The Forrest City times., 1903-04-17
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


Miss Minnie Petersen died Of small
pox at Scipio. Ind Miss Peterson
died Of smallpox. on the 9th. having
taken the disease just two weeks af-
ter she opened an old trunk contain
ing her fathers clothes for the first
time since his death.
VIM. H. Turley. who shot and killed
Frank Murray on MAY 80. 1sse. in
johnson county. H.. and escaped. was
killed by train at Martel. O.. on the
10th. He had been going under the
name Of William Henry.
Wallace Leatherman. Of Indiana,
now in charge of the Porto Rican
post Office inspection service. was ap-
pointed post Office Inspector in charge
Of the New England division on the
10Th
The Nebraska legislature adjourned
sine die on the 9th. The feature Of
the session was the adoption Z new
revenue law
Otto Inman. charged with killing
Eliza G. Jackson. his second cousin.
was convicted Of murder in the first
degree at Ottawa, Kas-. on the 10th.
Rev. VIM. II. Milburn, the venerable
blind chaplain of the United States
senate. died in Santa Barbara, Cal, on
the 10th.
The Denver (Col.) fire and police
board issued an order. on the 10th,
that no more open gambling would be
permitted, and every gambling house
was promptly closed.
An attack on the Servian kings life
was planned for the 18th. The plot
was discovered on the 10th, and 50
persons suspected of completely there
in were arrested.
Five hundred employees of the Peo-
pies Gas. Light & Coke Co, Chica-
go, were ordered out, on the 10th. on
sympathetic strike with the Gas In
spectors' union.
John Hume Kedzie died at his home
in Evanston, Ill, on the 10th, of in
firmities due to old age. In 1877 he
was elected a member of the Illinois
legislature.
John L. Larsen, n sailor, became vio-
lcntly insane on the schooner Hall at
Newark, y. j., on the 18th, and tried
TO murder the crew. He slashed An
drew NJ. johnson so he may die. In
running to escape Larsen fell over
board and was drowned.
4 shooting affray in which a nine
year-old boy was killed and woman
MORALLY wounded, an attempted muir
| der, two suicides and two attempts at
suicide that may result fatally oc-
Cured in Buffalo. \. Y, on the 18th.
County Commissioner Raymond and
wife were drowned while crossing
/ Blue Lick creek, near Henryville, Ind,
on the 18th. The waters had risen so
rapidly that their buggy was swept
away. Both bodies were recovered.
Four persons dead, two fatally hurt,
at least one missing and several 9TH
ers slightly injured, is the record of a
head-on collision on the Intercolonial
railway which occurred, on the 18th,
seven miles from Halifax, y. S.
| John Agea, one of the oldest and
most distinguished engineers of Mex.
leo, died in the City of Mexico, on the
18th.
Col. J. f. MacGowan, editor-in-chief
of the Chattanooga Times and one of
the oldest and best-known newspaper
men in the south. died, on the 18th, at
his home in Chattanooga.
DIR. j. {. Gordon, superintendent of
the Illinois institution for the deaf
ard dumb, died at Jacksonville. H.,
on the 18th, shortly after an operation
| OF appendicitis
| The United States monitor Arkan..
sas, on its way to ST. Louis, Mo, ar
rived at Cairo, H.. on the 18th, and
after receiving mail departed up the
Ohio for Evansville, Ind.
| Nathan Morris, an attorney. and
Frank Haas, the 12-year-old son of Dr.
Joseph Haas, were burned 10 death at
indianapolis, Ind, on the 18th.
About three inches of snow fell on
the eastern slope of the Rocky mount
aims in Wyoming and Colorado, on the
18th
Five men were killed and two seri
ously burned by gas explosion in
Mine - of the Kansas 4 Texas Coal
Co. at Carbon. l. T.. ON the 18th The
dead; Floyd Oder, George Teek
Frank McMullen, Jerry Kincaid and
o. A. Fields.
Marine Llanera was arrested in
Pampanga province, Luzon, on the
18th. He joined the revolutionary or
ganization and accepted a commission
from that body after swearing allie
glance to the United States.
Developments. on the 18th, led Oma-
ha police To believe that there has
been committed deliberate murder,
and they are looking for Frank E.
knights, whose wife is missing.
Albert Huntington Chester, profes.
sor Of chemistry and mineralogy at
Rutgers college. died, on the 18th.
at New Brunswick, \. j., of pneu-
monia. He was IS years of age.
Gov. Beckham opened his campaign
on the 18th, for the democratic nomi.
nation for governor of Kentucky. His
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