murdered in China. have been recovered. mutilated beyond rec ognition.
 Joseph Vim. Jacques was assaulted and murdered by man named O'keefe. at St. Paul Minn.. on the 29th, as a result of trouble growing out of strike at railroad shops there some weeks ago.
 Col. Wm. (. Cooper, for many years prominent in Ohio politics, died al Mount Vernon. O., on the goth.
 The. Texas fever has broken out among the cattle of southern Ilh- nois, and Dr. Tiffany, assistant state veterinarian, pronounces it of a seri- ous type.
 Fire of an incendiary origin de- stroyed 20 business houses at Livings. ton, Tex. on the goth. causing a loss of Sl3j,000, with insurance of 90 per cent.
 George (. Rice, a prominent citizen, was smothered to death in corn hopper at 0akwood. H., on the 2sth. The Public Alliance of Wilkesbarre. Pa, on the 29th, sent an appeal to President Roosevelt, asking him ,o use his influence to end the strike in the anthracite coal regions.
 John G. Carlisle. former secretary of the treasury, delivered the annual address before the American Bar as sociation, at Saratoga, \. l., on the 2sth.
 William F. Hull. of Peoria, H.. was chosen vice-president of the National Postmasters' association. at the con vention held at Milwaukee, on the 2sth.
 On the 31st John Brown. a negro, who attempted to criminally assault a young white girl near Monticello, Ga, was lvched.
 At midnight of the 30th fast mail train on the Chicago X Northwestern road ran into a washout near Fair child, Wis, and two trainmen were killed.
 On the 31st Dr. A. o. Miller. of Carrollton. H.. who had been drink ing heavily of late, shot and killed his wife. slightly wounded his little l daughter, and then swallowed suffi- cient laudanum to kill himself, dying in the jail
 On the 31st a buggy containing Gus Thiele and George Shulyer was run down by trolley ear in Kansas City, and both men were killed. Three men were killed. four fatally 1 injured and 34 others seriously in- 1 jured as a result of a tornado strik- ing train on the Chicago X North western railroad, near Owatonna. Minn.. on the night of the 31st. and blowing all the cars down an embank- ment.
 On the 31st Carlisle D. Graham swan from the whirlpool below Nj agara Falls through the lower rapids to Lewiston, and appeared none the worse for his perilous trip.
 On the 3lst Chas. X. Sharkweather, veteran of the civil war, 65 years old, was found dead in a barn at Val | ley Park. St. Louis county. Mo. The coroner's verdict was that death was due to alcoholism.
 On the 1st Sheriff Strain of Monona county, Ia. was shot in the stomach and fatally wounded. by man named Carns, whom he was attempting to arrest.
 | On the lst a statue of the late ex- Gov. Roswell P. Flower was unveiled at Watertown. \. |. Two spectators stands at the horse show at Denver, Col, suddenly col lapsed, on the 1st. precipitating the occupants To the ground. A few were seriously and a number slightly 1 injured, but there were no fatalities
 The transport Buford. about which anxiety had been felt. arrived at Honolulu, August 23, having to put in there on account of trouble with her i boilers.
 On the night of August 90 about 1 two hundred people lost their lives by another eruption of Mont Pelee.